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Environment prediction frameworks are integral for autonomous vehicles, enabling safe navigation in dynamic environments. LiDAR generated occupancy grid maps (L-OGMs) offer a robust bird's eye-view scene representation that facilitates…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Bernard Lange , Masha Itkina , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Autonomous navigation and exploration in unmapped environments remains a significant challenge in robotics due to the difficulty robots face in making commonsense inference of unobserved geometries. Recent advancements have demonstrated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Alec Reed , Lorin Achey , Brendan Crowe , Bradley Hayes , Christoffer Heckman

Building models, or maps, of robot environments is a highly active research area; however, most existing techniques construct unstructured maps and assume static environments. In this paper, we present an algorithm for learning object…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Dragomir Anguelov , Rahul Biswas , Daphne Koller , Benson Limketkai , Sebastian Thrun

Motion prediction is a challenging task for autonomous vehicles due to uncertainty in the sensor data, the non-deterministic nature of future, and complex behavior of agents. In this paper, we tackle this problem by representing the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Rabbia Asghar , Manuel Diaz-Zapata , Lukas Rummelhard , Anne Spalanzani , Christian Laugier

In this paper we present some results obtained with a troupe of low-cost robots designed to cooperatively explore and adquire the map of unknown structured orthogonal environments. In order to improve the covering of the explored zone, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-02-08 Maite Lopez-Sanchez , Ramon Lopez de Mantaras , Carles Sierra

In this paper, we aim to forecast a future trajectory distribution of a moving agent in the real world, given the social scene images and historical trajectories. Yet, it is a challenging task because the ground-truth distribution is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Ke Guo , Wenxi Liu , Jia Pan

Last-mile delivery systems commonly propose the use of autonomous robotic vehicles to increase scalability and efficiency. The economic inefficiency of collecting accurate prior maps for navigation motivates the use of planning algorithms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Michael Everett , Justin Miller , Jonathan P. How

We present a novel approach for enhancing robotic exploration by using generative occupancy mapping. We implement SceneSense, a diffusion model designed and trained for predicting 3D occupancy maps given partial observations. Our proposed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Lorin Achey , Alec Reed , Brendan Crowe , Bradley Hayes , Christoffer Heckman

Design space exploration is an important but costly step involved in the design/deployment of custom architectures to squeeze out maximum possible performance and energy efficiency. Conventionally, optimizations require iterative sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Ananda Samajdar , Jan Moritz Joseph , Matthew Denton , Tushar Krishna

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

A detailed environment perception is a crucial component of automated vehicles. However, to deal with the amount of perceived information, we also require segmentation strategies. Based on a grid map environment representation, well-suited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Sascha Wirges , Tom Fischer , Jesus Balado Frias , Christoph Stiller

Constructing an occupancy representation of the environment is a fundamental problem for robot autonomy. Many accurate and efficient methods exist that address this problem but most assume that the occupancy states of different elements in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Ke Sun , Kelsey Saulnier , Nikolay Atanasov , George J. Pappas , Vijay Kumar

Accurate prediction of driving scene is a challenging task due to uncertainty in sensor data, the complex behaviors of agents, and the possibility of multiple feasible futures. Existing prediction methods using occupancy grid maps primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Rabbia Asghar , Lukas Rummelhard , Wenqian Liu , Anne Spalanzani , Christian Laugier

Reliable pose estimation in previously unseen environments is a fundamental capability of autonomous systems. Existing LiDAR odometry methods typically employ point-, surfel-, or NDT-based map representations, which are distinct from the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Johannes Scherer , Sebastian Hirt , Henri Meeß

State-of-the-art navigation methods leverage a spatial memory to generalize to new environments, but their occupancy maps are limited to capturing the geometric structures directly observed by the agent. We propose occupancy anticipation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Santhosh K. Ramakrishnan , Ziad Al-Halah , Kristen Grauman

Recent advances in LiDAR technology have opened up new possibilities for robotic navigation. Given the widespread use of occupancy grid maps (OGMs) in robotic motion planning, this paper aims to address the challenges of integrating LiDAR…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yunfan Ren , Yixi Cai , Fangcheng Zhu , Siqi Liang , Fu Zhang

Humanoid robot technology is advancing rapidly, with manufacturers introducing diverse heterogeneous visual perception modules tailored to specific scenarios. Among various perception paradigms, occupancy-based representation has become…

Using the spatial structure of various indoor environments as prior knowledge, the robot would construct the map more efficiently. Autonomous mobile robots generally apply simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) methods to understand…

Environment modeling in autonomous driving is realized by two fundamental approaches, grid-based and feature-based approach. Both methods interpret the environment differently and show some situation-dependent beneficial realizations. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Nils Rexin , Marcel Musch , Klaus Dietmayer

Efficient routing of mobile robot fleets is crucial in intralogistics, where delays and deadlocks can substantially reduce system throughput. Roadmap design, specifying feasible transport routes, directly affects fleet coordination and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Marvin Rüdt , Constantin Enke , Kai Furmans
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