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PhysGS: Bayesian-Inferred Gaussian Splatting for Physical Property Estimation

Samarth Chopra, Jing Liang, Gershom Seneviratne +1

Understanding physical properties such as friction, stiffness, hardness, and material composition is essential for enabling robots to interact safely and effectively with their sur…

cs.RO2025

DR. Nav: Semantic-Geometric Representations for Proactive Dead-End Recovery and Navigation

Vignesh Rajagopal, Kasun Weerakoon Kulathun Mudiyanselage, Gershom Devake Seneviratne +5

We present DR. Nav (Dead-End Recovery-aware Navigation), a novel approach to autonomous navigation in scenarios where dead-end detection and recovery are critical, particularly in…

cs.RO2025

Splatblox: Traversability-Aware Gaussian Splatting for Outdoor Robot Navigation

Samarth Chopra, Jing Liang, Gershom Seneviratne +5

We present Splatblox, a real-time system for autonomous navigation in outdoor environments with dense vegetation, irregular obstacles, and complex terrain. Our method fuses segment…

cs.RO2025

HALO: Human Preference Aligned Offline Reward Learning for Robot Navigation

Gershom Seneviratne, Jianyu An, Sahire Ellahy +5

In this paper, we introduce HALO, a novel Offline Reward Learning algorithm that quantifies human intuition in navigation into a vision-based reward function for robot navigation.…

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

ViLAM: Distilling Vision-Language Reasoning into Attention Maps for Social Robot Navigation

Mohamed Elnoor, Kasun Weerakoon, Gershom Seneviratne +3

We introduce ViLAM, a novel method for distilling vision-language reasoning from large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) into spatial attention maps for socially compliant robot naviga…