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1860 storiesStress-Sharing: A Bio-Inspired Approach to Decentralized Fault Repair in Modular Spacecraft
arXiv:2607.13444v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structural damage in modular spacecraft can disrupt mechanical and communication connectivity, reducing system c…
M$^\text{4}$World: A Multi-view Multimodal Driving World Model for Interactive Object Manipulation and Minute-long Streaming
arXiv:2607.14005v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Driving-world generation has emerged as a core capability for scalable autonomous-driving simulation, yet exis…
Ego-Dynamics-Augmented World Model for Autonomous Driving with Zero-Shot Cross-Chassis Adaptation
arXiv:2607.13410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World model (WM)-based reinforcement learning enables sample-efficient end-to-end autonomous driving learning by…
GigaWorld-Policy-0.5: A Faster and Stronger WAM Empowered by AutoResearch
arXiv:2607.13960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) improve robot policy learning by jointly modeling actions and future visual observati…
Recursive ArUco Markers: A Scalable Fiducial Marker Design for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Landing Pads
arXiv:2607.13830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) increasingly rely on visual fiducial markers for autonomous navigation and preci…
Move-Then-Operate: Behavioral Phasing for Human-Like Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2604.23620v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present Move-Then-Operate, a Vision language action framework that explicitly decouples robotic manipulat…
OccTrack360: 4D Panoptic Occupancy Tracking from Surround-View Fisheye Cameras
arXiv:2603.08521v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding dynamic 3D environments in a spatially continuous and temporally consistent manner is fu…
Layered Risk Mapping for Autonomous Patient Transport in Expeditionary Medical Facilities
arXiv:2607.13497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In expeditionary medical facilities, routine patient transport imposes a compounding burden of personal protecti…
Learning Robust Execution in Robotic Manipulation with Agentic Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.13818v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic manipulation poses fundamental challenges due to uncertainty, long-horizon execution, and compounding er…
A Hybrid Sampling-Based Trajectory Planner with Game-Theoretic Guidance for Autonomous Racing
arXiv:2607.13354v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous racing demands planning algorithms that balance vehicle dynamics at the limits of handling with strat…
From Language to Navigation Goals: A Vision-Language Approach for Semantic Navigation of Mobile Robots Using RGB-D Perception
arXiv:2607.13624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural language interaction provides an intuitive way for non-expert users to communicate with robotic platform…
Pretraining in Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning for Locomotion
arXiv:2510.12363v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The pretraining-finetuning paradigm has facilitated numerous transformative advancements in artificial intel…
Fire as a Service: Augmenting Robot Simulators with Thermally and Visually Accurate Fire Dynamics
arXiv:2603.19063v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Most existing robot simulators prioritize rigid-body dynamics and photorealistic rendering, but largely negl…
Min-Max Regret Task Allocation and Planning of Heterogeneous Multi-Robot System in Partially Known Environments
arXiv:2607.13403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient task allocation for large-scale Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems (HMRS) is critical, yet dealing with…
Understanding Fire Through Thermal Radiation Fields for Mobile Robots
arXiv:2602.19108v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Safely moving through environments affected by fire is a critical capability for autonomous mobile robots de…
Learning Physics-Guided Residual Dynamics for Deformable Object Simulation
arXiv:2607.13451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulating deformable objects is essential for a wide range of robotic manipulation applications, yet accurately…
S-squared-VLA: Decoupling Semantic and Spatial Streams in Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.13926v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential for high-level reasoning in autonomous driv…
When Vision Overrides Language: Evaluating and Mitigating Counterfactual Failures in VLAs
arXiv:2602.17659v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) promise to ground language instructions in robot control, yet in …
Anatomy of Uncertainty: Expressive Descriptors of Robotic Manipulator Motion for Non-verbal Communication in Human-Robot Collaboration
arXiv:2607.13696v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots operating in human-robot collaboration must communicate not only their intended actions but also uncertai…
HRIBench: Benchmarking Interaction-Centric Human-Robot Collaboration
arXiv:2607.13056v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current vision-language-action (VLA) benchmarks primarily evaluate isolated manipulation skills while leaving hu…
EgoHTR: Egocentric 4D Demonstrations of Human Terrain Traversal
arXiv:2607.13472v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying humanoid robots in unstructured terrain remains an open problem. While classic reinforcement learning …
Koopman-driven grip force prediction through EMG sensing
arXiv:2409.17340v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Loss of hand function due to conditions like stroke or multiple sclerosis significantly impacts daily activi…
RADAR: Closed-Loop Robotic Data Generation via Semantic Planning and Autonomous Causal Environment Reset
arXiv:2603.11811v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The acquisition of large-scale physical interaction data, a critical prerequisite for modern robot learning,…
Kepler-Encoder-v0.1: Towards a Multimodal Embedding Model for Robots
arXiv:2607.13522v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A robot must understand the state of its own body, but a camera sees only part of it. Force and contact leave al…
WNOJ-LIO: A White-Noise-on-Jerk Motion-Prior EKF for High-Dynamic LiDAR-IMU Fusion
arXiv:2607.13405v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO) is a key component of autonomous navigation, but high-dynamic driving exposes two …
STITCHER: Constrained Trajectory Planning in Complex Environments with Real-Time Motion Primitive Search
arXiv:2510.14893v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous high-speed navigation through large, complex environments requires real-time generation of agile …
Generalizable VLA Finetuning via Representation Anchoring and Language-Action Alignment
arXiv:2607.13429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Finetuning a pretrained vision-language model (VLM) on robot demonstrations via behavior cloning (BC) has become…
Active Trust Management for Successful Human-Robot Teaming: Moving from a Trust Repair to a Trust Satisficing Perspective
arXiv:2607.13595v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Integrating mobile robots into human teams promises significant capability improvements for tasks such as search…
Simulation-based planning of Motion Sequences for Automated Procedure Optimization in Multi-Robot Assembly Cells
arXiv:2507.23270v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reconfigurable multi-robot cells offer a promising approach to meet fluctuating assembly demands. However, t…
PC-Diffuser: Path-Consistent Capsule CBF Safety Filtering for Diffusion-Based Trajectory Planner
arXiv:2603.10330v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous driving in complex traffic requires planners that generalize beyond hand-crafted rules, motivatin…