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Publications (9)

cs.RO2026

Distilling Global Traversability Priors for Image-based Affordance Prediction in Off-road Environments

Matthew Sivaprakasam, Samuel Triest, Micah Nye +5

Standard methods for autonomous navigation in unstructured terrain are prone to myopic behaviors in long-horizon scenarios. The use of metric maps built from LiDAR or cameras provi…

cs.RO2024

TartanDrive 2.0: More Modalities and Better Infrastructure to Further Self-Supervised Learning Research in Off-Road Driving Tasks

Matthew Sivaprakasam, Parv Maheshwari, Mateo Guaman Castro +6

We present TartanDrive 2.0, a large-scale off-road driving dataset for self-supervised learning tasks. In 2021 we released TartanDrive 1.0, which is one of the largest datasets for…

cs.RO2023

Learning Risk-Aware Costmaps via Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Off-Road Navigation

Samuel Triest, Mateo Guaman Castro, Parv Maheshwari +3

The process of designing costmaps for off-road driving tasks is often a challenging and engineering-intensive task. Recent work in costmap design for off-road driving focuses on tr…

cs.RO2024

UNRealNet: Learning Uncertainty-Aware Navigation Features from High-Fidelity Scans of Real Environments

Samuel Triest, David D. Fan, Sebastian Scherer +1

Traversability estimation in rugged, unstructured environments remains a challenging problem in field robotics. Often, the need for precise, accurate traversability estimation is i…

cs.RO2022

TartanDrive: A Large-Scale Dataset for Learning Off-Road Dynamics Models

Samuel Triest, Matthew Sivaprakasam, Sean J. Wang +3

We present TartanDrive, a large scale dataset for learning dynamics models for off-road driving. We collected a dataset of roughly 200,000 off-road driving interactions on a modifi…

cs.RO2023

How Does It Feel? Self-Supervised Costmap Learning for Off-Road Vehicle Traversability

Mateo Guaman Castro, Samuel Triest, Wenshan Wang +4

Estimating terrain traversability in off-road environments requires reasoning about complex interaction dynamics between the robot and these terrains. However, it is challenging to…

cs.RO2023

PIAug -- Physics Informed Augmentation for Learning Vehicle Dynamics for Off-Road Navigation

Parv Maheshwari, Wenshan Wang, Samuel Triest +5

Modeling the precise dynamics of off-road vehicles is a complex yet essential task due to the challenging terrain they encounter and the need for optimal performance and safety. Re…

cs.RO2024

SALON: Self-supervised Adaptive Learning for Off-road Navigation

Matthew Sivaprakasam, Samuel Triest, Cherie Ho +5

Autonomous robot navigation in off-road environments presents a number of challenges due to its lack of structure, making it difficult to handcraft robust heuristics for diverse sc…

cs.RO2024

Deep Bayesian Future Fusion for Self-Supervised, High-Resolution, Off-Road Mapping

Shubhra Aich, Wenshan Wang, Parv Maheshwari +6

High-speed off-road navigation requires long-range, high-resolution maps to enable robots to safely navigate over different surfaces while avoiding dangerous obstacles. However, du…