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Junlong Huang

6 accepted papers

2025

FASTEX: Fast UAV Exploration in Large-Scale Environments Using Dynamically Expanding Grids and Coverage Paths

IROS 2025

Autonomous exploration is essential for the effective deployment of quadrotors in various applications. However, existing approaches face significant challenges in large-scale environments, particularly in balancing global coverage efficiency and computational overhead. These limitations often resul

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Learning to Explore Efficiently: Heterogeneous Topological Graphs and Lightweight Global Reasoning for Robotic Exploration

RA-L 2025

Autonomous exploration in large-scale, unknown environments remains a significant challenge in mobile robotics. In this paper, we propose a scalable exploration framework that integrates heterogeneous topological representations, lightweight global-local graph reasoning, and reinforcement learning.

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2025

NaviDiffusor: Cost-Guided Diffusion Model for Visual Navigation

ICRA 2025

Visual navigation, a fundamental challenge in mobile robotics, demands versatile policies to handle diverse environments. Classical methods leverage geometric solutions to minimize specific costs, offering adaptability to new scenarios but are prone to system errors due to their multi-modular design

Cited by 18SourcecodeScholar
2025

Prior Does Matter: Visual Navigation via Denoising Diffusion Bridge Models

CVPR 2025poster

Recent advancements in diffusion-based imitation learning, which shows impressive performance in modeling multimodal distributions and training stability, have led to substantial progress in various robot learning tasks. In visual navigation, previous diffusion-based policies typically generate acti…

2025

SFExplorer: A Surface-Frontier-based Efficient UAV Exploration Method for Large-Scale Unknown Environments

IROS 2025

Autonomous exploration in unknown environments is a crucial challenge for various applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, in large-scale scenarios, existing methods suffer from inefficient environmental information acquisition, computationally expensive exploration planning, and in

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

FAEL: Fast Autonomous Exploration for Large-scale Environments With a Mobile Robot

RA-L 2023

Autonomous exploration in large-scale and complex environments is a challenging task. As the size of the environment increases, the significant overhead of exploration algorithms could overwhelm the computational capability of mobile platforms, prohibiting timely response to environmental changes. M

Cited by 80SourceScholar