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3285 storiesFlow-aware Optimal Navigation in Unsteady Flows through Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.13553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous robotic navigation in nonstationary time-varying fluid flows remains a fundamental challenge due to p…
Visual Place Recognition Using Rate-Encoded Spiking Neural Networks with Discrete STDP Learning
arXiv:2607.13584v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) trained through unsupervised Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity (STDP) have been…
Deformable State Estimation for Autonomous Surgical Tissue Retraction Under Partial Observability
arXiv:2607.13475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surgical tissue retraction requires effective manipulation planning under partial and noisy perception. We study…
Where to Touch, How to Contact: A Hierarchical RL-MPC Framework for Geometry-Aware Sim-to-Real Manipulation
arXiv:2601.10930v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A key challenge in contact-rich dexterous manipulation is the need to jointly reason over global geometry an…
Semantic Anchoring for Robotic Action Representations
arXiv:2607.13597v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models inherit rich semantic representations from pretrained Vision-Language Models…
Autonomous UAV Route Planning for Coverage Maximization in Environmental Monitoring: A Systematic Literature Review
arXiv:2607.13054v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Environmental monitoring with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) requires route planning methods that maximize cove…
GPUSimBench: Towards Scalable and Reliable GPU-Accelerated Simulators in Embodied AI
arXiv:2607.13059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data-driven embodied AI is rapidly transitioning into a paradigm that scales training through massively parallel…
Attitude Estimation Using Inertial and Barometric Measurements
arXiv:2607.13254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate and robust attitude estimation is a key challenge for autonomous vehicles, particularly in GNSS-denied …
Towards a Modular Bin-picking Framework for Handling Object Pose Uncertainties
arXiv:2607.13698v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years, there has been growing interest in robust robotic systems for precise bin-picking applications.…
nuTruck: Benchmarking Autonomous Driving Planning for Distributed Electric-drive Trucks
arXiv:2607.13704v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The dominance of traditional rule-based methods in autonomous driving has gradually been replaced by learning-ba…
VAMP-MR: Vector-Accelerated Motion Planning and Execution for Multi-Robot-Arms
arXiv:2607.13478v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot-arm motion planning is a key challenge in deploying multiple manipulators for industrial tasks such …
Design and Control of the "QuadBoat": A Quadruped Surface Vehicle for Drowning Rescue
arXiv:2607.13633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prompt extraction of victims from water is crucial in water surface rescue missions. However, previous research …
PhysClaw-0: A Symbiotic Agentic System for Robot Autonomy via Language Corrections
arXiv:2607.14047v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous data collection governs the volume and quality of real-world trajectories for manipulation policy lea…
Tactile Modality Fusion for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2603.14604v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose TacFiLM, a lightweight modality-fusion approach that integrates visual-tactile signals into visio…
A Bayesian framework for the uncanny valley in humanoid robot design
arXiv:2607.13060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The uncanny valley is a long-standing empirical rule in humanoid robot design: making robots more human-like can…
Stress-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…