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StageVLN: Spatial and Trajectory Auxiliary Guidance for Efficient Vision-Language Navigation
Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) policies increasingly benefit from strong semantic priors provided by large vision-language models (VLMs).Bayesian Data Augmentation for DNN Retraining with Binomial Outcomes in Vision-Based UAV Landing
In GPS-denied or cluttered urban environments, vision-based landing is essential for reliable UAV missions.Learning Coordinated Visuomotor Box-Pushing from Solo Demonstrations
Multi-robot imitation learning, particularly in settings where visuomotor policies are deployed in a communication-free, onboard decentralised style, represents an attractive paradigm.Dataset-Free Compliant Humanoid Loco-Manipulation with Dynamic Online Posture
Most humanoid loco-manipulation controllers require human motion data to learn whole-body coordination and posture, leaving policies reliant on external sources to provide this data.Benchmarking Generative Trajectory Models for Active-Inference Control
Learning from trajectory demonstrations offers a route to active-inference control of complex systems whose dynamics are difficult to model explicitly.Virtual model control for compliant reaching under uncertainties
Virtual Model Control (VMC) is an approach to design a controller for force-controlled robots in complex uncertain environments.When to Switch: Reliable Action-Chunk Extension for Vision-Language-Action Models
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models serve as unified policies for robotic manipulation, yet their expensive inference forces robots to pause between policy calls, resulting in stop-and-go execution…End-to-End Safe Social Navigation via Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning and Probabilistic Perception
Autonomous social navigation requires balancing efficiency, physical safety, and social compliance.FreeSpeed: Training-Free Speed Control for Generative Robot Policies
Online control of execution speed is essential for deploying robot policies in real-world scenarios, as robots may need to speed up under time constraints or slow down to facilitate human…Beyond In-Distribution Preservation: Recovering Generalization in Quantized VLAs via Vulnerability-Oriented Tuning
Post-training quantization has been shown to preserve VLA performance under standard evaluation conditions, but whether it preserves the full-precision model's robustness and generalization remains…The Unexpired Plan: A Free Monitor for Accelerated Diffusion Policies
Training-free acceleration of a diffusion policy is accepted when an internal similarity signal reports that the shortcut changed nothing.Demonstration-Calibrated Port-Hamiltonian Retuning for Manipulation Policies
Diffusion and VLA policies for manipulation are often deployed through downstream impedance controllers.Human-in-the-Loop Neuro-Symbolic Drift Anticipation for Reliable Visual SLAM
This paper introduces Hybrid DeepSEE (HDS), a Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) neuro-symbolic framework for proactive drift anticipation in Visual SLAM (V-SLAM).Bilinear Flow Policy: Distributional Extrapolation for Goal-Conditioned Visuomotor Imitation
Goal-conditioned imitation learning (GCIL) with flow matching is a promising framework that can represent multimodal behaviors while adapting to diverse, user-specified goals, yet often fails when…Controllable Road Marking Generation
Lane and road markings provide critical guidance for vehicle navigation and multi-agent coordination, yet authoring them at scale remains a manual workflow that limits quantitative analysis and…DASH: A da Vinci Adapter for Serial-link and Humanoid Robots as an Accessible Platform for Surgical Robotics Research
Robotic minimally invasive surgery offers well-documented clinical benefits, but the cost and infrastructure requirements of purpose-built platforms limit access in rural and lower-resourced…Dynamics-Aware Adaptive Corridors with Feasibility-Perturbed Trust-Region SQP for Certified Nonholonomic Motion Planning
Optimisation-based parking planners usually impose collision constraints only at the time samples, so a vehicle corner can cut an obstacle between samples, and no executable trajectory exists until…What the Guard Misses, the Robot Executes: Implied Harm in VLA Instructions
Vision-language-action models (VLAs) act on instructions without being able to refuse, so screening harmful requests falls to monitors.Transporting Unsecured Stacked Payloads with a Quadrupedal Robot via Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning
Transporting unsecured payloads with legged robots over uneven terrain requires balancing locomotion performance and payload stability, since aggressive motion can destabilize the payload even when…Dual-Rate Force-Image Control with Model-Based Orientation Limits for Robotic Ultrasound
Robotic ultrasound couples a high-rate contact-force loop with slower, delayed image feedback, so image-guided ultrasound probe rotation can perturb contact force before the resulting image response…