7 papers
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…
BIEVR-LIO: Robust LiDAR-Inertial Odometry through Bump-Image-Enhanced Voxel Maps
Patrick Pfreundschuh, Turcan Tuna, Cedric Le Gentil +3
Reliable odometry is essential for mobile robots as they increasingly enter more challenging environments, which often contain little information to constrain point cloud registrat…
Semantic Landmark Particle Filter for Robot Localisation in Vineyards
Rajitha de Silva, Jonathan Cox, James R. Heselden +3
Reliable localisation in vineyards is hindered by row-level perceptual aliasing: parallel crop rows produce nearly identical LiDAR observations, causing geometry-only and vision-ba…
Semantic-Aware Particle Filter for Reliable Vineyard Robot Localisation
Rajitha de Silva, Jonathan Cox, James R. Heselden +3
Accurate localisation is critical for mobile robots in structured outdoor environments, yet LiDAR-based methods often fail in vineyards due to repetitive row geometry and perceptua…
Sight Over Site: Perception-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Robotic Inspection
Richard Kuhlmann, Jakob Wolfram, Boyang Sun +4
Autonomous inspection is a central problem in robotics, with applications ranging from industrial monitoring to search-and-rescue. Traditionally, inspection has often been reduced…
Keypoint Semantic Integration for Improved Feature Matching in Outdoor Agricultural Environments
Rajitha de Silva, Jonathan Cox, Marija Popovic +3
Robust robot navigation in outdoor environments requires accurate perception systems capable of handling visual challenges such as repetitive structures and changing appearances. V…
FrontierNet: Learning Visual Cues to Explore
Boyang Sun, Hanzhi Chen, Stefan Leutenegger +3
Exploration of unknown environments is crucial for autonomous robots; it allows them to actively reason and decide on what new data to acquire for different tasks, such as mapping,…