Abstract: Automatic detection and prevention of open-set failures are crucial in closed-loop robotic systems. Recent studies often struggle to simultaneously identify unexpected failures reactively ...

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Abstract: This work presents a visual odometry (VO) system that leverages image edge features. Edges are spatially expressive cues commonly present across diverse environments, offering rich textural ...