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cs.RO2026

Fire as a Service: Augmenting Robot Simulators with Thermally and Visually Accurate Fire Dynamics

Anton R. Wagner, Madhan Balaji Rao, Helge Wrede +2

The paper presents Fire as a Service (FaaS), a co-simulation framework that adds realistic thermal and visual fire dynamics to existing robot simulators, enabling accurate heat tra…

cs.RO2026

Understanding Fire Through Thermal Radiation Fields for Mobile Robots

Anton R. Wagner, Madhan Balaji Rao, Xuesu Xiao +1

The paper introduces a method for mobile robots to create real-time 3D thermal radiation fields by fusing depth and thermal images, allowing the robots to navigate safely around fi…

cs.RO2025

Verti-Arena: A Controllable and Standardized Indoor Testbed for Multi-Terrain Off-Road Autonomy

Haiyue Chen, Aniket Datar, Tong Xu +6

Off-road navigation is an important capability for mobile robots deployed in environments that are inaccessible or dangerous to humans, such as disaster response or planetary explo…

cs.RO2025

Verti-Bench: A General and Scalable Off-Road Mobility Benchmark for Vertically Challenging Terrain

Tong Xu, Chenhui Pan, Madhan B. Rao +4

Recent advancement in off-road autonomy has shown promises in deploying autonomous mobile robots in outdoor off-road environments. Encouraging results have been reported from both…

cs.RO2025

M2P2: A Multi-Modal Passive Perception Dataset for Off-Road Mobility in Extreme Low-Light Conditions

Aniket Datar, Anuj Pokhrel, Mohammad Nazeri +8

Long-duration, off-road, autonomous missions require robots to continuously perceive their surroundings regardless of the ambient lighting conditions. Most existing autonomy system…