Challenges and solutions for autonomous ground robot scene understanding and navigation in unstructured outdoor environments: A review

L Wijayathunga, A Rassau, D Chai - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
The capabilities of autonomous mobile robotic systems have been steadily improving due to
recent advancements in computer science, engineering, and related disciplines such as …

Evora: Deep evidential traversability learning for risk-aware off-road autonomy

X Cai, S Ancha, L Sharma, PR Osteen… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traversing terrain with good traction is crucial for achieving fast off-road navigation. Instead
of manually designing costs based on terrain features, existing methods learn terrain …

Mcuformer: Deploying vision tranformers on microcontrollers with limited memory

Y Liang, Z Wang, X Xu, Y Tang… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Due to the high price and heavy energy consumption of GPUs, deploying deep models on
IoT devices such as microcontrollers makes significant contributions for ecological AI …

Learning off-road terrain traversability with self-supervisions only

J Seo, S Sim, I Shim - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Estimating the traversability of terrain should be reliable and accurate in diverse conditions
for autonomous driving in off-road environments. However, learning-based approaches …

Terrapn: Unstructured terrain navigation using online self-supervised learning

AJ Sathyamoorthy, K Weerakoon… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present TerraPN, a novel method that learns the surface properties (traction, bumpiness,
deformability, etc.) of complex outdoor terrains directly from robot-terrain interactions through …

Pronav: Proprioceptive traversability estimation for legged robot navigation in outdoor environments

M Elnoor, AJ Sathyamoorthy… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel method, ProNav, which uses proprioceptive signals for traversability
estimation in challenging outdoor terrains for autonomous legged robot navigation. Our …

Probabilistic traversability model for risk-aware motion planning in off-road environments

X Cai, M Everett, L Sharma… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A key challenge in off-road navigation is that even visually similar terrains or ones from the
same semantic class may have substantially different traction properties. Existing work …

Navigable area detection and perception-guided model predictive control for autonomous navigation in narrow waterways

J Kim, C Lee, D Chung, J Kim - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents an integrated navigation and control strategy for an autonomous surface
vehicle (ASV) to operate in narrow waterways without relying on GPS. The proposed method …

Strip and asymmetric aggregation network for unstructured terrain segmentation in wild environments

W Li, S Tian, Y Zhang, M Liao, G Hua, W Zou - Engineering Applications of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent studies have demonstrated the significant importance of two factors: global context
and multi-level semantics, for semantic segmentation models. However, obtaining features …

Aerial-ground collaborative continuous risk map** for autonomous driving of unmanned ground vehicle in off-road environments

R Wang, K Wang, W Song, M Fu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Terrain risk estimation has always been a crucial but challenging task for autonomous
driving of unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) in off-road environments. The map with dense …