10 papers
Transformer-based Monte Carlo Localization in Construction Meshes
Linus Kramer, William Talbot, Olga Vysotska +1
To be able to perform inspection or digitization tasks, mobile robots on construction sites must be able to localize themselves reliably with respect to a global reference frame th…
What do VLM-Based Vision-Language Navigation Models Rely on: Interpreting and Steering Policy Behavior
Débora Oliveira Makowski, Samiran Gode, Abhijeet Nayak +4
Modern Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) models rely mostly on pre-trained large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to predict navigation actions. While this fusion of language instructi…
DigiForest: Digital Analytics and Robotics for Sustainable Forestry
Marco Camurri, Enrico Tomelleri, Matías Mattamala +18
Covering one third of Earth's land surface, forests are vital to global biodiversity, climate regulation, and human well-being. In Europe, forests and woodlands reach approximately…
WildOS: Open-Vocabulary Object Search in the Wild
Hardik Shah, Erica Tevere, Deegan Atha +6
Autonomous navigation in complex, unstructured outdoor environments requires robots to operate over long ranges without prior maps and limited depth sensing. In such settings, rely…
GrandTour: A Legged Robotics Dataset in the Wild for Multi-Modal Perception and State Estimation
Turcan Tuna, Jonas Frey, Frank Fu +5
Accurate state estimation and multi-modal perception are prerequisites for autonomous legged robots in complex, large-scale environments. To date, no large-scale public legged-robo…
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…
NaviTrace: Evaluating Embodied Navigation of Vision-Language Models
Tim Windecker, Manthan Patel, Moritz Reuss +5
Vision-language models demonstrate unprecedented performance and generalization across a wide range of tasks and scenarios. Integrating these foundation models into robotic navigat…
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…