5 papers
Fire as a Service: Augmenting Robot Simulators with Thermally and Visually Accurate Fire Dynamics
Anton R. Wagner, Madhan Balaji Rao, Helge Wrede +2
Most existing robot simulators prioritize rigid-body dynamics and photorealistic rendering, but largely neglect the thermally and optically complex phenomena that characterize real…
Understanding Fire Through Thermal Radiation Fields for Mobile Robots
Anton R. Wagner, Madhan Balaji Rao, Xuesu Xiao +1
Safely moving through environments affected by fire is a critical capability for autonomous mobile robots deployed in disaster response. In this work, we present a novel approach f…
Verti-Arena: A Controllable and Standardized Indoor Testbed for Multi-Terrain Off-Road Autonomy
Haiyue Chen, Aniket Datar, Tong Xu +6
Off-road navigation is an important capability for mobile robots deployed in environments that are inaccessible or dangerous to humans, such as disaster response or planetary explo…
Verti-Bench: A General and Scalable Off-Road Mobility Benchmark for Vertically Challenging Terrain
Tong Xu, Chenhui Pan, Madhan B. Rao +4
Recent advancement in off-road autonomy has shown promises in deploying autonomous mobile robots in outdoor off-road environments. Encouraging results have been reported from both…
M2P2: A Multi-Modal Passive Perception Dataset for Off-Road Mobility in Extreme Low-Light Conditions
Aniket Datar, Anuj Pokhrel, Mohammad Nazeri +8
Long-duration, off-road, autonomous missions require robots to continuously perceive their surroundings regardless of the ambient lighting conditions. Most existing autonomy system…