Ep. 231 - June 12, 2024

Ep. 232 - June 13, 2024

ArXiv Robotics research for Thursday, June 13, 2024. 00:19: Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Quadcopter Controller: A Practical Approach and Experiments 01:48: LLM-Driven Robots Risk Enacting Discrimination, Violence, and Unlawful Actions 03:33: Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Driving in Unstructured Scenarios Based on Graph Neural Network and Numerical Optimization 05:14: OmniH2O: Universal and Dexterous Human-to-Humanoid Whole-Body Teleoperation and Learning 06:39: Human-Robot Interface for Teleoperated Robotized Planetary Sample Collection and Assembly 08:10: Language-Driven Closed-Loop Grasping with Model-Predictive Trajectory Replanning 10:02: Adaptive Actor-Critic Based Optimal Regulation for Drift-Free Uncertain Nonlinear Systems 11:09: Direct Imitation Learning-based Visual Servoing using the Large Projection Formulation 12:17: Beyond the Frontier: Predicting Unseen Walls from Occupancy Grids by Learning from Floor Plans 13:28: AutomaChef: A Physics-informed Demonstration-guided Learning Framework for Granular Material Manipulation 14:34: EHAZOP: A Proof of Concept Ethical Hazard Analysis of an Assistive Robot 15:31: OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model 17:51: Hands-free teleoperation of a nearby manipulator through a virtual body-to-robot link 19:23: Teleoperation of a robotic manipulator in peri-personal space: a virtual wand approach 21:05: RoTipBot: Robotic Handling of Thin and Flexible Objects using Rotatable Tactile Sensors

Ep. 231 - June 12, 2024

ArXiv Robotics research for Wednesday, June 12, 2024. 00:19: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Swarm Confrontation with High Uncertainty 01:35: 100 Drivers, 2200 km: A Natural Dataset of Driving Style toward Human-centered Intelligent Driving Systems 03:08: Undergraduate Robotics Education with General Instructors using a Student-Centered Personalized Learning Framework 05:12: Metasensor: a proposal for sensor evolution in robotics 05:55: Highly agile flat swimming robot 06:56: Design, modeling, and characteristics of ringshaped robot actuated by functional fluid 08:15: Chemistry3D: Robotic Interaction Benchmark for Chemistry Experiments 09:49: Learning-based Traversability Costmap for Autonomous Off-road Navigation 10:59: A Hybrid Task-Constrained Motion Planning for Collaborative Robots in Intelligent Remanufacturing 12:41: Review of Autonomous Mobile Robots for the Warehouse Environment 13:50: Trajectory optimization of tail-sitter considering speed constraints 14:55: Utilizing Navigation Path to Generate Target Point for Enhanced End-to-End Autonomous Driving Planning 16:05: PRIBOOT: A New Data-Driven Expert for Improved Driving Simulations 17:41: AToM-Bot: Embodied Fulfillment of Unspoken Human Needs with Affective Theory of Mind

Ep. 230 - June 11, 2024

ArXiv Robotics research for Tuesday, June 11, 2024. 00:19: GPU-Accelerated Optimization-Based Collision Avoidance 01:14: Optimal Gait Design for a Soft Quadruped Robot via Multi-fidelity Bayesian Optimization 02:27: Optimal Gait Control for a Tendon-driven Soft Quadruped Robot by Model-based Reinforcement Learning 03:45: A Neck Orthosis with Multi-Directional Variable Stiffness for Persons with Dropped Head Syndrome 04:59: 3D Voxel Maps to 2D Occupancy Maps for Efficient Path Planning for Aerial and Ground Robots 06:31: OTO Planner: An Efficient Only Travelling Once Exploration Planner for Complex and Unknown Environments 07:51: Instruct Large Language Models to Drive like Humans 09:20: Realistic Data Generation for 6D Pose Estimation of Surgical Instruments 11:07: iMESA: Incremental Distributed Optimization for Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping 12:05: Improving the realism of robotic surgery simulation through injection of learning-based estimated errors 13:33: BAKU: An Efficient Transformer for Multi-Task Policy Learning 14:51: A3VLM: Actionable Articulation-Aware Vision Language Model

Ep. 229 - June 10, 2024

ArXiv Robotics research for Monday, June 10, 2024. 00:19: WoCoCo: Learning Whole-Body Humanoid Control with Sequential Contacts 01:52: Navigation and 3D Surface Reconstruction from Passive Whisker Sensing 02:49: Influence of Motion Restrictions in an Ankle Exoskeleton on Gait Kinematics and Stability in Straight Walking 04:03: Sim-To-Real Transfer for Visual Reinforcement Learning of Deformable Object Manipulation for Robot-Assisted Surgery 05:34: Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Tiltrotor Quadrotors with Feasible Control Allocation 06:51: Stabilized Adaptive Steering for 3D Sonar Microphone Arrays with IMU Sensor Fusion 07:53: Human Gaze and Head Rotation during Navigation, Exploration and Object Manipulation in Shared Environments with Robots 09:01: A quantitative investigation for deployment of mobile collaborative robots in high-value manufacturing 11:05: Multicam-SLAM: Non-overlapping Multi-camera SLAM for Indirect Visual Localization and Navigation 12:22: An Empirical Design Justice Approach to Identifying Ethical Considerations in the Intersection of Large Language Models and Social Robotics 14:02: Notes on Various Errors and Jacobian Derivations for SLAM 15:49: Notes on Kalman Filter (KF, EKF, ESKF, IEKF, IESKF) 16:45: Towards Real-World Efficiency: Domain Randomization in Reinforcement Learning for Pre-Capture of Free-Floating Moving Targets by Autonomous Robots 18:01: Demonstrating HumanTHOR: A Simulation Platform and Benchmark for Human-Robot Collaboration in a Shared Workspace

Ep. 228 - June 9, 2024

ArXiv Robotics research for Sunday, June 09, 2024. 00:19: A Superalignment Framework in Autonomous Driving with Large Language Models 02:03: FlightBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Spatial Planning Methods for Quadrotors 03:21: Towards A General-Purpose Motion Planning for Autonomous Vehicles Using Fluid Dynamics 05:14: TR2MTL: LLM based framework for Metric Temporal Logic Formalization of Traffic Rules 06:35: Fast and Certifiable Trajectory Optimization 08:16: MAP-ADAPT: Real-Time Quality-Adaptive Semantic 3D Maps 09:38: Differentiable Discrete Elastic Rods for Real-Time Modeling of Deformable Linear Objects 10:59: Open-Vocabulary Part-Based Grasping 12:15: Visual-Inertial SLAM as Simple as A, B, VINS 13:24: LOP-Field: Brain-inspired Layout-Object-Position Fields for Robotic Scene Understanding