Nicholas Jianrui Ren

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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

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control › robot control
model predictive control
0.812024
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
0.812024
Closing the Perception-Action Loop for Semantically Safe Navigation in Semi-Static Environments · ICRA 2024
Robotics › Robot navigation and mapping
semantic mapping
0.212024
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
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2024 Closing the Perception-Action Loop for Semantically Safe Navigation in Semi-Static Environments
abstract
Autonomous 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
ICRA3