4 papers
Schur-MI: Fast Mutual Information for Robotic Information Gathering
Kalvik Jakkala, Jason O'Kane, Srinivas Akella
Mutual information (MI) is a principled and widely used objective for robotic information gathering (RIG), providing strong theoretical guarantees for sensor placement (SP) and inf…
Informative Path Planning with Guaranteed Estimation Uncertainty
Kalvik Jakkala, Saurav Agarwal, Jason O'Kane +1
Environmental monitoring robots often need to estimate data fields (e.g., salinity, temperature, bathymetry) under tight resource constraints. Classical boustrophedon lawnmower sur…
AMP2026: A Multi-Platform Marine Robotics Dataset for Tracking and Mapping
Edwin Meriaux, Shuo Wen, David Widhalm +11
Marine environments present significant challenges for perception and autonomy due to dynamic surfaces, limited visibility, and complex interactions between aerial, surface, and su…
Low-Cost Underwater In-Pipe Centering and Inspection Using a Minimal-Sensing Robot
Kalvik Jakkala, Jason O'Kane
Autonomous underwater inspection of submerged pipelines is challenging due to confined geometries, turbidity, and the scarcity of reliable localization cues. This paper presents a…