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Event-Based Visual Teach-and-Repeat via Fast Fourier-Domain Cross-Correlation
arXiv:2509.17287v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual teach-and-repeat (VT&R) navigation enables robots to autonomously traverse previously demonstrated paths using visual feedback. We pres
arXiv:2509.17287v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual teach-and-repeat (VT&R) navigation enables robots to autonomously traverse previously demonstrated paths using visual feedback. We present a novel event-camera-based VT&R system. Our system formulates event-stream matching as frequency-domain cross-correlation, transforming spatial convolutions into efficient Fourier-space multiplications. By exploiting the binary structure of event frames and applying image compression techniques, we achieve a processing latency of just 2.88 ms, about 3.5 times faster than conventional camera-based baselines that are optimised for runtime efficiency. Experiments using a Prophesee EVK4 HD event camera mounted on an AgileX Scout Mini robot demonstrate successful autonomous navigation across 3000+ meters of indoor and outdoor trajectories in daytime and nighttime conditions. Our system maintains Cross-Track Errors (XTE) below 15 cm, demonstrating the practical viability of event-based perception for real-time VT&R navigation.
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Source: arXiv cs.CV | 2026-10-14