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Lara Landauro

lara.landauro@mila.quebec
Maîtrise recherche - McGill
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e
David Meger
Sujets de recherche
Navigation robotique autonome
Vision par ordinateur

Publications

Topological mapping for traversability-aware long-range navigation in off-road terrain
Jean-François Tremblay
Julie Alhosh
Louis Petit
Faraz Lotfi
Lara Landauro
David Meger
Autonomous robots navigating in off-road terrain like forests open new opportunities for automation. While off-road navigation has been stud… (voir plus)ied, existing work often relies on clearly delineated pathways. We present a method allowing for long-range planning, exploration and low-level control in unknown off-trail forest terrain, using vision and GPS only. We represent outdoor terrain with a topological map, which is a set of panoramic snapshots connected with edges containing traversability information. A novel traversability analysis method is demonstrated, predicting the existence of a safe path towards a target in an image. Navigating between nodes is done using goal-conditioned behavior cloning, leveraging the power of a pretrained vision transformer. An exploration planner is presented, efficiently covering an unknown off-road area with unknown traversability using a frontiers-based approach. The approach is successfully deployed to autonomously explore two 400 m2 forest sites unseen during training, in difficult conditions for navigation.
2025-05-18
2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (publié)
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