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cs.RO2026

Verti-WM: A Physics-Aided Exteroceptive World Model for Off-Road Reinforcement Learning

Chenhui Pan, Tong Xu, Xuesu Xiao

Reinforcement learning for off-road navigation requires extensive vehicle-terrain interaction data, which are costly to collect in high-fidelity simulation. World models offer a pr…

cs.RO2026

NeSAM: Neuro-Symbolic Kinodynamics with Soil Adaptation for Off-Road Mobility

Chenhui Pan, Tong Xu, Francesco Cancelliere +1

Accurate prediction of off-road vehicle motion over deformable terrain remains challenging because sinkage, slip, and traction vary with local soil conditions. Existing learning-ba…

cs.RO2026

VertiAKD: Adaptive Off-Road Kinodynamics on Vertically Challenging Terrain

Tong Xu, Chenhui Pan, Francesco Cancelliere +1

Off-road mobility requires autonomous mobile robots to generalize across heterogeneous vehicle fleets and continuously changing terrain conditions. Existing cross-vehicle adaptatio…

cs.RO2026

VertiAdaptor: Online Kinodynamics Adaptation for Vertically Challenging Terrain

Tong Xu, Chenhui Pan, Aniket Datar +1

Autonomous driving in off-road environments presents significant challenges due to the dynamic and unpredictable nature of unstructured terrain. Traditional kinodynamic models ofte…

cs.RO2026

CAR: Cross-Vehicle Kinodynamics Adaptation via Mobility Representation

Tong Xu, Chenhui Pan, Xuesu Xiao

Developing autonomous mobile robot systems typically requires either extensive, platform-specific data collection or relies on simplified abstractions, such as unicycle or bicycle…

cs.RO2025

Verti-Bench: A General and Scalable Off-Road Mobility Benchmark for Vertically Challenging Terrain

Tong Xu, Chenhui Pan, Madhan B. Rao +4

Recent advancement in off-road autonomy has shown promises in deploying autonomous mobile robots in outdoor off-road environments. Encouraging results have been reported from both…

cs.RO2024

Reinforcement Learning for Wheeled Mobility on Vertically Challenging Terrain

Tong Xu, Chenhui Pan, Xuesu Xiao

Off-road navigation on vertically challenging terrain, involving steep slopes and rugged boulders, presents significant challenges for wheeled robots both at the planning level to…

cs.RO2024

M2P2: A Multi-Modal Passive Perception Dataset for Off-Road Mobility in Extreme Low-Light Conditions

Aniket Datar, Anuj Pokhrel, Mohammad Nazeri +8

Long-duration, off-road, autonomous missions require robots to continuously perceive their surroundings regardless of the ambient lighting conditions. Most existing autonomy system…

cs.RO2024

Traverse the Non-Traversable: Estimating Traversability for Wheeled Mobility on Vertically Challenging Terrain

Chenhui Pan, Aniket Datar, Anuj Pokhrel +3

Most traversability estimation techniques divide off-road terrain into traversable (e.g., pavement, gravel, and grass) and non-traversable (e.g., boulders, vegetation, and ditches)…

cs.RO2024

VertiSelector: Automatic Curriculum Learning for Wheeled Mobility on Vertically Challenging Terrain

Tong Xu, Chenhui Pan, Xuesu Xiao

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has the potential to enable extreme off-road mobility by circumventing complex kinodynamic modeling, planning, and control by simulated end-to-end trial…

cs.RO2024

VertiCoder: Self-Supervised Kinodynamic Representation Learning on Vertically Challenging Terrain

Mohammad Nazeri, Aniket Datar, Anuj Pokhrel +3

We present VertiCoder, a self-supervised representation learning approach for robot mobility on vertically challenging terrain. Using the same pre-training process, VertiCoder can…

cs.RO2024

PIETRA: Physics-Informed Evidential Learning for Traversing Out-of-Distribution Terrain

Xiaoyi Cai, James Queeney, Tong Xu +8

Self-supervised learning is a powerful approach for developing traversability models for off-road navigation, but these models often struggle with inputs unseen during training. Ex…

cs.RO2024

Terrain-Attentive Learning for Efficient 6-DoF Kinodynamic Modeling on Vertically Challenging Terrain

Aniket Datar, Chenhui Pan, Mohammad Nazeri +2

Wheeled robots have recently demonstrated superior mechanical capability to traverse vertically challenging terrain (e.g., extremely rugged boulders comparable in size to the vehic…

cs.RO2023★ 3 cited

Learning to Model and Plan for Wheeled Mobility on Vertically Challenging Terrain

Aniket Datar, Chenhui Pan, Xuesu Xiao

Most autonomous navigation systems assume wheeled robots are rigid bodies and their 2D planar workspaces can be divided into free spaces and obstacles. However, recent wheeled mobi…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

Toward Wheeled Mobility on Vertically Challenging Terrain: Platforms, Datasets, and Algorithms

Aniket Datar, Chenhui Pan, Mohammad Nazeri +1

Most conventional wheeled robots can only move in flat environments and simply divide their planar workspaces into free spaces and obstacles. Deeming obstacles as non-traversable s…