3 papers
cs.RO2026
LeCropFollow: Latent Space Planning for Navigation in Unstructured Crop Fields
Felipe Tommaselli, Francisco Affonso, Arthur Pompeu +4
Unstructured navigational features, such as irregular planting or discontinuities, remain the primary failure mode for under-canopy agricultural robots. Existing geometric approach…
cs.RO2026
CTS-MoE: Implicit Terrain Adaptation via Mixture-of-Experts for Perceptive Locomotion
Francisco Affonso, Matheus P. Angarola, Ana Luiza Mineiro +3
Perceptive legged locomotion over discontinuous terrain (e.g., stairs, gaps, and obstacles) requires adaptive behavior, as a single conservative gait cannot produce the anticipator…
cs.RO2026
CATNAV: Cached Vision-Language Traversability for Efficient Zero-Shot Robot Navigation
Aditya Potnis, Francisco Affonso, Shreya Gummadi +2
Navigating unstructured environments requires assessing traversal risk relative to a robot's physical capabilities, a challenge that varies across embodiments. We present CATNAV, a…