William Larrivée-Hardy — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

UAV-Assisted Self-Supervised Terrain Awareness for Off-Road Navigation

Jean-Michel Fortin, Olivier Gamache, William Fecteau, Effie Daum, William Larrivée-Hardy, François Pomerleau +1

ICRA 2025

Terrain awareness is an essential milestone to enable truly autonomous off-road navigation. Accurately predicting terrain characteristics allows optimizing a vehicle's path against potential hazards. Recent methods use deep neural networks to predict terrain properties in a self-supervised manner, r

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2024

Log Loading Automation for Timber-Harvesting Industry

Elie Ayoub, Heshan Fernando, William Larrivée-Hardy, Nicolas Lemieux, Philippe Giguère, Inna Sharf

ICRA 2024poster

The timber-harvesting industry is lagging its peer industries, such as mining and agriculture, with respect to deployment of robotic, AI and autonomous technologies. In this paper, we tackle automation of a critical task that arises in transporting logs from the forest to the sawmill: the log loadin…

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