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In the last decade, autonomous navigation for roboticshas been leveraged by deep learning and other approachesbased on machine learning. These approaches have demon-strated significant advantages in robotics performance. Butthey have the…

We describe a system for visually guided autonomous navigation of under-canopy farm robots. Low-cost under-canopy robots can drive between crop rows under the plant canopy and accomplish tasks that are infeasible for over-the-canopy drones…

Local planning is an optimization process within a mobile robot navigation stack that searches for the best velocity vector, given the robot and environment state. Depending on how the optimization criteria and constraints are defined, some…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Vishnu D. Sharma , Jeongran Lee , Matthew Andrews , Ilija Hadžić

Path planning is a fundamental capability for autonomous navigation of robotic wheelchairs. With the impressive development of deep-learning technologies, imitation learning-based path planning approaches have achieved effective results in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Hengli Wang , Yuxiang Sun , Rui Fan , Ming Liu

Object detection and semantic segmentation are two of the most widely adopted deep learning algorithms in agricultural applications. One of the major sources of variability in image quality acquired in the outdoors for such tasks is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Abhisesh Silwal , Tanvir Parhar , Francisco Yandun , George Kantor

We present a learning-based mapless motion planner by taking the sparse 10-dimensional range findings and the target position with respect to the mobile robot coordinate frame as input and the continuous steering commands as output.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Lei Tai , Giuseppe Paolo , Ming Liu

Automated patient positioning is a crucial step in streamlining MRI workflows and enhancing patient throughput. RGB-D camera-based systems offer a promising approach to automate this process by leveraging depth information to estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Eytan Kats , Kai Geißler , Jochen G. Hirsch , Stefan Heldman , Mattias P. Heinrich

Training robots to navigate diverse environments is a challenging problem as it involves the confluence of several different perception tasks such as mapping and localization, followed by optimal path-planning and control. Recently released…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Kaushik Balakrishnan , Punarjay Chakravarty , Shubham Shrivastava

In this paper, we propose an autonomous UAV path planning framework using deep reinforcement learning approach. The objective is to employ a self-trained UAV as a flying mobile unit to reach spatially distributed moving or static targets in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Omar Bouhamed , Hakim Ghazzai , Hichem Besbes , Yehia Massoud

In recent years, learning-based approaches have demonstrated significant promise in addressing intricate navigation tasks. Traditional methods for training deep neural network navigation policies rely on meticulously designed reward…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Wenzhe Cai , Teng Wang , Guangran Cheng , Lele Xu , Changyin Sun

Headland maneuvering is a crucial aspect of unmanned field operations for autonomous agricultural vehicles (AAVs). While motion planning for headland turning in open fields has been extensively studied and integrated into commercial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Chen Peng , Peng Wei , Zhenghao Fei , Yuankai Zhu , Stavros G. Vougioukas

Localization in agricultural environments is challenging due to their unstructured nature and lack of distinctive landmarks. Although agricultural settings have been studied in the context of object classification and segmentation, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Judith Vilella-Cantos , Mauro Martini , Marcello Chiaberge , Mónica Ballesta , David Valiente

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

As the demands of autonomous mobile robots are increasing in recent years, the requirement of the path planning/navigation algorithm should not be content with the ability to reach the target without any collisions, but also should try to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Jian Zhang

Robot navigation in mapless environment is one of the essential problems and challenges in mobile robots. Deep reinforcement learning is a promising technique to tackle the task of mapless navigation. Since reinforcement learning requires a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Liulong Ma , Yanjie Liu* , Jiao Chen

Small robots that can operate under the plant canopy can enable new possibilities in agriculture. However, unlike larger autonomous tractors, autonomous navigation for such under canopy robots remains an open challenge because Global…

Autonomous aerial navigation in dense natural environments remains challenging due to limited visibility, thin and irregular obstacles, GNSS-denied operation, and frequent perceptual degradation. This work presents an improved deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Guglielmo Del Col , Väinö Karjalainen , Teemu Hakala , Yibo Zhang , Eija Honkavaara

In the futuristic agricultural fields compatible with Agriculture 4.0, robots are envisaged to navigate through crops to perform functions like pesticide spraying and fruit harvesting, which are complex tasks due to factors such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Tom Baby , Mahendra Kumar Gohil , Bishakh Bhattacharya

Autonomous navigation in unstructured natural environments poses a significant challenge. In goal navigation tasks without prior information, the limited look-ahead of onboard sensors utilised by robots compromises path efficiency. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Lucas Carvalho de Lima , Nicholas Lawrance , Kasra Khosoussi , Paulo Borges , Michael Bruenig

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has been successfully applied to a variety of game-like environments. However, the application of deep RL to visual navigation with realistic environments is a challenging task. We propose a novel learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Jonáš Kulhánek , Erik Derner , Tim de Bruin , Robert Babuška