4 papers
Multistep Belief Space Dynamics Learning For Risk-Aware Control
Jason Gibson, Bogdan Vlahov, Patrick Spieler +1
As autonomous vehicles move from a simplified research setting to practical use, there exists a large gap between the dynamic behavior of a human driving and an autonomous system.…
Safe Payload Transfer with Ship-Mounted Cranes: A Robust Model Predictive Control Approach
Ersin Das, William A. Welch, Patrick Spieler +14
Ensuring safe real-time control of ship-mounted cranes in unstructured transportation environments requires handling multiple safety constraints while maintaining effective payload…
WildOS: Open-Vocabulary Object Search in the Wild
Hardik Shah, Erica Tevere, Deegan Atha +6
Autonomous navigation in complex, unstructured outdoor environments requires robots to operate over long ranges without prior maps and limited depth sensing. In such settings, rely…
COARSE: Collaborative Pseudo-Labeling with Coarse Real Labels for Off-Road Semantic Segmentation
Aurelio Noca, Xianmei Lei, Jonathan Becktor +6
Autonomous off-road navigation faces challenges due to diverse, unstructured environments, requiring robust perception with both geometric and semantic understanding. However, scar…