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The advancement of robotics and autonomous navigation systems hinges on the ability to accurately predict terrain traversability. Traditional methods for generating datasets to train these prediction models often involve putting robots into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Shreya Gummadi , Mateus V. Gasparino , Gianluca Capezzuto , Marcelo Becker , Girish Chowdhary

Deep Reinforcement Learning has been successfully applied in various computer games [8]. However, it is still rarely used in real-world applications, especially for the navigation and continuous control of real mobile robots [13]. Previous…

Autonomous navigation in unfamiliar environments often relies on geometric mapping and planning strategies that overlook rich semantic cues such as signs, room numbers, and textual labels. We propose a novel semantic navigation framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jing Cao , Nishanth Kumar , Aidan Curtis

We propose a predictive runtime monitoring framework that forecasts the distribution of future positions of mobile robots in order to detect and avoid impending property violations such as collisions with obstacles or other agents. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Hansol Yoon , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

This paper presents a self-supervised framework for learning to detect robust keypoints for odometry estimation and metric localisation in radar. By embedding a differentiable point-based motion estimator inside our architecture, we learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Dan Barnes , Ingmar Posner

Radar and lidar, provided by two different range sensors, each has pros and cons of various perception tasks on mobile robots or autonomous driving. In this paper, a Monte Carlo system is used to localize the robot with a rotating radar…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Huan Yin , Yue Wang , Li Tang , Rong Xiong

Urban environments offer a challenging scenario for autonomous driving. Globally localizing information, such as a GPS signal, can be unreliable due to signal shadowing and multipath errors. Detailed a priori maps of the environment with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Jordan Chipka , Mark Campbell

Localization is an essential technique in mobile robotics. In a complex environment, it is necessary to fuse different localization modules to obtain more robust results, in which the error model plays a paramount role. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Xiaoliang Ju , Donghao Xu , Huijing Zhao

This paper presents a new optimal filter namely past observation-based extended Kalman filter for the problem of localization of Internet-based mobile robot in which the control input and the feedback measurement suffer from communication…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Manh Duong Phung , Thi Thanh Van Nguyen , Thuan Hoang Tran , Quang Vinh Tran

We present an end-to-end online motion planning framework that uses a data-driven approach to navigate a heterogeneous robot team towards a global goal while avoiding obstacles in uncertain environments. First, we use stochastic model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Alexander Schperberg , Stephanie Tsuei , Stefano Soatto , Dennis Hong

Robot navigation technology is required to accomplish difficult tasks in various environments. In navigation, it is necessary to know the information of the external environments and the state of the robot under the environment. On the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Ryoichi Ishikawa , Takeshi Oishi , Katsushi Ikeuchi

This document presents the study of the problem of location and trajectory that a robot must follow. It focuses on applying the Kalman filter to achieve location and trajectory estimation in an autonomous mobile differential robot. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Sendey Vera , Luis Chuquimarca , Douglas Plaza

Learning visuomotor control policies in robotic systems is a fundamental problem when aiming for long-term behavioral autonomy. Recent supervised-learning-based vision and motion perception systems, however, are often separately built with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Marvin Chancán , Michael Milford

Accurate long-term localization using onboard sensors is crucial for robots operating in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied environments. While complementary sensors mitigate individual degradations, carrying all the available…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Václav Pritzl , Xianjia Yu , Tomi Westerlund , Petr Štěpán , Martin Saska

State estimation for robots navigating in GPS-denied and perceptually-degraded environments, such as underground tunnels, mines and planetary subsurface voids, remains challenging in robotics. Towards this goal, we present LION…

In this work, we propose a new learning approach for autonomous navigation and landing of an Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle (UAV). We develop a multimodal fusion of deep neural architectures for visual-inertial odometry. We train the model in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Francesca Baldini , Animashree Anandkumar , Richard M. Murray

Localization of a wireless mobile device or a robot in indoor and GPS-denied environments is a difficult problem, particularly in dynamic scenarios where traditional cameras and LIDAR-based alternative sensing and localization modalities…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Ehsan Latif , Ramviyas Parasuraman

Localization has been a challenging task for autonomous navigation. A loop detection algorithm must overcome environmental changes for the place recognition and re-localization of robots. Therefore, deep learning has been extensively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Alex Junho Lee , Seungwon Song , Hyungtae Lim , Woojoo Lee , Hyun Myung

There are few industries which use manually controlled robots for carrying material and this cannot be used all the time in all the places. So, it is very tranquil to have robots which can follow a specific human by following the unique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Sai Nikhil Gona , Prithvi Raj Bandhakavi

Recently, the navigation of mobile robots in unknown environments has become a particularly significant research topic. Previous studies have primarily employed real-time environmental mapping using cameras and LiDAR, along with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yusuke Tsunoda , Shoken Otsuka , Kazuki Ito , Runze Xiao , Keisuke Naniwa , Yuichiro Sueoka , Koichi Osuka