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Occlusion-Aware, Quasi-Static, Stability-Oriented Trajectory Planning on Uneven Terrain
Autonomous navigation in unstructured off-road environments requires reasoning about both vehicle--terrain interaction and environmental unknowns.LBDU-VIO: Learned Bias Dynamics and Uncertainty for Visual-Inertial Odometry with Unreliable Vision
Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) for aerial robots relies on high rate inertial measurement unit (IMU) propagation between visual updates.Drape-Compatible Tool-Tip Localization for Hand-Held Laparoscopic Instruments via UWB Carrier-Phase Ranging and Trocar-Constrained Geometry
A surgical robot policy needs to know where each instrument's working end sits relative to the camera and to the other instrument, yet a laparoscopic operation leaves only the endoscope video, and a…Blackout vs. Freeze: Analyzing Physical Failure Modes of VLAs under Camera Faults
Unreliable visual inputs can harm task performance and cause potential physical safety risks for vision-language-action (VLA) models.Linear Recurrent Memory Suffices to Distil a World-Model Policy for Robot Air Hockey
Does memory-dependent control need nonlinear recurrent dynamics?Concurrent Semantic Search and Mission Execution for LTL Missions in Unknown Environments
Planning complex missions in unknown environments requires robots to reason simultaneously about what they should do and what they still need to discover.Exploiting Vulnerabilities: Universal Adversarial Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models in Robotics
Recently, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have revolutionized robotic manipulation by seamlessly integrating visual perception, language understanding, and action generation in an end-to-end…LocoWM: High-Precision Locomotion through World-Model-Guided Residual Adaptation
High-precision locomotion combines motion-command tracking with precise regulation of task-relevant physical states, enabling robots to interact reliably with their surroundings during motion.DSDyn-VLA: A Dual-Stream Dynamic Manipulation Framework with Motion Perception, Future Awareness, and Realtime Correction
While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models excel in static tasks, they struggle in dynamic environments where objects are in motion (e.g., conveyor belt manipulation).Benchmarking EMlog Calibration for Autonomous Surface Vehicles
Accurate velocity measurement is a fundamental requirement for autonomous surface and underwater vehicles.ASENA: Self-evolving Agents for Embodied Navigation
We present ASENA, an embodied agent system that connects general-purpose coding agents to robot sensing, computation, supervised execution, and persistent experience.The Planning Limits of Latent World Models
World models offer a promising way to help robots understand how the physical world evolves and plan complex behaviours through imagination.ReWAM: Reciprocal World Action Models for Interactive Autonomous Driving
In interactive scenarios, an autonomous driving system is required to generate ego actions under the influence of other agents' behaviors.Scale and Selection: What Makes Automatic Harness Evolution Work for Visual-Interface Robot Agents
When an off-the-shelf coding agent is used directly as a robot policy, observing a browser-based 3D interface through screenshots and acting by posing a virtual target gripper through a few tools…FORTE: Forecasting Occupancy for Spatiotemporal Risk-Aware Planning in Dynamic Environments
Safe navigation in dynamic environments requires anticipating future environmental states to account for spatiotemporal risks, specifically when and where collisions may occur.A Biophysically Detailed C. elegans Circuit as a Task-Agnostic Dynamical Core for Visually Robust Robot Manipulation
Robot policies are usually trained for one task, one body and one visual environment, and generalize poorly beyond these conditions.HiWE: Hierarchical World Knowledge Model with Visual Keypoint Enhancement for Zero-Shot 3D Path Planning
Robot demonstration generation requires a system to identify where an interaction should occur, plan a feasible motion, and execute the required contact.MotionWeave: Learning Motion-Centered Future Dynamics for Vision-Language-Action Policies
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently incorporated world models to provide richer dynamic supervision beyond sparse action labels.Beyond the Current Scene: Event-Referential Grasping with Active View Selection
A robot that observes people interacting with objects should be able to carry out later requests that refer back to those interactions.RoboAssist: Interactive Human-Humanoid Planning for Long-Horizon Surgical Assistance
Long-horizon surgical assistance requires humanoid robots to coordinate with evolving human activities while maintaining safety across planning and execution.