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RLDG: Robotic Generalist Policy Distillation via Reinforcement Learning
Charles Xu, Qiyang Li, Jianlan Luo +1
Recent advances in robotic foundation models have enabled the development of generalist policies that can adapt to diverse tasks. While these models show impressive flexibility, th…
BYE: Build Your Encoder with One Sequence of Exploration Data for Long-Term Dynamic Scene Understanding
Chenguang Huang, Shengchao Yan, Wolfram Burgard
Dynamic scene understanding remains a persistent challenge in robotic applications. Early dynamic mapping methods focused on mitigating the negative influence of short-term dynamic…
Perception Matters: Enhancing Embodied AI with Uncertainty-Aware Semantic Segmentation
Sai Prasanna, Daniel Honerkamp, Kshitij Sirohi +3
Embodied AI has made significant progress acting in unexplored environments. However, tasks such as object search have largely focused on efficient policy learning. In this work, w…
Improving Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving via Polynomial Representations
Yue Yao, Shengchao Yan, Daniel Goehring +2
Robustness against Out-of-Distribution (OoD) samples is a key performance indicator of a trajectory prediction model. However, the development and ranking of state-of-the-art (SotA…
LetsMap: Unsupervised Representation Learning for Semantic BEV Mapping
Nikhil Gosala, Kürsat Petek, B Ravi Kiran +4
Semantic Bird's Eye View (BEV) maps offer a rich representation with strong occlusion reasoning for various decision making tasks in autonomous driving. However, most BEV mapping a…
A Good Foundation is Worth Many Labels: Label-Efficient Panoptic Segmentation
Niclas Vödisch, Kürsat Petek, Markus Käppeler +2
A key challenge for the widespread application of learning-based models for robotic perception is to significantly reduce the required amount of annotated training data while achie…
Automatic Target-Less Camera-LiDAR Calibration From Motion and Deep Point Correspondences
Kürsat Petek, Niclas Vödisch, Johannes Meyer +3
Sensor setups of robotic platforms commonly include both camera and LiDAR as they provide complementary information. However, fusing these two modalities typically requires a highl…
uPLAM: Robust Panoptic Localization and Mapping Leveraging Perception Uncertainties
Kshitij Sirohi, Daniel Büscher, Wolfram Burgard
The availability of a robust map-based localization system is essential for the operation of many autonomously navigating vehicles. Since uncertainty is an inevitable part of perce…
Hierarchical Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Graphs for Language-Grounded Robot Navigation
Abdelrhman Werby, Chenguang Huang, Martin Büchner +2
Recent open-vocabulary robot mapping methods enrich dense geometric maps with pre-trained visual-language features. While these maps allow for the prediction of point-wise saliency…
Bayesian Optimization for Sample-Efficient Policy Improvement in Robotic Manipulation
Adrian Röfer, Iman Nematollahi, Tim Welschehold +2
Sample efficient learning of manipulation skills poses a major challenge in robotics. While recent approaches demonstrate impressive advances in the type of task that can be addres…
Agent-Agnostic Centralized Training for Decentralized Multi-Agent Cooperative Driving
Shengchao Yan, Lukas König, Wolfram Burgard
Active traffic management with autonomous vehicles offers the potential for reduced congestion and improved traffic flow. However, developing effective algorithms for real-world sc…
BEVCar: Camera-Radar Fusion for BEV Map and Object Segmentation
Jonas Schramm, Niclas Vödisch, Kürsat Petek +4
Semantic scene segmentation from a bird's-eye-view (BEV) perspective plays a crucial role in facilitating planning and decision-making for mobile robots. Although recent vision-onl…
Evaluation of a Smart Mobile Robotic System for Industrial Plant Inspection and Supervision
Georg K. J. Fischer, Max Bergau, D. Adriana Gómez-Rosal +10
Automated and autonomous industrial inspection is a longstanding research field, driven by the necessity to enhance safety and efficiency within industrial settings. In addressing…