4 papers
Region Based SLAM-Aware Exploration: Efficient and Robust Autonomous Mapping Strategy That Can Scale
Megha Maheshwari, Sadeigh Rabiee, He Yin +3
Autonomous exploration for mapping unknown large scale environments is a fundamental challenge in robotics, with efficiency in time, stability against map corruption and computatio…
HomeEmergency -- Using Audio to Find and Respond to Emergencies in the Home
James F. Mullen, Dhruva Kumar, Xuewei Qi +4
In the United States alone accidental home deaths exceed 128,000 per year. Our work aims to enable home robots who respond to emergency scenarios in the home, preventing injuries a…
VLPG-Nav: Object Navigation Using Visual Language Pose Graph and Object Localization Probability Maps
Senthil Hariharan Arul, Dhruva Kumar, Vivek Sugirtharaj +6
We present VLPG-Nav, a visual language navigation method for guiding robots to specified objects within household scenes. Unlike existing methods primarily focused on navigating th…
Learning to View: Decision Transformers for Active Object Detection
Wenhao Ding, Nathalie Majcherczyk, Mohit Deshpande +4
Active perception describes a broad class of techniques that couple planning and perception systems to move the robot in a way to give the robot more information about the environm…