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Damon Conover

8 accepted papers

2026

HAVEN: Hierarchical Adversary-Aware Visibility-Enabled Navigation with Cover Utilization Using Deep Transformer Q-Networks

ICRA 2026poster

Autonomous navigation in partially observable environments requires agents to reason beyond immediate sensor input, exploit occlusion, and ensure safety while progressing toward a goal. These challenges arise in many robotics domains, from urban driving and warehouse automation to defense and survei…

2026

Scalable Multi-Robot Informative Path Planning for Target Mapping via Deep Reinforcement Learning

RA-L 2026

Autonomous robots are widely utilized for mapping and exploration tasks due to their cost-effectiveness. Multi-robot systems offer scalability and efficiency, especially in terms of the number of robots deployed in more complex environments. These tasks belong to the set of Multi-Robot Informative P

Cited by 1SourcecodeScholar
2026

TransLocNet: Cross-Modal Attention for Aerial-Ground Vehicle Localization with Contrastive Learning

ICRA 2026poster

Aerial–ground localization is difficult due to large viewpoint and modality gaps between ground-level LiDAR and overhead imagery. We propose TransLocNet, a cross-modal attention framework that fuses LiDAR geometry with aerial semantic context. LiDAR scans are projected into a bird’s-eye-view represe…

2025

COLLAGE: Collaborative Human-Agent Interaction Generation Using Hierarchical Latent Diffusion and Language Models

ICRA 2025

We propose a novel framework COLLAGE for generating collaborative agent-object-agent interactions by leveraging large language models (LLMs) and hierarchical motion-specific vector-quantized variational autoencoders (VQ-VAEs). Our model addresses the lack of rich datasets in this domain by incorpora

Cited by 3SourcecodeScholar
2025

Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance through Uncertainty-Based Adaptive Planning with Diffusion

IROS 2025

By framing reinforcement learning as a sequence modeling problem, recent work has enabled the use of generative models, such as diffusion models, for planning. While these models are effective in predicting long-horizon state trajectories in deterministic environments, they face challenges in dynami

Cited by 2SourceScholar
2025

Go-SLAM: Grounded Object Segmentation and Localization with Gaussian Splatting SLAM

IROS 2025

We introduce Go-Slam, a novel framework that combines 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM with grounded object segmentation and open-vocabulary querying to enable object-aware 3D scene reconstruction. Go-Slam incrementally builds high-fidelity 3D maps from RGB-D inputs while embedding semantic information by

Cited by 5SourceScholar
2023

CrossLoc3D: Aerial-Ground Cross-Source 3D Place Recognition

ICCV 2023poster

We present CrossLoc3D, a novel 3D place recognition method that solves a large-scale point matching problem in a cross-source setting. Cross-source point cloud data corresponds to point sets captured by depth sensors with different accuracies or from different distances and perspectives. We address…

Cited by 7PDFcodeScholar
2023

VERN: Vegetation-Aware Robot Navigation in Dense Unstructured Outdoor Environments

IROS 2023poster

We propose a novel method for autonomous legged robot navigation in densely vegetated environments with a variety of pliable/traversable and non-pliable/untraversable vegetation. We present a novel few-shot learning classifier that can be trained on a few hundred RGB images to differentiate flora th…

Cited by 18SourceScholar