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 …
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 …
We present VertiEncoder, a self-supervised representation learning approach for robot mobility on vertically challenging terrain. Using the same pre-training process, VertiEncoder …
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 …
Most traversability estimation techniques divide off-road terrain into traversable (eg, pavement, gravel, and grass) and non-traversable (eg, boulders, vegetation, and ditches) …
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 …
Long-duration, off-road, autonomous missions require robots to continuously perceive their surroundings regardless of the ambient lighting conditions. Most existing autonomy systems …