Recent advances in robot learning from demonstration

H Ravichandar, AS Polydoros… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
In the context of robotics and automation, learning from demonstration (LfD) is the paradigm
in which robots acquire new skills by learning to imitate an expert. The choice of LfD over …

An algorithmic perspective on imitation learning

T Osa, J Pajarinen, G Neumann… - … and Trends® in …, 2018 - nowpublishers.com
As robots and other intelligent agents move from simple environments and problems to more
complex, unstructured settings, manually programming their behavior has become …

Perceptive locomotion through nonlinear model-predictive control

R Grandia, F Jenelten, S Yang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dynamic locomotion in rough terrain requires accurate foot placement, collision avoidance,
and planning of the underactuated dynamics of the system. Reliably optimizing for such …

isdf: Real-time neural signed distance fields for robot perception

J Ortiz, A Clegg, J Dong, E Sucar, D Novotny… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We present iSDF, a continual learning system for real-time signed distance field (SDF)
reconstruction. Given a stream of posed depth images from a moving camera, it trains a …

Robust and efficient quadrotor trajectory generation for fast autonomous flight

B Zhou, F Gao, L Wang, C Liu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we propose a robust and efficient quadrotor motion planning system for fast
flight in three-dimensional complex environments. We adopt a kinodynamic path searching …

Sampling-based motion planning: A comparative review

A Orthey, C Chamzas, LE Kavraki - Annual Review of Control …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Sampling-based motion planning is one of the fundamental paradigms to generate robot
motions, and a cornerstone of robotics research. This comparative review provides an up-to …

Geometrically constrained trajectory optimization for multicopters

Z Wang, X Zhou, C Xu, F Gao - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we present an optimization-based framework for multicopter trajectory
planning subject to geometrical configuration constraints and user-defined dynamic …

Voxblox: Incremental 3d euclidean signed distance fields for on-board mav planning

H Oleynikova, Z Taylor, M Fehr… - 2017 IEEE/RSJ …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) that operate in unstructured, unexplored environments require
fast and flexible local planning, which can replan when new parts of the map are explored …

Optimization-based collision avoidance

X Zhang, A Liniger, F Borrelli - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a novel method for exactly reformulating nondifferentiable collision
avoidance constraints into smooth, differentiable constraints using strong duality of convex …

Using online verification to prevent autonomous vehicles from causing accidents

C Pek, S Manzinger, M Koschi, M Althoff - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2020 - nature.com
Ensuring that autonomous vehicles do not cause accidents remains a challenge. We
present a formal verification technique for guaranteeing legal safety in arbitrary urban traffic …