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Optimizing Bipedal Locomotion for The 100m Dash With Comparison to Human Running

Devin Crowley, Jeremy Dao, Helei Duan, Kevin Green, Jonathan Hurst, Alan Fern · 2025

In this paper, we explore the space of running gaits for the bipedal robot Cassie. Our first contribution is to present an approach for optimizing gait efficiency across a spectrum of speeds with the …

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A Digital Twin-Based Simulation Framework for Safe Curve Speed Estimation Using Unity

Araf Rahman, M. Sabbir Salek, Mashrur Chowdhury, Wayne A. Sarasua · 2025

Horizontal curves are often associated with roadway crashes due to speed misjudgment and loss of control. With the growing adoption of autonomous and connected vehicles, the accurate estimation of saf…

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AI-CDA4All: Democratizing Cooperative Autonomous Driving for All Drivers via Affordable Dash-cam Hardware and Open-source AI Software

Shengming Yuan, Hao Zhou · 2025

As transportation technology advances, the demand for connected vehicle infrastructure has greatly increased to improve their efficiency and safety. One area of advancement, Cooperative Driving Automa…

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Lazy-DaSH: Lazy Approach for Hypergraph-based Multi-robot Task and Motion Planning

Seongwon Lee, James Motes, Isaac Ngui, Marco Morales, Nancy M. Amato · 2025

We introduce Lazy-DaSH, an improvement over the recent state of the art multi-robot task and motion planning method DaSH, which scales to more than double the number of robots and objects compared to …

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Drone Carrier: An Integrated Unmanned Surface Vehicle for Autonomous Inspection and Intervention in GNSS-Denied Maritime Environment

Yihao Dong, Muhayyu Ud Din, Francesco Lagala, Hailiang Kuang, Jianjun Sun, Siyuan Yang, Irfan Hussain, Shaoming He · 2025

This paper introduces an innovative drone carrier concept that is applied in maritime port security or offshore rescue. This system works with a heterogeneous system consisting of multiple Unmanned Ae…

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Toward an Automated, Proactive Safety Warning System Development for Truck Mounted Attenuators in Mobile Work Zones

Xiang Yu, Linlin Zhang, Yaw, Adu-Gyamfi · 2024

Even though Truck Mounted Attenuators (TMA)/Autonomous Truck Mounted Attenuators (ATMA) and traffic control devices are increasingly used in mobile work zones to enhance safety, work zone collisions r…

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An Aerial Transport System in Marine GNSS-Denied Environment

Jianjun Sun, Zhenwei Niu, Yihao Dong, Fenglin Zhang, Muhayy Ud Din, Lakmal Seneviratne, Defu Lin, Irfan Hussain, Shaoming He · 2024

This paper presents an autonomous aerial system specifically engineered for operation in challenging marine GNSS-denied environments, aimed at transporting small cargo from a target vessel. In these e…

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Long-Range Vision-Based UAV-assisted Localization for Unmanned Surface Vehicles

Waseem Akram, Siyuan Yang, Hailiang Kuang, Xiaoyu He, Muhayy Ud Din, Yihao Dong, Defu Lin, Lakmal Seneviratne, Shaoming He, Irfan Hussain · 2024

The global positioning system (GPS) has become an indispensable navigation method for field operations with unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) in marine environments. However, GPS may not always be avai…

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Integrating Edge Information into Ground Truth for the Segmentation of the Optic Disc and Cup from Fundus Images

Yoga Sri Varshan V, Hitesh Gupta Kattamuri, Subin Sahayam, Umarani Jayaraman · 2024

Optic disc and cup segmentation helps in the diagnosis of glaucoma, myocardial infarction, and diabetic retinopathy. Most deep learning methods developed to perform segmentation tasks are built on top…

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Experiences with Sub-Arctic Sensor Network Deployment

Priyesh Pappinisseri Puluckul, Maarten Weyn · 2024

This paper discusses the experiences gained from designing, deploying, and maintaining low-power Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in three geothermally active remote locations in Iceland. The network wa…

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ODFormer: Semantic Fundus Image Segmentation Using Transformer for Optic Nerve Head Detection

Jiayi Wang, Yi-An Mao, Xiaoyu Ma, Sicen Guo, Yuting Shao, Xiao Lv, Wenting Han, Mark Christopher, Linda M. Zangwill, Yanlong Bi, Rui Fan · 2024

