This paper presents a novel strategy for autonomous teamed exploration of subterranean
environments using legged and aerial robots. Tailored to the fact that subterranean settings …

Abstract Purpose of Review Multi-robot exploration—ie, the problem of map** unknown
features of an environment—is fundamental in many tasks, including search and rescue …

The term “world model”(WM) has surfaced several times in robotics, for instance, in the
context of mobile manipulation, navigation and map**, and deep reinforcement learning …

Teams of mobile robots will play a crucial role in future missions to explore the surfaces of
extraterrestrial bodies. Setting up infrastructure and taking scientific samples are expensive …

Planetary rovers increasingly rely on vision‐based components for autonomous navigation
and map**. Develo** and testing these components requires representative optical …

We present the DLR Planetary Stereo, Solid-State LiDAR, Inertial (S3LI) dataset, recorded
on Mt. Etna, Sicily, an environment analogous to the Moon and Mars, using a hand-held …

Multi-agent exploration of a bounded 3D environment with the unknown initial poses of
agents is a challenging problem. It requires both quickly exploring the environments and …

With the recent discovery of water-ice and lava tubes on the Moon and Mars along with the
development of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) technology, the recent planetary …

In this paper, we report on the deployment of the combination of commercially available off-
the-shelf embedded visual localization system and RGB-D camera in an autonomous …