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Pranjal Paul

5 accepted papers

2026

MonoMPC: Monocular Vision Based Navigation With Learned Collision Model and Risk-Aware Model Predictive Control

RA-L 2026

Navigating unknown environments with a single RGB camera is challenging, as the lack of depth information prevents reliable collision-checking. While some methods use estimated depth to build collision maps, we found that depth estimates from vision foundation models are too noisy for zero-shot navi

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2026

MonoMPC: Monocular Vision Based Navigation with Learned Collision Model and Risk-Aware Model Predictive Control

ICRA 2026poster

Navigating unknown environments with a single RGB camera is challenging, as the lack of depth information prevents reliable collision-checking. While some methods use estimated depth to build collision maps, we found that depth estimates from vision foundation models are too noisy for zero-shot navi…

2025

Diffusion-FS: Multimodal Free-Space Prediction via Diffusion for Autonomous Driving

IROS 2025

Drivable Free-space prediction is a fundamental and crucial problem in autonomous driving. Recent works have addressed the problem by representing the entire non-obstacle road regions as the free-space. In contrast our aim is to estimate the driving corridors that are a navigable subset of the entir

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2025

SparseLoc: Sparse Open-Set Landmark-based Global Localization for Autonomous Navigation

IROS 2025

Global localization is a critical problem in autonomous navigation, enabling precise positioning without reliance on GPS. Modern techniques often depend on dense LiDAR maps, which, while precise, require extensive storage and computational resources. Alternative approaches have explored sparse maps

Cited by 2SourceScholar
2024

LeGo-Drive: Language-enhanced Goal-oriented Closed-Loop End-to-End Autonomous Driving

IROS 2024poster

Existing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) produce long-term trajectory waypoints or directly control actions based on their perception input and language prompt. However, these VLMs are not explicitly aware of the constraints imposed by the scene or kinematics of the vehicle. As a result, the generated…

Cited by 3SourceScholar