4 papers
Leveraging Semantic Maps for City-Scale Cross-View Localization
Ethan Fahnestock, Erick Fuentes, Philip R Osteen +1
We want robots to localize in previously untraversed environments against commonly available prior data. Rich semantic data available from OpenStreetMap can be useful in this task.…
Autonomous Search for Sparsely Distributed Visual Phenomena through Environmental Context Modeling
Eric Chen, Travis Manderson, Nare Karapetyan +3
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are increasingly used to survey coral reefs, yet efficiently locating specific coral species of interest remains difficult: target species are…
Anomalies by Synthesis: Anomaly Detection using Generative Diffusion Models for Off-Road Navigation
Siddharth Ancha, Sunshine Jiang, Travis Manderson +4
In order to navigate safely and reliably in off-road and unstructured environments, robots must detect anomalies that are out-of-distribution (OOD) with respect to the training dat…
Belief Roadmaps with Uncertain Landmark Evanescence
Erick Fuentes, Jared Strader, Ethan Fahnestock +1
We would like a robot to navigate to a goal location while minimizing state uncertainty. To aid the robot in this endeavor, maps provide a prior belief over the location of objects…