March 5, 2025
Enhancing Costmap for Off-Road Navigation with Robust IR-RGB Fusion for Improved Day and Night Traversability
[Submitted on 4 Dec 2024 (v1), last revised 2 Mar 2025 (this version, v2)] View a PDF of the paper titled IRisPath: Enhancing Costmap for Off-Road Navigation with Robust IR-RGB Fusion for Improved Day and Night Traversability, by Saksham Sharma and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Autonomous off-road navigation is required for applications in agriculture, construction, search and rescue and defence. Traditional on-road autonomous methods struggle with dynamic terrains, leading to poor vehicle control in off-road conditions. Recent deep-learning models have used perception sensors along with kinesthetic feedback for navigation on such terrains. However, this approach has out-of-domain