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most citedSTEP: Stochastic Traversability Evaluation and Planning for Risk-Aware Off-road Navigation; Results from the DARPA Subterranean Challenge

12 citations · 29 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.LG2026

On the Role of Inductive Bias in Time-Series Pretraining: A Case Study in Learning Generalizable Representations for Clinical Time Series

Sharmita Dey, Diego Paez-Granados

Clinical time-series learning is routinely constrained by small, heterogeneous cohorts and protocol drift, while its downstream use spans both classification (e.g., pathology diagn…

cs.RO2025★ 10 cited

An Addendum to NeBula: Towards Extending TEAM CoSTAR's Solution to Larger Scale Environments

Ali Agha, Kyohei Otsu, Benjamin Morrell +86

This paper presents an appendix to the original NeBula autonomy solution developed by the TEAM CoSTAR (Collaborative SubTerranean Autonomous Robots), participating in the DARPA Sub…

cs.LG2025

Cross-Modal Diffusion for Biomechanical Dynamical Systems Through Local Manifold Alignment

Sharmita Dey, Sarath Ravindran Nair

We present a mutually aligned diffusion framework for cross-modal biomechanical motion generation, guided by a dynamical systems perspective. By treating each modality, e.g., obser…

cs.LG2025

Redefining Robot Generalization Through Interactive Intelligence

Sharmita Dey

Recent advances in large-scale machine learning have produced high-capacity foundation models capable of adapting to a broad array of downstream tasks. While such models hold great…

cs.LG2024

Continual Learning from Simulated Interactions via Multitask Prospective Rehearsal for Bionic Limb Behavior Modeling

Sharmita Dey, Benjamin Paassen, Sarath Ravindran Nair +2

Lower limb amputations and neuromuscular impairments severely restrict mobility, necessitating advancements beyond conventional prosthetics. While motorized bionic limbs show promi…

cs.LG2024

Enhancing Joint Motion Prediction for Individuals with Limb Loss Through Model Reprogramming

Sharmita Dey, Sarath R. Nair

Mobility impairment caused by limb loss is a significant challenge faced by millions of individuals worldwide. The development of advanced assistive technologies, such as prostheti…

cs.RO2024

Embracing Large Language and Multimodal Models for Prosthetic Technologies

Sharmita Dey, Arndt F. Schilling

This article presents a vision for the future of prosthetic devices, leveraging the advancements in large language models (LLMs) and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) to revolutionize…

cs.CV2024★ 5 cited

Computer Vision for Primate Behavior Analysis in the Wild

Richard Vogg, Timo Lüddecke, Jonathan Henrich +14

Advances in computer vision as well as increasingly widespread video-based behavioral monitoring have great potential for transforming how we study animal cognition and behavior. H…

cs.RO2023★ 12 cited

STEP: Stochastic Traversability Evaluation and Planning for Risk-Aware Off-road Navigation; Results from the DARPA Subterranean Challenge

Anushri Dixit, David D. Fan, Kyohei Otsu +3

Although autonomy has gained widespread usage in structured and controlled environments, robotic autonomy in unknown and off-road terrain remains a difficult problem. Extreme, off-…

cs.RO2022

Self-Supervised Traversability Prediction by Learning to Reconstruct Safe Terrain

Robin Schmid, Deegan Atha, Frederik Schöller +8

Navigating off-road with a fast autonomous vehicle depends on a robust perception system that differentiates traversable from non-traversable terrain. Typically, this depends on a…

cs.RO2022

PrePARE: Predictive Proprioception for Agile Failure Event Detection in Robotic Exploration of Extreme Terrains

Sharmita Dey, David Fan, Robin Schmid +5

Legged robots can traverse a wide variety of terrains, some of which may be challenging for wheeled robots, such as stairs or highly uneven surfaces. However, quadruped robots face…

cs.RO2021

Learning a Shared Model for Motorized Prosthetic Joints to Predict Ankle-Joint Motion

Sharmita Dey, Sabri Boughorbel, Arndt F. Schilling

Control strategies for active prostheses or orthoses use sensor inputs to recognize the user's locomotive intention and generate corresponding control commands for producing the de…

cs.CE2021

A hybrid approach for dynamically training a torque prediction model for devising a human-machine interface control strategy

Sharmita Dey, Takashi Yoshida, Robert H. Foerster +4

Human-machine interfaces (HMI) play a pivotal role in the rehabilitation and daily assistance of lower-limb amputees. The brain of such interfaces is a control model that detects t…

cs.RO2021★ 2 cited

Learning Risk-aware Costmaps for Traversability in Challenging Environments

David D. Fan, Sharmita Dey, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi +1

One of the main challenges in autonomous robotic exploration and navigation in unknown and unstructured environments is determining where the robot can or cannot safely move. A sig…