We introduce a data-efficient distributed Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) framework for multi-robot operation in GPS-denied and communication-constrained environments. The framework is designed for teams of robots equipped with LiDAR, cameras, and inertial sensors, where robots may operate from independently initialized local coordinate frames and share only limited spatial overlap. Our approach constructs a scene graph by using fused RGB-LiDAR point clouds to generate both a semantically segmented point cloud layer, and a layer of discrete bounded objects, to accompany estimated robot trajectories. Scene graph matching is performed collaboratively through exchanging and matching object data with neighboring robots. To maximize communication efficiency, we utilize a multi-step data exchange and optimization process. We demonstrate the effectiveness and communication efficiency of the proposed approach using real-world datasets containing limited trajectory overlap, viewpoint variation, repeated structures, and degraded visual conditions.
A defender anticipating an attacker needs a probability distribution over the attacker's next action from information available before that action occurs. Two structures complicate this: the attacker's behavioral regime persists and can switch within an episode, and each action combines an operation with state-dependent arguments whose feasible values change over time. We capture both with a hidden Markov model whose latent state is the active regime and whose regime-conditioned action law is defined on a feasibility-masked tree of executable actions. The same likelihood forms the next-action distribution and updates the regime belief once the action is seen, and a partially observed prefix contributes its resolved local factors. Estimation separates into convex logistic fits that Baum-Welch reuses when regimes are unlabeled. We derive a reach-weighted nodewise KL expression for regime information, a sequence-wise log-loss bound for switching regime paths, and a uniform fallback guarantee. On the CAGE 2 cyber defense benchmark the filtered latent state is worth 0.8 nats per step, and after a controller switch the loss begins to fall in three steps against ten for a recurrent baseline.
Fieldable low-light perception systems require both semantic and geometric scene understanding under severe domain shift and embedded compute constraints. We present FAMDA, a foundation-model-assisted self-training framework for unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) in multi-task dense prediction. The framework integrates segmentation and depth foundation models into a self-training paradigm to generate high-quality pseudo-labels for the target domain, distilling their generalization capabilities into a single lightweight student network. To connect the method to deployment, we instantiate the adapted student on a compact handheld low-light prototype with DomiNite imaging and Jetson Orin Nano embedded compute. We evaluate on standard synthetic-to-real multi-task UDA benchmarks for comparison with prior work and on our field-collected low-light dataset to validate daytime-to-low-light adaptation in the target application setting. Across these evaluations, the proposed approach achieves strong segmentation and depth accuracy with substantially lower memory use and inference latency than direct foundation-model inference, demonstrating a practical path toward embedded multi-task perception for low-light field systems.