{"ID":2827984,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15309","arxiv_id":"2512.15309","title":"GuangMing-Explorer: A Four-Legged Robot Platform for Autonomous Exploration in General Environments","abstract":"Autonomous exploration is a fundamental capability that tightly integrates perception, planning, control, and motion execution. It plays a critical role in a wide range of applications, including indoor target search, mapping of extreme environments, resource exploration, etc. Despite significant progress in individual components, a holistic and practical description of a completely autonomous exploration system, encompassing both hardware and software, remains scarce. In this paper, we present GuangMing-Explorer, a fully integrated autonomous exploration platform designed for robust operation across diverse environments. We provide a comprehensive overview of the system architecture, including hardware design, software stack, algorithm deployment, and experimental configuration. Extensive real-world experiments demonstrate the platform's effectiveness and efficiency in executing autonomous exploration tasks, highlighting its potential for practical deployment in complex and unstructured environments.","short_abstract":"Autonomous exploration is a fundamental capability that tightly integrates perception, planning, control, and motion execution. It plays a critical role in a wide range of applications, including indoor target search, mapping of extreme environments, resource exploration, etc. Despite significant progress in individual...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15309","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.15309v1","authors":"[\"Kai Zhang\",\"Shoubin Chen\",\"Dong Li\",\"Baiyang Zhang\",\"Tao Huang\",\"Zehao Wu\",\"Jiasheng Chen\",\"Bo Zhang\"]","published":"2025-12-17T10:53:32Z","proceeding":"cs.RO","tasks":"[\"cs.RO\"]","methods":"[\"LoRA\"]","has_code":false}