8 papers
VEGA: Learning Navigation VLAs from In-the-Wild Egocentric Video with Geometric Trajectory Supervision
Gershom Seneviratne, Yohan Abeysinghe, Jianyu An +3
We introduce VEGA, an approach for training navigation VisionLanguage-Action (VLA) models from unlabeled egocentric navigation videos. Internet-scale egocentric videos provide a sc…
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…
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…
CHOP: Counterfactual Human Preference Labels Improve Obstacle Avoidance in Visuomotor Navigation Policies
Gershom Seneviratne, Jianyu An, Vaibhav Shende +6
Visuomotor navigation policies have shown strong perception-action coupling for embodied agents, yet they often struggle with safe navigation and dynamic obstacle avoidance in comp…
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…
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…