arxivcs.ROcs.AI2026-06-30
LeCropFollow: Latent Space Planning for Navigation in Unstructured Crop Fields
Felipe Tommaselli, Francisco Affonso, Arthur Pompeu, Gianluca Capezzuto, Arun Narenthiran Sivakumar, Girish Chowdhary, et al.
Unstructured navigational features, such as irregular planting or discontinuities, remain the primary failure mode for under-canopy agricultural robots. Existing geometric approaches often fail in these scenarios because they compress high-dimensional visual data into determinist…