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When Information is Worth the Risk: Behavioral Valuation for Hazardous Robotic Exploration
Hazardous robotic exploration requires robots to map spatial risks, such as unsafe terrain, radiation, fire, mines, or structural damage, while operating where collecting information can itself…Lie-Algebraic Bell Recurrences for Arbitrary-Order Twist Jets and Parallel-Mechanism Closure
This paper develops an arbitrary-order kinematic construction that links serial propagation, parallel-mechanism closure, and rigid-platform point fields within one dual screw framework.GRADE: Single-Frame Generative Radar Depth Estimation Under Visual Degradation
Dense 3D depth perception fails under smoke, fog, and darkness because optical sensors cannot penetrate airborne particulates. mmWave radar remains usable and measures range accurately under these…Expressive Robotic Pianist: Mastering Complex Piano Repertoire with Graph-Mimic and Musical Dynamics
Enabling robots to perform musical instruments with human-level expressivity represents a frontier in bridging the gap between mechanical precision and artistic interpretation.Evaluation of Vision-Language Models Across Diverse Coastal Environments
Vision-language models (VLMs) enable robotic per- ception by associating visual observations with natural-language concepts.ReactHuman: A Physics-Grounded Benchmark for Human-Like Reactive Decision-Making in Embodied Multimodal LLMs
Reacting to sudden physical hazards (catching a slipping plate, dodging a falling knife) is both a meaningful test of embodied intelligence and a hard requirement for deploying multimodal large…Planning along Differentiable Charts of Constraint Manifolds with General-Purpose IK Solvers
Planning trajectories for robot manipulators under kinematic equality constraints restricts feasible motions to a measure-zero submanifold of the configuration space, requiring special algorithmic…Ergodic Control and Controlled Diffusion for Robot Learning: Review and Tutorial
Diffusion learning leverages the statistical mechanism of diffusion processes for learning, reasoning, and inferring complex distributions from data.DISEIL: Demonstration Distillation for Sample-Efficient Imitation Learning
A robot that can be taught a new task from a handful of demonstrations has to work out for itself what it still cannot do, and then ask for exactly that.Observe Before You Alert: Adaptive Driver Alerting with Vision-Language Models
Driver alerting from dashcam video requires sequential decision-making under partial observability: a system must decide not only whether a scene is risky, but also when the evidence is sufficient…Dual-Layer Semantic-Spatial Belief Mapping for Aerial Object Goal Navigation
Aerial Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) requires an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to locate a described target in an unknown outdoor environment using onboard visual observations.Drive by Hindsight and Foresight: Tool-Grounded Synergistic Reasoning over Hierarchical Memory for Autonomous Driving
VLMs have shown promise for autonomous driving, yet still suffer from hallucination, weak spatio-temporal perception, and limited generalization.3DWay: Generalizing Robot Manipulation via 3D Consistent Waypoints
Intermediate representations are key to bridging the modality gap between generalizable manipulation policies and large-scale pretrained vision-language models (VLMs).CALIPER: Clean Scenes Cannot Rank Physical Inference in Pretrained Visual Representations
How far a pushed object slides depends on its mass and friction, which no single image reveals.A Multi-Modal Perception Pipeline for Object Detection and Tracking in Autonomous Racing
Object detection and tracking are fundamental components of perception systems for autonomous driving.RoboCousin: Build Your Own Simulation Playground for Robust Bimanual Robotic Manipulation
Bimanual manipulation policies require large and diverse training datasets, yet collecting demonstrations on physical robots is expensive and difficult to scale.GALoc: Gravity Aligned Wireframes for Depth-Free Monocular Floorplan Localization
Floorplans are compact, appearance-invariant maps ideal for indoor localization, yet existing methods rely on depth networks that are brittle in cluttered scenes.AirAnchor: Bridging Local and Global Spatial Information for Zero-Shot Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation
Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation requires drones to follow natural-language instructions and navigate through complex urban environments.AURORA: Active Uncertainty-Driven Re-Orientation for In-Hand Reconstruction
Observing objects grasped by a robot hand is challenging due to severe visual occlusions.MFVINS: Multiple Fisheye Camera-Based Visual Inertial System
A simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method using a monocular camera and a low-cost inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensor is an effective way to fulfill a low-cost sensor configuration.