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This survey explores the adaptation of visual transformer models in Autonomous Driving, a transition inspired by their success in Natural Language Processing. Surpassing traditional Recurrent Neural Networks in tasks like sequential image…

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In autonomous and mobile robotics, a principal challenge is resilient real-time environmental perception, particularly in situations characterized by unknown and dynamic elements, as exemplified in the context of autonomous drone racing.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Zhongzheng Qiao , Xuan Huy Pham , Savitha Ramasamy , Xudong Jiang , Erdal Kayacan , Andriy Sarabakha

The basic idea behind evolutionary robotics is to evolve a set of neural controllers for a particular task at hand. It involves use of various input parameters such as infrared sensors, light sensors and vision based methods. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2009-06-29 Rizwan A. Khan , M. Aasim Qureshi , Saqib Saeed

The advances in deep reinforcement learning recently revived interest in data-driven learning based approaches to navigation. In this paper we propose to learn viewpoint invariant and target invariant visual servoing for local mobile robot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Yimeng Li , Jana Kosecka

This paper addresses the challenge of active perception within autonomous navigation in complex, unknown environments. Revisiting the foundational principles of active perception, we introduce an end-to-end reinforcement learning framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Grzegorz Malczyk , Mihir Kulkarni , Kostas Alexis

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have profoundly transformed the field of remote sensing, revolutionizing data collection, processing, and analysis. Traditionally reliant on manual interpretation and task-specific models, remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Siqi Lu , Junlin Guo , James R Zimmer-Dauphinee , Jordan M Nieusma , Xiao Wang , Parker VanValkenburgh , Steven A Wernke , Yuankai Huo

Autonomous drone racing has risen as a challenging robotic benchmark for testing the limits of learning, perception, planning, and control. Expert human pilots are able to fly a drone through a race track by mapping pixels from a single…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Angel Romero , Ashwin Shenai , Ismail Geles , Elie Aljalbout , Davide Scaramuzza

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is a challenging task that requires an agent to navigate in real-world environments by understanding natural language instructions and visual information received in real-time. Prior works have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Ting Wang , Zongkai Wu , Donglin Wang

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) for drone control can have a transformative impact on drone capabilities, especially when real world information can be integrated with drone sensing, command, and control, part of a growing field of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Javier N. Ramos-Silva , Peter J. Burke

In recent years, the combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has brought about advancements in various areas. This comprehensive analysis explores the changing landscape of AI-powered UAVs and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Osim Kumar Pal , Md Sakib Hossain Shovon , M. F. Mridha , Jungpil Shin

While deep reinforcement learning (RL) methods have achieved unprecedented successes in a range of challenging problems, their applicability has been mainly limited to simulation or game domains due to the high sample complexity of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Siyi Li , Tianbo Liu , Chi Zhang , Dit-Yan Yeung , Shaojie Shen

Autonomous agile flight brings up fundamental challenges in robotics, such as coping with unreliable state estimation, reacting optimally to dynamically changing environments, and coupling perception and action in real time under severe…

We present an imitation learning method for autonomous drone patrolling based only on raw videos. Different from previous methods, we propose to let the drone learn patrolling in the air by observing and imitating how a human navigator does…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Yue Fan , Shilei Chu , Wei Zhang , Ran Song , Yibin Li

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is a long-standing challenge in autonomous robotics, aiming to empower agents with the ability to follow human instructions while navigating complex environments. Two key bottlenecks remain in this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yuhang Zhang , Haosheng Yu , Jiaping Xiao , Mir Feroskhan

Vision is an essential part of attitude control for many flying animals, some of which have no dedicated sense of gravity. Flying robots, on the other hand, typically depend heavily on accelerometers and gyroscopes for attitude…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Jesse J. Hagenaars , Stein Stroobants , Sander M. Bohte , Guido C. H. E. De Croon

The field of visual representation learning has seen explosive growth in the past years, but its benefits in robotics have been surprisingly limited so far. Prior work uses generic visual representations as a basis to learn (task-specific)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jianren Wang , Sudeep Dasari , Mohan Kumar Srirama , Shubham Tulsiani , Abhinav Gupta

In recent years, significant advances in computer vision have also propelled progress in remote sensing. Concurrently, the use of drones has expanded, with many organizations incorporating them into their operations. Most drones are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Panagiotis Koletsis , Vasilis Efthymiou , Maria Vakalopoulou , Nikos Komodakis , Anastasios Doulamis , Georgios Th. Papadopoulos

This research aims to explore the application of deep learning in autonomous driving computer vision technology and its impact on improving system performance. By using advanced technologies such as convolutional neural networks (CNN),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jingyu Zhang , Jin Cao , Jinghao Chang , Xinjin Li , Houze Liu , Zhenglin Li

Image-goal navigation (ImageNav) tasks a robot with autonomously exploring an unknown environment and reaching a location that visually matches a given target image. While prior works primarily study ImageNav for ground robots, enabling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Zichen Yan , Rui Huang , Lei He , Shao Guo , Lin Zhao

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have been standing out due to the wide range of applications in which they can be used autonomously. However, they need intelligent systems capable of providing a greater understanding of what they perceive to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Matheus G. Mateus , Ricardo B. Grando , Paulo L. J. Drews-Jr