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Coding Agents with an Obstacle-Aware Harness for Safe Robot Manipulation
Coding agents have emerged as a promising paradigm for robot manipulation: a language model writes the robot controller as a program, and agents built in this way now operate robots without…WM-VS: Progress-Aligned World Models for Closed-Loop Visual Servoing
Closed-loop visual servoing requires predictions that indicate whether an action reduces task error, not only whether the action is plausible.AeRove: A Compact Bimodal Aerial-Terrestrial Drone with Rapid Bistable Reconfiguration for Close-Range Pipeline Inspection
Close-proximity pipeline inspection is challenging for standard drones due to high hovering power consumption, airflow sensitivity, and propeller wash interference with gas sensing.Shake to Learn: Dynamic Interrogation of Hidden Object Physics for Robotic Manipulation with Physical Reservoir Computing
Many physical properties relevant to robotic manipulation are hidden from vision.ForeTac-VLA: A Forecasting-Based Tactile-Vision-Language-Action Model for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
Vision-language-action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong capabilities in robotic manipulation, yet their reliance on visual perception limits robustness in contact-rich environments, where…ASGARD: Action-Space Guard for UAV Resilience via Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement learning (RL) controllers have been recently adopted for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) navigation and control.PIVOT: Physically Informed Vision-Language Off-Road Traversability for Field Robot Navigation
Terrain assessment is a critical capability for off-road mobile robots, enabling safe and reliable navigation through unstructured and geometrically complex environments.Do Spinning Radar Doppler Velocity Measurements Improve Vehicle Detection and Tracking?
Spinning frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radars have been gaining popularity in autonomous vehicle perception on account of their robustness to adverse weather conditions and 360° field…Project SCOUT: Interceptor Drone for Perimeter Defense
The rapid proliferation of unauthorized unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has created a growing need for robust, jamming-resistant counter-UAV systems for perimeter defense.SPARROW: Survival-POMCP for Adaptive Robot Routing, Observation, and Waiting
Temporary obstacles that may block a robot's planned route create a sequential navigation problem: a robot must decide whether to wait for a blockage to clear, reroute, or acquire more information…Towards Effective Visual-Inertial SLAM with Passive-Only Sensors for Low-Cost Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Improvements to Visual-Inertial Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VI-SLAM) for low-cost autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are critical for transitioning advanced marine robotics from…Catch Me If You Can: Real-Time Feedback Denoising for Responsive VLAs
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong generalization in robotic manipulation by combining semantic knowledge from pretrained vision-language models with expressive action-generation…Adapting Rigid-Body Dynamics Derivatives for Constraint Embedding Closed-Chain Models
This paper extends an existing algorithm for the first-order derivatives of rigid-body dynamics to the case of closed-chain kinematic systems modeled using constraint embed- ding.MAPLE-RF: Efficient Probabilistic RF Source Localization in Partially Explored Environments
Localizing a radio-frequency (RF) transmitter from received signals often requires a model of the environment to predict how obstacles block and reflect the signal.DEXTERA: From a Single Image to Deployable Dexterous Manipulation via Real-to-Sim-to-Real
Collecting real-world robot data for dexterous manipulation is costly and time-consuming.Constraint-Unified MPC for Over-Actuated Surface Vehicles with Post-Detection Fault Reconfiguration
Choreographed aquatic performances require small autonomous surface vehicles to track precise paths under per-thruster force and rate limits, including after thruster failures.Square Root Gauss-Newton iLQR
The iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator (iLQR) is a widely used algorithm for nonlinear trajectory optimization.PlantShade: Predicting Plant Shadows for Lighting-Aware Robotic Agricultural Operation
Plant growth and agricultural production form the foundation of a country's sustainable development and directly impact human livelihoods.Design of Adaptive PID Controller Based On Asynchronous Advantage Actor Critic Learning Method for QuadCopter Control
Quadcopters offer great utility in many applications, but their nonlinear nature and disturbance sensitivity present great control challenges.Dynamic Modeling and LQR Control of a Single Coaxial Drone with 2DOF Thrust Vectoring Mechanism
Coaxial rotor drones have generated considerable interest because of energy efficiency and small size, but they are afflicted with inherent underactuation for roll and pitch control, although…