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4147 storiesFleet-To-Lab: A Transfer Learning Framework For Lunar Rover Slippage Estimation Via Model Fusion
arXiv:2609.17187v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate wheel slip estimation is essential for autonomous lunar rover mobility and navigation. Machine Learning…
HuMemSLAM: Efficient Human-Inspired Semantic Place Recognition for Robust Visual SLAM
arXiv:2609.17168v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous systems require reliable place recognition for efficient and effective simultaneous localisation and …
Kernel-Based Metrics Learning for Uncertain Opponent Vehicle Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Racing
arXiv:2609.17147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous racing confronts significant challenges in safely overtaking Opponent Vehicles (OVs) that exhibit unc…
LOTUSim-Energy: A Maritime Simulator for Human-Drone Interaction in Autonomous Offshore Operation \& Maintenance
arXiv:2609.17124v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offshore maintenance requires operations in the air, the surface, and the subsea domain and include human superv…
Intrinsic Robot Rewarding: Reusing VLA Representations for Autonomous Evaluation and Policy Improvement
arXiv:2609.17115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) systems already bring together two valuable resources for robot learning: rich visu…
Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Space Robot Operations: Technologies, Challenges and Prospects
arXiv:2609.16880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Space robots are increasingly expected to perform long-duration, contact-rich, and multi-stage operations with l…
TEMPO: Learning Temporal Context for Dynamic Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2609.16864v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have achieved impressive performance in quasi-static manipulation, but strug…
Seeing What Matters: Visual Cue Guided Video Planning for Generalizable Robot Navigation
arXiv:2609.16737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative video models can serve as a promising backbone for robot navigation by predicting future observations…
WholeBodyWAM: Generalizing Pre-trained World-Action Priors to Humanoid Loco-Manipulation via WBC-Grounded Coordination
arXiv:2609.16644v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) offer a promising approach to general-purpose robot manipulation by jointly modeling …
ManiSkillFormer: Demonstration-Free Compositional Manipulation via Task-Conditioned Geometric Contracts
arXiv:2609.16331v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present ManiSkillFormer, a neuro-symbolic framework for demonstration-free and compositional robotic manipula…
Tendon-Driven Continuum Robot with Modular Stiffness and In-Situ Self Pose Estimation
arXiv:2609.16256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuum robots enable smooth shape morphing and safe interaction in confined environments. However, most exist…
Occupancy Network-Guided Autonomous Robotic Partial Nephrectomy
arXiv:2609.16186v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous soft-tissue cancer surgery has been limited to interventions on organ surfaces, because current syste…
AssemblyGrid v1: A Benchmark for Multi-Robot Production with Temporary Coalitions, Local Information, and Geometric Constraints
arXiv:2609.16075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flexible robotic production requires joint decisions on process progression, material routing, resource assignme…
World-Action Models for Robot Learning and Control: A Survey
arXiv:2609.16074v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots operating in open environments act under partial observability, physical constraints, and dynamic task co…
Structure-Preserving Quantum Circuit Architectures for Robot Kinematics
arXiv:2609.16089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured spatial data require quantum encodings that preserve geometric relations, expose measurable observabl…
Weave: Learning Whole-Body Dexterous Loco-Manipulation from Human-Object Interactions
arXiv:2609.16683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning humanoid-object interaction requires coordinating whole-body balance, locomotion, and dexterous hand co…
QDTraj: Exploration of Diverse Trajectory Primitives for Articulated Objects Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2604.22551v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Thanks to the latest advances in learning and robotics, domestic robots are beginning to enter homes, aiming…
Calibrate Once, Fly Any Team: Residual-Grounded Low-Fidelity Training for Cooperative Drone Swarms
arXiv:2609.17265v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training multi-agent drone-swarm policies directly in high-fidelity (HF) rigid-body physics is accurate but co…
CoAdapt: An LLM-based Framework for Adaptive Collaborative Perception in IIoT Robotic Swarms
arXiv:2609.16852v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial IoT environments increasingly deploy autonomous mobile robots for tasks such as material handling, …
Dissecting Motion-Prior Regularization for Data-Scarce Robotic Insertion
arXiv:2609.17484v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study asks whether training-time motion-prior regularization can improve insertion success when a diffusion…
Optimized Wrench Polytope Analysis for Real-Time Stability Control of Legged Robots in Complex Multi-Contact Configurations
arXiv:2609.17405v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Legged robots offer a variety of automation applications in real-world scenarios. But areas that are difficult t…
Port-Hamiltonian Koopman Operator Synthesis for Mechanical Systems
arXiv:2609.17249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Finite-dimensional Koopman models enable efficient linear prediction and control of nonlinear robotic systems. H…
Continual Learning for Traversability Prediction with Uncertainty-Aware Adaptation
arXiv:2609.17141v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traversability prediction is a critical component of autonomous navigation in unstructured environments, where c…
Overcoming technical adoption barriers for mobile service robots in rehabilitation
arXiv:2609.16996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many publications on robotic systems in healthcare describe early-stage work on low technology readiness levels.…
Rethinking Visual Embodiment Dependence in Visuomotor Policies
arXiv:2609.16815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visuomotor policies observe both the task scene and the acting embodiment, allowing embodiment-specific visual c…
The Latent That Never Was: A Forensic Re-run of the CVAE Ablation in Action Chunking Transformer
arXiv:2609.16745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action Chunking Transformers (ACT) are widely used to learn robot manipulation from demonstrations. Their condit…
IL-ACT: Imitation Learning with Adaptive Cartesian Tracking Control for a 30-ton Excavator
arXiv:2609.16696v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous excavator control is challenged by coupled kinematics, actuation lag, and uncertainty. We propose imi…
SAVLA: Symmetry-Aware Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2609.16641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have become the dominant paradigm for language-conditioned robot manipulatio…
Collision-Aware Humanoid Whole-Body Control under Imperfect Tracking Targets
arXiv:2609.16405v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots often execute motion commands through whole-body controllers (WBCs) that track targets while mai…
Auto-HSI: Personalized human control of a robot swarm on demand by using LLMs for online automatic code generation
arXiv:2609.16346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents Auto-HSI, a method for generating personalized human-swarm interaction (HSI) interfaces on d…