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Autonomous navigation is a long-standing field of robotics research, which provides an essential capability for mobile robots to execute a series of tasks on the same environments performed by human everyday. In this chapter, we present a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Anh Nguyen , Quang Tran

With the increasing adoption of robots across industries, it is crucial to focus on developing advanced algorithms that enable robots to anticipate, comprehend, and plan their actions effectively in collaboration with humans. We introduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Meenakshi Sarkar , Vinayak Honkote , Dibyendu Das , Debasish Ghose

Autonomous driving systems have made significant advances in Q&A, perception, prediction, and planning based on local visual information, yet they struggle to incorporate broader navigational context that human drivers routinely utilize. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Qucheng Peng , Chen Bai , Guoxiang Zhang , Bo Xu , Xiaotong Liu , Xiaoyin Zheng , Chen Chen , Cheng Lu

This paper presents a study on the development of an obstacle-avoidance navigation system for autonomous navigation in home environments. The system utilizes vision-based techniques and advanced path-planning algorithms to enable the robot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Sagar Manglani

Autonomous navigation of mobile robots is an essential aspect in use cases such as delivery, assistance or logistics. Although traditional planning methods are well integrated into existing navigation systems, they struggle in highly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Linh Kästner , Johannes Cox , Teham Buiyan , Jens Lambrecht

This paper investigates the automatic exploration problem under the unknown environment, which is the key point of applying the robotic system to some social tasks. The solution to this problem via stacking decision rules is impossible to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Haoran Li , Qichao Zhang , Dongbin Zhao

The comprehension of environmental traffic situation largely ensures the driving safety of autonomous vehicles. Recently, the mission has been investigated by plenty of researches, while it is hard to be well addressed due to the limitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Yanliang Zhu , Deheng Qian , Dongchun Ren , Huaxia Xia

Aerial navigation in GPS-denied, indoor environments, is still an open challenge. Drones can perceive the environment from a richer set of viewpoints, while having more stringent compute and energy constraints than other autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Ni Wang , Ozan Catal , Tim Verbelen , Matthias Hartmann , Bart Dhoedt

Traditional indoor robot navigation methods provide a reliable solution when adapted to constrained scenarios, but lack flexibility or require manual re-tuning when deployed in more complex settings. In contrast, learning-based approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Nigitha Selvaraj , Alex Mitrevski , Sebastian Houben

Indoor navigation is a difficult task, as it generally comes with poor GPS access, forcing solutions to rely on other sources of information. While significant progress continues to be made in this area, deployment to production…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Daniel Airinei , Elena Burceanu , Marius Leordeanu

"Embodied visual navigation" problem requires an agent to navigate in a 3D environment mainly rely on its first-person observation. This problem has attracted rising attention in recent years due to its wide application in autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Fengda Zhu , Yi Zhu , Vincent CS Lee , Xiaodan Liang , Xiaojun Chang

Autonomous vehicles have the potential to revolutionize transportation, but they must be able to navigate safely in traffic before they can be deployed on public roads. The goal of this project is to train autonomous vehicles to make…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Ghadi Nehme , Tejas Y. Deo

Digital maps will revolutionize our experience of perceiving and navigating indoor environments. While today we rely only on the representation of the outdoors, the mapping of indoors is mainly a part of the traditional SLAM problem where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-29 Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Gianni Pasolini , Antonio Clemente , Raffaele D'Errico , Davide Dardari

Mobile robots are often tasked with repeatedly navigating through an environment whose traversability changes over time. These changes may exhibit some hidden structure, which can be learned. Many studies consider reactive algorithms for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Florence Tsang , Tristan Walker , Ryan A. MacDonald , Armin Sadeghi , Stephen L. Smith

Visual navigation for autonomous agents is a core task in the fields of computer vision and robotics. Learning-based methods, such as deep reinforcement learning, have the potential to outperform the classical solutions developed for this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zachary Seymour , Kowshik Thopalli , Niluthpol Mithun , Han-Pang Chiu , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

We aim for domestic robots to perform long-term indoor service. Under the object-level scene dynamics induced by daily human activities, a robot needs to robustly localize itself in the environment subject to scene uncertainties. Previous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Xiao Li , Yidong Du , Zhen Zeng , Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

Autonomous object search is challenging for mobile robots operating in indoor environments due to partial observability, perceptual uncertainty, and the need to trade off exploration and navigation efficiency. Classical probabilistic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 João Castelo-Branco , José Santos-Victor , Alexandre Bernardino

Motion planning in navigation systems is highly susceptible to upstream perceptual errors, particularly in human detection and tracking. To mitigate this issue, the concept of guidance points--a novel directional cue within a reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Qianyi Zhang , Wentao Luo , Boyi Liu , Ziyang Zhang , Yaoyuan Wang , Jingtai Liu

The navigation of indoor spaces poses difficult challenges for individuals with visual impairments, as it requires processing of sensory information, dealing with uncertainties, and relying on assistance. To tackle these challenges, we…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Johannes Wortmann , Bernd Schäufele , Konstantin Klipp , Ilja Radusch , Katharina Blaß , Thomas Jung

Robots should exist anywhere humans do: indoors, outdoors, and even unmapped environments. In contrast, the focus of recent advancements in Object Goal Navigation(OGN) has targeted navigating in indoor environments by leveraging spatial and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Quanting Xie , Tianyi Zhang , Kedi Xu , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Yonatan Bisk