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Focus-SLAM: A visual Monocular SLAM

Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Abstract This research presents a novel simultaneous localization and mapping algorithm, called Focus-SLAM, which simulates human navigation strategies by synthesizing a optical saliency model, SalNavNet, in a traditional single-shot SLAM paradigm.
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The Evolution of Autonomous Systems for Planetary Cave Exploration: A Review

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The exploration of Subsurface Access Points (SAPs), such as lava tubes on the Moon and Mars, has gained significant interest due to their potential as stable environments shielded from surface radiation and temperature extremes. These sites are considered high‐value targets for detecting water and signs of ancient life, and assessing their ...
Sarah Swinton, Daniel Mitchell, Jamie Blanche, Euan McGookin, David Flynn   +4 more
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Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Autonomous Decision‐Making for Cooperative Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles: A Search and Rescue Real World Application

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents the first end‐to‐end framework that combines guidance, navigation, and centralized task allocation for multiple UAVs performing autonomous search‐and‐rescue (SAR) in GNSS‐denied indoor environments. A twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient controller is trained with an artificial potential field (APF) reward that ...
Thomas Hickling, Maxwell Hogan, Abdulla Tammam, Nabil Aouf   +3 more
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Automated Lawn Maintenance: An Agronomic and Operational Review of Turf Health, Biodiversity, and Field Performance

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Grass mowing is one of the most resource‐consuming activities in green maintenance, whether in private areas such as home gardens or in public spaces like urban parks. In recent years, concerns related to climate change, human health, and sustainability have become increasingly prominent in green maintenance, leading manufacturers and industry
Andrea Palladini, Lorenzo Guerrini, Marco Fontanelli, Lucia Bortolini   +3 more
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FLSea: Underwater Visual–Inertial and Stereovision Forward‐Looking Data Sets

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Visibility underwater is challenging and degrades as the distance between the subject and the camera increases. That is why forward‐looking underwater computer vision tasks are difficult. We have collected underwater forward‐looking stereovision and visual–inertial image sets using two underwater imaging platforms, a stereo camera rig, and an ...
Yelena Randall, Ori Lifschitz, Tali Treibitz   +2 more
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Formation Control With Obstacle Avoidance of Underwater Swarms Based on Relative Visual Feedback

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Underwater multi‐robot and swarm systems require advanced methodologies for controlling collective behavior. Conventional single‐robot techniques, such as tethering, sonar imaging, and acoustic localization, are not scalable or effective for swarm applications.
Andrea Infanti, Saverio Iacoponi, Saif Alameri, Mohamed El Hanbaly, Mohammed Tarnini, Cesare Stefanini, Giulia De Masi, Federico Renda   +7 more
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A Comparison of Mobile Laser Scanning Data Acquisition Methods in Closed Forest, Open Woodland and Sub‐Alpine Woodland Ecosystems

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
This study demonstrates that the mobile laser scanning (MLS) sampling density required to reliably characterise vegetation structure increases with a site's structural complexity. Applying a five‐level acquisition framework across open woodland, closed forest and sub‐alpine woodland ecosystems, we found that longer scanning paths increased the ...
Johann Tiede, Karin Reinke, Trung H. Nguyen, Simon Jones   +3 more
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Sentipensar [Feel‐Thinking] Cultivates Collective Scientific Sensemaking and Worldbuilding Within and Beyond Ecological Despair

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Educating youth about environmental and climate justice is crucial in realizing a sustainable and flourishing future. Yet this can be challenging given the intense eco‐emotions youth experience and express while learning about these consequential realities and their implications.
Kelsie Fowler
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The Transformational STEM Consciousness Scale: A QuantCrit Measure of a Liberatory STEM Outcome

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Guided by QuantCrit, we introduce and validate the Transformational STEM Consciousness (TSC) scale, which fuses students' motivation to pursue racial and social justice through STEM with a critique of STEM's historic complicity in inequity. Surveying 255 undergraduate and graduate students in 18 justice‐integrated STEM courses across 11 US ...
Juan C. Garibay, Lindsay Wheeler
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Science for All? A Systematic Literature Review on Effective Teaching Approaches in Inclusive and Separate Settings

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This systematic literature review examines intervention studies focused on teaching science to a diverse range of learners. It adopts a broad definition of inclusion and makes use of the PRISMA statement. The review aims to provide an overview of evidence‐based teaching approaches in the current literature, identify the science skills targeted,
Silvia Fränkel, Nadine Großmann, Melanie Basten   +2 more
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