no code implementations • 29 Mar 2024 • Jumman Hossain, Abu-Zaher Faridee, Nirmalya Roy
Cover navigation in complex environments is a critical challenge for autonomous robots, requiring the identification and utilization of environmental cover while maintaining efficient navigation.
no code implementations • 6 Feb 2024 • Jumman Hossain, Abu-Zaher Faridee, Nirmalya Roy, Jade Freeman, Timothy Gregory, Theron T. Trout
Additionally, TopoNav incorporates intrinsic motivation to guide exploration toward relevant regions and frontier nodes in the topological map, addressing the challenges of sparse extrinsic rewards.
no code implementations • 12 Aug 2023 • Jumman Hossain, Abu-Zaher Faridee, Nirmalya Roy, Anjan Basak, Derrik E. Asher
We evaluate CoverNav using the Unity simulation environment and show that it guarantees dynamically feasible velocities in the terrain when fed with an elevation map generated by another DRL based navigation algorithm.