SALON: Self-supervised Adaptive Learning for Off-road Navigation

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Main Authors: Sivaprakasam, Matthew, Triest, Samuel, Ho, Cherie, Aich, Shubhra, Lew, Jeric, Adu, Isaiah, Wang, Wenshan, Scherer, Sebastian
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author Sivaprakasam, Matthew
Triest, Samuel
Ho, Cherie
Aich, Shubhra
Lew, Jeric
Adu, Isaiah
Wang, Wenshan
Scherer, Sebastian
author_facet Sivaprakasam, Matthew
Triest, Samuel
Ho, Cherie
Aich, Shubhra
Lew, Jeric
Adu, Isaiah
Wang, Wenshan
Scherer, Sebastian
contents Autonomous robot navigation in off-road environments presents a number of challenges due to its lack of structure, making it difficult to handcraft robust heuristics for diverse scenarios. While learned methods using hand labels or self-supervised data improve generalizability, they often require a tremendous amount of data and can be vulnerable to domain shifts. To improve generalization in novel environments, recent works have incorporated adaptation and self-supervision to develop autonomous systems that can learn from their own experiences online. However, current works often rely on significant prior data, for example minutes of human teleoperation data for each terrain type, which is difficult to scale with more environments and robots. To address these limitations, we propose SALON, a perception-action framework for fast adaptation of traversability estimates with minimal human input. SALON rapidly learns online from experience while avoiding out of distribution terrains to produce adaptive and risk-aware cost and speed maps. Within seconds of collected experience, our results demonstrate comparable navigation performance over kilometer-scale courses in diverse off-road terrain as methods trained on 100-1000x more data. We additionally show promising results on significantly different robots in different environments. Our code is available at https://theairlab.org/SALON.
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spellingShingle SALON: Self-supervised Adaptive Learning for Off-road Navigation
Sivaprakasam, Matthew
Triest, Samuel
Ho, Cherie
Aich, Shubhra
Lew, Jeric
Adu, Isaiah
Wang, Wenshan
Scherer, Sebastian
Robotics
Autonomous robot navigation in off-road environments presents a number of challenges due to its lack of structure, making it difficult to handcraft robust heuristics for diverse scenarios. While learned methods using hand labels or self-supervised data improve generalizability, they often require a tremendous amount of data and can be vulnerable to domain shifts. To improve generalization in novel environments, recent works have incorporated adaptation and self-supervision to develop autonomous systems that can learn from their own experiences online. However, current works often rely on significant prior data, for example minutes of human teleoperation data for each terrain type, which is difficult to scale with more environments and robots. To address these limitations, we propose SALON, a perception-action framework for fast adaptation of traversability estimates with minimal human input. SALON rapidly learns online from experience while avoiding out of distribution terrains to produce adaptive and risk-aware cost and speed maps. Within seconds of collected experience, our results demonstrate comparable navigation performance over kilometer-scale courses in diverse off-road terrain as methods trained on 100-1000x more data. We additionally show promising results on significantly different robots in different environments. Our code is available at https://theairlab.org/SALON.
title SALON: Self-supervised Adaptive Learning for Off-road Navigation
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07826