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Inaugural Editorial
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Lastly, I would like to express my gratitude to the authors for their tremendous contributions to the Inaugural Issue. The offering of your collaboration on the Inaugural Issue is enormously important for the effective ... -
Probabilistic Modeling of Driver Behaviors at Urban Crossroad Interactions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The interactions with human drivers is one of the major challenges for autonomous vehicles. In this study, we consider urban crossroads without signals where driver interactions are indispensable. Crossroads are parameterized ... -
RealTime Trajectory Planning for Automated Vehicle Safety and Performance in Dynamic Environments
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Safe trajectory planning for highperformance automated vehicles in an environment with both static and moving obstacles is a challenging problem. Part of the challenge is developing a formulation that can be solved in ... -
Deep Visible and Thermal Camera-Based Optimal Semantic Segmentation Using Semantic Forecasting
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Visible camera-based semantic segmentation and semantic forecasting are important perception tasks in autonomous driving. In semantic segmentation, the current frame’s pixel-level labels are estimated using the current ... -
CenterTrack3D: Improved CenterTrack More Suitable for Three-Dimensional Objects
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Compared with two-dimensional (2D) multi-object tracking (MOT) algorithms, three-dimensional (3D) multi-object tracking algorithms have more research significance and broad application prospects in the unmanned vehicles ... -
Effects of High Fidelity Modeling of Multirotor Drones
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper examines two different factors that will affect energy consumption for multi-rotor drones with more than four rotors. First, the choice of aerodynamic model for the rotor blades is examined. Two aerodynamic ... -
Time Optimal Trajectories for a Mobile Robot With Acceleration and Speed Limits in the Presence of an Obstacle
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper studies the time optimal paths of a mobile robot navigating in a planar environment containing an obstacle. The paper considers a point-mass robot that moves with bounded acceleration and limited turn-rate ... -
Analysis of Hazards for Autonomous Driving
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Hazard analysis is the core of numerous approaches to safety engineering, including the functional safety standard ISO-26262 (FuSa) and Safety of the Intended Function (SOTIF) ISO/PAS 21448. We focus on addressing the ... -
SphereWalker: A Hexapod Walking Machine
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This article describes the design and the development of a novel six-legged robotic walking machine named SphereWalker. The six legs are arranged into pairs, and each pair of legs is supported and actuated by a single ... -
Analysis and Control of an In-Pipe Wheeled Robot With Spiral Moving Capability
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This article presents analysis and control of a wheeled robot that can move spirally inside the pipeline. The wheeled robot considered is composed of two mechanical bodies, a pair of differential-drive wheels, a lifting ... -
Analytical and Experimental Evaluation of Various Active Suspension Alternatives for Superior Ride Comfort and Utilization of Autonomous Vehicles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Autonomous vehicles (AVs) give the driver opportunity to engage in productive or pleasure-related activities, which will increase AV’s utility and value. It is anticipated that many AVs will be equipped with active suspension ... -
A MultiObjective Optimization Approach for MultiVehicle Path Planning Problems Considering Human–Robot Interactions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)There has been unprecedented development in the field of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) over the past few years. UGVs have been used in many fields including civilian and military with applications such as military ... -
Design of a SelfBalancing Vehicle As a Test Rig for Safety Control Strategies Investigations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The present paper is related to a research activity concerning selfbalancing vehicles, with particular reference to the interaction between driver and vehicle’s dynamics, at the aim to investigate safety management and ... -
SafetyAware Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Highway Autonomous Driving
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) has been successfully applied in many robotics and autonomous driving studies without the need for handtuning a reward function. However, it suffers from safety issues. Compared to the ... -
Safe Learning Reference Governor: Theory and Application to Fuel Truck Rollover Avoidance
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This paper proposes a learning reference governor (LRG) approach to enforce state and control constraints in systems for which an accurate model is unavailable. This approach enables the reference governor to gradually ... -
Comparing Complementary Kalman Filters Against SLAM for Collaborative Localization of Heterogeneous Multirobot Teams
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This paper presents an investigation of collaborative localization for heterogeneous robots, resulting in a scheme for relative localization of a heterogeneous team of low-cost mobile robots. A novel complementary Kalman ... -
Extremal Control and Modified Explicit Guidance for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This study aims to develop and integrate guidance and control functions for applications such as rendezvous and docking, trajectory planning, entry descent and landing, executing maneuvers, and minimum fuel consumption. ... -
Evolution of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Framework for Autonomous Robotics—A Comprehensive Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Autonomous robotics plays a pivotal role to simplify human–machine interaction while meeting the current industrial demands. In that process, machine intelligence plays a dominant role during the decision making in the ... -
Can We Localize an Autonomous Vehicle From a Single Image? DeepGeometric Six DegreesofFreedom Localization in TopoMetric Maps
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)We describe a deepgeometric localizer that is able to estimate the full six degreesoffreedom (DOF) global pose of the camera from a single image in a previously mapped environment. Our map is a topometric one, with discrete ... -
Load Vibration Mitigation in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles With Cable Suspended Load
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This paper addresses the problem of pointtopoint path planning of a 3D model of a quadcopter carrying a suspended load by parameterizing its differentially flat outputs. The flat outputs are the Cartesian coordinates of ...