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LeCropFollow: Latent Space Planning for Navigation in Unstructured Crop Fields

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arXiv:2606. 31941v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unstructured navigational features, such as irregular planting or discontinuities, remain the primary failure mode for under-canopy agricultural robots.

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