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4146 storiesImproving Cross-embodiment Transfer in Latent Action Models with Action-Similarity Supervision
arXiv:2609.19846v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As generalist robot policies gain vision and language from web-scale pretraining, demonstrations remain costly t…
GR2PO: Group Relative Return Policy Optimization for Continuous Robot Control
arXiv:2609.19850v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Actor-critic architecture has been widely used in continuous robot control. However, they rely on learning a val…
Feeling Terrain Before Crossing: World Models for Off-Road Navigation
arXiv:2609.19863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Navigation world models plan by foresight, predicting the future that each candidate action sequence produces an…
Learning Reliable Parking Policies via Offline Reinforcement Learning with Quantized Action Representations
arXiv:2609.19894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parking is a routine yet safety-critical task for autonomous vehicles operating in urban environments. However, …
Learning and Transferring Closed-Loop Robot Software
arXiv:2609.19906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Closed-loop robot policies require observation processing, state management, and situation-dependent branching, …
Co-VLA: Consensus-based Federated Training for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2609.19923v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for general-purpose robot learning, wi…
Execution-Aware Pre-Execution Ranking for Grasp-Conditioned Robotic Placement
arXiv:2609.19946v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A geometrically valid placement can still be difficult to execute because the selected grasp changes the require…
Hybrid Residual Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Robotic Book Insertion
arXiv:2609.19962v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Placing a grasped book into a tight shelf is a compact but difficult contact-rich control problem: millimetre-sc…
MaskHarness-WAM: Instance-Grounded Harnessing for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2609.19974v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon robot manipulation requires not only stable local visuomotor control, but also continuous target tr…
Compliance for Free: Learning Identifiable Impedance via Bilateral Teleoperation
arXiv:2609.19976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action models tell a robot where to move, but not how hard to push. Contact-rich tasks depend on…
Mechanical Precision Weeding with a Quadruped Robot
arXiv:2609.20048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Herbicide-based weed control is increasingly unsustainable due to rising weed resistance and the adverse environ…
Universal Navigation Interface: Robot-Free Data for Wheeled Robot Navigation
arXiv:2609.20114v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collecting real-world navigation data for mobile robots typically requires platform-specific teleoperation, maki…
VLN on the Fly: An Onboard Vision-Language Navigation Stack for Aerial Robots
arXiv:2609.20191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Running vision-language navigation fully onboard an aerial robot is hard, since grounding, planning, and control…
LLM-Guided Transformation of Non-Critical Driving Scenes into Safety-Critical Scenarios Using Augmented Reality
arXiv:2609.20318v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Testing Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) requires realistic safety-critical scenarios, but collecting such data …
Implementation of Tightly-Coupled SLAM Fusion of GPS, IMU, and LiDAR for Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2609.20321v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous vehicles depend entirely on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) to navigate safely in unknow…
RoboFind: Multi-Agent Personalized Object Search for People Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision
arXiv:2609.20330v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Blind and low-vision users often need to locate a specific personal object rather than an arbitrary instance of …
Resilient Motion Planning for Free-Flying Space Robots under Actuator Failures
arXiv:2609.20407v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Free-flying robots rely on multiple thrusters to maneuver in space. If one or more of these thrusters fail, the …
Visual Sim-to-Real Learning for Robotic Insertion under Geometric Variations: Application to Rebar Installation
arXiv:2609.20477v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rebar insertion is among the most repetitive and physically demanding tasks on construction sites, and a contact…
Towards AI-enhanced control: a numerical technique for trajectory smoothing of a parallel robot for pancreatic surgery
arXiv:2609.20499v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The paper presents a numerical approach for the end-effector trajectory smoothing of a parallel robot designed f…
Integrated Guidance and Control of a Mother-Child UAV-UGV System for Cooperative Missions
arXiv:2609.20540v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous recovery of a small multirotor onto a hovering multirotor carrier differs from recovery onto ground o…
Learning Slope-Adaptive Whole-Body Locomotion for Humanoid Robots in Roofing Construction
arXiv:2609.20558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Roofing requires workers to coordinate locomotion, balance, and work-related body motions on pitched surfaces, c…
Walking on the Slope: Stable Bipedal Gaits with Genetic-Algorithm-Optimized Trajectories
arXiv:2609.20570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents the kinematic and dynamic modeling, trajectory generation, and stability analysis of an 8-de…
V2-STRep: VLM-Grounded Structured Task Representations for Reusable Robot Skills Acquired from Generated Videos
arXiv:2609.20582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human manipulation videos provide rich motion and interaction cues for acquiring robot skills without robot demo…
Bayesian Continuum Robot Dynamics and State Estimation
arXiv:2609.20605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent factor graph approaches to continuum robot state estimation have been successful for quasi-static applica…
A Simulation Platform for AUV Fault Recovery: Exploring LLM-Based Diagnostic Strategies
arXiv:2609.20620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) operating beyond reliable communications must recover from failures withou…
SmellDiffusion: Diffusion-Based Quadruped Navigation with Olfactory Scene Graphs
arXiv:2609.20624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A robot sent to a named gas leak must preserve gas identity, estimate the source, and navigate to the resulting …
RTK-Vision PPO for Autonomous Micro UAV Recovery on an Airborne Carrier
arXiv:2609.20629v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous recovery of a micro unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) onto a moving airborne carrier enables reusable dep…
TraceFlow: Guiding Frozen Flow-Matching Robot Policies with Success and Failure Traces
arXiv:2609.20646v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A vision-language-action (VLA) policy with a flow-matching action expert generates each action chunk (a short co…
SkipVLA: Skipping VLA Steps with Classical Planning for Fast Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2609.20648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are a class of generalist robot policies that map camera images and language…
DexTouch-WM: Learning Action-Conditioned Tactile World Models from Human Touch for Dexterous Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2609.20649v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning predictive models of contact-rich dexterous manipulation requires dense tactile interaction, but such d…