Adaptive learning-based navigation and obstacle avoidance for autonomous robots in unstructured environments

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Issue		EPJ Web Conf. Volume 355, 2026 4^th International Conference on Sustainable Technologies and Advances in Automation, Aerospace and Robotics (STAAAR 2025)


Article Number		01006
Number of page(s)		20
Section		Robotics, Exoskeletons and AI Modeling
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202635501006
Published online		03 March 2026

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