arXiv:2609.23974v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models are endowing autonomous systems with greater intelligence, enabling a more comprehensive understanding of the environment through vis...
arXiv:2607. 12659v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved impressive performance on diverse embodied tasks.
LiteViLNet is a lightweight RGB‑geometry fusion network for road segmentation that uses a MobileNetV3 RGB encoder and a tiny depth‑wise‑separable geometry encoder. Its multi‑scale fusion module enhances modality‑specific features, performs cross‑modal interaction, and applies adaptive gating, while a depth‑wise large‑kernel bridge expands contextual support with minimal overhead. The U‑Net‑style decoder is trained with deep supervision, achieving state‑of‑the‑art performance on KITTI and ORFD benchmarks and running at up to 68.73 FPS on a Jetson Orin NX with TensorRT FP16.
arXiv:2606. 09919v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Perceptual uncertainty is a central challenge for heterogeneous robot teams operating in unstructured outdoor environments, where no single viewpoint affords reliable scene understanding.
The paper introduces a compact visual navigation system that decomposes the task into three analytically‑computed geometric interfaces and three small learned modules: an egress predictor, a navigation predictor, and an endpoint‑pinned residual diffusion generator. Only 0.58 M of the 23 M parameters are trained on 44 k frames, achieving competitive success rates and the lowest collision rate among evaluated methods across 6 060 point‑goal episodes in 60 environments. The design allows further parameter reduction by replacing the frozen image encoder with a 0.54 M MobileNetV2, supports zero‑shot deployment on a Jetson Orin Nano UGV, and enables transparent failure analysis under sensor corruption.
arXiv:2608. 14586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are becoming a promising paradigm for autonomous driving, but their deployment on existing vehicle platforms remains difficult because they introduce both high inference latency and strong GPU-side resource pressure.
arXiv:2607. 17317v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous systems rely on a perception module to navigate through dynamic environments.
arXiv:2608. 11770v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Edge-deployed vision systems in target recognition, surveillance, autonomous vehicles, and drone domains require hierarchical inference pipelines where a detection model identifies objects of interest and downstream classifiers provide fine-grained attribute analysis.
The paper presents a lightweight monocular vision pipeline for extracting sidewalk paths on low‑power embedded micromobility platforms. It evolves through three design iterations—from a skeleton‑graph baseline to a distance‑transform corridor planner and finally to a compact image‑space architecture—using a SegFormer‑B0 student model trained with semi‑supervised pseudo‑labels. The final system achieves high segmentation accuracy (IoU 0.946) and fast planning (under 50 ms per frame) while reducing temporal instability and increasing template‑path availability across real campus sequences.
arXiv:2607. 18540v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic perception pipelines increasingly rely on large vision backbones deployed on SWaP-constrained edge platforms, making post-training quantization (PTQ) attractive for real-time inference.
arXiv:2607. 09520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are the perceptual backbone of embodied AI, but their energy footprint on edge hardware remains poorly understood.
arXiv:2606. 07383v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for robotic manipulation, but real-time deployment on edge hardware remains challenging.