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Industrial Inspection Robot With Large Configuration Space Based on Geometry-Changing Tracked Robot
A reconfigurable tracked inspection robot (CubeTrack) with geometry-changing tracks, multi-layer plane-graph trajectory planning and low-cost flipper control for autonomous stair navigation in complex industrial environments.
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Industrial Inspection Robot With Large Configuration Space Based on Geometry-Changing Tracked Robot
TOP: Trajectory Optimization via Parallel Optimization towards Constant Time Complexity
Optimization has been widely used to generate smooth trajectories for motion planning. However, existing trajectory optimization …
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TOP: Trajectory Optimization via Parallel Optimization towards Constant Time Complexity
COVER: cross-vehicle transition framework for quadrotor control in air-ground cooperation
UAV transitions across UGVs enable diverse air-ground cooperation (AGC) applications,such as cross-vehicle landing, delivery, and …
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Autonomous Exploration with Terrestrial-Aerial Bimodal Vehicles
Terrestrial-aerial bimodal vehicles, which integrate the high mobility of aerial robots with the long endurance of ground robots, offer …
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Autonomous Exploration with Terrestrial-Aerial Bimodal Vehicles
Universal Trajectory Optimization Framework for Differential Drive Robot Class
Universal Trajectory Optimization Framework for Differential Drive Robot Class
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Global-State-Free Obstacle Avoidance for Quadrotor Control in Air-Ground Cooperation
CoNi-MPC [Zhang et al. (2023)] provides an efficient framework for UAV control in air-ground cooperative tasks by relying exclusively …
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Global-State-Free Obstacle Avoidance for Quadrotor Control in Air-Ground Cooperation
CoNi-MPC: Cooperative Non-inertial Frame Based Model Predictive Control
This work presents a novel solution for UAV control in cooperative multi-robot systems, which can be used in various scenarios such as …
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CoNi-MPC: Cooperative Non-inertial Frame Based Model Predictive Control
Cost-Effective Swarm Navigation System via Close Cooperation
Multi-robot system is desired to achieve global cost-efficiency by fully utilizing individual advantages. For example, leveraging …
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Cost-Effective Swarm Navigation System via Close Cooperation
An Improved Four-Pin Gripper for Robust 2.5-D Form-Closure Grasp
The four-pin gripper is an ideal end-effector to achieve form-closure grasps, which is especially useful in scenarios where a stable …
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Certifiably Optimal Mutual Localization With Anonymous Bearing Measurements
Mutual localization is essential for coordination and cooperation in multi-robot systems. Previous works have tackled this problem by …
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