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Monocular Navigation Relative to Unknown Spacecraft Using a Transformer-Aided Kalman Filter
This work presents a novel learning-based pipeline for pose estimation of unknown spacecraft using only monocular images from a single servicer.Robust Nonprehensile Object Transport with Quadruped Robots
In this paper, we present a robust nonprehensile object transportation framework for quadruped robots.Fluorescence-enhanced Whisker Array with Vision-based Deformation Analysis for Underwater Source Localization
Deep-water biological observation is essential for understanding marine organisms and their interactions with the environment.Distribution-Transfer Safe-Horizon MPC under Mode Uncertainty
Scenario-based MPC is an attractive strategy for chance-constrained motion planning that approximates uncertainty via a finite set of sampled scenarios.Embedded Bare-Metal Radar-Inertial Odometry
Compact extraplanetary rovers and micro aerial vehicles require robust state estimation frameworks designed to operate under strict computational constraints in unforgiving environments.Lego-Like Stiffness Configuration of Planar Compliant Modules for Task-Specific Flexible Interfaces
Compliant mechanisms provide compact and intrinsic structural compliance for regulating physical interactions between mechanisms and environments.Towards Decentralized Formation of Minimum-Length Communication Networks Using Robot Swarms
Multi-robot missions in infrastructure-denied environments frequently rely on reliable communication links between spatially separated locations.SharedKV-BT: Node-Local Typed Decisions for Behavior-Tree Agents
Agent tasks require sequences of interdependent decisions.ScanSTL: Parallel Robustness Evaluation for Signal Temporal Logic
Repeated evaluation and differentiation of Signal Temporal Logic (STL) robustness can become a computational bottleneck in robot planning and control.Expressiveness, Equivalence, and Uncertainty in Velocity Obstacles and Closest Point of Approach Metrics
Time to Closest Point of Approach (TCPA), Distance to Closest Point of Approach (DCPA), and Velocity Obstacles (VOs), are widely used to assess and mitigate collision risk in autonomous navigation…Toward Trustworthy Physical AI for Human Interaction
Robots are entering human spaces faster than we can establish when they deserve trust.AeroBuoy: A Drone Deployable, 3D Printed, Autonomous Robotic Buoy for Environmental Inspection in Remote and Hazardous River Systems
Monitoring of waterways such as remote and hazardous rivers and streams is important so as to assess the impact of external factors including construction runoff or climate change.What the Elevation Map Cannot See: Semantic-Aware Locomotion and Execution-Aware Navigation for Humanoid Robot
Navigation for humanoid robots is critical, yet large-scale evaluation on physical hardware is often impractical due to cost and safety concerns, making simulation benchmarks essential.An Autonomous, 3D Printed, Waterjet-Powered, Open-Source Robotic Trimaran for Environmental Inspection and Monitoring
Versatile, autonomous robotic boats can offer excellent environmental inspection and monitoring solutions for remote, dangerous, hard to reach, or access protected water bodies.RACER: Residual-Adaptive Closed-Loop Estimation for Sampling-Based Planning in Wheeled-Quadruped Racing
We present RACER, a hierarchical control framework for wheel-based quadruped racing that combines an MPPI planner with a learned residual dynamics model and a low-level RL velocity tracker.Entropy-Gated Belief Coordination for Decentralized Multi-Agent Search Under Intermittent Communication
We study decentralized multi-agent target search where homogeneous agents communicate intermittently at Poisson-distributed times.Dynamics Modeling of a Multi-UAV Slung Load System Using a Discrete-Link Cable Approach
A common assumption to simplify the problem of controlling a multi-UAV slung load system (MUSLS) is that the flexible cables can be modeled as massless rigid rods.SURGE: Sonar-fUsed Reconstruction and localization via image-gated Graph Estimation
Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) are widely used to explore and inspect underwater environments such as caves, shipwrecks, and submerged infrastructure.Risk-Sensitive Crowd Navigation with Adaptive Ellipsoidal Conformal Prediction
Safe crowd navigation under distribution shift requires uncertainty representations that capture structured human-motion prediction errors and safety objectives that account for rare but…MRPilot: Supervising and Intervening LLM-Based Multi-Robot Teams through Mixed Reality
Large language models (LLMs) let users direct heterogeneous multi-robot systems (MRS) through natural language, but make task interpretation, robot assignment, and coordination difficult to inspect…