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Visual servoing is a well-known task in robotics. However, there are still challenges when multiple visual sources are combined to accurately guide the robot or occlusions appear. In this paper we present a novel visual servoing approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Hanz Cuevas-Velasquez , Nanbo Li , Radim Tylecek , Marcelo Saval-Calvo , Robert B. Fisher

To precisely reach for an object with a humanoid robot, it is of central importance to have good knowledge of both end-effector, object pose and shape. In this work we propose a framework for markerless visual servoing on unknown objects,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Claudio Fantacci , Giulia Vezzani , Ugo Pattacini , Vadim Tikhanoff , Lorenzo Natale

This paper presents a learning-based tracking control framework for cooperative transport of a rigid payload by multiple aerial manipulators under rigid grasp constraints. A unified geometric model is developed, yielding a coupled…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Omayra Yago Nieto , Leonardo Colombo

Today robots must be safe, versatile, and user-friendly to operate in unstructured and human-populated environments. Dynamical system-based imitation learning enables robots to perform complex tasks stably and without explicit programming,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Sayantan Auddy , Antonio Paolillo , Justus Piater , Matteo Saveriano

Vision-based localization of an agent in a map is an important problem in robotics and computer vision. In that context, localization by learning matchable image features is gaining popularity due to recent advances in machine learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Janine Thoma , Danda Pani Paudel , Ajad Chhatkuli , Luc Van Gool

Planning for robotic manipulation requires reasoning about the changes a robot can affect on objects. When such interactions can be modelled analytically, as in domains with rigid objects, efficient planning algorithms exist. However, in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Angelina Wang , Thanard Kurutach , Kara Liu , Pieter Abbeel , Aviv Tamar

The configuration of most robotic systems lies in continuous transformation groups. However, in mobile robot trajectory tracking, many recent works still naively utilize optimization methods for elements in vector space without considering…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Jiawei Tang , Shuang Wu , Bo Lan , Yahui Dong , Yuqiang Jin , Guangjian Tian , Wen-An Zhang , Ling Shi

One-shot imitation is the vision of robot programming from a single demonstration, rather than by tedious construction of computer code. We present a practical method for realizing one-shot imitation for manipulation tasks, exploiting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Max Argus , Lukas Hermann , Jon Long , Thomas Brox

Many industrial assembly tasks involve peg-in-hole like insertions with sub-millimeter tolerances which are challenging, even in highly calibrated robot cells. Visual servoing can be employed to increase the robustness towards uncertainties…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Rasmus Laurvig Haugaard , Anders Glent Buch , Thorbjørn Mosekjær Iversen

We want to build robots that are useful in unstructured real world applications, such as doing work in the household. Grasping in particular is an important skill in this domain, yet it remains a challenge. One of the key hurdles is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Ulrich Viereck , Andreas ten Pas , Kate Saenko , Robert Platt

We propose an unsupervised vision-based system to estimate the joint configurations of the robot arm from a sequence of RGB or RGB-D images without knowing the model a priori, and then adapt it to the task of category-independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Qihao Liu , Weichao Qiu , Weiyao Wang , Gregory D. Hager , Alan L. Yuille

Geometric regularity, which leverages data symmetry, has been successfully incorporated into deep learning architectures such as CNNs, RNNs, GNNs, and Transformers. While this concept has been widely applied in robotics to address the curse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Shengchao Yan , Baohe Zhang , Yuan Zhang , Joschka Boedecker , Wolfram Burgard

Mapping and localization are crucial problems in robotics and autonomous driving. Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled precise 3D mapping and scene understanding by rendering photo-realistic images. However, existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jaewon Lee , Mangyu Kong , Minseong Park , Euntai Kim

Visual representations play a crucial role in developing generalist robotic policies. Previous vision encoders, typically pre-trained with single-image reconstruction or two-image contrastive learning, tend to capture static information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yucheng Hu , Yanjiang Guo , Pengchao Wang , Xiaoyu Chen , Yen-Jen Wang , Jianke Zhang , Koushil Sreenath , Chaochao Lu , Jianyu Chen

Autonomous control of the laparoscope in robot-assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) has received considerable research interest due to its potential to improve surgical safety. Despite progress in pixel-level Image-Based Visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Wang Jiayin , Wei Yanran , Jiang Lei , Guo Xiaoyu , Zheng Ayong , Zhao Weidong , Li Zhongkui

Robotic vision plays a key role for perceiving the environment in grasping applications. However, the conventional framed-based robotic vision, suffering from motion blur and low sampling rate, may not meet the automation needs of evolving…

Many robotic tasks, such as human-robot interactions or the handling of fragile objects, require tight control and limitation of appearing forces and moments alongside sensible motion control to achieve safe yet high-performance operation.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Janine Matschek , Johanna Bethge , Rolf Findeisen

We present a novel methodology based on geometric approach to simulate magnification lens effects. Our aim is to promote new applications of powerful geometric modeling techniques in visual computing. Conventional image…

Graphics · Computer Science 2013-08-05 Bo Li , Xin Zhao

In this paper we present a novel visual servoing framework to control a robotic manipulator in the configuration space by using purely natural visual features. Our goal is to develop methods that can robustly detect and track natural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Sreejani Chatterjee , Venkatesh Mullur , Abhinav Gandhi , Berk Calli

Tactile servoing is an important technique because it enables robots to manipulate objects with precision and accuracy while adapting to changes in their environments in real-time. One approach for tactile servo control with high-resolution…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-15 John Lloyd , Nathan F. Lepora