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TERA: A Simulation Environment for Terrain Excavation Robot Autonomy
Christo Aluckal, Roopesh Vinodh Kumar Lal, Sean Courtney +5
Developing excavation autonomy is challenging given the environments where excavators operate, the complexity of physical interaction and the degrees of freedom of operation of the…
MARs: Multi-view Attention Regularizations for Patch-based Feature Recognition of Space Terrain
Timothy Chase, Karthik Dantu
The visual detection and tracking of surface terrain is required for spacecraft to safely land on or navigate within close proximity to celestial objects. Current approaches rely o…
PANOS: Payload-Aware Navigation in Offroad Scenarios
Kartikeya Singh, Yash Turkar, Christo Aluckal +2
Nature has evolved humans to walk on different terrains by developing a detailed understanding of their physical characteristics. Similarly, legged robots need to develop their cap…
Learning Visual Information Utility with PIXER
Yash Turkar, Timothy Chase, Christo Aluckal +1
Accurate feature detection is fundamental for various computer vision tasks, including autonomous robotics, 3D reconstruction, medical imaging, and remote sensing. Despite advancem…