3 papers
cs.RO2026
HELIOS: Hierarchical Exploration for Language-Grounded Interaction in Open Scenes
Katrina Ashton, Chahyon Ku, Shrey Shah +5
Language-specified mobile manipulation tasks in novel environments simultaneously face challenges interacting with a scene which is only partially observed, grounding semantic info…
cs.RO2025
Multimodal LLM Guided Exploration and Active Mapping using Fisher Information
Wen Jiang, Boshu Lei, Katrina Ashton +1
We present an active mapping system that plans for both long-horizon exploration goals and short-term actions using a 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) representation. Existing methods…
cs.RO2025
Zero-shot Object-Centric Instruction Following: Integrating Foundation Models with Traditional Navigation
Sonia Raychaudhuri, Duy Ta, Katrina Ashton +3
Large scale scenes such as multifloor homes can be robustly and efficiently mapped with a 3D graph of landmarks estimated jointly with robot poses in a factor graph, a technique co…