SEER: Safe efficient exploration for aerial robots using learning to predict information gain

Y Tao, Y Wu, B Li, F Cladera, A Zhou… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We address the problem of efficient 3-D exploration in indoor environments for micro aerial
vehicles with limited sensing capabilities and payload/power constraints. We develop an …

Enhancing robot task completion through environment and task inference: A survey from the mobile robot perspective

AH Tan, G Nejat - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2022 - Springer
In real-world environments, ranging from urban disastrous scenes to underground mining
tunnels, autonomous mobile robots are being deployed in harsh and cluttered …

Monoocc: Digging into monocular semantic occupancy prediction

Y Zheng, X Li, P Li, Y Zheng, B Jin, C Zhong… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Monocular Semantic Occupancy Prediction aims to infer the complete 3D geometry and
semantic information of scenes from only 2D images. It has garnered significant attention …

Uncertainty-aware visually-attentive navigation using deep neural networks

H Nguyen, R Andersen, E Boukas… - … International Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Autonomous navigation and information gathering in challenging environments are
demanding since the robot's sensors may be susceptible to non-negligible noise, its …

Occlusion-aware crowd navigation using people as sensors

YJ Mun, M Itkina, S Liu… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous navigation in crowded spaces poses a challenge for mobile robots due to the
highly dynamic, partially observable environment. Occlusions are highly prevalent in such …

Virtual surfaces and attitude aware planning and behaviours for negative obstacle navigation

T Hines, K Stepanas, F Talbot, I Sa… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents an autonomous navigation system for ground robots traversing
aggressive unstructured terrain through a cohesive arrangement of mapping, deliberative …

Train here, drive there: ROS based end-to-end autonomous-driving pipeline validation in CARLA simulator using the NHTSA typology

C Gómez-Huélamo, J Del Egido, LM Bergasa… - Multimedia Tools and …, 2022 - Springer
Urban complex scenarios are the most challenging situations in the field of Autonomous
Driving (AD). In that sense, an AD pipeline should be tested in countless environments and …

Make it dense: Self-supervised geometric scan completion of sparse 3d lidar scans in large outdoor environments

I Vizzo, B Mersch, R Marcuzzi… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mapping systems that turn sensor data into a model of the environment are standard
components in mobile robotics. Outdoor robots are often equipped with 3D LiDAR sensors …

[HTML][HTML] D+∗: A risk aware platform agnostic heterogeneous path planner

S Karlsson, A Koval, C Kanellakis… - Expert systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
This article establishes the novel D+∗, a risk-aware and platform-agnostic heterogeneous
global path planner for robotic navigation in complex environments. The proposed planner …

Reinforcement learning for collision-free flight exploiting deep collision encoding

M Kulkarni, K Alexis - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.03947, 2024 - arxiv.org
This work contributes a novel deep navigation policy that enables collision-free flight of
aerial robots based on a modular approach exploiting deep collision encoding and …