Optic nerve head (ONH) detection has been a crucial area of study in ophthalmology for years. However, the significant discrepancy between fundus image datasets, each generated using a single type of …

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Scalable Multi-Robot Motion Planning Using Workspace Guidance-Informed Hypergraphs

Courtney McBeth, James Motes, Isaac Ngui, Marco Morales, Nancy M. Amato · 2023

In this work, we propose a method for multiple mobile robot motion planning that efficiently plans for robot teams up to 128 robots (an order of magnitude larger than existing state-of-the-art methods…

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HASHI: Highly Adaptable Seafood Handling Instrument for Manipulation in Industrial Settings

Austin Allison, Nathaniel Hanson, Sebastian Wicke, Task{i}n Pad{i}r · 2023

The seafood processing industry provides fertile ground for robotics to impact the future-of-work from multiple perspectives including productivity, worker safety, and quality of work life. The roboti…

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Target Chase, Wall Building, and Fire Fighting: Autonomous UAVs of Team NimbRo at MBZIRC 2020

Marius Beul, Max Schwarz, Jan Quenzel, Malte Splietker, Simon Bultmann, Daniel Schleich, Andre Rochow, Dmytro Pavlichenko, Radu Alexandru Rosu, Patrick Lowin, Bruno Scheider, Michael Schreiber, Finn Suberkrub, Sven Behnke · 2022

The Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) 2020 posed diverse challenges for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). We present our four tailored UAVs, specifically developed for individ…

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Deep Learning based Framework for Automatic Diagnosis of Glaucoma based on analysis of Focal Notching in the Optic Nerve Head

Sneha Dasgupta, Rishav Mukherjee, Kaushik Dutta, Anindya Sen · 2021

Automatic evaluation of the retinal fundus image is emerging as one of the most important tools for early detection and treatment of progressive eye diseases like Glaucoma. Glaucoma results to a progr…

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CADA: Multi-scale Collaborative Adversarial Domain Adaptation for Unsupervised Optic Disc and Cup Segmentation

Peng Liu, Charlie T. Tran, Bin Kong, Ruogu Fang · 2021

The diversity of retinal imaging devices poses a significant challenge: domain shift, which leads to performance degradation when applying the deep learning models trained on one domain to new testing…

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Autonomous Cooperative Multi-Vehicle System for Interception of Aerial and Stationary Targets in Unknown Environments

Lima Agnel Tony, Shuvrangshu Jana, Varun V. P., Aashay Anil Bhise, Aruul Mozhi Varman S., Vidyadhara B. V., Mohitvishnu S. Gadde, Raghu Krishnapuram, Debasish Ghose · 2021

This paper presents the design, development, and testing of hardware-software systems by the IISc-TCS team for Challenge 1 of the Mohammed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge 2020. The goal of …

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Convolutional Nets for Diabetic Retinopathy Screening in Bangladeshi Patients

Ayaan Haque, Ipsita Sutradhar, Mahziba Rahman, Mehedi Hasan, Malabika Sarker · 2021

Diabetes is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases in Bangladesh, and as a result, Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is widespread in the population. DR, an eye illness caused by diabetes, can lead to bli…

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Design and Deployment of an Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle for Urban Firefighting Scenarios

Kshitij Jindal, Anthony Wang, Dinesh Thakur, Alex Zhou, Vojtech Spurny, Viktor Walter, George Broughton, Tomas Krajnik, Martin Saska, Giuseppe Loianno · 2021

Autonomous mobile robots have the potential to solve missions that are either too complex or dangerous to be accomplished by humans. In this paper, we address the design and autonomous deployment of a…

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Mission-level Robustness with Rapidly-deployed, Autonomous Aerial Vehicles by Carnegie Mellon Team Tartan at MBZIRC 2020

Anish Bhattacharya, Akshit Gandhi, Lukas Merkle, Rohan Tiwari, Karun Warrior, Stanley Winata, Andrew Saba, Kevin Zhang, Oliver Kroemer, Sebastian Scherer · 2021

For robotic systems to succeed in high risk, real-world situations, they have to be quickly deployable and robust to environmental changes, under-performing hardware, and mission subtask failures. The…

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