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ARC: Autonomous Robotics Compliance A Three-Layer Governance Architecture for Deployed Autonomous Systems
Proposed governance framework for autonomous robotic systems, introducing a three-layer compliance architecture (ARC) instantiated through model safety validation, cognitive certification…A Robot Among People:From Social Imitation to the Social Becoming of Human Groups
Robots designed to mediate human groups often fall into the solutionist trap: they are framed as sociable agents that fix problems such as conflict, disengagement, or lack of coordination.Distributed Stochastic Optimal Control for Pattern-Oriented Swarms
While offering significant promise for diverse applications, pattern-oriented swarms encounter multifaceted challenges in geometric control, self-organization, and safe navigation through dynamic…Tuning ROS 2 for Energy-Efficient Navigation: Empirical Insights from Costmap 2D Configurations
Robots are increasingly used in diverse application areas, where autonomous navigation plays a central role.Comfort by Construction: Adaptive, Comfort-Bounded Action Spaces for Learned Driving Policies
Data-driven driving simulators command accelerations and steering rates from a fixed grid without constraining the realized accelerations and jerks.Global Path Planner with Multi-Model Switching
This work enhances global path planning via a pure-pursuit controller with multi-model kinematic switching that sustains plan fidelity across diverse terrains.Dynin-Robotics: Omnimodal Unified Diffusion Vision-Language-Action Model
Visual goal and dynamics prediction can provide language-conditioned robot policies with both a target outcome and a representation of action-dependent scene changes.Language-Guided Terrain-Adaptive Neural MPC for Autonomous Traversal of Articulated Tracked Robots
In urban search and rescue, articulated tracked robots (ATRs) must traverse structured but contact-rich environments such as stairwells and cluttered building interiors.Bridging Thought and Action: Taming Long-Horizon Instability in Open-Source LLM Agents with a MetaTool-Enhanced ROS Framework
Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled more natural human-robot interaction, but open-source models often exhibit unstable long-horizon reasoning and inefficient action execution when deployed in…Real-time Learning and Evolution in Robotic Art Installations
We present three robotic art installations which explore the aesthetics of adaptive behavior.Chance-Constrained Belief-Space Maneuver Planning for Autonomous Collision Avoidance Under Uncertainty
Increasing conjunction frequency in low Earth orbit places growing pressure on spacecraft operators to determine not only whether an encounter requires mitigation, but whether sufficient information…STAGE: Diagnosing Semantic Transfer at Grounded Execution in Embodied Agents
Embodied language grounding requires more than identifying the referent of an instruction: recovered semantics must also control the action an agent exposes.Constraint-Grounded Reinforcement Learning for Variable Impedance Control in Contact-Rich Robotic Insertion
In robotic insertion under uncertain contact, the axial force limit and the appropriate controller gain vary across tasks.Runtime-Incremental Transformer for Reinforcement-Learning-Based Adaptive Control
Learning-based adaptive control of robotic manipulators with non-observable friction memory has been addressed by attention- based meta-controllers whose number of attention heads is fixed before…An MRI-Guided Robotic System to Improve Hippocampal Access for Epilepsy Interventions
This paper presents an MRI-guided robotic system that improves hippocampal access by delivering a curved needle-like laser ablator through the foramen ovale, a natural opening in the base of the…Differential Realizability of Static Control Allocation in Multirotors: An Impossibility under Nonredundant Full Actuation and a Pseudoinverse Obstruction under Redundant Actuation
Control allocation for multirotors with bidirectional propellers is commonly formulated in signed-thrust variables, where the wrench map is linear.From Vision to Harvest: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Multi-Arm Robotic Fruit Harvesting
Multi-arm robotic harvesting offers a promising path to improve harvesting efficiency and reduce reliance on manual labor.Bi-MoDe: Bilateral Control-based Imitation Learning via Modifier-Conditioned Decoding for Modulation of Execution Speed and Contact Intensity
Bilateral control-based imitation learning captures both position and force information, making it well suited to contact-rich manipulation.MR-GLi: Mixed Reality-Based Gripper-Linked Overlays for Underwater Robot Arm Teleoperation via Bilateral Control
Visual torque feedback supports underwater bilateral teleoperation, but the benefit of mixed reality (MR) over conventional monitor presentation remains unclear.IMLE-VLA: Fast Single-Step Action Generation for Vision-Language-Action Policies
Vision-language-action (VLA) policies leverage pretrained vision-language backbones to achieve strong cross-task generalization.