4 papers
VioLA: Aligning Videos to 2D LiDAR Scans
Jun-Jee Chao, Selim Engin, Nikhil Chavan-Dafle +2
We study the problem of aligning a video that captures a local portion of an environment to the 2D LiDAR scan of the entire environment. We introduce a method (VioLA) that starts w…
Enhancing Multi-Agent Coordination through Common Operating Picture Integration
Peihong Yu, Bhoram Lee, Aswin Raghavan +3
In multi-agent systems, agents possess only local observations of the environment. Communication between teammates becomes crucial for enhancing coordination. Past research has pri…
HIO-SDF: Hierarchical Incremental Online Signed Distance Fields
Vasileios Vasilopoulos, Suveer Garg, Jinwook Huh +2
A good representation of a large, complex mobile robot workspace must be space-efficient yet capable of encoding relevant geometric details. When exploring unknown environments, it…
SayNav: Grounding Large Language Models for Dynamic Planning to Navigation in New Environments
Abhinav Rajvanshi, Karan Sikka, Xiao Lin +3
Semantic reasoning and dynamic planning capabilities are crucial for an autonomous agent to perform complex navigation tasks in unknown environments. It requires a large amount of…