Planning to Optimize and Learn Reward in Navigation Tasks in Structured Environments with Time Constraints

Abstract: Planning problems in which an agent must perform tasks for reward by navigating its environment while constrained by time and location have a wide variety of applications in robotics. Many real-world environments in which such planning problems apply, such as office buildings or city streets, are very structured. They consist of passages with notable [...]

MSR Thesis Talk: Yunze Man

Title: Multi-Echo 3D Object Detection Abstract: LiDAR sensors can be used to obtain a wide range of measurement signals other than a simple 3D point cloud, and those signals can be leveraged to improve perception tasks like 3D object detection. A single laser pulse can be partially reflected by multiple objects along its path, resulting [...]