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This paper addresses the problem of mobile grasping in dynamic, unknown environments where a robot must operate under a limited field-of-view. The fundamental challenge is the inherent trade-off between ``seeing'' around to reduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tianrun Hu , Anxing Xiao , David Hsu , Hanbo Zhang

Many of the tasks that a service robot can perform at home involve navigation skills. In a real world scenario, the navigation system should consider individuals beyond just objects, theses days it is necessary to offer particular and…

Integrating mobile robots into human society involves the fundamental problem of navigation in crowds. This problem has been studied by considering the behaviour of humans at the level of individuals, but this representation limits the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Stefan H. Kiss , K. Y. Cadmus To , Chanyeol Yoo , Robert Fitch , Alen Alempijevic

Autonomous navigation capabilities play a critical role in service robots operating in environments where human interactions are pivotal, due to the dynamic and unpredictable nature of these environments. However, the variability in human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Mannan Saeed Muhammad , Estrella Montero

When robots handle navigation tasks while avoiding collisions, they perform in crowded and complex environments not as good as in stable and homogeneous environments. This often results in a low success rate and poor efficiency. Therefore,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Yanying Zhou , Shijie Li , Jochen Garcke

Robot navigation in dynamic, crowded environments poses a significant challenge due to the inherent uncertainties in the obstacle model. In this work, we propose a risk-adaptive approach based on the Conditional Value-at-Risk Barrier…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Xinyi Wang , Taekyung Kim , Bardh Hoxha , Georgios Fainekos , Dimitra Panagou

Robots and particularly drones are especially useful in exploring extreme environments that pose hazards to humans. To ensure safe operations in these situations, usually perceptually degraded and without good GNSS, it is critical to have a…

Mobile ground robots operating on unstructured terrain must predict which areas of the environment they are able to pass in order to plan feasible paths. We address traversability estimation as a heightmap classification problem: we build a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-20 R. Omar Chavez-Garcia , Jerome Guzzi , Luca M. Gambardella , Alessandro Giusti

This paper introduces a novel motion planning algorithm for stochastic scenarios. We extend the concept of a navigation function to such scenarios. Our main idea is to consider both the Gaussian distribution probabilities of the players'…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Shlomi Hacohen , Shraga Shoval , Nir Shvalb

Walkability has many health, environmental, and economic benefits. That is why web and mobile services have been offering ways of computing walkability scores of individual street segments. Those scores are generally computed from survey…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-11 Daniele Quercia , Luca Maria Aiello , Rossano Schifanella , Adam Davies

For effective autonomous navigation,estimation of the pose of the robot is essential at every sampling time. For computing an accurate estimation,odometric error needs to be reduced with the help of data from external sensor. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-12-07 Debajyoti Banerji , Ranjit Ray , Jhankar Basu , Indrajit Basak

Accurate traversability estimation is essential for safe and effective navigation of outdoor robots operating in complex environments. This paper introduces a novel experience-based method that allows robots to autonomously learn which…

Navigating in off-road environments for wheeled mobile robots is challenging due to dynamic and rugged terrain. Traditional physics-based stability metrics, such as Static Stability Margin (SSM) or Zero Moment Point (ZMP) require knowledge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Nathaniel Rose , Arif Ahmed , Emanuel Gutierrez-Cornejo , Parikshit Maini

Vision based object grasping and manipulation in robotics require accurate estimation of object's 6D pose. The 6D pose estimation has received significant attention in computer vision community and multiple datasets and evaluation metrics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Antti Hietanen , Jyrki Latokartano , Alessandro Foi , Roel Pieters , Ville Kyrki , Minna Lanz , Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen

Over the last years, social robots have been deployed in public environments making evident the need of human-aware navigation capabilities. In this regard, the robotics community have made efforts to include proxemics or social conventions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Arturo Cruz-Maya , Fernando Garcia , Amit Kumar Pandey

The future robots are expected to work in a shared physical space with humans [1], however, the presence of humans leads to a dynamic environment that is challenging for mobile robots to navigate. The path planning algorithms designed to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Prabhjot Kaur , Zichuan Liu , Weisong Shi

This paper investigates the relationship between smart city initiatives and evolving urbanization trends in the United States. The research addresses the critical issue of rapid urban growth in the U.S. and explores how innovations within…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Wayne S Singh

Mobile robots that move between outdoor and indoor environments still struggle with consistent positioning. Satellite-based and terrestrial ranging each work well in their home domains, but combining them at the raw measurement level has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Paul Schwarzbach

Wireless sensor networks are dynamically formed over the varying topologies. Wireless sensor networks can assist in conducting the rescue operations and can provide search in timely manner. Long time monitoring applications are environment…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-26 Anubha Parashar , Susheel Kumar , Vinay S Bhaskar , Rajni Chinia

Mobile robots operating in crowded environments require the ability to navigate among humans and surrounding obstacles efficiently while adhering to safety standards and socially compliant mannerisms. This scale of the robot navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Yung Chuen Ng , Qi Wen Shervina Lim , Chun Ye Tan , Zhen Hao Gan , Meng Yee Michael Chuah