7 papers
Seeing Where to Deploy: Metric RGB-Based Traversability Analysis for Aerial-to-Ground Hidden Space Inspection
Seoyoung Lee, Shaekh Mohammad Shithil, Durgakant Pushp +2
Inspection of confined infrastructure such as culverts often requires accessing hidden spaces whose entrances are reachable primarily from elevated viewpoints. Aerial-ground cooper…
LPV-MPC for Lateral Control in Full-Scale Autonomous Racing
Hassan Jardali, Ihab S. Mohamed, Durgakant Pushp +1
Autonomous racing has attracted significant attention recently, presenting challenges in selecting an optimal controller that operates within the onboard system's computational lim…
MiniUGV: A Compact UAV-Deployable Tracked Ground Vehicle with Manipulation Capabilities
Durgakant Pushp, Swapnil Kalhapure, Shaekh Mohammad Shithil +1
Exploring and inspecting \emph{Hidden Spaces}, defined as environments whose entrances are accessible only to aerial robots but remain unexplored due to geometric constraints, limi…
From Zero to High-Speed Racing: An Autonomous Racing Stack
Hassan Jardali, Durgakant Pushp, Youwei Yu +9
High-speed, head-to-head autonomous racing presents substantial technical and logistical challenges, including precise localization, rapid perception, dynamic planning, and real-ti…
Navigating the Wild: Pareto-Optimal Visual Decision-Making in Image Space
Durgakant Pushp, Weizhe Chen, Zheng Chen +3
Navigating complex real-world environments requires semantic understanding and adaptive decision-making. Traditional reactive methods without maps often fail in cluttered settings,…
Minimalistic Autonomous Stack for High-Speed Time-Trial Racing
Mahmoud Ali, Hassan Jardali, Youwei Yu +2
Autonomous racing has seen significant advancements, driven by competitions such as the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) and the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (A2RL). However,…