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Learning Event-based Obstacle Avoidance via Differentiable Simulation
Reliable obstacle avoidance is essential for safe quadrotor flight in unknown environments, yet conventional frame-based cameras remain challenged by motion blur, limited dynamic range, and latency…Open-World Object Motion Anticipation via Meta-Learned Semantic Adaptation
Anticipating the motion of nearby objects is critical for safe and efficient robot navigation.Self-Supervised Doppler-Guided RF Odometry
Radio-frequency (RF) sensing enables robot ego-motion estimation in darkness, smoke, and fog, yet RF odometry remains challenging because multipath and moving reflectors make cross-frame matching…Catch It All!: Generalizable Dynamic Catching with a Dexterous Hand
Catching arbitrary objects requires generalization to novel projectiles and real-time adaptation to unpredictable contact dynamics under noisy visual observations.Robotic Data Inoculation
Modern robot learning systems feed on high-quality demonstration data, and their performance hinges on coverage.Controlling Continuum Robot Shape in Enclosed Space with Embedded Sensing using IMU and Actuator Feedback
Controlling continuum robots' shape to operate in confined, enclosed environments is challenging, since it cannot rely on external observation.A Singularity Avoiding Track Model for Race Car Optimization
A track fitting pipeline is presented that converts a measured racetrack point cloud into a closed, $C^4$ differentiable, three-dimensional surface model suitable for high-fidelity Modelica race-car…Ground Sample Distance Constrained k-Coverage Viewpoint Planning via Set Multi-Cover Formulation
Drone-based 3D reconstruction and inspection require viewpoints that satisfy image-quality constraints while observing each surface region multiple times, which overlap-based planning heuristics do…Whole-Body Humanoid Control via Stochastic Motion Tokenization
While velocity-commanded RL policies are effective for controlling quadrupeds, they are a limited interface for humanoids that need to perform complex whole-body motions.SVIn+: Multi-Modal Framework for Robust Underwater State Estimation using 3D Sonar, Visual-Inertial, Water-Pressure, and DVL
As expansion and scalability in underwater oper- ations becomes more important and challenging, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) become more relevant and the necessity for reliable autonomy…GRAFT: Geometry-Aware Residual Adaptation for Foundation Trackers
Humanoid behavior foundation models (BFMs) provide reusable whole-body motion priors: given a kinematic reference, they generate coordinated joint commands for motion replay, teleoperation, and VLA…RoboAuto: Autonomous Robot Program Search through Multi-Level Physical Understanding
Recently, LLM-based autonomous agents have shown strong capabilities in iteratively generating, evaluating, and refining executable solutions.A generalist policy for muscle-driven control across individual musculoskeletal models
Differences in musculoskeletal morphology challenge policy reuse across individual models.A Trainable CPG Framework for Quadruped Locomotion
We present CPG-ENN, a trainable quadruped locomotion framework that combines explicit neural coordination with learned motion realization.CARD: Contact-Anchored Retargeting for Dexterous Manipulation
Humans are dexterous, but traditional data collection paradigms such as teleoperation, kinesthetic teaching, and wearable exoskeletons force humans to act through the robot embodiment, bottlenecking…REACH: An RL-based Hierarchical Humanoid Crawling Framework for Adaptable Confined Space Traversal
Humanoid locomotion in confined spaces requires continuous height adaptation across multiple locomotion modes, yet most existing approaches remain limited to height-adjustable bipedal walking.OpenJaws: An Open Hardware UMI Framework with Stereo Localization for Generalist Manipulation
Handheld data-collection interfaces such as the Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI) allow manipulation demonstrations to be gathered in the wild without a robot in the loop, but the quality of…Camera-to-Quadruped Robot Pose Estimation from Sequential Images
Quadruped robots are increasingly deployed in hazardous environments such as disaster response and facility inspection, where external-camera monitoring is essential for safe operation.HumiMimic: Mimetic Embodiment Transfer of Human-Humanoid Interaction from In-the-Wild Videos
Enabling a humanoid to interact naturally with human partners requires preserving not only individual motions but also the spatial, semantic, and contact relationships underlying the interaction…Polarity--Time Interaction and Multi-Level Reliability for Event-Based Spacecraft Pose Estimation
Sparse event responses produce uneven keypoint errors whose effects on spacecraft pose depend on correspondence geometry and the reliability of successive observations.