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4146 storiesFinsSim: A Reality-Aligned Integrated Simulation Platform for Underwater Robot Learning
arXiv:2609.23943v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Underwater robot learning relies on simulators that integrate high-fidelity hydrodynamics, convenient learning i…
RoboTalk: Learning Multi-Robot Communication and Coordination from Multimodal Demonstrations
arXiv:2609.23997v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot collaboration could enable more efficient and scalable solutions to complex robotic tasks, but colla…
CARE: Experience-Guided Atomic Corrective Execution for Vision-Language-Action Policies
arXiv:2609.24118v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies achieve strong performance in robotic manipulation but remain brittle once…
Performance-Preserving Online Adaptation in Social Navigation via Diffusion Steering
arXiv:2609.24317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In social navigation, modeling the complex interactions between humans and robots is difficult, and deep reinfor…
LIBERO-VPro: Benchmarking Closed-Loop Visual Robustness of Robotic Foundation Models
arXiv:2609.24350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic foundation models achieve impressive performance on standard manipulation benchmarks, yet these evaluati…
InsertAnything: Generalizable Contact-Rich Precision Insertion from Simulation to Reality
arXiv:2609.24511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-rich precision insertion is a key manipulation skill in robotic assembly. Tight clearances make insertio…
Bridge3D: Enabling Vision-Language-Action Models to See and Act in 3D
arXiv:2609.24525v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated remarkable generalization in robotic manipulation via larg…
ARSTAG: An Agentic Real2Sim2Real System for Task-Specific Robot Data Generation
arXiv:2609.24563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapting visuomotor policies to new manipulation tasks often requires substantial manual engineering or teleoper…
Learning tactile perception from high-bandwidth single-point sensing
arXiv:2609.24621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile sensing is increasingly being incorporated into learning-based robotic manipulation, yet many existing a…
Feasibility Distance Fields for Heterogeneous Constraints in Robot Configuration Space
arXiv:2609.24632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulators are monitored by constraint-specific indicators whose units and gradient scales are not compa…
Think Like a World Model, Act Like a VLA: Distilling World-Model Representations into Compact Robot Policies
arXiv:2609.24682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models map observations to actions with no objective that accounts for how the worl…
AC-DC: Adaptive Communication for Scalable Dynamic Average Consensus in Multi-Robot Ergodic Search
arXiv:2609.24702v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study scalable peer-to-peer dynamic average consensus (DC) for multi-robot systems under finite-range, finite…
H2RBench: A Real-to-Sim Benchmark for Evaluating Human-to-Robot Transfer
arXiv:2609.24778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning robot manipulation policies from human video demonstrations constitutes a promising avenue for scalable…
Minimum Time Trajectories for a Car-Like Mobile Robot Moving with Rigid Wheels Under Non-Sliding Constraints
arXiv:2609.24832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies the minimum time trajectoriesvof a car-like mobile robot navigating in an obstacle free envir…
CAST: Collision-Aware Assembly with Construction Robots using Simultaneous Trajectory Estimation and Planning
arXiv:2609.24841v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot systems have shown increasing viability in construction due to their ability to execute high-precisi…
Range-Aided SLAM Initialization Exploiting Accurate Heading Information
arXiv:2609.24846v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a novel initialization method for range-aided simultaneous localization and mapping (RA-SLAM…
Learning to Drive on Mars: Visual Multimodal Traversability Estimation for Off-World Navigation
arXiv:2609.24952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous navigation on Mars requires vehicles to distinguish between traversable terrains across diverse and v…
Correcting Learning-based Perception for Safety
arXiv:2609.22108v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning-enabled perception is important in many autonomous systems. Unlike traditional sensors, the boundary …
Image Frame Dynamic Object Segmentation and Ego Motion Estimation using Radar Image Fusion
arXiv:2609.22857v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic object segmentation and ego-motion estimation are closely coupled problems in autonomous driving, as a…
Conflicting Pattern Formation by Teams of Anonymous, Fully Disoriented Robots
arXiv:2609.23454v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Two groups of autonomous, anonymous, and oblivious mobile robots are deployed in the two-dimensional Euclidean…
Partial-Scan-and-Move Source Seeking for Mobile Robots
arXiv:2609.23786v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents a partial-scan-and-move strategy for source seeking with a mobile robot equipped with an o…
HiBerNAC: Hierarchical Brain-inspired Robotic Neural Agent Collective for Disentangling Complex Manipulation
arXiv:2506.08296v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in multimodal vision-language-action (VLA) models have revolutionized traditional robot lear…
When Digital Twins Meet Large Language Models: Realistic, Interactive, and Editable Simulation for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2507.00319v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Simulation frameworks have been key enablers for the development and validation of autonomous driving system…
ERUPT: An Open Toolkit for Interfacing with Robot Motion Planners in Extended Reality
arXiv:2510.02464v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present the Extended Reality Universal Planning Toolkit (ERUPT), an extended reality (XR) system for inte…
A Recipe for Efficient Sim-to-Real Transfer in Manipulation with Online Imitation-Pretrained World Models
arXiv:2510.02538v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We are interested in solving the problem of imitation learning with a limited amount of real-world expert da…
HybridFlow: A 2-NFE Generative Policy for Real-Time Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2602.13718v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative policies for robotic manipulation must balance action accuracy with inference latency. We present…
Cognition to Control - Multi-Agent Learning for Human-Humanoid Collaborative Transport
arXiv:2603.03768v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Full-stack human-robot collaboration (HRC) can become brittle when replacing a planner, partner model, coord…
Unified Learning of Temporal Task Structure and Action Timing for Bimanual Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2603.06538v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Bimanual manipulation requires both temporal task structure - which actions precede or overlap others - and …
Visibility-Aware Mobile Grasping in Dynamic Environments
arXiv:2605.02487v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We consider mobile grasping in unknown and dynamic environments, where a robot must approach and grasp a tar…
PerchRL: Vision-Based Agile Perching on Inclined Platforms under Rapid and Irregular Motion
arXiv:2606.03441v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous vision-based perching of quadrotors on moving inclined platforms is critical for air-ground colla…