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Nicholas Jianrui Ren
dblp:376/1114
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Robot navigation and mapping · 56% Motion planning and robot control · 44% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control › robot control
model predictive control |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Closing the Perception-Action Loop for Semantically Safe Navigation in Semi-Static Environments · ICRA 2024 |
Robotics › Robot navigation and mapping › mobile robot navigation
safe navigation |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Closing the Perception-Action Loop for Semantically Safe Navigation in Semi-Static Environments · ICRA 2024 |
Robotics › Robot navigation and mapping
semantic mapping |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | Closing the Perception-Action Loop for Semantically Safe Navigation in Semi-Static Environments · ICRA 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
model predictive control · 0.8control barrier functions · 0.8
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Closing the Perception-Action Loop for Semantically Safe Navigation in Semi-Static EnvironmentsabstractAutonomous robots navigating in changing environments demand adaptive navigation strategies for safe long-term operation. While many modern control paradigms offer theoretical guarantees, they often assume known extrinsic safety constraints, overlooking challenges when deployed in real-world environments where objects can appear, disappear, and shift over time. In this paper, we present a closed-loop perception-action pipeline that bridges this gap. Our system encodes an online-constructed dense map, along with object-level semantic and consistency estimates into a control barrier function (CBF) to regulate safe regions in the scene. A model predictive controller (MPC) leverages the CBF-based safety constraints to adapt its navigation behaviour, which is particularly crucial when potential scene changes occur. We test the system in simulations and real-world experiments to demonstrate the impact of semantic information and scene change handling on robot behavior, validating the practicality of our approach. Jingxing Qian, Nicholas Jianrui Ren, Veronica Chatrath, Angela P. Schoellig |
ICRA | 3 |