3 papers
cs.RO2026
Off-Road Navigation via Implicit Neural Representation of Terrain Traversability
Yixuan Jia, Qingyuan Li, Jonathan P. How
Autonomous off-road navigation requires robots to estimate terrain traversability from onboard sensors and plan motion accordingly. Conventional approaches typically rely on sampli…
cs.RO2026
Navigation Around Unknown Space Objects Using Visible-Thermal Image Fusion
Eric J. Elias, Michael Esswein, Jonathan P. How +1
As the popularity of on-orbit operations grows, so does the need for precise navigation around unknown resident space objects (RSOs) such as other spacecraft, orbital debris, and a…
cs.RO2025
Efficient Navigation in Unknown Indoor Environments with Vision-Language Models
D. Schwartz, K. Kondo, J. P. How
We present a novel high-level planning framework that leverages vision-language models (VLMs) to improve autonomous navigation in unknown indoor environments with many dead ends. T…