Thesis Supplementary Materials

Autonomous Rover Path Planning & Navigation

Interactive visualizations and video demonstrations supporting the thesis submitted to the Aerospace Engineering Department at CU Boulder.

Author Xavier O'Keefe
Advisors Prof. Jack Burns, Prof. Nisar Ahmed
Year 2026
Source GitHub ↗
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Vision-Language-Action Results

VLA Navigation Evaluations

GIF demonstrations of trained and untrained VLA models

View Model Results
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Interactive Path Visualizer

START GOAL

Rover Trajectory Viewer

Renders path data from JSON · Global XYZ coordinates · Interactive

Open Visualizer
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Video Demonstrations

VIDEO 01

Full Deployment — Teleport Navigation

End-to-end autonomous rover deployment with teleport-based obstacle avoidance