4 papers
From Leaderboard to Deployment: Code Quality Challenges in AV Perception Repositories
Mateus Karvat, Bram Adams, Sidney Givigi
Autonomous vehicle (AV) perception models are typically evaluated solely on benchmark performance metrics, with limited attention to code quality, production readiness and long-ter…
Physics-Constrained Denoising Autoencoders for Data-Scarce Wildfire UAV Sensing
Abdelrahman Ramadan, Zahra Dorbeigi Namaghi, Emily Taylor +5
Wildfire monitoring requires high-resolution atmospheric measurements, yet low-cost sensors on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) exhibit baseline drift, cross-sensitivity, and respon…
SwarmUpdate: Hierarchical Software Updates and Deep Learning Model Patching for Heterogeneous UAV Swarms
Lin Geng, Hao Li, Sidney Givigi +1
Heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms consist of dozens to hundreds of drones with different roles and varying hardware and software requirements collaborating towards…
A Simulation Pipeline to Facilitate Real-World Robotic Reinforcement Learning Applications
Jefferson Silveira, Joshua A. Marshall, Sidney N. Givigi
Reinforcement learning (RL) has gained traction for its success in solving complex tasks for robotic applications. However, its deployment on physical robots remains challenging du…