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Gopi Krishna Erabati

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arXiv2026

sensVLA: Spatially-Grounded Vision-Language-Action Model for Autonomous Wheel Loader

Autonomous wheel-loader control requires joint reasoning over task semantics, egocentric vision, proprioception, and 3D scene geometry. We present sensVLA, a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) architecture that combines a Qwen3-2B Vision-Language Model (VLM) with a fully trainable transformer action expert trained by flow-matching velocity regression. sensVLA routes Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) features, extracted from fused front and rear lidar, directly to the action expert through a dedicated cross-attention pathway, while the VLM consumes front and rear RGB views to provide task-conditioned semantic context. This design decouples spatial grounding from linguistic reasoning while preserving interaction between both streams at decision time. The expert predicts six action dimensions: longitudinal velocity, steering, body-frame displacement, arm rate, and bucket rate. On a real-world dataset from a wheel loader, sensVLA reaches aggregate per-step parity with a strong camera-only baseline and reduces longitudinal velocity RMSE by 28% and displacement error by 9% on loading centric scenarios. It also degrades 29% less when the camera stream is corrupted or removed, evidencing that explicit spatial grounding improves accuracy and fault-tolerance for heavy equipment autonomy.

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arXiv2022

MSF3DDETR: Multi-Sensor Fusion 3D Detection Transformer for Autonomous Driving

3D object detection is a significant task for autonomous driving. Recently with the progress of vision transformers, the 2D object detection problem is being treated with the set-to-set loss. Inspired by these approaches on 2D object detection and an approach for multi-view 3D object detection DETR3D, we propose MSF3DDETR: Multi-Sensor Fusion 3D Detection Transformer architecture to fuse image and LiDAR features to improve the detection accuracy. Our end-to-end single-stage, anchor-free and NMS-free network takes in multi-view images and LiDAR point clouds and predicts 3D bounding boxes. Firstly, we link the object queries learnt from data to the image and LiDAR features using a novel MSF3DDETR cross-attention block. Secondly, the object queries interacts with each other in multi-head self-attention block. Finally, MSF3DDETR block is repeated for $L$ number of times to refine the object queries. The MSF3DDETR network is trained end-to-end on the nuScenes dataset using Hungarian algorithm based bipartite matching and set-to-set loss inspired by DETR. We present both quantitative and qualitative results which are competitive to the state-of-the-art approaches.

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arXiv2022

Li3DeTr: A LiDAR based 3D Detection Transformer

Inspired by recent advances in vision transformers for object detection, we propose Li3DeTr, an end-to-end LiDAR based 3D Detection Transformer for autonomous driving, that inputs LiDAR point clouds and regresses 3D bounding boxes. The LiDAR local and global features are encoded using sparse convolution and multi-scale deformable attention respectively. In the decoder head, firstly, in the novel Li3DeTr cross-attention block, we link the LiDAR global features to 3D predictions leveraging the sparse set of object queries learnt from the data. Secondly, the object query interactions are formulated using multi-head self-attention. Finally, the decoder layer is repeated $L_{dec}$ number of times to refine the object queries. Inspired by DETR, we employ set-to-set loss to train the Li3DeTr network. Without bells and whistles, the Li3DeTr network achieves 61.3% mAP and 67.6% NDS surpassing the state-of-the-art methods with non-maximum suppression (NMS) on the nuScenes dataset and it also achieves competitive performance on the KITTI dataset. We also employ knowledge distillation (KD) using a teacher and student model that slightly improves the performance of our network.

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