Publications

2024

Diver Identification Using Anthropometric Data Ratios for Underwater Multi-Human-Robot Collaboration

Jungseok Hong, Sadman Sakib Enan, and Junaed Sattar
Robotics and Automation - Letters, February 2014, Early Access, DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2024.3366026.

LoCO & Diver
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Adaptive Landmark Color for AUV Docking in Visually Dynamic Environments

Corey Knutson, Zhipeng Cao, and Junaed Sattar
Accepted  for publication at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024). Yokohama, Japan, 2024.

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Autonomous Robotic Re-alignment for Face-to-Face Underwater Human-Robot Interaction

Demetrious T. Kutzke, Ashwin Warriar, and Junaed Sattar
Accepted  for publication at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024). Yokohama, Japan, 2024.

Diver Ocean Pose Keypoints
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2023

A Quantitative Evaluation of Bathymetry-based Bayesian Localization Methods for Autonomous Underwater Robots

Jungseok Hong, Michael Fulton, Kevin Orpen, Kimberly Barthelemy, Keara Berlin, and Junaed Sattar 

Journal article under review. 

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SIREN: Underwater Robot-To-Human Communication Using Audio

Michael Fulton, Junaed Sattar, and Rafa Absar*
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume 8, Number 10, Pages 6139-6146, October 2023, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2023.3303719 (published August 9, 2023). To be presented (Oral session) at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2024, Yokohama, Japan.

*Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Cybersecurity, Metro State University. Saint Paul, MN, USA.

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Toward Robotic Autonomy in Data-Scarce and Visually Challenging Environments

Jungseok Hong.
Ph.D. Thesis. May 2023.

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Natural, Robust, and Multi-Modal Human-Robot Interaction For Underwater Robots

Michael Scott Fulton.
Ph.D. Thesis. March 2023.

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HREyes: Design, Development, and Evaluation of A Novel Method for AUVs to Communicate Information and Gaze Direction

Michael Fulton, Aditya Prabhu, and Junaed Sattar.
In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023). London, United Kingdom, 2023, Pages 7468-7475, doi:10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10161179.

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Diver Interest via Pointing: Human-Directed Object Inspection for AUVs

Chelsey Edge and Junaed Sattar.
in proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023). London, United Kingdom, 2023, Pages 3146-3153, doi: 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160292.

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2022

Robotic Detection of a Human-Comprehensible Gestural Language for Underwater Multi-Human-Robot Collaboration

Sadman Sakib Enan, Michael Fulton, and Junaed Sattar.
In proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022). Kyoto, Japan, October 2022, pp. 3085-3092, doi: 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981450. Best Paper Award Finalist on Cognitive Robotics (sponsored by KROS).

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SVAM: Saliency-guided Visual Attention Modeling by Autonomous Underwater Robots
 
Md Jahidul Islam, Ruobing Wang, and Junaed Sattar.

In proceedings of the Robotics: Science and Systems Conference XVIII (RSS 2022), New York, NY, June 2022.

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Underwater Robot-To-Human Communication Via Motion: Implementation and Full-Loop Human Interface Evaluation

Michael Fulton, Muntaqim Mehtaz, Owen Queeglay, and Junaed Sattar.
In proceedings of the the Robotics: Science and Systems Conference XVIII (RSS 2022), New York, NY, June 2022.

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Towards a Fast, Robust and Accurate Visual-Inertial Simultaneous Localization and Mapping System

Jiawei Mo
Ph. D. Thesis, May 2022
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Robot Communication Via Motion: A Study on Modalities for Robot-to-Human Communication in the Field

Michael Fulton, Chelsey Edge and Junaed Sattar
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. Volume 11, Issue 2, No. 15, Pages 1-40, https://doi.org/10.1145/3495245
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 Using Monocular Vision and Human Body Priors for AUVs to Autonomously Approach Divers

Michael Fulton, Jungseok Hong and Junaed Sattar
In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2022). Philadelphia, PA, USA. May 2022, Pages 1076-1082, doi: 10.1109/ICRA46639.2022.9811905.
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 ROW-SLAM: Under-Canopy Cornfield Semantic SLAM

Jiacheng Yuan, Jungseok Hong, Junaed Sattar, and Volkan Isler.
In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2022). Philadelphia, PA, USA. May 2022, Pages 2244-2250, doi: 10.1109/ICRA46639.2022.9811745.
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 Continuous-Time Spline Visual-Inertial Odometry

Jiawei Mo and Junaed Sattar. 
In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2022). Philadelphia, PA, USA. May 2022, Pages 9492-9498, doi: 10.1109/ICRA46639.2022.9811586.

