Wait, That Feels Familiar: Learning to Extrapolate Human Preferences for Preference Aligned Path Planning

H Karnan, E Yang, G Warnell, J Biswas… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Autonomous mobility tasks such as lastmile delivery require reasoning about operator
indicated preferences over terrains on which the robot should navigate to ensure both robot …

Foresttrav: Accurate, efficient and deployable forest traversability estimation for autonomous ground vehicles

F Ruetz, N Lawrance, E Hernández, P Borges… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Autonomous navigation in unstructured vegetated environments remains an open
challenge. To successfully operate in these settings, ground vehicles must assess the …

A self-supervised near-to-far approach for terrain-adaptive off-road autonomous driving

O Mayuku, BW Surgenor… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce a self-supervised method for systematically choosing traversable terrain while
autonomously navigating a vehicle to a goal position in an unknown off-road environment …

V-STRONG: Visual Self-Supervised Traversability Learning for Off-road Navigation

S Jung, JH Lee, X Meng, B Boots, A Lambert - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Reliable estimation of terrain traversability is critical for the successful deployment of
autonomous systems in wild, outdoor environments. Given the lack of large-scale annotated …

AutoGraph: Predicting Lane Graphs from Traffic Observations

J Zürn, I Posner, W Burgard - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lane graph estimation is a long-standing problem in the context of autonomous driving.
Previous works aimed at solving this problem by relying on large-scale, hand-annotated …

[HTML][HTML] Hierarchical Vision Navigation System for Quadruped Robots with Foothold Adaptation Learning

J Ren, Y Dai, B Liu, P Xie, G Wang - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Legged robots can travel through complex scenes via dynamic foothold adaptation.
However, it remains a challenging task to efficiently utilize the dynamics of robots in cluttered …

ForestTrav: 3D LiDAR-Only Forest Traversability Estimation for Autonomous Ground Vehicles

F Ruetz, N Lawrance, E Hernández, P Borges… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous navigation in unstructured vegetated environments remains an open
challenge. To successfully operate in these settings, autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) …

Learning visual localization of a quadrotor using its noise as self-supervision

M Nava, A Paolillo, J Guzzi… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce an approach to train neural network models for visual object localization using
a small training set, labeled with ground truth object positions and a large unlabeled one …

[HTML][HTML] Laplacian support vector machine for vibration-based robotic terrain classification

W Shi, Z Li, W Lv, Y Wu, J Chang, X Li - Electronics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The achievement of robot autonomy has environmental perception as a prerequisite. The
hazards rendered from uneven, soft and slippery terrains, which are generally named non …

Circular Accessible Depth: A Robust Traversability Representation for UGV Navigation

S Xie, R Song, Y Zhao, X Huang, Y Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we present the circular accessible depth (CAD), a robust traversability
representation for an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) to learn traversability in various …