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4147 storiesVirTooS: A ROS 2 - Unity Virtualization Toolkit for Fleet Management of Autonomous Mobile Robots
arXiv:2608.26066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we present VirTooS, a Python/C# toolkit designed to implement fleet-management tasks on teams of …
Gating Before Commitment: Anticipating Intent Divergence to Prevent Post-Interaction Decision Failures in Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2608.26074v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intent misinterpretation during vehicle interactions causes recurring planning failures. We study a decision lay…
PARAssist: A Framework for Personalized and Adaptive Robotic Assistance from Ambiguous User Requests
arXiv:2608.24905v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Service robots may encounter ambiguous user requests that require context-aware inference. Users may also have…
Trust-Aware Sequential Decision Making and Rollout Planning for Resilient Multi-Robot Systems
arXiv:2608.25690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sequential decision-making in multi-robot systems typically assumes that planning information is reliable and …
Multi-Touch and Bending Sensing Using Electrical Impedance Tomography for Robotics
arXiv:2503.13048v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) offers a promising solution for distributed tactile sensing with minim…
Performance-guided Task-specific Optimization for Multirotor Design
arXiv:2510.04724v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper introduces a methodology for task-specific design optimization of multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicle…
Dynamically-Consistent Trajectory Optimization for Legged Robots via Contact Point Decomposition
arXiv:2510.24069v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: To generate reliable motion for legged robots through trajectory optimization, it is crucial to simultaneous…
Learning to Accelerate Vision-Language-Action Models through Adaptive Visual Token Caching
arXiv:2602.00686v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated remarkable generalization capabilities in robotic mani…
Symmetries Here and There, Combined Everywhere: Cross-space Symmetry Compositions in Robotics
arXiv:2605.22639v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robots exhibit a rich variety of symmetries arising from their mechanical structure and the properties of th…
Three-Way Open-Set Detection for Robust Autonomous Navigation
arXiv:2511.15343v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous navigation in complex scenes requires reliable perception across scenarios that the model d…
Human vs. Teleoperated Robots in Vineyard Management: A Simulation-Based Analysis of Travel Speed, Routing, and Task Performance
arXiv:2507.04167v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Rising labor costs and narrow treatment windows have made teleoperated robots a proposed tool for vineyard s…
One Policy, Many Embodiments: Unified Camera-Centric Action Geometry Pre-training for Heterogeneous Embodied Manipulation
arXiv:2608.26058v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling generalist vision-language-action (VLA) policies is severely bottlenecked by the inherent heterogeneity …
When Obstacles Bend: Modeling Vegetation Deformation in the context of Field Robotics
arXiv:2608.26050v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous robots operating in natural environments must often interact with vegetation rather than simply avoid…
AGRO-Nav: Autonomous Graph-based Orchard Navigation
arXiv:2608.25799v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Orchards form semi-structured environments in which parallel tree rows create natural driving corridors, yet nar…
Advantage-Driven Explicit Memory for Social Navigation
arXiv:2608.25610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot policies are predominantly learned with classical parametric variants of imitation learning or RL, where t…
ConfAL-WM: Confidence-Guided Active Learning for Action-Conditioned World Models
arXiv:2608.25572v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action-conditioned world models have become an important foundation for embodied prediction, planning, and synth…
Dynamic Modeling of a Welding Torch Umbilical and Its Impact on Robot Dynamics
arXiv:2608.25509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic welding is widely used in industrial manufacturing, where the welding torch is often connected to the ge…
SUPER ODOMETRY 2.0: Resilient Odometry via Hierarchical Adaptation
arXiv:2608.25427v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Resilient and robust odometry is crucial for autonomous systems operating in complex and dynamic environments. E…
LAC: Linear and Angular Compliance for Humanoid Whole-body Control
arXiv:2608.25405v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world humanoid tasks involve physical interaction with objects and humans, yet current controllers either r…
CRESSim-Neo: A Batched GPU Simulation Engine for Surgical Robotics and Robot Learning
arXiv:2608.25192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce CRESSim-Neo, a batched GPU simulation engine for surgical robotics and robot learning. CRESSim-Neo …
Longitudinal Robot Learning from Demonstration with Care Providers in a Home Environment
arXiv:2608.25196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from demonstration (LfD) methods enable non-expert end users to teach robots novel skills without expli…
Sequential Object Placement Optimization with Convex Decomposition
arXiv:2608.25162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic object packing has been a core challenge for robotic deployment in logistics, industry, etc., due to the…
SkyDrive: Learning to Drive in a New City from Aerial Traffic Monitoring
arXiv:2608.25142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving has made remarkable progress through imitation learning with massive human demonstration data…
Latent Chain-of-Thought World Modeling for End-to-End Driving
arXiv:2512.10226v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for autonomous driving explore inference-time reasoning as …
Minimalist Visual Inertial Odometry
arXiv:2605.19990v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO), which is critical to mobile robot navigation, uses cameras with a large numb…
Scene2Demo: Self-Evolving Embodied Data Generation via Object-Action Graph
arXiv:2602.12065v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present Scene2Demo, a self-evolving framework for offline embodied data generation. Given a single real-w…
Zero-WAM: In-Context World-Action Modeling from Human Videos for Open-Ended Task Generalization
arXiv:2608.26103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zero-shot cross-task generalization, where a policy must execute manipulation tasks never seen during training, …
Fast Generative Grasping via Lie Group-Constrained MeanFlow
arXiv:2608.26076v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Grasp synthesis is a core task in robotic manipulation, for which the solution typically forms a multimodal dist…
A Statistical Audit of Physical AI Benchmark Redundancy
arXiv:2608.25940v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical AI models are evaluated on suites of benchmarks that differ across model reports, leaving the model-by-…
LM-X: Explainable Action Modeling with Progress, Event, and Uncertainty Prediction for Generalist Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2608.25757v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalist vision--language--action (VLA) policies learn long-horizon behavior mainly through short-horizon acti…