Grounded curriculum learning

L Wang, Z Xu, P Stone, X Xiao - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.19816, 2024 - arxiv.org
The high cost of real-world data for robotics Reinforcement Learning (RL) leads to the wide
usage of simulators. Despite extensive work on building better dynamics models for …

Pietra: Physics-informed evidential learning for traversing out-of-distribution terrain

X Cai, J Queeney, T Xu, A Datar, C Pan… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Self-supervised learning is a powerful approach for developing traversability models for off-
road navigation, but these models often struggle with inputs unseen during training. Existing …

Reinforcement learning for wheeled mobility on vertically challenging terrain

T Xu, C Pan, X Xiao - 2024 IEEE International Symposium on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Off-road navigation on vertically challenging ter-rain, involving steep slopes and rugged
boulders, presents significant challenges for wheeled robots both at the planning level to …

Vertiencoder: Self-supervised kinodynamic representation learning on vertically challenging terrain

M Nazeri, A Datar, A Pokhrel, C Pan, G Warnell… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present VertiEncoder, a self-supervised representation learning approach for robot
mobility on vertically challenging terrain. Using the same pre-training process, VertiEncoder …

GND: Global Navigation Dataset with Multi-Modal Perception and Multi-Category Traversability in Outdoor Campus Environments

J Liang, D Das, D Song, MNH Shuvo, M Durrani… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Navigating large-scale outdoor environments requires complex reasoning in terms of
geometric structures, environmental semantics, and terrain characteristics, which are …

Traverse the non-traversable: Estimating traversability for wheeled mobility on vertically challenging terrain

C Pan, A Datar, A Pokhrel, M Choulas, M Nazeri… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Most traversability estimation techniques divide off-road terrain into traversable (eg,
pavement, gravel, and grass) and non-traversable (eg, boulders, vegetation, and ditches) …

Verti-Selector: Automatic Curriculum Learning for Wheeled Mobility on Vertically Challenging Terrain

T Xu, C Pan, X Xiao - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.17469, 2024 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has the potential to enable extreme off-road mobility by
circumventing complex kinodynamic modeling, planning, and control by simulated end-to …

M2P2: A Multi-Modal Passive Perception Dataset for Off-Road Mobility in Extreme Low-Light Conditions

A Datar, A Pokhrel, M Nazeri, MB Rao, C Pan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Long-duration, off-road, autonomous missions require robots to continuously perceive their
surroundings regardless of the ambient lighting conditions. Most existing autonomy systems …