3 papers
cs.RO2025
VISTA: Open-Vocabulary, Task-Relevant Robot Exploration with Online Semantic Gaussian Splatting
Keiko Nagami, Timothy Chen, Javier Yu +5
We present VISTA (Viewpoint-based Image selection with Semantic Task Awareness), an active exploration method for robots to plan informative trajectories that improve 3D map qualit…
cs.RO2025
SOUS VIDE: Cooking Visual Drone Navigation Policies in a Gaussian Splatting Vacuum
JunEn Low, Maximilian Adang, Javier Yu +2
We propose a new simulator, training approach, and policy architecture, collectively called SOUS VIDE, for end-to-end visual drone navigation. Our trained policies exhibit zero-sho…
cs.RO2025
Splat-Nav: Safe Real-Time Robot Navigation in Gaussian Splatting Maps
Timothy Chen, Ola Shorinwa, Joseph Bruno +6
We present Splat-Nav, a real-time robot navigation pipeline for Gaussian Splatting (GSplat) scenes, a powerful new 3D scene representation. Splat-Nav consists of two components: 1)…