Demo: Vision-Language Model-Guided Online Calibration of an Electromagnetic Digital Twin
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arXiv:2608. 00406v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate indoor localization is essential for emerging applications in robotic navigation and search and rescue.
The paper introduces Physics‑Guided Visual Prompting (PG‑VP), a plug‑and‑play module that overlays a virtual obstacle onto the input of a frozen Vision‑Language‑Action model to guide navigation around invisible hazards such as radiation or temperature spikes. PG‑VP performs a physics‑based risk assessment to determine the avoidance direction and dynamically renders the same virtual obstacle across frames, allowing the existing navigation policy to detour without retraining. Experiments on OmniNav with R2R‑CE and RxR‑CE datasets show that PG‑VP steers the policy toward low‑risk actions in 84.9% and 83.2% of cases, while real‑world tests on a robot demonstrate significant safety improvements against thermal and radiation sources.
Robots deployed in delivery, campus, and emergency-response settings often need to navigate from buildings to streets within a single continuous episode. Existing benchmarks usually evaluate indoor and outdoor navigation separately, and many abstract away robot execution, leaving exit finding, boundary traversal, adaptation, and kinodynamic failures underexplored.
arXiv:2603. 25937v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual Navigation Models (VNMs) promise generalizable, robot navigation by learning from large-scale visual demonstrations.
Hydra introduces a marker‑free RGB‑D hand‑eye calibration method that leverages a novel ICP algorithm with a robust point‑to‑plane objective on a Lie algebra. Experiments on three serial manipulators and two RGB‑D cameras show that with only three random robot configurations the method achieves about 90% successful calibrations, 2–3× faster convergence to the global optimum, and 2 orders of magnitude faster convergence time (0.8 ± 0.4 s) compared to other marker‑free baselines. The approach delivers improved accuracy (5 mm in task space versus 7 mm for classical methods) while remaining marker‑free, and the authors provide an open‑source dataset, code, and ROS 2 integration.
arXiv:2609.26214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a methodology that places a 3D digital twin (DT) of the environment as the main enabler behind the development of radio sensing at scale. Th...