Deep RL-based socially aware motion planning enables autonomous robots to navigate safely and naturally among pedestrians, respecting social norms like passing on the right.

Yu Fan Chen, Michael Everett, Miao Liu et al.

Gaussian Process-based multiresolution mapping combined with informative path planning reduces agricultural monitoring error by 45%.

Marija Popovic, Teresa Vidal-Calleja, Gregory Hitz et al.

Proposes distributed pose graph optimization (DGS, SOR, JOR) with object models, reducing communication by over 90%.

Siddharth Choudhary, Luca Carlone, Carlos Nieto et al.

Voxblox system incrementally converts TSDF to ESDF for real-time UAV path planning, achieving 20x faster updates with <0.1m error.

Helen Oleynikova, Zachary Taylor, Marius Fehr et al.

Uses 3D CNN trained on 440,000+ models for fast shape completion, boosting robotic grasping success to 93.33%.

Jacob Varley, Chad DeChant, Adam Richardson et al.

Proposes an autonomous robot system using RGBD-based implicit mapping and active learning for dense clutter sorting, achieving over 85% success and 80% classification accuracy.

Janne V. Kujala, Tuomas J. Lukka, Harri Holopainen

Extended LTLvis integrates sketch-based path customization with LTL planning, enabling intuitive user interaction and real-time path synthesis.

Wei Wei, Kangjin Kim, Georgios Fainekos

This survey formalizes SLAM as MAP factor-graph optimization and defines a robust-perception agenda beyond geometric accuracy.

Cesar Cadena, Luca Carlone, Henry Carrillo et al.

Numerical optimal control with direct multiple shooting enables versatile, real-time trajectory generation for complex quadrotor systems.

Mathieu Geisert, Nicolas Mansard

Proposes incremental sparse Gaussian process regression for continuous-time trajectory estimation, achieving 3x speedup while maintaining accuracy.

Xinyan Yan, Vadim Indelman, Byron Boots

ORB-SLAM uses ORB features for real-time monocular SLAM, achieving high robustness and accuracy.

Raul Mur-Artal, J. M. M. Montiel, Juan D. Tardos

Introduces 'Intelligent Trial and Error' algorithm enabling robots to adapt within 2 minutes post-damage, mimicking animal repair behaviors.

Antoine Cully, Jeff Clune, Danesh Tarapore et al.