Learning quadrotor dynamics for precise, safe, and agile flight control

A Saviolo, G Loianno - Annual Reviews in Control, 2023‏ - Elsevier
This article reviews the state-of-the-art modeling and control techniques for aerial robots
such as quadrotor systems and presents several future research directions in this area. The …

Point-slam: Dense neural point cloud-based slam

E Sandström, Y Li, L Van Gool… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - openaccess.thecvf.com
We propose a dense neural simultaneous localization and map** (SLAM) approach for
monocular RGBD input which anchors the features of a neural scene representation in a …

Benchmarking neural radiance fields for autonomous robots: An overview

Y Ming, X Yang, W Wang, Z Chen, J Feng… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2025‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for scene
representation, offering high-fidelity renderings and reconstructions from a set of sparse and …

Splat-nav: Safe real-time robot navigation in gaussian splatting maps

T Chen, O Shorinwa, J Bruno, A Swann, J Yu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
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) …

Ai-generated images as data source: The dawn of synthetic era

Z Yang, F Zhan, K Liu, M Xu, S Lu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2310.01830, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
The advancement of visual intelligence is intrinsically tethered to the availability of large-
scale data. In parallel, generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has unlocked the potential to …

Nerf in robotics: A survey

G Wang, L Pan, S Peng, S Liu, C Xu, Y Miao… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Meticulous 3D environment representations have been a longstanding goal in computer
vision and robotics fields. The recent emergence of neural implicit representations has …

Splat-mover: Multi-stage, open-vocabulary robotic manipulation via editable gaussian splatting

O Shorinwa, J Tucker, A Smith, A Swann… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
We present Splat-MOVER, a modular robotics stack for open-vocabulary robotic
manipulation, which leverages the editability of Gaussian Splatting (GSplat) scene …

Touch-gs: Visual-tactile supervised 3d gaussian splatting

A Swann, M Strong, WK Do, GS Camps… - 2024 IEEE/RSJ …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we propose a novel method to supervise 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) scenes
using optical tactile sensors. Optical tactile sensors have become widespread in their use in …

Integrating neural radiance fields end-to-end for cognitive visuomotor navigation

Q Liu, H **n, Z Liu, H Wang - IEEE Transactions on Pattern …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose an end-to-end visuomotor navigation framework that leverages Neural
Radiance Fields (NeRF) for spatial cognition. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first …

-SLAM: Inverting Imaging Process for Robust Photorealistic Dense SLAM

G Bae, C Choi, H Heo, SM Kim, YM Kim - European Conference on …, 2024‏ - Springer
We present an inverse image-formation module that can enhance the robustness of existing
visual SLAM pipelines for casually captured scenarios. Casual video captures often suffer …