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most citedGlORIE-SLAM: Globally Optimized RGB-only Implicit Encoding Point Cloud SLAM

6 citations · 8 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.RO2026

EgoHTR: Egocentric 4D Demonstrations of Human Terrain Traversal

Alex Brandes, Haig Conti Georges Sajelian, Manthan Patel +11

Deploying humanoid robots in unstructured terrain remains an open problem. While classic reinforcement learning struggles with the sheer complexity of real-world interactions, more…

cs.CV2026

CoMind: Understanding Collaborative Human Activity from Multiple Minds and Views

Alexey Gavryushin, Dingxi Zhang, Zhao Huang +8

Human-human collaboration is a fundamental aspect of everyday life, essential to success in a wide range of goal-directed activities from household tasks to professional teamwork.…

cs.RO2026

WildOS: Open-Vocabulary Object Search in the Wild

Hardik Shah, Erica Tevere, Deegan Atha +6

Autonomous navigation in complex, unstructured outdoor environments requires robots to operate over long ranges without prior maps and limited depth sensing. In such settings, rely…

cs.RO2026

Large-Scale Autonomous Gas Monitoring for Volcanic Environments: A Legged Robot on Mount Etna

Julia Richter, Turcan Tuna, Manthan Patel +6

Volcanic gas emissions are key precursors of eruptive activity. Yet, obtaining accurate near-surface measurements remains hazardous and logistically challenging, motivating the nee…

cs.RO2026

DeFM: Learning Foundation Representations from Depth for Robotics

Manthan Patel, Jonas Frey, Mayank Mittal +5

Depth sensors are widely deployed across robotic platforms, and advances in fast, high-fidelity depth simulation have enabled robotic policies trained on depth observations to achi…

cs.RO2025

VLD: Visual Language Goal Distance for Reinforcement Learning Navigation

Lazar Milikic, Manthan Patel, Jonas Frey

Training end-to-end policies from image data to directly predict navigation actions for robotic systems has proven inherently difficult. Existing approaches often suffer from eithe…

cs.RO2025

NaviTrace: Evaluating Embodied Navigation of Vision-Language Models

Tim Windecker, Manthan Patel, Moritz Reuss +5

Vision-language models demonstrate unprecedented performance and generalization across a wide range of tasks and scenarios. Integrating these foundation models into robotic navigat…

cs.RO2025

TartanGround: A Large-Scale Dataset for Ground Robot Perception and Navigation

Manthan Patel, Fan Yang, Yuheng Qiu +4

We present TartanGround, a large-scale, multi-modal dataset to advance the perception and autonomy of ground robots operating in diverse environments. This dataset, collected in va…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

RoadRunner M&M -- Learning Multi-range Multi-resolution Traversability Maps for Autonomous Off-road Navigation

Manthan Patel, Jonas Frey, Deegan Atha +3

Autonomous robot navigation in off-road environments requires a comprehensive understanding of the terrain geometry and traversability. The degraded perceptual conditions and spars…

cs.CV2024★ 6 cited

GlORIE-SLAM: Globally Optimized RGB-only Implicit Encoding Point Cloud SLAM

Ganlin Zhang, Erik Sandström, Youmin Zhang +3

Recent advancements in RGB-only dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) have predominantly utilized grid-based neural implicit encodings and/or struggle to efficiently r…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

RoadRunner -- Learning Traversability Estimation for Autonomous Off-road Driving

Jonas Frey, Manthan Patel, Deegan Atha +7

Autonomous navigation at high speeds in off-road environments necessitates robots to comprehensively understand their surroundings using onboard sensing only. The extreme condition…