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Continual Learning for Traversability Prediction with Uncertainty-Aware Adaptation
Traversability prediction is a critical component of autonomous navigation in unstructured environments, where complex and uncertain robot-terrain interactions pose significant challenges such as…LiLi: Lie Theory Based 3D LiDAR Scan Alignment Degeneracy Detection
In this paper, we study 3D LiDAR scan alignment in challenging scenarios with degeneracies, such as straight corridors or flat fields, where the alignment solution is not unique and compromises…Kernel-Based Metrics Learning for Uncertain Opponent Vehicle Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Racing
Autonomous racing confronts significant challenges in safely overtaking Opponent Vehicles (OVs) that exhibit uncertain trajectories, stemming from unknown driving policies.HuMemSLAM: Efficient Human-Inspired Semantic Place Recognition for Robust Visual SLAM
Autonomous systems require reliable place recognition for efficient and effective simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM).Fingers as Legs: Learning Self-Supported Locomotion and Manipulation with an Anthropomorphic Hand
A walking robotic hand must use the same fingers to move its body, support its weight, and interact with the environment.Fleet-To-Lab: A Transfer Learning Framework For Lunar Rover Slippage Estimation Via Model Fusion
Accurate wheel slip estimation is essential for autonomous lunar rover mobility and navigation.TIO-Former: Ultra-Lightweight 6-Directional ToF-Inertial Odometry for Nano-UAVs via a Streaming Causal Transformer
Autonomous nano-UAV navigation requires accurate ego-motion estimation under stringent size, weight, power, and computing (SWaP-C) constraints, where visual sensors and LiDARs exceed payload limits…FluxVLA Engine: A One-Stop VLA Engineering Platform for Embodied Intelligence
Vision-language-action (VLA) models, world-action models (WAMs), and offline reinforcement learning methods are rapidly expanding the design space of embodied policies, yet turning these algorithms…Swim-and-Breach at Palm Scale: A Rudder-Steered Two-Propeller Underwater Robot Platform with Differential-Thrust Pitch Control
We present a palm-scale (65 mm, 34 g) swim-and-breach robot platform.DriveMCP: An Agentic AI framework for Advanced Driver Assistance System
An agentic AI driver-assistance framework that integrates perception, compliance reasoning, vehicle-state interpretation, and safety arbitration into a modular and auditable pipeline.Port-Hamiltonian Koopman Operator Synthesis for Mechanical Systems
Finite-dimensional Koopman models enable efficient linear prediction and control of nonlinear robotic systems.CAD-Based Relation Learning and Geometric-Symbolic Planning for Robotic Assembly
Assembly Sequence Planning (ASP) remains a challenging problem due to its combinatorial nature, making exhaustive planning approaches impractical for complex industrial assemblies.Calibrate Once, Fly Any Team: Residual-Grounded Low-Fidelity Training for Cooperative Drone Swarms
Training multi-agent drone-swarm policies directly in high-fidelity (HF) rigid-body physics is accurate but computationally expensive.Escape-Aware Control Barrier Functions for Quadrotor Safety under Body-Rate Limits
Control barrier functions for input-constrained systems place the admissible input set inside the definition of the safe set, yet the resulting barrier is almost always a function of the state…Machine Zygote: Causal Biparental Heredity Before Learning in a Germline--Soma Artificial Agent
Artificial ontogeny, developmental encodings, robot reproduction, and inherited controllers are established research directions, yet a narrower question remains: can a newborn artificial agent…Online Geometric Change Detection via Scene Decomposition
Autonomous robots are increasingly deployed on long duration single- and multi-session missions in dynamic environments, where the ability to identify environmental changes such as fallen trees or…RobResilience: Implementing and Evaluating a Resilience Framework for Cyber-Physical Embodied Systems
In embodied cyber-physical systems, active cyberattacks pose an immediate threat not just to data, but to physical integrity and human safety.XPACE: Joint World and Action Modeling from Heterogeneous Experience
A general-purpose robot needs to draw on diverse experience, choose actions, and anticipate how those actions will change the world.Exact Fusion and Coordinated Exploration in Multi-Robot Active Inference
Robot teams that learn a common environment model exchange belief summaries and plan by the expected information gain of their actions.Residual Fault Adaptation for Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation Under Runtime Joint Faults
Dexterous in-hand manipulation requires coordinated control of multiple actuated joints, and a runtime joint fault can abruptly disrupt the contact configuration required for successful manipulation.