arXiv Robotics research summaries for March 5, 2024.

Today's Research Themes (AI-Generated):

• Hand-drawn sketches enhance visual imitation learning by improving spatial awareness and disambiguation over language or image goals.

• Splat-Nav advances robot navigation with real-time safe planning and robust state estimation in 3D Gaussian Splatting maps.

• LodeStar enhances maritime radar odometry with resilient scan representation and semi-direct feature extraction for improved accuracy.

• SpaceHopper, a small-scale legged robot, is designed for exploratory jumping on low-gravity celestial bodies using Deep Reinforcement Learning.

• OORD introduces the Oxford Offroad Radar Dataset for advancing autonomous vehicle localization and scene understanding in rugged terrains.