Learning-Based 3D Autonomous Exploration (FYP)
Final Year Project · 2026 – Present
Final-year research on efficient exploration of large-scale unknown environments. Benchmarked classical LiDAR planners (EPIC, FUEL) on custom point-cloud maps, then developed an attention-based deep-RL planner (extending ARiADNE) that selects destinations rather than motion primitives — porting it from 2D to 3D multi-storey environments and warm-starting the 3D policy from 2D. Ongoing work evaluates the learned planner against classical baselines on shared geometry.
