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Towards High-DoF Dexterous Manipulation through VLA Post-Training
Imitation-learned vision--language--action (VLA) foundation models acquire broad manipulation capabilities by scaling robot data across tasks and embodiments, but reliable deployment on a specific…Beyond Patch Removal: Persistent Adversarial Effects in Vision-Language-Action Policies
Adversarial patches to Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies can cause both immediate action corruption and persistent state effects that remain after the patch is removed.VAST: V2X/Dynamic Map-Aware Autonomous Driving Systems Validation Toolchain
Cooperative autonomous driving in the IoT-to-Edge-to-Cloud continuum requires system-level validation across vehicles, infrastructure sensors, edge-side Dynamic Map services, and in-vehicle…LYRIC: Language-Driven Physics-Based Character Control for Contact-Rich Whole-Body Object Interaction
We present LYRIC, a generative flow-matching controller for language-driven physics-based contact-rich interaction control, that enables simulated characters to perform contact-rich whole-body…UniExo: Unified Multi-Skill Policies for Musculoskeletal Locomotion and Co-Adaptive Exoskeleton Control
Daily locomotion encompasses diverse activities and frequent transitions between them, yet most exoskeleton controllers are designed for a single activity or a narrow set of related movements.Decoupling Physical Speed from Path Parameterization in Singularity-Free Guiding Vector Fields
The existing singularity-free guiding vector field (SF-GVF) with an additional virtual coordinate can eliminate singular points (i.e., points where the vector field vanishes) inherent in…Equivariant Filter Design for Acoustic and Depth Aided Inertial Navigation Systems
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) navigating without GPS typically fuse inertial measurements with acoustic Doppler Velocity Log (DVL) velocities and pressure-derived depth.LIFD: Anchored Diffusion for 3D-Aware Scene Memory in Robotic Manipulation
During manipulation, robot and scene motion can move previously observed regions outside the camera's field of view.Affective Shared Autonomy: Temporal Affect Dynamics and Subjective Evaluation in Bimanual Teleoperation Tasks
Physical teleoperation integrates human cognitive flexibility with robotic precision, yet demanding manipulation tasks frequently induce severe cognitive workload, acute frustration, and execution…HEROIC: Heterogeneous Evidential Reasoning for Open-Vocabulary Identification and Cross-Robot Collaboration
Multi-agent heterogeneous air-ground robot teams are attractive for open world search, with applications for reconnaissance, urban search and rescue missions (USAR), disaster response and recovery…Vehicle Trajectory Prediction via Neural Fusion of Multiple EKF-Based Trajectory Candidates
Predicting the future trajectories of surrounding vehicles in autonomous driving is important for collision risk assessment and safe ego-vehicle path planning.RotateIt! Fast and Reliable Single-Arm Garment Unfolding via Online-Adaptive Dynamic Rotation
Robotic garment unfolding is essential for downstream tasks, yet quasi-static methods require repeated actions, while existing dynamic approaches predominantly rely on bimanual flinging.TADreamer: Zero-Shot Language-Guided 3D Navigation for Terrestrial-Aerial Bimodal Robots via Video Imagination
Language-guided navigation for terrestrial-aerial bimodal robots requires selecting routes and locomotion modes that match scene context and task intent.Improving Cross-embodiment Transfer in Latent Action Models with Action-Similarity Supervision
As generalist robot policies gain vision and language from web-scale pretraining, demonstrations remain costly to collect and tied to the robot that recorded them.Constraint-Safe Graph-Context Scoring for Stable Point-Feature Labels Under Text-Width and Accessibility-Inspired Profiles
Point-feature label placement on interactive maps must reconcile geometric validity, display yield, local placement utility, and stability across camera motion.GR2PO: Group Relative Return Policy Optimization for Continuous Robot Control
Actor-critic architecture has been widely used in continuous robot control.Feeling Terrain Before Crossing: World Models for Off-Road Navigation
Navigation world models plan by foresight, predicting the future that each candidate action sequence produces and selecting the best, rather than mapping observations to actions directly.Learning Reliable Parking Policies via Offline Reinforcement Learning with Quantized Action Representations
Parking is a routine yet safety-critical task for autonomous vehicles operating in urban environments.Learning and Transferring Closed-Loop Robot Software
Closed-loop robot policies require observation processing, state management, and situation-dependent branching, making them costly to design and tune manually.Distributed Model Predictive Control with Connectivity-based Contracts
Teams of mobile robots rely on continuous communication with their neighbors for coordination, yet most distributed model predictive control (DMPC) schemes assume the communication network stays…