8 papers
Faster Thermal Profiling of a Lunar Rover with Machine Learning Adapted Finite Difference Model
Samuel Weber, Zaki Hasnain, Souma Chowdhury
Autonomous space systems operating in extreme thermal environments require accurate and efficient thermal modeling to support both pre-mission system design and onboard autonomy. F…
Learning When to Jump for Off-road Navigation
Zhipeng Zhao, Taimeng Fu, Shaoshu Su +5
Low speed does not always guarantee safety in off-road driving. For instance, crossing a ditch may be risky at a low speed due to the risk of getting stuck, yet safe at a higher sp…
CLEAR: A Semantic-Geometric Terrain Abstraction for Large-Scale Unstructured Environments
Pranay Meshram, Charuvahan Adhivarahan, Ehsan Tarkesh Esfahani +3
Long-horizon navigation in unstructured environments demands terrain abstractions that scale to tens of square kilometers while preserving semantic and geometric structure. Grids s…
AnyNav: Visual Neuro-Symbolic Friction Learning for Off-road Navigation
Taimeng Fu, Zitong Zhan, Zhipeng Zhao +7
Off-road navigation is critical for a wide range of field robotics applications from planetary exploration to disaster response. However, it remains a longstanding challenge due to…
Automated Generation of Diverse Courses of Actions for Multi-Agent Operations using Binary Optimization and Graph Learning
Prithvi Poddar, Ehsan Tarkesh Esfahani, Karthik Dantu +1
Operations in disaster response, search \& rescue, and military missions that involve multiple agents demand automated processes to support the planning of the courses of action (C…
Learning Approach to Efficient Vision-based Active Tracking of a Flying Target by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Jagadeswara PKV Pothuri, Aditya Bhatt, Prajit KrisshnaKumar +2
Autonomous tracking of flying aerial objects has important civilian and defense applications, ranging from search and rescue to counter-unmanned aerial systems (counter-UAS). Groun…