3 papers
cs.CV2025
Empowering Dynamic Urban Navigation with Stereo and Mid-Level Vision
Wentao Zhou, Xuweiyi Chen, Vignesh Rajagopal +3
The success of foundation models in language and vision motivated research in fully end-to-end robot navigation foundation models (NFMs). NFMs directly map monocular visual input t…
cs.RO2025
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…
cs.LG2025
Are LLMs The Way Forward? A Case Study on LLM-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Decentralized Autonomous Driving
Timur Anvar, Jeffrey Chen, Yuyan Wang +1
Autonomous vehicle navigation in complex environments such as dense and fast-moving highways and merging scenarios remains an active area of research. A key limitation of RL is its…