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1860 storiesMillimeter Wave Radar: From Synthetic Aperture to Probabilistic Mapping
arXiv:2607.10161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust probabilistic mapping is essential for autonomous robotic systems operating in challenging environments. …
Learning Whole-Body Humanoid Locomotion via Motion Generation and Motion Tracking
arXiv:2604.17335v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Whole-body humanoid locomotion is challenging due to high-dimensional control, morphological instability, an…
Coverage Path Planning: Classical Foundations, Recent Advances, and Future Directions
arXiv:2607.10649v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coverage path planning (CPP) is a fundamental problem in robot motion planning, whose aim is to produce robot tr…
CSI-Assisted Edge SLAM Testbed Platform for 5G Connected Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2607.10394v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The evolution from 5G towards 6G reinforces interest in connected robotics, where mobile robots offload comput…
Maximizing Human Efficiency in Large-Scale Robot Post-Training via VLAC-Cut Guided Pipeline
arXiv:2607.09776v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When adapting Vision Language Action (VLA) models to downstream tasks, multiple rounds of post training are requ…
Hierarchical and Holistic Open-Vocabulary Functional 3D Scene Graphs for Indoor Spaces
arXiv:2605.15753v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Functional 3D scene graphs offer a versatile and flexible representation for 3D scene understanding and robo…
Towards Online Robot Interaction Adaptation to Human Upper-limb Mobility Impairments in Return-to-Work Scenarios
arXiv:2510.05425v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Work environments are often inadequate and lack inclusivity for individuals with upper-body disabilities. Th…
NeuralActuator: Neural Actuation Modeling for Robot Dynamics and External Force Perception
arXiv:2607.11734v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Differentiable simulators have advanced policy learning and model-based control, yet actuator dynamics remain an…
IntentVLA: Short-Horizon Intent Modeling for Aliased Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2605.14712v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robot imitation data are often multimodal: similar visual-language observations may be followed by different…
MotuBrain: An Advanced World Action Model for Robot Control
arXiv:2604.27792v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models generalize semantically well but often lack fine-grained modeling of wor…
Requirement-Driven Design of Whole-Body Social Tactile Sensing via Virtual Human-Robot Interaction
arXiv:2607.11690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile sensing for social-physical human-robot interaction (spHRI) is designed in a hardware-driven manner, whe…
IBPA: Real-time Free-form Manifold Mesh Reconstruction via Incremental Ball Pivoting with Integrated Hole Detection
arXiv:2607.11627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Both Remotely Operated underwater Vehicles (ROVs) and Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are frequently dep…
Soft Eversion Robots for Colonoscopy: Challenges, Open Problems, and Emerging Solutions
arXiv:2607.10294v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional colonoscopy remains limited by patient discomfort and procedural risks, motivating research into co…
Large Language Model Enhanced Differentiable Trajectory Planning for IoT-Enabled Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.10438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving planning is a key component of IoT-enabled intelligent transportation systems, requiring vehi…
On the Efficiency of LoRA Fine-Tuning for Vision-Language-Action Models in Industrial Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.10172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying billion-parameter Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models on industrial hardware requires fine-tuning to b…
Can we Trust Unreliable Voxels? Exploring 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction under Label Noise
arXiv:2603.06279v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: 3D semantic occupancy prediction is a cornerstone of robotic perception, yet real-world voxel annotati…
Think When It Matters: Conditional VLM Reasoning for Social Navigation with RL Policies
arXiv:2607.10991v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As mobile robots become more integrated into everyday human environments, social robot navigation is becoming es…
Robotic Contextual Awareness for Human-Robot Collaboration and Environmental Understanding
arXiv:2607.10372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The transition of autonomous mobile robots from controlled industrial settings to dynamic, human-centric environ…
Self-Healing Visual Recovery for Autonomous Ground Vehicles Using Camera-Only Visual Odometry
arXiv:2607.11686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-cost unmanned ground vehicles are often used in indoor places like warehouses, inspection corridors, and far…
Safer Trajectory Planning with CBF-guided Diffusion Model for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
arXiv:2604.17527v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Safe and agile trajectory planning is essential for autonomous systems, especially during complex aerobatic …
Artificial Foveated Perception for Mitigating Shortcut Learning in Robotic Foundation Models
arXiv:2607.10655v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic foundation models have recently made substantial progress in multi-task capability, cross-embodiment tra…
Plug-and-Play Reweighting for Resilient Collaborative Decision-Making in Connected Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.10037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative decision-making is a fundamental capability in multi-robot systems, such as connected autonomous v…
Towards Human-level Dexterous Teleoperation
arXiv:2607.11481v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans routinely wield tools, swap grasps, and reposition objects within a single hand, seamlessly orchestrating…
D-SafeMPC: Diffusion-Driven Safe Model Predictive Control with Discrete-Time Control Barrier Functions
arXiv:2607.10842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A key limitation on the use of diffusion models in robotic planning is their inability to inherently enforce saf…
A Risk-Field Enhanced Closed-Loop Digital Twin Framework for Autonomous Driving Safety Validation
arXiv:2607.09772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving systems require reliable safety validation before real-world deployment. However, large-scale…
VehAnchor: Metadata-Free Metric Scale Recovery from Vehicle Cues in Aerial Imagery
arXiv:2603.04277v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous aerial robots operating in GPS-denied or communication-degraded environments frequently lose acce…
Closed-Loop Control with Rule-Aligned Small Language Models and Multi-Agent Self-Correction
arXiv:2607.09713v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A key step toward autonomous industrial operation is the ability to create and reconfigure control policies fr…
CoRL-MPPI: Enhancing MPPI With Learnable Behaviours For Efficient And Provably-Safe Multi-Robot Collision Avoidance
arXiv:2511.09331v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Decentralized collision avoidance is a core challenge for scalable multi-robot systems. A promising approach…
From Non-Rigid to Rigid: Safe Acquisition of Rigid Communication Graphs under Limited Sensing
arXiv:2607.10170v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Communication graph rigidity is a fundamental requirement in many multi robot formation control approaches. Howe…
Towards Predictive, Aligned, and Scalable Robot Learning
arXiv:2607.11270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning, at its core, extends beyond memorization to the ability to reason and solve novel problems by navigati…