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2480 storiesPredicting Grasping Compliance in Robotic Hands through Analytical-Model-Informed Neural Networks
arXiv:2607.17541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In robotic manipulation studies, grasping is often treated as a binary success or failure problem, usually defin…
Move First, Commit Later: Selective LiDAR-to-BIM Global Initialization via Sequential Consensus with Symmetry-Aware Abstention
arXiv:2607.17103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Global LiDAR-to-BIM initialization must place a robot within an as-designed building model without a prior pose.…
Digital-physical testbed for ship autonomy studies in the Marine Cybernetics Laboratory basin
arXiv:2505.06787v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The algorithms developed for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) are often challenging to test on actua…
What Do They See? Interpreting Complex Road Scenarios Through the Eyes of Vision-Language-Action Models for Safe and Trustworthy Autonomous Vehicle Learning
arXiv:2607.16938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving models are now able to navigate complex road scenarios, mapping raw sensor obser…
SinD 2.0: A Multi-City UAV Dataset with Semantic Risk Annotations for SOTIF-Oriented Safety Validation at Signalized Intersections
arXiv:2607.16943v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety validation at signalized intersections remains a critical bottleneck for the deployment of autonomous dri…
User-Driven Learning from Demonstration: A Trajectory and Impedance Learning Method
arXiv:2607.16998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a method for user-driven robot Learning from Demonstration (LfD) that reduces user effort wh…
InLiER: Learning-Free Heterogeneous LiDAR Place Recognition via Intermediate Mixed-Radix Structural Keypoint Tokenization
arXiv:2607.16862v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LiDAR place recognition supports loop closure, relocalization, and multi-agent map management. As robotic plat…
ConceptTree: Bringing Semantic Transparency to Black-Box Decision Making for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.17861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Establishing interpretable decision-making processes in long-horizon robotic manipulation is critical for enabli…
Importance Sampling and PCA for Finding Failures in Commercial Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2607.18106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Methods for discovering rare failures in autonomous systems have so far been demonstrated almost exclusively in …
A Vendor-Agnostic LiDAR Data Conversion System with Multi-Signal Detection and Multi-Format Output
arXiv:2606.22881v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensors capture the surrounding environment as dense 3D point clouds by …
Stochastic Entanglement of Deterministic Origami Tentacles For Robust Robotic Grasping
arXiv:2604.26897v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Origami-inspired robotic grippers have shown promising potential for object manipulation tasks due to their …
GLidE-SLAM: GL-Accelerated Indirect-Direct Embedded SLAM
arXiv:2607.16897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the growing demand for robotics, autonomous drones, and wearable extended reality systems, the deployment o…
Unsupervised Discovery of Failure Taxonomies from Deployment Logs
arXiv:2506.06570v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As robotic systems become increasingly integrated into real-world environments, ranging from autonomous vehi…
Algorithmic Accuracy as a Motivational Driver in Robot-Mediated Learning: A Comparative Study of Cross-Correlation and CNN-Based Sound Detection in an Interactive Quiz Game
arXiv:2607.16299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In competitive learning activities, inaccurate robot decisions may reduce students' perceptions of fairness an…
PRISM: Multimodal Terrain Mapping for Rover Navigation in Unstructured Environments
arXiv:2607.16366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic navigation in unstructured environments requires robust situational awareness to safely traverse hazards…
From Perception to Assistance: Open-Vocabulary Shared Autonomy for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.17323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Teleoperating a robotic manipulator in industrial environments demands precision that camera-based interfaces al…
xperception -- Making Robotic Grasping Easier
arXiv:2607.16312v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The transition toward high-mix low-volume manufacturing demands flexibility in robotic manipulation. However, …
Logic-Guided Socially-aware Robot Navigation World Model
arXiv:2510.23509v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Social robot navigation increasingly relies on large language models for reasoning, path planning, and enabl…
From Sign Language Generation to Humanoid Execution: Vision-Language Guided Retargeting with Collision Mitigation
arXiv:2607.17769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent sign language generation (SLG) systems increasingly output dense 3D body representations, which better pr…
Distilling Global Traversability Priors for Image-based Affordance Prediction in Off-road Environments
arXiv:2607.17984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard methods for autonomous navigation in unstructured terrain are prone to myopic behaviors in long-horizon…
3D and 4D World Modeling: A Survey
arXiv:2509.07996v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: World modeling has become a cornerstone in AI research, enabling agents to understand, represent, and …
Unified Disturbance Aware Safe Kinematic Control for Closed-Architecture Robots
arXiv:2512.05292v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In commercial robotic systems, it is common to encounter a closed inner-loop torque controller that is not u…
VLN-AVP: Zero-Shot Vision-Language Navigation with Hybrid Long-Short-Term Memory for Autonomous Valet Parking
arXiv:2607.17767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing methods in Autonomous Valet Parking (AVP) typically rely on pre-built maps, which severely restricts th…
Patch Policy: Efficient Embodied Control via Dense Visual Representations
arXiv:2607.18236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained dense visual features from Vision Transformers (ViTs) are powerful yet have been underutilized in rob…
A BIM-enabled, Agent-based Discrete-event Simulation Platform for Robotic Studies: A Method based on Graph Theory
arXiv:2607.16920v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Indoor robots are increasingly employed for facility management tasks such as cleaning and inspection. These app…
PrimitiveVLA: Learning Reusable Motion Primitives for Efficient and Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2605.28634v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer a promising paradigm for generalist robotic policies, yet their ad…
SLAM in Low-Light Environments: Project Report
arXiv:2607.17699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is one of the fundamental problems in robotics, as it enables auton…
ADMM-Based Safety-Critical Distributed NMPC for Cooperative Transportation by Quadrupedal Robots
arXiv:2607.17007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a safety-critical distributed nonlinear model predictive control (DNMPC) framework for coope…
Finite-Time Curvature-Constrained Vector Field for Saturation-Free Motion Planning of Nonholonomic Robots
arXiv:2607.17542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurately steering a robot to a target configuration is fundamental in engineering, yet remains challenging for…
Autonomous VR-Based Risk Detection for Situational Awareness in Dangerous Settings
arXiv:2607.16582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In high-risk environments such as disaster response, situational awareness depends not only on detecting hazards…