5 papers
MOSAIC: Modular Scalable Autonomy for Intelligent Coordination of Heterogeneous Robotic Teams
David Oberacker, Julia Richter, Philip Arm +10
Mobile robots have become indispensable for exploring hostile environments, such as in space or disaster relief scenarios, but often remain limited to teleoperation by a human oper…
From Pixels to Concepts: Growing Rich 3D Semantic Scene Graph Forests utilizing Foundation Models
David Oberacker, Meike Deitersen, Niklas Spielbauer +3
Operating in complex real-world environments requires robots to understand their surroundings on a functional semantic level. This demands a detailed multi-layer world model captur…
Sensor Configuration Matters: A Systematic Evaluation of Multimodal SLAM on Quadruped Robots
Roberto Corlito, Fabian Schmidt, Nils Seibert +3
Autonomous navigation of quadrupedal robots in diverse environments fundamentally relies on resilient Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). While visual-inertial SLAM has m…
A Practical Framework of Key Performance Indicators for Multi-Robot Lunar and Planetary Field Tests
Julia Richter, David Oberacker, Gabriela Ligeza +10
Robotic prospecting for critical resources on the Moon, such as ilmenite, rare earth elements, and water ice, requires robust exploration methods given the diverse terrain and hars…
LAURON VI: A Six-Legged Robot for Dynamic Walking
Christian Eichmann, Sabine Bellmann, Nicolas Hügel +5
Legged locomotion enables robotic systems to traverse extremely challenging terrains. In many real-world scenarios, the terrain is not that difficult and these mixed terrain types…