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2021Fast Direct Stereo Visual SLAM

Jiawei Mo, Md Jahidul Islam and Junaed Sattar
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Vol. 7, No. 2, Pages 778-785, April 2022, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2021.3133860. Early Access Area.

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IMU-Assisted Learning of Single-View Rolling Shutter Correction

Jiawei Mo, Md Jahidul Islam and Junaed Sattar
The Fifth Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2021). Hybrid Conference (London, England). November 2021.

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Predicting the Future Motion of Divers for Enhanced Underwater Human-Robot Collaboration

Tanmay Agarwal, Michael Fulton and Junaed Sattar
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021). Virtual Conference (Prague, Czech Republic). Pages 5379-5386, doi: 10.1109/IROS51168.2021.9636374.
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Towards Robust Visual Diver Detection Onboard Autonomous Underwater Robots: Assessing the Effects of Models and Data


Karin de Langis, Michael Fulton and Junaed Sattar
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021). Virtual Conference (Prague, Czech Republic). Pages 5372-5378, doi: 10.1109/IROS51168.2021.9636099.
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Machine Vision for Improved Human-Robot Cooperation in Adverse Underwater Conditions

Md. Jahidul Islam
Ph. D. Thesis, May 2021
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Towards Natural Underwater Human-Robot Interaction:
Pointing Gesture Recognition for Autonomous
Underwater Vehicles

Andrea M. Walker
Ms.C. Thesis (Plan A), May 2021
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Control System Development for LoCO AUV

Kimberley Barthelemy
Undergraduate Honors Thesis (Summa Cum Laude)

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Dynamic Modeling and Simulation of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)

Kevin Orpen
Undergraduate Honors Thesis (Summa Cum Laude)

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The LoCO Low-Cost, Open-Source, Autonomous Underwater Robot

The Interactive Robotics and Vision Laboratory
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Robot-to-Robot Relative Pose Estimation using Humans as Markers

Md Jahidul Islam, Jiawei Mo and Junaed Sattar
Autonomous Robots 45, 579–593 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-021-09985-6

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Semantically-Aware Strategies for Stereo-Visual Robotic Obstacle Avoidance

Jungseok Hong, Karin de Langis, Cole Wyeth, Christopher Walaszek, and Junaed Sattar
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xi'an, China, 2021, Pages. 2450-2456, doi: 10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9561863.2021. 
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2020
TrashCan: A Semantically-Segmented Dataset towards Visual Detection of Marine Debris

Jungseok Hong, Michael Fulton, Junaed Sattar

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Monocular Depth Estimation using Adversarial Training
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Power-On-and-Go Capabilities for a Low-Cost Modular Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Chelsey Edge, Sadman Sakib Enan, Michael Fulton, Jungseok Hong, Junaed Sattar

Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2020 Workshop on Power On and Go Robots. Virtual RSS 2020.
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Examining the Performance of Scale Optimized Visual Odometry in Simulated Underwater Environments
Master's Project Report (Plan B)
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Augmenting Electrocardiogram Datasets using Generative Adversarial Networks
Master's Thesis (Plan A)
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Md Jahidul Islam, Peigen Luo, Junaed Sattar
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2020. https://doi.org/10.15607/RSS.2020.XVI.018
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Design and Experiments with LoCO AUV: A Low-Cost Open-Source Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

Chelsey Edge, Sadman Sakib Enan, Michael Fulton, Jungseok Hong, Jiawei Mo, Kimberly Barthelemy, Hunter Bashaw, Berik Kallevig, Corey Knutson, Kevin Orpen, Junaed Sattar.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020. Virtual Conference (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA). Pages 1761-1768, doi: 10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341007.
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Semantic Segmentation of Underwater Imagery: Dataset and Benchmark

Md Jahidul Islam , Chelsey Edge , Yuyang Xiao, Peigen Luo, Muntaqim Mehtaz , Christopher Morse, Sadman Sakib Enan and Junaed Sattar
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020. Virtual Conference (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA). Pages 1769-1776, doi: 10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9340821.
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A Fast and Robust Place Recognition Approach for Stereo Visual Odometry using LiDAR Descriptors
 
Jiawei Mo and Junaed Sattar.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020. Virtual Conference (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA). Pages 5893-5900, doi: 10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341733.

