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4147 storiesEnhancing Autonomous Vehicle Navigation with a Clothoid-Based Lateral Controller
arXiv:2608.07740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study introduces an advanced lateral control strategy for autonomous vehicles using a clothoid-based approa…
CoCoNav: Conformal Control for Safe Robot Navigation in Crowds
arXiv:2608.07751v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe and efficient robot navigation in crowds requires anticipating pedestrian motion despite uncertain and pote…
Drone-Assisted UAV-UGV Collaboration for Autonomous Navigation in Snow-Covered Terrain
arXiv:2608.07797v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a collaborative UAV-UGV navigation framework for high-altitude, snow-covered terrain, where …
A Mixed-Stiffness Anthropomimetic Fingertip Broadens the Operating Range for Coin Grasping
arXiv:2608.07887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic grasping of thin, flat objects such as coins on hard surfaces remains challenging because conventional m…
Auditing Instruction-Trajectory Mismatches in Multimodal Robot Demonstrations
arXiv:2608.07895v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot demonstration datasets used to train vision-language-action policies can contain a subtle but harmful fail…
4D-WAM: Infusing Spatiotemporal Awareness into World Action Models through Trajectory Fields
arXiv:2608.08023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building on recent advances in world models, World Action Models (WAMs) jointly model video prediction and actio…
DA-NBV: A Direction-Aware Next-Best-View Planner for Efficient 3D Reconstruction of Ships at Sea
arXiv:2608.08025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate 3D reconstruction of ships at sea is important for maritime supervision, damage assessment, and autonom…
Compiling and Benchmarking Task-State Horizons for Embodied Agents
arXiv:2608.08036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier agentic models are increasingly deployed as high-level planners for long-horizon embodied tasks. Existi…
Event-Time Hybrid Optimal Control for Robotic Table Tennis Serves
arXiv:2608.08157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic table tennis serves require high ball velocity and spin while respecting the robot's kinodynamic limits.…
Multi-modal Interactive Control of Robotic Arm based on Offline Large Language Models
arXiv:2608.08183v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly revolutionized the modern society with numerous advanced interac…
Scalable High-Speed Lateral Control for Single-Body and Articulated Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2608.08293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a scalable lateral control framework for robust path tracking of single-body and articulated…
Diminishing Returns of Intelligence: The Non-Linear Relationship Between LLM Scale and User Perception in Short-Duration Open-Ended Social Human-Robot Interactions
arXiv:2608.08320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to drive embodied social agents, yet it remains unclear wheth…
MPPI Planning with Gaussian Based Human Cost Function for Social Navigation
arXiv:2608.08323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe robot navigation in crowded spaces requires planning that accounts for where people will be, not only where…
Stochastic Physics-Informed Neural Networks on Lie Groups for Learning Underwater Vehicle Dynamics
arXiv:2608.08356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate models of underwater vehicle motion are needed for autonomous execution of marine tasks like infrastruc…
Curriculum Generation under Structured Parametric Environments for Robust Navigation Policies
arXiv:2608.08545v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust navigation policies for autonomous agents must generalize across continuously varying environmental condi…
Vid2WAM: Distilling Video Diffusion Priors into World Action Models
arXiv:2608.08558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) improve robot policy learning by jointly modeling future visual dynamics and actions.…
WA-SpecDec: World-Aware Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2608.08725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies generate robot controls autoregressively, making closed-loop latency domin…
OnEvoMemory: Evolving Memory through Online Robot Rollouts for Pretrained Robot Policies
arXiv:2608.08749v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon robot manipulation requires policies to track completed subtasks and critical interaction events. H…
PEEL: Parallel Extraction for Long-Horizon Disassembly Planning via Scale-Invariant Sampling
arXiv:2608.08773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon multi-part object disassembly requires robots to compute feasible sequences of collision-free remov…
SG-WAM: Text-Grounded and Spatial-aware Semantic Guidance for World-Action Models
arXiv:2608.08839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World-Action Models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for robotic manipulation. However, most existing…
Hierarchical Topology-Aware Planning and Control of Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems in Confined Environments
arXiv:2608.08871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses autonomous intervention with an underwater vehicle--manipulator system (UVMS) in confined, …
SHRIMP: Iterative Refinement of Robot Task Plans
arXiv:2608.08884v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As collaborative robots have entered domains such as manufacturing, agriculture, and healthcare, programming or …
From Operational Design Domain to Action: A Systematic Behavioral Taxonomy for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2608.08941v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Operational Design Domain (ODD) specifications describe where an automated driving system (ADS) is permitted to …
UnsDrive: Towards Robust End-to-End Autonomous Driving in Unstructured Scenes
arXiv:2608.09098v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end planning has shown strong promise for autonomous driving, but most existing methods are designed for …
Trajectory Divergence Horizon Decision for Reliable Dual-Arm Surgical Subtask Manipulation
arXiv:2608.09125v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surgical robotic systems are increasingly being adopted as clinical workload rises, motivating autonomous soluti…
High Fidelity Capture, Reconstruction, and Transfer of Human Demonstrations for Robot-Assisted Bathing
arXiv:2608.09127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the demand for robots in high-value clinical tasks like bathing, contemporary systems still lack the saf…
SpeedTuning: Speeding Up Policy Execution with Lightweight Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2608.09138v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While learned robotic policies hold promise for advancing generalizable manipulation, their practical deployment…
Particle-Based Conformal Prediction for Contact-Aware Uncertainty Calibration in Stratified Configuration Spaces
arXiv:2608.09166v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable uncertainty representation is essential for deploying autonomous systems that interact with their envir…
SAIN: Structure-Aware Interactive Navigation with Active Dialogue Grounding for Mobile Robot
arXiv:2608.09196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most existing vision-language navigation tasks assume that instructions are complete and unambiguous. However, r…
Ultra-Low-Impedance Robotic Gripper for High-Bandwidth and Transparent Physical Interaction
arXiv:2608.09198v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional robotic grippers often use high-ratio transmissions to generate grasping torque and external force …