3 papers
cs.RO2026
Navigation Around Unknown Space Objects Using Visible-Thermal Image Fusion
Eric J. Elias, Michael Esswein, Jonathan P. How +1
As the popularity of on-orbit operations grows, so does the need for precise navigation around unknown resident space objects (RSOs) such as other spacecraft, orbital debris, and a…
cs.RO2025
Off-Road Navigation via Implicit Neural Representation of Terrain Traversability
Yixuan Jia, Qingyuan Li, Jonathan P. How
Autonomous off-road navigation requires robots to estimate terrain traversability from onboard sensors and plan motion accordingly. Conventional approaches typically rely on sampli…
cs.RO2025
Efficient Navigation in Unknown Indoor Environments with Vision-Language Models
D. Schwartz, K. Kondo, J. P. How
We present a novel high-level planning framework that leverages vision-language models (VLMs) to improve autonomous navigation in unknown indoor environments with many dead ends. T…