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EmbodiedSmith: Scaling Embodied Data through Recursive Self-Improvement Flywheel in Simulation
Scaling robotic foundation models requires diverse training data and reliable evaluation environments.Reactive Task-Oriented Robot-Human Handovers via Generative Hypothesis Selection
When humans hand each other objects, they incorporate both geometric and semantic information into this process.Vector Map Quality Metrics for Contextual Autonomous Driving Systems
Ensuring safety in autonomous driving requires continuous map maintenance supported by reliable quality indicators.Navigation with RF Cues: Embodied Perception Action under Multipath Uncertainty
Smart factory inspection requires robots to reach connected equipment without a prior map or known target coordinates.Reactive Exploration of Unknown Environments for Redundant Robots using Virtual Model Control
The exploration of confined, occluded, and partially known spaces poses significant challenges in robotic manipulation.Energy-Aware Path Following: Comparative Analysis of Reinforcement Learning and NMPC for Electric Vehicles
Path-following control strategies typically follow the bi-objective optimization dilemma: minimizing deviations from a reference path while maintaining smooth speed profiles.Context-Conditioned Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability for Adaptive Safety Filtering
Hamilton-Jacobi reachability constructs safety certificates for specified dynamics and safety constraints, tying each certificate to the deployment context for which it is synthesized.AutodidactWAM: Cross-Modal Self-Distillation from Generated Video to Robot Actions
World-action models (WAMs) such as Cosmos 3 jointly generate future video and robot actions from an observation and instruction.iGPC: Generative Motion Priors for Object-Aware Humanoid Interaction
Humanoid robots operating in unstructured environments must combine robust whole-body control with the ability to perceive and physically interact with surrounding objects.Beyond Waypoint Regression: Query-Based Cost Learning over Reachable Ego Futures for End-to-End Driving
End-to-end planners based on waypoint regression achieve strong open-loop accuracy, but they primarily learn to mimic expert geometry and remain difficult to adapt to deployment-time safety…VLA-ACL: Action-Consistent Visual Token Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve strong robotic manipulation performance but incur high computational costs from processing long token sequences at every control step, limiting real-time…ViDAL: A Visual Dynamics-Grounded Action Latent Space for Vision-Language-Action Models
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become a central paradigm for robot policy learning, which predict actions in three forms: raw action chunks, discrete action tokens, or continuous action…Nested Power Models for Multirotor Propulsion: From Aerodynamic Drag to Electrical Losses
Speed-only aerodynamic power models for multirotor propulsion cannot represent acceleration-dependent effects.Compact Robot Policies Need Fine-Grained Visual Representations
Multi-task manipulation policies differ in architecture, scale, and pretrained priors all at once, so published comparisons cannot attribute performance to any single component.VOMMI: Collecting and Leveraging Portable Demonstrations for Mobile Manipulation
Portable mobile-manipulation demonstrations can help alleviate data scarcity for embodied intelligence, but obtaining reliable, low-cost, and robot-free motion supervision from RGB observations…UWB Meets Crazyflow: Simulating Degraded Feedback at Scale for Aerial Robotics
In this work, we introduce Crazyflow, an accurate, differentiable simulator built on JAX.Mitigating Concept Drift in QoS Prediction for Teleoperation of Autonomous Vehicles Using Historic Data
Teleoperation serves as the fallback solution to autonomous driving but reliable functions of the teleoperation require a certain amount of mobile network resources, which cannot be guaranteed at…Sensor-Layout-Agnostic Navigation via Geometric Observation Canonicalization
Existing visual navigation policies are inherently bound to fixed camera configurations, creating a fundamental barrier to zero-shot deployment across heterogeneous robot sensor layouts.Humanoid Horizon: Extending Task Horizon in Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation via Parallel Training, Dynamic Starting, and Reward Gating
Cluttered indoor environments, where large and heavy objects are scattered across diverse surfaces, require humanoid robots to sequentially navigate, grasp, transport, and accurately place each item…Communication-Free Obstacle Localization from Aggregate Wrench Measurements in Leader--Follower Cooperative Transport
We consider obstacle localization for a team of robots cooperatively transporting a rigid payload without explicit inter-robot communication.