5 papers
Don't Fool Me Twice: Adapting to Adversity in the Wild with Experience-Driven Reasoning
Navin Sriram Ravie, Andrew Jong, Krrish Jain +4
In robotics, dangers and adversity modes are often embodiment-specific and relative to each agent. A frontier of autonomous mobile robotics is to enable agents to operate effective…
SuperPoint-SLAM3: Augmenting ORB-SLAM3 with Deep Features, Adaptive NMS, and Learning-Based Loop Closure
Shahram Najam Syed, Ishir Roongta, Kavin Ravie +1
Visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) must remain accurate under extreme viewpoint, scale and illumination variations. The widely adopted ORB-SLAM3 falters in these r…
ClutterNav: Gradient-Guided Search for Efficient 3D Clutter Removal with Learned Costmaps
Navin Sriram Ravie, Keerthi Vasan M, Bijo Sebastian
Dense clutter removal for target object retrieval presents a challenging problem, especially when targets are embedded deep within densely-packed configurations. It requires foresi…
Force-Modulated Visual Policy for Robot-Assisted Dressing with Arm Motions
Alexis Yihong Hao, Yufei Wang, Navin Sriram Ravie +3
Robot-assisted dressing has the potential to significantly improve the lives of individuals with mobility impairments. To ensure an effective and comfortable dressing experience, t…
QuickGrasp: Lightweight Antipodal Grasp Planning with Point Clouds
Navin Sriram Ravie, Keerthi Vasan M, Asokan Thondiyath +1
Grasping has been a long-standing challenge in facilitating the final interface between a robot and the environment. As environments and tasks become complicated, the need to embed…