4 papers
Verti-Arena: A Controllable and Standardized Indoor Testbed for Multi-Terrain Off-Road Autonomy
Haiyue Chen, Aniket Datar, Tong Xu +6
Off-road navigation is an important capability for mobile robots deployed in environments that are inaccessible or dangerous to humans, such as disaster response or planetary explo…
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…
VertiFormer: A Data-Efficient Multi-Task Transformer for Off-Road Robot Mobility
Mohammad Nazeri, Anuj Pokhrel, Alexandyr Card +3
Sophisticated learning architectures, e.g., Transformers, present a unique opportunity for robots to understand complex vehicle-terrain kinodynamic interactions for off-road mobili…
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)…