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Thomas Howard

2 accepted papers

2026

Far-Field Image-Based Traversability Mapping for a Priori Unknown Natural Environments

ICRA 2026poster

While navigating unknown environments, robots rely primarily on proximate features for guidance in decision making, such as depth information from lidar or stereo to build a costmap, or local semantic information from images. The limited range over which these features can be used may result in poor…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2016

A model for verifiable grounding and execution of complex natural language instructions

IROS 2016poster

Current methods of grounding natural language instructions do not include reactive or temporal components, making these methods unsuitable for instructions describing tasks as sets of conditional instructions. We introduce the Verifiable Distributed Correspondence Graph (V-DCG) model, which enables…

Cited by 27SourceScholar