3 papers
cs.RO2025
VAMOS: A Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Model for Capability-Modulated and Steerable Navigation
Mateo Guaman Castro, Sidharth Rajagopal, Daniel Gorbatov +9
A fundamental challenge in robot navigation lies in learning policies that generalize across diverse environments while conforming to the unique physical constraints and capabiliti…
cs.RO2025
Long Range Navigator (LRN): Extending robot planning horizons beyond metric maps
Matt Schmittle, Rohan Baijal, Nathan Hatch +6
A robot navigating an outdoor environment with no prior knowledge of the space must rely on its local sensing to perceive its surroundings and plan. This can come in the form of a…
cs.RO2024
Demonstrating HOUND: A Low-cost Research Platform for High-speed Off-road Underactuated Nonholonomic Driving
Sidharth Talia, Matt Schmittle, Alexander Lambert +3
Off-road autonomy, crucial for applications such as search-and-rescue, agriculture, and planetary exploration, poses unique problems due to challenging terrains, as well as due to…