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When Obstacles Bend: Modeling Vegetation Deformation in the context of Field Robotics

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 26, 2026 · UTC

Autonomous robots operating in natural environments must often interact with vegetation rather than simply avoid it. In this context, traversability is typically defined from the robot's perspective, by measuring how a specific platform responds when moving through the environment. While practical, this viewpoint entangles the assessment of the environment with the robot's own dynamics, making the resulting characterization difficult to transfer across different platforms. More importantly, it does not directly reflect the properties of the vegetation itself, which are the true source of inter

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