9 papers
A Taxonomy of Construction Task Activities for Robot Workers
Sadman Sakib, Zhangyi None Peng, Yujie Pang +2
Recent vision-language-action models offer a path toward robots with broader repertoires than conventional task-specific systems. Construction deployment, however, requires a preci…
VikPath: A Vision Kansformer Framework for Effective Obstacle Avoidance in Self-Supervised Pathfinding
Junyao Wang, Yulin Xu, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque
Pathfinding is a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence and autonomous systems. Traditional heuristic-based algorithms, such as A*, rely on predefined heuristic functions t…
CRUISE: Vision-Language Model-Guided Uncertainty-Aware Cross-Modal Sensor Fusion for Robust Autonomous Driving
Junyao Wang, Yulin Xu, Yu Li +2
Modern autonomous vehicles are equipped with multiple sensors, such as cameras, LiDAR, and radar, for comprehensive environmental perception. However, robust cross-modal feature fu…
Do Agents Dream of False Memories? Black-box Visual Attacks on Long-term Memory in Multimodal AI Agents
Halima Bouzidi, Mboutidem Ekemini Mkpong, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque
Multimodal AI agents increasingly rely on persistent long-term memory to ground generation in past visual and textual episodes. We show that unconditional trust in visual data crea…
Edge Physical AI Deployment of Vision Transformers on Heterogeneous Edge GPU Targeting Autonomous Vehicles
Ashiyana Abdul Majeed, Mahmoud Meribout, Neethu Joseph +2
Physical AI systems, such as autonomous vehicles and intelligent machines, require transformer-based perception models that satisfy stringent edge latency and energy constraints. H…
HydraCollab: Adaptive Collaborative-Perception for Distributed Autonomous Systems
Luke Chen, Cheng-Ju Wu, David R. Martin +3
Collaborative-perception enables multi-robot systems to enhance situational awareness by sharing perceptual information. Existing collaborative-perception systems face an inherent…