8 papers
Vision-Language Models as copilots for Autonomous UAV Navigation: Analysis of Latency and Reliability in Degraded Environments
Hiago Sodre, Sebastian Barcelona, Vincent Sandin +6
The integration of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offers unprecedented semantic reasoning capabilities. However, real-time closed-loop…
Situation Aware Locomotion for Dual Mobile Cobots in Shared Environments
William Moraes, Igor Nunes, Ahilen Mazondo +4
This paper presents a situation aware locomotion framework for two mobile collaborative robots operating in shared industrial environments. The proposed method models situation awa…
RoboCup Rescue 2025 Team Description Paper UruBots
Kevin Farias, Pablo Moraes, Igor Nunes +12
This paper describes the approach used by Team UruBots for participation in the 2025 RoboCup Rescue Robot League competition. Our team aims to participate for the first time in thi…
UruBots RoboCup Work Team Description Paper
Hiago Sodre, Juan Deniz, Pablo Moraes +9
This work presents a team description paper for the RoboCup Work League. Our team, UruBots, has been developing robots and projects for research and competitions in the last three…
Behavior Cloning for Mini Autonomous Car Path Following
Pablo Moraes, Christopher Peters, Hiago Sodre +6
This article presents the implementation and evaluation of a behavior cloning approach for route following with autonomous cars. Behavior cloning is a machine-learning technique in…
UruBots UAV -- Air Emergency Service Indoor Team Description Paper for FIRA 2024
Hiago Sodre, Sebastian Barcelona, Anthony Scirgalea +9
This document addresses the description of the corresponding "Urubots" Team for the 2024 Fira Air League, "Air Emergency Service (Indoor)." We introduce our team and an autonomous…
UruBots Autonomous Cars Team One Description Paper for FIRA 2024
Pablo Moraes, Christopher Peters, Any Da Rosa +12
This document presents the design of an autonomous car developed by the UruBots team for the 2024 FIRA Autonomous Cars Race Challenge. The project involves creating an RC-car sized…
UruBots Autonomous Car Team Two: Team Description Paper for FIRA 2024
William Moraes, Juan Deniz, Pablo Moraes +12
This paper proposes a mini autonomous car to be used by the team UruBots for the 2024 FIRA Autonomous Cars Race Challenge. The vehicle is proposed focusing on a low cost and light…