3 papers
cs.RO2026
Autonomous Search for Sparsely Distributed Visual Phenomena through Environmental Context Modeling
Eric Chen, Travis Manderson, Nare Karapetyan +3
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are increasingly used to survey coral reefs, yet efficiently locating specific coral species of interest remains difficult: target species are…
cs.LG2026
Toward Learning POMDPs Beyond Full-Rank Actions and State Observability
Seiji Shaw, Travis Manderson, Chad Kessens +1
We are interested in enabling autonomous agents to learn and reason about systems with hidden states, such as locking mechanisms. We cast this problem as learning the parameters of…
cs.RO2025
Anomalies by Synthesis: Anomaly Detection using Generative Diffusion Models for Off-Road Navigation
Siddharth Ancha, Sunshine Jiang, Travis Manderson +4
In order to navigate safely and reliably in off-road and unstructured environments, robots must detect anomalies that are out-of-distribution (OOD) with respect to the training dat…