4 papers
Kleinkram: Open Robotic Data Management
Cyrill Püntener, Johann Schwabe, Dominique Garmier +2
We introduce Kleinkram, a free and open-source system designed to solve the challenge of managing massive, unstructured robotic datasets. Designed as a modular, on-premises cloud s…
Building Forest Inventories with Autonomous Legged Robots -- System, Lessons, and Challenges Ahead
Matías Mattamala, Nived Chebrolu, Jonas Frey +5
Legged robots are increasingly being adopted in industries such as oil, gas, mining, nuclear, and agriculture. However, new challenges exist when moving into natural, less-structur…
Risk-Guided Diffusion: Toward Deploying Robot Foundation Models in Space, Where Failure Is Not An Option
Rohan Thakker, Adarsh Patnaik, Vince Kurtz +10
Safe, reliable navigation in extreme, unfamiliar terrain is required for future robotic space exploration missions. Recent generative-AI methods learn semantically aware navigation…
Diffusion Based Robust LiDAR Place Recognition
Benjamin Krummenacher, Jonas Frey, Turcan Tuna +2
Mobile robots on construction sites require accurate pose estimation to perform autonomous surveying and inspection missions. Localization in construction sites is a particularly c…