Fast traversability estimation for wild visual navigation

J Frey, M Mattamala, N Chebrolu, C Cadena… - ar** and Planning
ID Miller, F Cladera, T Smith, CJ Taylor… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Map** and navigation have gone hand-in-hand since long before robots existed. Maps
are a key form of communication, allowing someone who has never been somewhere to …

Rethinking Robustness Assessment: Adversarial Attacks on Learning-based Quadrupedal Locomotion Controllers

F Shi, C Zhang, T Miki, J Lee, M Hutter… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Legged locomotion has recently achieved remarkable success with the progress of machine
learning techniques, especially deep reinforcement learning (RL). Controllers employing …

Residual dynamics learning for trajectory tracking for multi-rotor aerial vehicles

G Kulathunga, H Hamed, A Klimchik - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
This paper presents a technique to model the residual dynamics between a high-level
planner and a low-level controller by considering reference trajectory tracking in a cluttered …

Heterogeneous robot teams with unified perception and autonomy: How Team CSIRO Data61 tied for the top score at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge

N Kottege, J Williams, B Tidd, F Talbot… - … on Field Robotics, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The DARPA Subterranean Challenge was designed for competitors to develop and deploy
teams of autonomous robots to explore difficult unknown underground environments …

Wild Visual Navigation: Fast Traversability Learning via Pre-Trained Models and Online Self-Supervision

M Mattamala, J Frey, P Libera, N Chebrolu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Natural environments such as forests and grasslands are challenging for robotic navigation
because of the false perception of rigid obstacles from high grass, twigs, or bushes. In this …

Lessons from robot‐assisted disaster response deployments by the German Rescue Robotics Center task force

H Surmann, K Daun, M Schnaubelt… - Journal of Field …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Earthquakes, fire, and floods often cause structural collapses of buildings. However, the
inspection of such damaged buildings poses a high risk for emergency forces or is even …