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most citedInformed RRT*: Optimal Sampling-based Path Planning Focused via Direct Sampling of an Admissible Ellipsoidal Heuristic

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BLT*: Informed Belief Localization Trees for Uncertainty-Aware Planning on Digital Twins

Elliot Preston-Krebs, Abhishek Goudar, Timothy D. Barfoot

We present Informed Belief Localization Trees* (Informed BLT*), a sampling-based belief space planning (BSP) algorithm that scales to large outdoor digital twins with point-cloud o…

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Dr-LiSA: Direct Radar-Lidar Scan Alignment for SE(3) Localization

Alex Zhang, Daniil Lisus, Cedric Le Gentil +1

This paper introduces Dr-LiSA, a first-of-its-kind direct method for localizing 2D spinning radar intensity measurements in against 3D lidar maps. Radar-lidar localization…

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SPARROW: Survival-POMCP for Adaptive Robot Routing, Observation, and Waiting

Hshmat Sahak, Aoran Jiao, Nicholas Rhinehart +1

Temporary obstacles that may block a robot's planned route create a sequential navigation problem: a robot must decide whether to wait for a blockage to clear, reroute, or acquire…

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Do Spinning Radar Doppler Velocity Measurements Improve Vehicle Detection and Tracking?

Eric Xie, Daniil Lisus, Timothy D. Barfoot

Spinning frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radars have been gaining popularity in autonomous vehicle perception on account of their robustness to adverse weather condition…

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PIVOT: Physically Informed Vision-Language Off-Road Traversability for Field Robot Navigation

Aoran Jiao, Wenda Zhao, Hshmat Sahak +1

Terrain assessment is a critical capability for off-road mobile robots, enabling safe and reliable navigation through unstructured and geometrically complex environments. Conventio…

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DRT&R: Direct Radar Teach & Repeat

Alexander Krawciw, Daniil Lisus, Cedric Le Gentil +1

Radar-based navigation is appealing for its robustness to adverse conditions involving airborne particles, such as precipitation, dust, fog, and smoke, that can cause lidar-based s…