Robotics

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Autonomous Wildfire Fighting

Detecting and fighting wildfires using autonomous systems

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Indy Autonomous Challenge

Autonomous race cars for the Indy Autonomous Challenge

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MAGIC-VFM - Meta Adaptive Control for Ground Vehicles with Visual Foundation Models

Planning and control of ground vehicles are challenging because of complex dynamic interactions with the terrain. Therefore, accurate modeling of terrain interaction forces is …

elena-sorina-lupu
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Learning-based Minimally-Sensed Fault-Tolerant Adaptive Flight Control

This paper presents a novel sparse failure identification method along with rapid control reconstitution using deep neural networks for detecting and compensating for motor …

michael-oconnell
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Online Self-Supervised Thermal Water Segmentation for Aerial Vehicles

We present a new method to adapt an RGB-trained water segmentation network to target-domain aerial thermal imagery using online self-supervision by leveraging texture and motion …

connor-lee
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NeBula: TEAM CoSTAR's Robotic Autonomy Solution that Won Phase II of DARPA Subterranean Challenge

This paper presents and discusses algorithms, hardware, and software architecture developed by the TEAM CoSTAR (Collaborative SubTerranean Autonomous Robots), competing in the …

ali-agha
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Neural Tree Expansion for Multi-Robot Planning in Non-Cooperative Environments

We present a self-improving, neural tree expansionmethod for multi-robot online planning in non-cooperative environments, where each robot tries to maximize its cumulative reward …

benjamin-riviere
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swarmAI

A self-improving, neural tree expansion method for multi-robot online planning in non-cooperative environments

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SubT

Team CoStar takes on the DARPA Subterranean Challenge to explore, map, and locate artifacts in underground environments

Best Paper (Unmanned Aerial Systems) Design and Autonomous Stabilization of a Ballistically-Launched Multirotor featured image

Design and Autonomous Stabilization of a Ballistically-Launched Multirotor

Aircraft that can launch ballistically and convert to autonomous, free-flying drones have applications in many areas such as emergency response, defense, and space exploration, …

amanda-bouman