9 papers
COLIP-2: Olfaction-Vision-Language Embeddings
Kordel Kade France
The Contrastive Olfaction-Language-Image Pre-training 2 (COLIP-2) model is a multimodal embeddings space that places olfaction as a first-class citizen among vision and language. M…
Grow-Prune-Freeze Networks: Adaptive & Continual Learning Technique for Olfactory Navigation
Kordel K. France, Ovidiu Daescu
Training data for olfaction is scattered through disparate, non-standardized datasets that limit the ability to build representative world models. Olfactory navigation is a highly…
Chasing Ghosts: A Simulation-to-Real Olfactory Navigation Stack with Optional Vision Augmentation
Kordel K. France, Ovidiu Daescu, Latifur Khan +1
Autonomous odor source localization remains a challenging problem for aerial robots due to turbulent airflow, sparse and delayed sensory signals, and strict payload and compute con…
Chronoamperometry with Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids: Sub-Second Inference Techniques
Kordel K. France
Chronoamperometry (CA) is a fundamental electrochemical technique used for quantifying redox-active species. However, in room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs), the high viscosity…
Olfactory Inertial Odometry: Sensor Calibration and Drift Compensation
Kordel K. France, Ovidiu Daescu, Anirban Paul +1
Visual inertial odometry (VIO) is a process for fusing visual and kinematic data to understand a machine's state in a navigation task. Olfactory inertial odometry (OIO) is an analo…
Olfactory Inertial Odometry: Methodology for Effective Robot Navigation by Scent
Kordel K. France, Ovidiu Daescu
Olfactory navigation is one of the most primitive mechanisms of exploration used by organisms. Navigation by machine olfaction (artificial smell) is a very difficult task to both s…
Diffusion Graph Neural Networks and Dataset for Robust Olfactory Navigation in Hazard Robotics
Kordel K. France, Ovidiu Daescu
Navigation by scent is a capability in robotic systems that is rising in demand. However, current methods often suffer from ambiguities, particularly when robots misattribute odour…
Reinforcement Learning for Hanabi
Nina Cohen, Kordel K. France
Hanabi has become a popular game for research when it comes to reinforcement learning (RL) as it is one of the few cooperative card games where you have incomplete knowledge of the…
Position: Olfaction Standardization is Essential for the Advancement of Embodied Artificial Intelligence
Kordel K. France, Rohith Peddi, Nik Dennler +1
Despite extraordinary progress in artificial intelligence (AI), modern systems remain incomplete representations of human cognition. Vision, audition, and language have received di…