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4147 storiesDiffusionVS: A Generative Framework for Robust Visual Servoing Based on Diffusion Policy
arXiv:2606.19397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual servoing is a fundamental technique in robotic manipulation and navigation. Regression-based visual servo…
Simulating Robotic Locomotion in Sand: Resistive Force Theory in an Open-Source Physics Engine
arXiv:2606.19504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements in Resistive Force Theory (RFT) enable approximation of ground reaction forces for locomotio…
Formal Verification of Learned Multi-Agent Communication Policies via Decision Tree Distillation
arXiv:2606.19632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) enables agents to develop coordination strategies through emergent com…
Scaling Self-Play for End-to-End Driving
arXiv:2606.19641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving models are typically trained on offline human-demonstration datasets that provide …
A Differentiable Composite Approximation Framework for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Maneuvering Modeling from Sea-Trial Data
arXiv:2606.19711v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Field-based modeling from onboard measurements can produce autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) maneuvering model…
VOiLA: Vectorized Online Planning with Learned Diffusion Model for POMDP Agents
arXiv:2606.19729v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Planning under uncertainty is an essential capability for autonomous robots. The Partially Observable Markov Dec…
Data Standards for Humanoid Robotics: The Missing Infrastructure for Physical AI
arXiv:2606.19769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The scalability of humanoid robots will depend not only on models and hardware, but also on whether physical exp…
Start Right, Arrive Right: Asynchronous Execution via Initial Noise Selection
arXiv:2606.19774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action chunking enables robot policies to produce temporally coherent behavior, but generating multi-step action…
Co-policy: Responsive Human-Robot Co-Creation for Musical Performances
arXiv:2606.19914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Art has long stood as a pivotal expression of human creativity. Embodied artificial intelligence offers a route …
Fast Human Attention Prediction for Fixation-guided Active Perception in Autonomous Navigation
arXiv:2606.20491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human visual attention relies on structured scanpaths to efficiently process scenes, yet instilling this behavio…
MemoryWAM: Efficient World Action Modeling with Persistent Memory
arXiv:2606.20562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust robotic manipulation in the real world requires not only an understanding of the current observation, but…
A Neuromorphic Reinforcement Learning Framework for Efficient Pathfinding in Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems
arXiv:2606.20031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic environmental changes, confined workspaces, and stringent real-time constraints make pathfinding in Robo…
ImageWAM: Do World Action Models Really Need Video Generation, or Just Image Editing?
arXiv:2606.19531v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) commonly rely on video generation to bridge visual world modeling and robot control…
Slow Brain, Fast Planner: Latency-Resilient VLM-Augmented Urban Navigation
arXiv:2606.20458v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning-based planners for sidewalk navigation can generate diverse candidate trajectories in real time, yet th…
ForEnt: A Multi-Modal Dataset for Characterizing Quadruped Robot Entrapments in Forest Environments
arXiv:2606.19675v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Legged robots are increasingly deployed in forests for ecological surveying and monitoring, yet their autonomy i…
PiDR: Physics-Informed Inertial Dead Reckoning for Autonomous Platforms
arXiv:2601.03040v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A fundamental requirement for full autonomy is the ability to sustain accurate navigation in the absence of …
Robust Assembly State Reasoning from Action Recognition for Human-Robot Collaboration
arXiv:2606.20150v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human Action Recognition (HAR) is frequently investigated in Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) research to underst…
Autonomous Driving with Priority-Ordered STL Specifications Under Multimodal Uncertainty
arXiv:2606.20336v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous vehicles must plan trajectories that satisfy a multitude of requirements on safety, passenger comfort…
An Infrastructure-less, Control-Independent Solution to Relative Localisation of a Team of Mobile Robots using Ranging Measurements
arXiv:2606.20365v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ability to localise teams of robots is essential for applications ranging from robotic fleets in unstructure…
Generating Robot Hands from Human Demonstrations
arXiv:2606.20549v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot learning has advanced rapidly in learning control, but learning the physical body of a robot remains much …
HilDA: Hierarchical Distillation with Diffusion for Advancing Self-Supervised LiDAR Pre-trainin
arXiv:2606.20189v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Leveraging Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) for camera-to-LiDAR knowledge distillation offers a promising solut…
CoLI: A Reproducible Platform for Continuum Robot Learning via Monolithic 3D Printing and Isomorphic Teleoperation
arXiv:2606.20389v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuum robots offer strong potential for manipulation tasks due to their high degrees of freedom, compliant s…
Finetuning Vision-Language-Action Models Requires Fewer Layers Than You Think
arXiv:2606.20246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models pre-trained on massive video-robot datasets have revolutionized robotic mani…
Safety-Critical LiDAR-Inertial Odometry with On-Manifold Deterministic Protection Level
arXiv:2605.09383v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In safety-critical scenarios, the protection level of the autonomous navigation system is crucial for enabli…
Bring My Cup! Personalizing Vision-Language-Action Models with Visual Attentive Prompting
arXiv:2512.20014v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models generalize well to generic instructions, they struggle with person…
Movement Primitives in Robotics: A Comprehensive Survey
arXiv:2601.02379v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Biological systems exhibit a continuous stream of movements, consisting of sequential segments, that allow t…
PTLD: Sim-to-real Privileged Tactile Latent Distillation for Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2603.04531v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tactile dexterous manipulation is essential to automating complex household tasks, yet learning effective co…
Model-Reference Adaptive Flight Control of a 95-mg Insect-Scale Flapping-Wing Aerial Robot
arXiv:2605.08525v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Due to the system's scale and complex fabrication, the model describing the dynamics of a flapping-wing inse…
UniMM: A Unified Mixture Model Framework for Multi-Agent Simulation
arXiv:2501.17015v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Simulation plays a crucial role in assessing autonomous driving systems, where the generation of reali…
Class-Incremental Motion Forecasting
arXiv:2603.09420v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Motion forecasting enables autonomous vehicles to anticipate scene evolution by predicting the future …