Search Results for author: Timothy Bretl

Found 11 papers, 5 papers with code

The Use of Multi-Scale Fiducial Markers To Aid Takeoff and Landing Navigation by Rotorcraft

no code implementations15 Sep 2023 Jongwon Lee, Su Yeon Choi, Timothy Bretl

This paper quantifies the performance of visual SLAM that leverages multi-scale fiducial markers (i. e., artificial landmarks that can be detected at a wide range of distances) to show its potential for reliable takeoff and landing navigation in rotorcraft.

Comparative Study of Visual SLAM-Based Mobile Robot Localization Using Fiducial Markers

no code implementations8 Sep 2023 Jongwon Lee, Su Yeon Choi, David Hanley, Timothy Bretl

This paper presents a comparative study of three modes for mobile robot localization based on visual SLAM using fiducial markers (i. e., square-shaped artificial landmarks with a black-and-white grid pattern): SLAM, SLAM with a prior map, and localization with a prior map.

Learning from Integral Losses in Physics Informed Neural Networks

2 code implementations27 May 2023 Ehsan Saleh, Saba Ghaffari, Timothy Bretl, Luke Olson, Matthew West

Our numerical results confirm the existence of the aforementioned bias in practice, and also show that our proposed delayed target approach can lead to accurate solutions with comparable quality to ones estimated with a large number of samples.

Benchmarking

Hypergraph-based Multi-Robot Task and Motion Planning

no code implementations9 Oct 2022 James Motes, Tan Chen, Timothy Bretl, Marco Morales, Nancy M. Amato

We present a multi-robot task and motion planning method that, when applied to the rearrangement of objects by manipulators, results in solution times up to three orders of magnitude faster than existing methods and successfully plans for problems with up to twenty objects, more than three times as many objects as comparable methods.

Motion Planning Task and Motion Planning

Truly Deterministic Policy Optimization

1 code implementation30 May 2022 Ehsan Saleh, Saba Ghaffari, Timothy Bretl, Matthew West

In this paper, we present a policy gradient method that avoids exploratory noise injection and performs policy search over the deterministic landscape.

iCaps: Iterative Category-level Object Pose and Shape Estimation

1 code implementation31 Dec 2021 Xinke Deng, Junyi Geng, Timothy Bretl, Yu Xiang, Dieter Fox

The auto-encoder can be used in a particle filter framework to estimate and track 6D poses of objects in a category.

Object

Self-supervised 6D Object Pose Estimation for Robot Manipulation

3 code implementations23 Sep 2019 Xinke Deng, Yu Xiang, Arsalan Mousavian, Clemens Eppner, Timothy Bretl, Dieter Fox

In this way, our system is able to continuously collect data and improve its pose estimation modules.

Robotics

PoseRBPF: A Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter for 6D Object Pose Tracking

1 code implementation22 May 2019 Xinke Deng, Arsalan Mousavian, Yu Xiang, Fei Xia, Timothy Bretl, Dieter Fox

In this work, we formulate the 6D object pose tracking problem in the Rao-Blackwellized particle filtering framework, where the 3D rotation and the 3D translation of an object are decoupled.

6D Pose Estimation 6D Pose Estimation using RGB +3

Improved Structure from Motion Using Fiducial Marker Matching

no code implementations ECCV 2018 Joseph DeGol, Timothy Bretl, Derek Hoiem

In this paper, we present an incremental structure from motion (SfM) algorithm that significantly outperforms existing algorithms when fiducial markers are present in the scene, and that matches the performance of existing algorithms when no markers are present.

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