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6 papers

cs.RO2026

Reactive Robot-Centric Safety for Autonomous Navigation in Constrained and Dynamic Environments

Viswa Narayanan Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh K. Viswanathan, Akshit Saradagi +2

In this work, we address the problem of ensuring real-time safety in autonomous robot navigation, in spatially constrained dynamic environments, by utilizing only onboard sensors.…

cs.RO2026

xFLIE: Leveraging Actionable Hierarchical Scene Representations for Autonomous Semantic-Aware Inspection Missions

Vignesh Kottayam Viswanathan, Mario A. V. Saucedo, Sumeet Gajanan Satpute +2

We present a novel architecture aimed towards incremental construction and exploitation of a hierarchical 3D scene graph representation during semantic-aware inspection missions. I…

cs.RO2026

An Adaptive Inspection Planning Approach Towards Routine Monitoring in Uncertain Environments

Vignesh Kottayam Viswanathan, Yifan Bai, Scott Fredriksson +3

In this work, we present a hierarchical framework designed to support robotic inspection under environment uncertainty. By leveraging a known environment model, existing methods pl…

cs.RO2025

SPADE: Towards Scalable Path Planning Architecture on Actionable Multi-Domain 3D Scene Graphs

Vignesh Kottayam Viswanathan, Akash Patel, Mario Alberto Valdes Saucedo +3

In this work, we introduce SPADE, a path planning framework designed for autonomous navigation in dynamic environments using 3D scene graphs. SPADE combines hierarchical path plann…

cs.RO2025

An Actionable Hierarchical Scene Representation Enhancing Autonomous Inspection Missions in Unknown Environments

Vignesh Kottayam Viswanathan, Mario Alberto Valdes Saucedo, Sumeet Gajanan Satpute +2

In this article, we present the Layered Semantic Graphs (LSG), a novel actionable hierarchical scene graph, fully integrated with a multi-modal mission planner, the FLIE: A First-L…

cs.RO2025

Estimating Commonsense Scene Composition on Belief Scene Graphs

Mario A. V. Saucedo, Vignesh Kottayam Viswanathan, Christoforos Kanellakis +1

This work establishes the concept of commonsense scene composition, with a focus on extending Belief Scene Graphs by estimating the spatial distribution of unseen objects. Specific…