Fast traversability estimation for wild visual navigation

J Frey, M Mattamala, N Chebrolu, C Cadena… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Natural environments such as forests and grasslands are challenging for robotic navigation
because of the false perception of rigid obstacles from high grass, twigs, or bushes. In this …

Evora: Deep evidential traversability learning for risk-aware off-road autonomy

X Cai, S Ancha, L Sharma, PR Osteen… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traversing terrain with good traction is crucial for achieving fast off-road navigation. Instead
of manually designing costs based on terrain features, existing methods learn terrain …

V-strong: Visual self-supervised traversability learning for off-road navigation

S Jung, JH Lee, X Meng, B Boots… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.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 …

Learning off-road terrain traversability with self-supervisions only

J Seo, S Sim, I Shim - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Estimating the traversability of terrain should be reliable and accurate in diverse conditions
for autonomous driving in off-road environments. However, learning-based approaches …

Autonomous Driving in Unstructured Environments: How Far Have We Come?

C Min, S Si, X Wang, H Xue, W Jiang, Y Liu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Research on autonomous driving in unstructured outdoor environments is less advanced
than in structured urban settings due to challenges like environmental diversities and scene …

RoadRunner--Learning Traversability Estimation for Autonomous Off-road Driving

J Frey, S Khattak, M Patel, D Atha, J Nubert… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Autonomous navigation at high speeds in off-road environments necessitates robots to
comprehensively understand their surroundings using onboard sensing only. The extreme …

Metaverse: Meta-learning traversability cost map for off-road navigation

J Seo, T Kim, S Ahn, K Kwak - 2024 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous navigation in off-road conditions requires an accurate estimation of terrain
traversability. However, traversability estimation in unstructured environments is subject to …

Overview of Terrain Traversability Evaluation for Autonomous Robots

Y Shu, L Dong, J Liu, C Liu, W Wei - Journal of Field Robotics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Traversability evaluation is the foundation and core of unmanned platforms for scene
understanding and autonomous navigation, whose successful completion relies on the …

Learning terrain-aware kinodynamic model for autonomous off-road rally driving with model predictive path integral control

H Lee, T Kim, J Mun, W Lee - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-speed autonomous driving in off-road environments has immense potential for various
applications, but it also presents challenges due to the complexity of vehicle-terrain …

Wild Visual Navigation: Fast Traversability Learning via Pre-Trained Models and Online Self-Supervision

M Mattamala, J Frey, P Libera, N Chebrolu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Natural environments such as forests and grasslands are challenging for robotic navigation
because of the false perception of rigid obstacles from high grass, twigs, or bushes. In this …