IEEE Transactions on Robotics

A recent T-RO paper from researchers at University of Leeds describes how to perform robotic manipulation of 3-D soft objects using 3-D surface feedback https://lnkd.in/eA7D3HGR Paper title: Occlusion-Robust Autonomous Robotic Manipulation of Human Soft Tissues With 3-D Surface Feedback Paper authors: Junlei Hu, Dominic Jones, Mehmet R. Dogar, and Pietro Valdastri Image caption: Setup of the experiment using the da Vinci Surgical System (only two PSMs were used), a stereo camera and a soft object (Phantom colon). #RobotKinematics #RoboticManipulationofSoftObjects

Researchers from Seoul National University develop a UAV with a bioinspired passive dynamic foot in which the claws are actuated solely by the impact energy in a recent T-RO paper. https://lnkd.in/g-te-iNh Paper title: Perching and Grasping Using a Passive Dynamic Bioinspired Gripper Paper authors: Amir Firouzeh, Jongeun Lee, Hyunsoo Yang, Dongjun Lee, and Kyujin Cho #AutonomousAerialVehicles #AerialSystems #UnderactuatedRobots

In a recent T-RO paper, researchers from University of Southern California leverage Hamilton-Jacobi reachability to co-optimize safety without sacrificing performance in autonomous systems, making them more reliable and efficient for real-world applications. https://lnkd.in/ep5AtCv6 Paper title: On Safety and Liveness Filtering Using Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Analysis Paper authors: Javier Bórquez, Kaustav Chakraborty, Hao Wang, and Somil Bansal #AutonomousSystems #HamiltonJacobiReachability #RobotSafety

In a recent T-RO paper, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering and Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute developed a novel control algorithm that can reason about model complexity while ensuring feasibility and stability. https://lnkd.in/d6HN-MZs Paper title: Adaptive Complexity Model Predictive Control Paper authors: Joe Norby, Ardalan Tajbakhsh, Yanhao Yang, and Aaron Johnson #ComputationalModeling #HeuristicAlgorithms #LeggedRobots #UnderactuatedRobots

A T-RO paper from researchers at MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have proposed a hybrid system stability analysis framework that offers a principled explanation to the traffic breaks (rolling roadblocks) emergent behavior for a single autonomous vehicle to simultaneously stabilize multiple lanes. https://lnkd.in/ga9BXTVY Paper title: Hybrid System Stability Analysis of Multi-Lane Mixed-Autonomy Traffic Authors: Sirui Li, Roy Dong, and Cathy Wu #IntelligentTransportationSystems #AutonomousVehicle #TrafficBreak #HybridSystem #StabilityAnalysis

It was so nice to get together with some of the T-RO editors and associate editors while in Abu Dhabi over the #IROS2024 conference. Thank you to all who attended in person and those who attended the meetings virtually. #IEEERAS, #Robotics, #IEEETRO

Coming soon ... the T-RO Impact Aware Robotics special collection. Stay tuned for more information. Check out other upcoming special collections. https://lnkd.in/gKaUsDzn

Researchers from CSIRO Robotics and CSIRO develop a multi-material fibre jammed tendons with tunable mechanical properties that can be 3D printed in one-go without need for assembly. In a recent T-RO paper they demonstrate the usefulness of these tendons for shock absorbance and maintaining joint stability https://lnkd.in/g9aV_-jA Paper title: A Compliant Robotic Leg Based on Fibre Jamming Paper authors: Lois Liow, James Brett, Josh Pinskier, Lauren Hanson, Louis Tidswell, Navinda Kottege and David Howard #LeggedLocomotion #RobotSensingSystems #LeggedRobotics #SoftRobotics

T-RO is now accepting submissions for the new Visual #SLAM special collection until December 15. Thank you to Javier Civera, Giovanni Cioffi, Davide Scaramuzza, Stefan Leutenegger, Abhinav Valada, Teresa Vidal-Calleja, and Guoquan (Paul) Huang for handling this special collection. https://lnkd.in/gxaJgtdM We encourage submissions related, but not limited, to the following topics: ● Robust SLAM ● Representations in SLAM (NeRF, Gaussian Splatting, etc.) ● Semantic, Object-level, and Dynamic SLAM ● Large Scale SLAM ● Unconventional vision sensors for SLAM (event cameras, thermal cameras) ● SLAM for Robotics Navigation ● Multi-agents SLAM ● Visual(-Inertial) Odometry ● Learning-based SLAM ● Beyond Conventional SLAM (Large Language Models, Foundation Models, …) #SimultaneousLocalizationAndMapping #Robots #Robotics #IEEERAS

Researchers from University of Delaware describe a robust technique for visual-inertial #SLAM from monocular cameras. https://lnkd.in/gQJk4Bdq Paper title: A Consistent Parallel Estimation Framework for Visual-Inertial SLAM Paper authors: Zheng Huai and Guoquan (Paul) Huang #SimultaneousLocalizationAndMapping #RobotSensingSystems #VisualInertial