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LPA-CWM: A Learned Physical Adjudicator for Motion Reasoning with Counterfactual World Models
Counterfactual world models (CWM) extract motion from pretrained video predictors by comparing factual and intervened predictions.Gradient-Free Neural Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability for Scalable Safety-Critical Control
Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability provides a principled framework for synthesizing safety certificates and robust controllers for safety-critical robotic systems.Real-Time Synthesis of Robust Controlled Invariant Sets for Monotone Systems
Safety-critical control of autonomous systems requires formal safety certificates, such as controlled invariant sets, that must be computed online as conditions change.Vision-Force Admittance Learning for Peg Insertion into a Movable Hole
Precise manipulation in dynamic environments, whether induced by a mobile robot base or a target with unknown motion, remains a major challenge in robotics.When Faster VLA Deployment Changes Closed-Loop Behavior: Task Success-Latency Analysis of SmolVLA Across PyTorch and ONNX Variants
Vision-language-action (VLA) deployment can reduce inference latency while changing closed-loop task behavior.Visible Touch: Rendering Contact for Visuomotor Policies
Integrating contact information into visuomotor policies remains an open problem.GIFT: Glove-Inferred Force Transfer: Force-Aware Human-to-Robot Skill Transfer from a Wearable Sensing Glove to a Robot Hand Without Tactile Sensors
Human-to-robot skill transfer from sensing gloves has so far relied on shared hardware: the same tactile glove worn by the demonstrator and the robot, or a learned alignment between two tactile…DreamSat-Bench: Development and Initial Testing of a Testbed for AI-Based Pose Estimation from 3D Reconstruction
This paper presents the development and initial testing of DreamSat-Bench, a modular rendezvous and proximity operation testbed designed to benchmark AI-based relative navigation techniques.DATAFARM: Distribution-Aligned Task and Motion Planning for Fine-Tuning Vision-Language-Action Models
Collecting high-quality robot data remains a fundamental challenge for training robot foundation models.The Iterative Equivariant Filter
This paper presents the iterative equivariant filter (IterEqF).DWMP: Leveraging Dual World Models for Humanoid Obstacle Traversal
Humanoid robots must traverse cluttered obstacle fields using onboard proprioceptive and visual observations, yet existing methods usually process multimodal observations without explicitly…A Deployable Architecture for Robot-Mediated Tasks (DART): Evaluation in Socially Assistive Robot-Guided Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Exercises
Socially assistive robots (SARs) can support structured health and well-being interventions, but hardware and cost constraints limit interaction complexity and longitudinal real-world deployments.READ: Learning Risk-Informed Fields for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Autonomous driving requires more than recognizing what is present in a scene: a planner must determine how road structure, surrounding agents, and their motion states should influence a future…Understanding Whole-Body Robot Teleoperation Strategies Under Diverse Task Objectives and Constraints
This work investigates the control strategies of complex whole-body robot teleoperation that coordinate active perception, bimanual manipulation, and navigation.Decentralized Evolution of Hexapod Gaits with Independent Leg Controllers
This paper presents a novel approach to hexapod locomotion by evolving each leg's gait independently through a decentralized evolutionary algorithm.FoldNet++: a Large-Scale Synthetic Dataset for Robotic T-Shirt Folding and Unfolding
Due to the highly deformable nature of garments, training a generalizable policy for robotic T-shirt folding and unfolding remains a significant challenge.IMPLY: Physically Anchored Consistency for World-Model Rollouts
A world model asked what happens if an object is pushed at several speeds produces several futures.PATH: Continuous Target Sensing among Autonomous Cooperative Drones
Continuous target sensing by uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) is constrained by limited flight endurance, motivating the transfer of tracking responsibility between cooperating UAVs.ArtManip: Category-Level Articulated In-Hand Manipulation
Category-level in-hand manipulation of articulated objects is a formidable yet underexplored challenge for dexterous robotic hands.Communication-Constrained Multi-Robot Exploration With Adaptive Communication Windows
Exploring unknown environments with multi-robot teams can improve efficiency by allowing robots to explore in parallel.