Autonomous excavator systems can alleviate the issues caused by the shortage of skilled labor forces and increasing labor costs. For autonomous excavation, real-time landscape estimation, excavation path generation, control, and precise landscape inspection are all essential. In this article, we propose and experimentally validate an integrated autonomous excavator system … [Read more...] about Towards Fully Integrated Autonomous Excavation: Autonomous Excavator for Precise Earth Cutting and Onboard Landscape Inspection
Autonomous systems
Neuromorphic Quadratic Programming for Efficient and Scalable Model Predictive Control: Towards Advancing Speed and Energy Efficiency in Robotic Control
Applications in robotics or other size-, weight- and power-constrained autonomous systems at the edge often require real-time and low-energy solutions to large optimization problems. Event-based and memory-integrated neuromorphic architectures promise to solve such optimization problems with superior energy efficiency and performance compared to conventional von Neumann … [Read more...] about Neuromorphic Quadratic Programming for Efficient and Scalable Model Predictive Control: Towards Advancing Speed and Energy Efficiency in Robotic Control
GeMuCo: Generalized Multisensory Correlational Model for Body Schema Learning
Humans can autonomously learn the relationship between sensation and motion in their own bodies, estimate and control their own body states, and move while continuously adapting to the current environment. On the other hand, current robots control their bodies by learning the network structure described by humans from their experiences, making certain assumptions on the … [Read more...] about GeMuCo: Generalized Multisensory Correlational Model for Body Schema Learning
Opinion– Autonomous Robotic Surgical Systems
While executing a surgical procedure, surgeons not only rely on their specific medical knowledge but also on a set of skills that are “obvious” to them and allow for intuitively evaluating and reacting to the intervention evolution. Such skills belong to what is usually called common sense , which is essential to carry out an intervention. Although general common sense refers … [Read more...] about Opinion– Autonomous Robotic Surgical Systems
Toward Holistic Scene Understanding
The long-term vision for robotics is to have fully autonomous mobile robots that perceive the environment as humans do or even better. This article transfers the core ideas from human scene perception onto robot scene perception to contribute toward a holistic scene understanding of robots. The first contribution is to extensively survey and compare state-of-the-art robot scene … [Read more...] about Toward Holistic Scene Understanding
