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Publications (7)

cs.RO2023

Radar-Only Off-Road Local Navigation

Timothy Overbye, Srikanth Saripalli

Off-road robotics have traditionally utilized lidar for local navigation due to its accuracy and high resolution. However, the limitations of lidar, such as reduced performance in…

cs.RO2025

Trailblazer: Learning offroad costmaps for long range planning

Kasi Viswanath, Felix Sanchez, Timothy Overbye +2

Autonomous navigation in off-road environments remains a significant challenge in field robotics, particularly for Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) tasked with search and rescue, ex…

cs.RO2026

GO: The Great Outdoors Multimodal Dataset

Peng Jiang, Kasi Viswanath, Akhil Nagariya +8

The Great Outdoors (GO) dataset is a multi-modal annotated data resource aimed at advancing ground robotics research in unstructured environments. Existing off-road datasets often…

cs.RO2026

Pushing Radar Odometry Beyond the Pavement: Current Capabilities and Challenges

Shaunak Kolhe, Peng Jiang, Maggie Wigness +4

Radar offers unique advantages for localization in unstructured environments, including robustness to weather, lighting, and airborne particulates. While most prior work has studie…

cs.RO2021

G-VOM: A GPU Accelerated Voxel Off-Road Mapping System

Timothy Overbye, Srikanth Saripalli

We present a local 3D voxel mapping framework for off-road path planning and navigation. Our method provides both hard and soft positive obstacle detection, negative obstacle detec…

cs.RO2021

Path Optimization for Ground Vehicles in Off-Road Terrain

Timothy Overbye, Srikanth Saripalli

We present a method for path optimization for ground vehicles in off-road environments at high speeds. This path optimization considers the kinematic constraints of the vehicle. By…