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Adapting Generalist Vehicle Models for High-Speed MPC Across Terrains
Rwik Rana, Jesse Quattrociocchi, Christian Ellis +3
The paper introduces OptCar, a method for adapting a generalist forward kinodynamic model to a specific vehicle using minimal real-world data and synthetic rollouts, improving high…
Zero to Autonomy in Real-Time: Online Adaptation of Dynamics in Unstructured Environments
William Ward, Sarah Etter, Jesse Quattrociocchi +3
Autonomous robots must go from zero prior knowledge to safe control within seconds to operate in unstructured environments. Abrupt terrain changes, such as a sudden transition to i…
BEV-Patch-PF: Particle Filtering with BEV-Aerial Feature Matching for Off-Road Geo-Localization
Dongmyeong Lee, Jesse Quattrociocchi, Christian Ellis +5
We propose BEV-Patch-PF, a GPS-free sequential geo-localization system that integrates a particle filter with learned bird's-eye-view (BEV) and aerial feature maps. From onboard RG…
OVerSeeC: Open-Vocabulary Costmap Generation from Satellite Images and Natural Language
Rwik Rana, Jesse Quattrociocchi, Dongmyeong Lee +5
Aerial imagery provides essential global context for autonomous navigation, enabling route planning at scales inaccessible to onboard sensing. We address the problem of generating…
Spatiotemporal Contrastive Learning for Cross-View Video Localization in Unstructured Off-road Terrains
Zhiyun Deng, Dongmyeong Lee, Amanda Adkins +3
Robust cross-view 3-DoF localization in GPS-denied, off-road environments remains challenging due to (1) perceptual ambiguities from repetitive vegetation and unstructured terrain,…