Fast and Robust Teach-and-Repeat Navigation Using MixVPR Visual Place Recognition*

arXiv:2610.09631 · cs.RO · Submitted 2026-10-07 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO

Submitted: 2026-10-07

Updated: 2026-10-07

Code: https://github.com/rouceto1/VTRL

Terminology

• Visual Place Recognition — 13× in this paper
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicle — 2× in this paper
• Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 1× in this paper
• Contrastive Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Feature Extraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Multi-Platform Teach-and-Repeat Navigation by Visual Place Recognition Based on Deep-Learned Local Features

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