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Nicholas Carlotti

4 accepted papers

2026

Self-Supervised Domain Adaptation for Visual 3D Pose Estimation of Nano-Drone Racing Gates by Enforcing Geometric Consistency

ICRA 2026poster

We consider the task of visually estimating the relative pose of a drone racing gate in front of a nano-quadrotor, using a convolutional neural network pre-trained on simulated data to regress the gate's pose. Due to the sim-to-real gap, the pre-trained model underperforms in the real world and must…

2025

Self-supervised Learning Of Visual Pose Estimation Without Pose Labels By Classifying LED States

CoRL 2025poster

We introduce a model for monocular RGB relative pose estimation of a ground robot that trains from scratch without pose labels nor prior knowledge about the robot's shape or appearance. At training time, we assume: (i) a robot fitted with multiple LEDs, whose states are independent and known at each…

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2024

Learning to Estimate the Pose of a Peer Robot in a Camera Image by Predicting the States of its LEDs

IROS 2024poster

We consider the problem of training a fully convolutional network to estimate the relative 6D pose of a robot given a camera image, when the robot is equipped with independent controllable LEDs placed in different parts of its body. The training data is composed by few (or zero) images labeled with…

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2024

Self-Supervised Learning of Visual Robot Localization Using LED State Prediction as a Pretext Task

RA-L 2024

We propose a novel self-supervised approach for learning to visually localize robots equipped with controllable LEDs. We rely on a few training samples labeled with position ground truth and many training samples in which only the LED state is known, whose collection is cheap. We show that using LED

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