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RUL-Aware RRT*: Degradation-Balanced Motion Planning for Robotic Manipulators
Robotic manipulators operating over long durations often experience uneven joint degradation, which causes the weakest actuator to fail prematurely, leads to unplanned downtime, and results in…Multi-Fidelity Policy Gradients Stabilize Data-Scarce Reinforcement Learning
Policy gradient methods for on-policy reinforcement learning (RL) can become unstable when expensive, scarce target-domain data yield noisy gradient estimates.World Action Modeling with Progressive Visual Planning
World action models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for robotic control by jointly predicting future visual dynamics and actions from an initial observation and instruction.CriticHack: Evaluating Visual Rewards Under Robot Policy Optimization
Learned visual reward models are increasingly used to optimize robot policies, yet a reward model can score an execution that acts on the wrong object as highly as one that completes the task.Test-time Multi-agent Coordination by Decomposed Value Gradient Flow
Offline multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) faces a persistent trade-off.Real-time Event-camera Stereo Visual Odometry via Keytime Gaussian Process Regression
Event cameras have microsecond-level temporal resolution and high dynamic range which make them more resilient to motion blur and poor illumination than standard frame-based cameras.WAMJET: A Harness for World Action Model Acceleration
World Action Models (WAMs) leverage pretrained video foundation models for robot manipulation, but their large backbones and video-action co-prediction are expensive.Residual Wrench Certification and Margin-Aware Control Synthesis for Aerial Physical Interaction
We develop a task-relative framework for certifying residual wrench authority after hover and contact loading in multirotors with bounded actuators.CEER2: Directional and Tunable End-Effector and Root Compliance for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Humanoids are increasingly capable of tracking complex whole-body motions, but physical interaction introduces a different challenge.Path-Following Control and Terramechanics Analysis for Planetary Rovers Under Wheel-to-Wheel Traction Asymmetry
This paper proposes a control strategy for path following that is model-free and relies solely on deceleration for skid-steering planetary rovers navigating deformable loose terrain under…FlapKAD: A Simulation Dataset of Coupled Wing Kinematics and Aerodynamic Dynamics for Flapping-Wing Aerial Vehicles
Experimental investigation and modeling of flapping-wing aerial vehicles are limited by the scarcity of large-scale records that temporally align wing kinematics, aerodynamic responses, and flight…Bounded Channel-Adaptive Spectral Learning for Forward-Consistent Inverse Flapping-Wing Aerodynamics
Flapping-wing vehicles regulate aerodynamic forces and moments through coordinated variations in stroke, deviation, and pitch motion.AIfred: Augmented Learning through Functional Robotic Embodiment at the Desk
Desk-based learning and creative activities benefit from handwritten engagement.Matisse: Evidence-Space Reasoning for Active 3D Reconstruction
How can a 3D reconstruction system acquire and retain useful information to understand the geometry of a scene from partial views under a limited computation budget?PhaseSync-Exo: Human Clock Anchored Reference Adaptation for Dynamic Gait Tracking
Human-aware exoskeleton walking requires reconstructing gait, tracking diverse motions under dynamic constraints, and preserving human timing.Coral Grow-out Robotic Assessment System (CGRAS): Scaling Coral Recruit Monitoring Through Robotics and Computer Vision
Climate change is the largest threat to coral reefs, with increasing global impacts accelerating the need for scalable reef restoration technologies.Locomotion-Grounded Humanoid Soccer: Task-Gated Reinforcement Learning of a Multi-Directional Kicking Library
Recent humanoid soccer systems make motion tracking the substrate and derive locomotion from it, typically by steering a motion-reference anchor toward the ball.Online Evolution Strategy for Flow-Matching VLA Policies via Self-Supervised Trajectory Distribution Optimization
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models based on generative frameworks, such as Flow Matching, have recently achieved impressive performance in robotic manipulation.Plan-Conditioned Imitation for Robust Object Retrieval under Self-Occlusion in Dense Clutter
Retrieving objects from dense clutter requires rearrangement during which the manipulator can occlude objects while moving them.Efficient Multi-Modal Planning with Reward-Guided Preference Optimization for Autonomous Driving
Safe and efficient trajectory planning is essential in autonomous driving.