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1860 storiesUMCP: A Unified Multi-Task Collaborative Perception Network for Luggage Trolley Pose Estimation
arXiv:2607.17950v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In robotic autonomous luggage trolley collection, robots must continuously localize scattered luggage trolleys i…
Foresight Residual RL for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation with Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2607.16506v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies offer strong general-purpose manipulation priors, but often fail on tight-…
Control Design for a Rideable Animatronic Two-Wheeled Robot with Quadruped Form
arXiv:2607.16302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years, motorcycle popularity has been declining, particularly among the younger generations. To rekind…
AI-Augmented Model Predictive Control for Safe and Adaptive Rendezvous and Proximity Operations
arXiv:2607.16630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) in adversarial orbital environments require guidance archit…
FM-VLA: Force-based Memory for Vision-Language-Action Models in Contact-Rich Manipulation
arXiv:2607.18231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have achieved impressive generalization in robotic manipulation, and recent …
HCPG-Flow:Hierarchical Contact-Progress Guidance for Flow-Policy Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2607.17651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow policies can represent multimodal action distributions for robot manipulation, yet a robot must execute one…
Asynchronous Multimodal Diffusion Policy Composition via Latency-Aware Guidance Fusion
arXiv:2607.17257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion policies have shown strong potential for robotic imitation learning, and recent extensions incorporate…
Generalist AI Control: Towards Multi-purpose Adaptive Algorithms
arXiv:2607.16313v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional controllers are designed for specific systems and do not transfer across different system orders a…
Retriever: Composing Closed-Loop Asynchronous Robot Programs
arXiv:2607.17213v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building long-horizon robot agents requires composing closed-loop pipelines -- perception, belief update, planni…
Imitation of Arm Gestures by the Semi-Humanoid Robot NICO
arXiv:2607.18197v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Seamless human-robot interaction (HRI) requires a number of perceptual and motor abilities from the robot, one o…
Predicting Grasping Compliance in Robotic Hands through Analytical-Model-Informed Neural Networks
arXiv:2607.17541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In robotic manipulation studies, grasping is often treated as a binary success or failure problem, usually defin…
Move First, Commit Later: Selective LiDAR-to-BIM Global Initialization via Sequential Consensus with Symmetry-Aware Abstention
arXiv:2607.17103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Global LiDAR-to-BIM initialization must place a robot within an as-designed building model without a prior pose.…
Digital-physical testbed for ship autonomy studies in the Marine Cybernetics Laboratory basin
arXiv:2505.06787v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The algorithms developed for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) are often challenging to test on actua…
What Do They See? Interpreting Complex Road Scenarios Through the Eyes of Vision-Language-Action Models for Safe and Trustworthy Autonomous Vehicle Learning
arXiv:2607.16938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving models are now able to navigate complex road scenarios, mapping raw sensor obser…
SinD 2.0: A Multi-City UAV Dataset with Semantic Risk Annotations for SOTIF-Oriented Safety Validation at Signalized Intersections
arXiv:2607.16943v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety validation at signalized intersections remains a critical bottleneck for the deployment of autonomous dri…
User-Driven Learning from Demonstration: A Trajectory and Impedance Learning Method
arXiv:2607.16998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a method for user-driven robot Learning from Demonstration (LfD) that reduces user effort wh…
InLiER: Learning-Free Heterogeneous LiDAR Place Recognition via Intermediate Mixed-Radix Structural Keypoint Tokenization
arXiv:2607.16862v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LiDAR place recognition supports loop closure, relocalization, and multi-agent map management. As robotic plat…
ConceptTree: Bringing Semantic Transparency to Black-Box Decision Making for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.17861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Establishing interpretable decision-making processes in long-horizon robotic manipulation is critical for enabli…
Importance Sampling and PCA for Finding Failures in Commercial Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2607.18106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Methods for discovering rare failures in autonomous systems have so far been demonstrated almost exclusively in …
A Vendor-Agnostic LiDAR Data Conversion System with Multi-Signal Detection and Multi-Format Output
arXiv:2606.22881v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensors capture the surrounding environment as dense 3D point clouds by …
Stochastic Entanglement of Deterministic Origami Tentacles For Robust Robotic Grasping
arXiv:2604.26897v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Origami-inspired robotic grippers have shown promising potential for object manipulation tasks due to their …
GLidE-SLAM: GL-Accelerated Indirect-Direct Embedded SLAM
arXiv:2607.16897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the growing demand for robotics, autonomous drones, and wearable extended reality systems, the deployment o…
Unsupervised Discovery of Failure Taxonomies from Deployment Logs
arXiv:2506.06570v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As robotic systems become increasingly integrated into real-world environments, ranging from autonomous vehi…
Algorithmic Accuracy as a Motivational Driver in Robot-Mediated Learning: A Comparative Study of Cross-Correlation and CNN-Based Sound Detection in an Interactive Quiz Game
arXiv:2607.16299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In competitive learning activities, inaccurate robot decisions may reduce students' perceptions of fairness an…
PRISM: Multimodal Terrain Mapping for Rover Navigation in Unstructured Environments
arXiv:2607.16366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic navigation in unstructured environments requires robust situational awareness to safely traverse hazards…
From Perception to Assistance: Open-Vocabulary Shared Autonomy for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.17323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Teleoperating a robotic manipulator in industrial environments demands precision that camera-based interfaces al…
xperception -- Making Robotic Grasping Easier
arXiv:2607.16312v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The transition toward high-mix low-volume manufacturing demands flexibility in robotic manipulation. However, …
Logic-Guided Socially-aware Robot Navigation World Model
arXiv:2510.23509v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Social robot navigation increasingly relies on large language models for reasoning, path planning, and enabl…
From Sign Language Generation to Humanoid Execution: Vision-Language Guided Retargeting with Collision Mitigation
arXiv:2607.17769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent sign language generation (SLG) systems increasingly output dense 3D body representations, which better pr…
Distilling Global Traversability Priors for Image-based Affordance Prediction in Off-road Environments
arXiv:2607.17984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard methods for autonomous navigation in unstructured terrain are prone to myopic behaviors in long-horizon…