Artificial intelligence for long-term robot autonomy: A survey

L Kunze, N Hawes, T Duckett… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous systems will play an essential role in many applications across diverse
domains including space, marine, air, field, road, and service robotics. They will assist us in …

[HTML][HTML] A review of the neurobiomechanical processes underlying secure grip** in object manipulation

H O'Shea, SJ Redmond - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract O'SHEA, H. and SJ Redmond. A review of the neurobiomechanical processes
underlying secure grip** in object manipulation. NEUROSCI BIOBEHAV REV 286–300 …

Accelerating reinforcement learning for reaching using continuous curriculum learning

S Luo, H Kasaei, L Schomaker - 2020 International Joint …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning has shown great promise in the training of robot behavior due to the
sequential decision making characteristics. However, the required enormous amount of …

[HTML][HTML] Mvgrasp: Real-time multi-view 3d object gras** in highly cluttered environments

H Kasaei, M Kasaei - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
Nowadays robots play an increasingly important role in our daily life. In human-centered
environments, robots often encounter piles of objects, packed items, or isolated objects …

The state of lifelong learning in service robots: Current bottlenecks in object perception and manipulation

SH Kasaei, J Melsen, F van Beers, C Steenkist… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Service robots are appearing more and more in our daily life. The development of
service robots combines multiple fields of research, from object perception to object …

Early or late fusion matters: Efficient rgb-d fusion in vision transformers for 3d object recognition

G Tziafas, H Kasaei - … on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Vision Transformer (ViT) architecture has established its place in computer vision
literature, however, training ViTs for RGB-D object recognition remains an understudied …

Orthographicnet: A deep transfer learning approach for 3-d object recognition in open-ended domains

SH Kasaei - IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, service robots are appearing more and more in our daily life. For this type of
robot, open-ended object category learning and recognition is necessary since no matter …

Self-imitation learning by planning

S Luo, H Kasaei, L Schomaker - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Imitation learning (IL) enables robots to acquire skills quickly by transferring expert
knowledge, which is widely adopted in reinforcement learning (RL) to initialize exploration …

Safe and efficient robot manipulation: Task-oriented environment modeling and object pose estimation

Y Zhang, G Tian, X Shao - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile manipulation is essential for robots to accomplish everyday household chores such
as set the table. In order to successfully perform manipulation tasks, a 3-D representation of …

Investigating the importance of shape features, color constancy, color spaces, and similarity measures in open-ended 3D object recognition

SH Kasaei, M Ghorbani, J Schilperoort… - Intelligent Service …, 2021 - Springer
Despite the recent success of state-of-the-art 3D object recognition approaches, service
robots still frequently fail to recognize many objects in real human-centric environments. For …