Safe visual navigation via deep learning and novelty detection

C Richter, N Roy - 2017 - dspace.mit.edu
Robots that use learned perceptual models in the real world must be able to safely handle
cases where they are forced to make decisions in scenarios that are unlike any of their …

Learning over subgoals for efficient navigation of structured, unknown environments

GJ Stein, C Bradley, N Roy - Conference on robot learning, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
We propose a novel technique for efficiently navigating unknown environments over long
horizons by learning to predict properties of unknown space. We generate a dynamic action …

Autonomous exploring map and navigation for an agricultural robot

Z Al-Mashhadani, M Mainampati… - … on control and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the robot is exploring and creating a map of the environment for autonomous
navigation. Exploration forms an important role in creating the map and locating the …

Active Information Gathering for Long-Horizon Navigation Under Uncertainty by Learning the Value of Information

RI Arnob, GJ Stein - ar**
A Adeleye - arxiv preprint arxiv:2307.08690, 2023 - arxiv.org
Robotic Exploration has evolved rapidly in the past two decades as new and more complex
techniques have been created to explore unknown regions efficiently. Exciting …

Designing autonomous drone for food delivery in Gazebo/Ros based environments

H Patel - 2022 - scholar.smu.edu
There has been a growing global trend towards convenience, speed, and ease in delivery
services, and this has been further accelerated by the COVID pandemic. With the …

Human-Inspired Methods for Extending Advances in Computer Vision to Data-and Compute-Constrained Environments

LE Brandt - 2024 - dspace.mit.edu
Recent developments in computer vision have often relied on access to big data, powerful
compute, or both. City-based systems, such as self-driving cars and airport checkpoints …

Representations for intelligent navigation in unfamiliar environments

GJ Stein - 2020 - dspace.mit.edu
The way an agent chooses to represent the world around it is fundamental to its ability to
effectively interact with it. The work presented in this thesis is centered around the …

Navigation of unknown environments using high-level actions

CP Bradley - 2019 - dspace.mit.edu
Goal-oriented, autonomous navigation through previously unexplored environments
presents challenges to a robot on a number of different fronts. First, the robot must construct …