HoloNav: HoloLens as a Surgical Navigation System: Detecting optical reflective spheres using YOLOv5 and the Hololens' grayscale cameras

Surgical navigation is a tool that surgeons rely on everyday to perform accurate surgeries all over the world. However, this technology requires good hand-eye coordination and a high level of concentration. HoloNav is a project that inquires to see if using the HoloLens and augmented reality can replace the current surgical navigation methods....

Autonomous Navigation around Asteroids using Convolutional Neural Networks

Missions to small bodies are increasingly gaining interest as they might hold the secrets to our solar system’s origin while some are also posing a threat to life on Earth. The small size and irregular shape result in complex dynamics complicating the close-proximity operations. Furthermore, due to the long round-trip time communication delays...

Safe and natural navigation in dynamic environments, learned from human behavior

Social Navigation is the task of robot motion planning in an environment shared with humans.This is an especially hard sub-problem of motion planning because the planner has to dealwith a dynamic, continuous and unpredictable environment. We present a local motionplanner, namely Neural Network Model Predictive Control, for autonomous ground...

The effect of sampling methods on Deep Q-Networks in robot navigation tasks

Enabling mobile robots to autonomously navigate complex environments is essential for real-world deployment in commercial, industrial, military, health care, and domestic settings. Prior methods approach this problem by having the robot maintain an internal map of the world and then use a localization and planning method to navigate through the...