Complex Terrain Navigation via Model Error Prediction

Adam Polevoy,Craig Knuth,Katie M. Popek,Kapil D. Katyal,Adam Polevoy,Craig Knuth,Katie M. Popek,Kapil D. Katyal

Robot navigation traditionally relies on building an explicit map that is used to plan collision-free trajectories to a desired target. In deformable, complex terrain, using geometric-based approaches can fail to find a path due to mischaracterizing deformable objects as rigid and impassable. Instead, we learn to predict an estimate of traversability of terrain regions and to prefer regions that a...