5 papers
LocalNav: Distilling Frontier VLMs and Embodied RL for On-Device Object Goal Navigation
Nicolas Baumann, Liam Boyle, Pu Deng +5
Vision Language Models (VLMs) have emerged in the robotic domain as a powerful tool that enables environmental perception with language context, serving as a catalyst for open-voca…
RobotxR1: Enabling Embodied Robotic Intelligence on Large Language Models through Closed-Loop Reinforcement Learning
Liam Boyle, Nicolas Baumann, Paviththiren Sivasothilingam +2
Future robotic systems operating in real-world environments will require on-board embodied intelligence without continuous cloud connection, balancing capabilities with constraints…
DTR: Delaunay Triangulation-based Racing for Scaled Autonomous Racing
Luca Tognoni, Neil Reichlin, Edoardo Ghignone +4
Reactive controllers for autonomous racing avoid the computational overhead of full ee-Think-Act autonomy stacks by directly mapping sensor input to control actions, eliminating th…
Planar Velocity Estimation for Fast-Moving Mobile Robots Using Event-Based Optical Flow
Liam Boyle, Jonas Kühne, Nicolas Baumann +2
Accurate velocity estimation is critical in mobile robotics, particularly for driver assistance systems and autonomous driving. Wheel odometry fused with Inertial Measurement Unit…
DSORT-MCU: Detecting Small Objects in Real-Time on Microcontroller Units
Liam Boyle, Julian Moosmann, Nicolas Baumann +2
Advances in lightweight neural networks have revolutionized computer vision in a broad range of IoT applications, encompassing remote monitoring and process automation. However, th…