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Recently, a trend is emerging toward human-servicing autonomous mobile robots, with diverse applications including delivery of supplies in hospitals, hotels, or labs where personnel are scarce, or reacting to indoor emergencies. However,…
Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) play a crucial role in transportation and service tasks at hospitals, contributing to enhanced efficiency and meeting medical demands. This paper investigates the optimization problem of scheduling strategies…
Social navigation in densely populated dynamic environments poses a significant challenge for autonomous mobile robots, requiring advanced strategies for safe interaction. Existing reinforcement learning (RL)-based methods require over…
Autonomous navigation in unknown environments requires multi-scale spatial understanding that captures geometric details, topological connectivity, and global structure to support high-level decision making under partial observability.…
Autonomous Driving Systems (ADSs) are complex Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) that must ensure safety even in uncertain conditions. Modern ADSs often employ Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), which may not produce correct results in every possible…
This paper tackles the problem of active planning to achieve cooperative localization for multi-robot systems (MRS) under measurement uncertainty in GNSS-limited scenarios. Specifically, we address the issue of accurately predicting the…
Magnetic navigation (MagNav) is a rising alternative to the Global Positioning System (GPS) and has proven useful for aircraft navigation. Traditional aircraft navigation systems, while effective, face limitations in precision and…
Increased connectivity and remote reprogrammability/reconfigurability features of embedded devices in current-day power systems (including interconnections between information technology -- IT -- and operational technology -- OT --…
Miniaturized autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are gaining popularity due to their small size, enabling new tasks such as indoor navigation or people monitoring. Nonetheless, their size and simple electronics pose severe challenges…
Given the surge in wireless data traffic driven by the emerging Internet of Things (IoT), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), cognitive radio (CR), and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) have been recognized as promising techniques to…
This study presents an emotion-aware navigation framework -- EmoBipedNav -- using deep reinforcement learning (DRL) for bipedal robots walking in socially interactive environments. The inherent locomotion constraints of bipedal robots…
Recently, the navigation of mobile robots in unknown environments has become a particularly significant research topic. Previous studies have primarily employed real-time environmental mapping using cameras and LiDAR, along with…
This paper focuses on the velocity planning and energy management problems for Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) with hybrid electric powertrains. The eco-driving problem is formulated in the spatial domain as a nonlinear dynamic…
Due to an increasing number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with generally limited battery power, energy efficient data transmission schemes with massive connectivity capabilities are required for future wireless networks. Non-orthogonal…
This paper introduces SmartBSP, an advanced self-supervised learning framework for real-time path planning and obstacle avoidance in autonomous robotics navigating through complex environments. The proposed system integrates Proximal Policy…
Emergency communication is vital for search and rescue operations following natural disasters. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can significantly assist emergency communication by agile positioning, maintaining connectivity during rapid…
In future transportation systems, the charging behavior of electric Autonomous Mobility on Demand (AMoD) fleets, i.e., fleets of electric self-driving cars that service on-demand trip requests, will likely challenge power distribution…
Autonomous Ground Robots (AGRs) face significant challenges due to limited energy reserve, which restricts their overall performance and availability. Prior research has focused separately on energy-efficient approaches and fleet management…
Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems (ACPS) have attracted a significant amount of interest in the past few decades, while one of the most critical operations in these systems is the perception of the environment. Deep learning and,…
Navigation in the natural world is a feat of adaptive inference, where biological organisms maintain goal-directed behaviour despite noisy and incomplete sensory streams. Central to this ability is the Free Energy Principle (FEP), which…