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2480 storiesSCREP: Scene Coordinate Regression and Evidential Learning-based Perception-Aware Trajectory Generation
arXiv:2507.07467v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous flight in GPS-denied indoor spaces requires trajectories that keep visual-localization error tigh…
Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Cooperative Localization with Range-Only Measurements: A Convex Optimization Based Approach
arXiv:2606.29673v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cooperative localization using range-based measurements is critical for multi-robot systems operating in GPS-den…
HJ-SafeDMP: Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability-Guided Dynamic Movement Primitives for Provably Safe Robot Motion
arXiv:2606.28995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots deployed in safety-critical environments must execute motions that are simultaneously robust to disturban…
AERIS: Aerial-Edge Role-Driven Intelligence at Runtime via Orchestrated Language-Model Swarm
arXiv:2606.30151v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Integrating large language models into robotic systems holds promise for enhancing autonomy, yet practical deplo…
CSAR: Containerized System Architecture for Robotics
arXiv:2606.30293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic applications increasingly rely on distributed computational infrastructures that combine embedded device…
Vision-Language-Action Models: Experimental Insights from a Real-World UR5 Platform
arXiv:2606.30456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This project investigates whether recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models can be transferred from controlled …
REPAIR-Bench: A Benchmark for Robot Error Perception And Interaction Recovery
arXiv:2606.29937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding how users perceive and respond to robot failures is essential for building robust and trustworthy …
TUGS: Physics-based Compact Representation of Underwater Scenes by Tensorized Gaussian
arXiv:2505.08811v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Underwater 3D scene reconstruction is crucial for multimedia applications in adverse environments, suc…
An Optimal Algorithm for Changing from Latitudinal to Longitudinal Formation of Autonomous Aircraft Squadrons
arXiv:1712.00513v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This work presents an algorithm for changing from latitudinal to longitudinal formation of autonomous aircra…
When Stopping Fails: Rethinking Minimal Risk Conditions through Human-Interactive Autonomous Driving for Safe Transportation Systems
arXiv:2606.29115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are increasingly deployed in urban environments, yet their safety frameworks remain pr…
Multi-Class Human/Object Detection on Robot Manipulators using Proprioceptive Sensing
arXiv:2508.02425v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In physical human-robot collaboration (pHRC) settings, humans and robots collaborate directly in shared envi…
Learning from Mistakes: Rollout-Retrieval Lifelong Policy Learning for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2606.30537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving policies should be able to improve continually as deployment exposes them to increasingly div…
FADA: Few-Shot Domain Adaptation via Dynamics Alignment for Humanoid Control
arXiv:2606.28476v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-precision humanoid control is limited by target-domain dynamics mismatch, where the same control objective …
Stability Boundaries and Motor Performance in Delayed Robot-Mediated Dyadic Interactions
arXiv:2510.14511v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper establishes analytical stability boundaries for robot-mediated human-human (dyadic) interaction s…
Sim2Swim: Zero-Shot Velocity Control for Agile AUV Maneuvering in 3 Minutes
arXiv:2512.08656v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Holonomic autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have the hardware ability for agile maneuvering in both tran…
CORE: Common Outcome Regularities from Action-Free Visual Demonstrations for Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2606.29517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot imitation learning often relies on costly robot demonstrations, while abundant action-free visual demonstr…
KYON: Semi-Modular Wheel-Legged Quadruped With Agile Bimanual Capability
arXiv:2606.30243v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents KYON, a hybrid wheel-legged quadruped robot equipped with a bimanual upper body for loco-man…
Vision-Language Models for Deployable Social Robot Navigation: Bridging Semantic Reasoning and Low-Level Control
arXiv:2606.28760v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social robot navigation (SRN) requires more than geometric path planning; it demands understanding human intenti…
When May I Help You? On The Effect of Proactivity on Group Human-Robot Collaboration
arXiv:2606.28469v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot initiative is a central challenge in multi-party human-robot collaboration. A robot that contributes witho…
Empowering a Single-Frequency GNSS Receiver to Achieve High-Precision Positioning with Relative Observations
arXiv:2606.29192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) navigation is widely used to provide absolute, outdoor positioning in …
MoPe: Motion Permanence for Robust Monocular Gaussian Mapping in Dynamic Environments
arXiv:2606.29237v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust robot autonomy depends on scene representations that remain stable enough to support localization, naviga…
RIPA: Sensory-Vector Prompt Injection Attacks on LLM-Controlled ROS 2 Robots
arXiv:2606.28649v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present RIPA, the first systematic multi-channel empirical study of prompt injection attacks delivered thro…
Embodiment Meets Environment: Toward Context-Aware, Safe Physical Caregiving Robots
arXiv:2606.28592v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical caregiving robots need to assist different users with different tasks in diverse environments, and they…
Motion planning for hundreds of floating robots
arXiv:2606.09620v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Planning collision-free motion for large robot fleets is difficult because collision avoidance induces stron…
MOAR Planner: Multi-Objective and Adaptive Risk-Aware Path Planning for Infrastructure Inspection with a UAV
arXiv:2606.30575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The problem of autonomous navigation for UAV inspection remains challenging as it requires effectively navigatin…
Understanding LLM Intervention Explanations in Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction
arXiv:2606.29460v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded in social robots to support natural group interactions, y…
He3-Seeker: Robotic Information Planning for Lunar Helium-3 Distribution Mapping
arXiv:2606.28746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lunar helium-3 is a highly valuable strategic resource, pivotal to the advancement of both deep-space exploratio…
AsyncMDE: Real-Time Monocular Depth Estimation via Asynchronous Spatial Memory
arXiv:2603.10438v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Foundation-model-based monocular depth estimation offers a viable alternative to active sensors for robot pe…
X-Morph: Human Motion Priors for Scalable Robot Learning Across Morphologies
arXiv:2606.30290v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress in humanoid behavior models has been driven in large part by abundant human motion data, but com…
The Speedup Paradox: Rethinking Inference Speed-Quality Trade-off in Embodied Tasks
arXiv:2606.28529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied foundation models have recently been widely used to improve robot generalization and task success rates…