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Lauri Suomela

2 accepted papers

2026

Data Scaling for Navigation in Unknown Environments

RA-L 2026

Generalization of imitation-learned navigation policies to environments unseen in training remains a major challenge. We address this by conducting the first large-scale study of how data quantity and data diversity affect real-world generalization in end-to-end, map-free visual navigation. Using a

Cited by 1SourcecodeScholar
2024

PlaceNav: Topological Navigation through Place Recognition

ICRA 2024poster

Recent results suggest that splitting topological navigation into robot-independent and robot-specific components improves navigation performance by enabling the robot-independent part to be trained with data collected by robots of different types. However, the navigation methods’ performance is sti…

Cited by 6SourceScholar