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Real-Time Multi-Diver Tracking and Re-identification for Underwater Human-Robot Collaboration
 
Karin de Langis and Junaed Sattar.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020, Virtual Conference (Paris, France, May-June 2020). Pages 11140-11146.

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Fast Underwater Image Enhancement for Improved Visual Perception

Md Jahidul Islam, Youya Xia, and Junaed Sattar.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 3227-3234, 2020.
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A Generative Approach Towards Improved Robotic Detection of Marine Litter  

Jungseok Hong, Michael Fulton, and Junaed Sattar.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020, Virtual Conference (Paris, France, May-June 2020). Pages 10525-10531.
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Md Jahidul Islam, Sadman Sakib Enan, Peigen Luo, Junaed Sattar
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020, Virtual Conference (Paris, France, May-June 2020). Pages 900-906.
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2019
Md Jahidul Islam, Jungseok Hong, and Junaed Sattar
International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2019, doi: 10.1177/0278364919881683. [Impact Factor: 6.134]

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Jiawei Mo, Junaed Sattar
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019, Macau SAR, China, November 2019. Pages 6921-6927.

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Unmonitored Fault Detection in an AUV Using Recurrent Neural Networks
Marc Ho
UMN undergraduate honors thesis, Spring 2019

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By Land, Air, or Sea: Multi-Domain Robot Communication Via Motion
Michael Fulton, Mustaf Ahmed, and Junaed Sattar

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2018
Michael Fulton, Chelsey Edge, and Junaed Sattar
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA) 2019, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. May-June 2019. Pages 4660-4666.
An interaction scenario with Aqua and a swimmer.
Unreal Engine Aqua simulation.

 

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Md Jahidul Islam, Michael Fulton, and Junaed Sattar
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 113-120, 2018.    

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Md Jahidul Islam, Marc Ho and Junaed Sattar.
Journal of Field Robotics (JFR), 2018, doi: 10.1002/rob.21837. [Impact Factor: 4.345]

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Michael Fulton, Jungseok Hong, Md Jahidul Islam, and Junaed Sattar
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2019, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. May-June 2019. Pages 5752-5758.
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Youya Xia and Junaed Sattar
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2019, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. May-June 2019. Pages 6839-6845.
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Cameron Fabbri, Md Jahidul Islam, and Junaed Sattar
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018, Brisbane, Australia. May-June 2018. Pages 7159-7165.

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Junaed Sattar and Gregory Dudek
Autonomous Robots. vol. 42 (1), Pages 111-124, 2018, doi: 10.1007/s10514-017-9644-y. [Impact factor: 3.634]
Fourier directions
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2017
Md Jahidul Islam, Marc Ho, and Junaed Sattar
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018. Brisbane, Australia. May-June 2018. Pages 6212-6219.

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Florian Shkurti, Wei-Di Chang, Peter Henderson, Md Jahidul Islam, Juan Camilo Gamboa Higuera,
Jimmy Li, Travis Manderson, Anqi Xu, Gregory Dudek, and Junaed Sattar
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017, Vancouver, BC, Canada. September 2017. Pages 4189-4196.

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Md Jahidul Islam and Junaed Sattar
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017, Singapore. May-June 2017. Pages 4457--4464.

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SafeDrive: A Robust Lane Tracking System for Autonomous and Assisted Driving Under Limited Visibility
Jiawei Mo and Junaed Sattar
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2016
Cameron Fabbri and Junaed Sattar
Proceedings of the Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), 2016, Victoria, BC, Canada. June 2016. Pages 376-382.

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