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Asynchronous Tracking, Optical Communication and 3D Motion Capture using Event-based Sensors
Inter-robot communication is a key enabling technology in cooperative robotics applications.SelectOccFlow: Selective Spatiotemporal Aggregation for 3D Occupancy and Scene Flow Prediction
Comprehensive 3D scene understanding for autonomous driving requires modeling geometry, semantics, and motion.TacOT: Learning Contact-Rich Dexterous Manipulation from Human Demonstrations via Tactile-Guided Optimal Transport
Learning contact-rich dexterous manipulation from human demonstrations provides a scalable source of interaction data, yet transferring such skills to robots remains challenging due to unreliable…A Bird's-Eye View of Iterative Reward Design
Designing effective reward functions in RL typically requires substantial expertise and trial and error.Human Behavior-Informed Crash Scenario Generation with Real-World Crash Priors for Autonomous Vehicle Safety Evaluation
Reliable safety evaluation of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is essential to improving road safety, yet it depends critically on realistic simulation of rare crashes.Frame-Level Temporal Alignment for Human-to-Robot Visual Adaptation
Transferring visual representations pretrained on human videos to robot manipulation requires learning reliable correspondences between human and robot demonstrations.AgenticTactileVLA: Contact-Guided Execution-Time Supervision for Generalizable Dexterous Manipulation without VLA Retraining
Vision-language-action policies may predict a transferable manipulation strategy yet fail to realize it reliably on the encountered object: objects compatible with the same grasp differ in geometry…Budget-Constrained Fault-Tolerant Mutual Visibility for Autonomous Robots under the Mobility Fault Model
We investigate the mutual visibility problem for a swarm of $n\ge3$ autonomous mobile robots under the budget-constrained mobility fault model.Reachability-Guided Sequential Quadratic Programming-Guarded Model Predictive Path Integral for Safe Nonlinear Predictive Control
Safe robot control often requires combining long-horizon performance optimization with hard state and input constraints, but existing approaches tend to address this tradeoff partially.Video2World: Benchmarking Coding Agents for Interactive World Modeling from Embodied Videos
Building interactive simulators from real-world observations is a promising way to scale embodied data, but current pipelines still rely heavily on manual environment construction and calibration.RAGrasp: Geometry-Semantic Template Retrieval and Grasp Transfer
We present RAGrasp, a retrieval-augmented pipeline for planar parallel-jaw grasping from a compact set of locally collected, grasp-annotated RGB-D (color and depth) templates.WasserMan: Benchmark for Underwater Manipulation Policy Learning
Underwater manipulation couples visual decisions, contact forces and a thruster-controlled floating base.DreamFormer: Dream Imitation with a Transformer World Model for Language-Conditioned Robotic Manipulation
We introduce DreamFormer, a model-based agent that acquires language-conditioned, multi-task skills by imitating expert demonstrations within the latent imagination of a learned world model.Nonlinear Density-Driven Optimal Control (D2OC) for Multi-Agent Spatial Coverage via Sequential Convex Programming
This paper presents a nonlinear extension of Density-Driven Optimal Control (D2OC) for multi-agent spatial coverage with prescribed density distributions.NM-LIO: Multiple LiDAR-Inertial Odometry Addressing LiDAR Measurement Noise Discrepancy
Multiple LiDAR-inertial odometry methods have been widely applied in robotic applications owing to their enhanced accuracy and reliability.Online Target-less Radar-LiDAR-Camera Extrinsic Calibration via Joint Optimization
Fusing radar, LiDAR, and camera enables robust perception in diverse and adverse conditions, but the fusion performance critically depends on accurate extrinsic calibration among the three sensors.Leveraging Cost-effective Robotics for K-12 STEM Education through Water Quality Monitoring Tasks
Engaging K-12 students in authentic scientific research remains a significant challenge, particularly at the intersection of environmental science and robotics.RiskFly: Frustum-Aligned Spatio-Temporal Risk Fields for One-Stage Agile Flight in Dynamic Clutter
Agile flight in unknown, cluttered, and dynamic environments requires a planner that knows where and when danger will appear, not only that a trajectory is dangerous.ForeAct3D: Policy-Grounded Future World Modeling for VLA Policies
Robots need to anticipate how their actions will change the world, since manipulation success hinges on the resulting contacts and object motions.Exploiting Hierarchical Controller Structure in Contextual Parameter Learning for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Hierarchical control architectures are widely used to decompose complex control problems into interacting control levels and are particularly important in robotics, where planning, whole-body…