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Time-Indexed Skill Success Models for Latency-Aware Skill Selection and Timing in Dynamic Manipulation
Robots that manipulate moving objects act on observations that are outdated when the chosen skill starts, and the best skill can change within a few hundred milliseconds.Reversible Dynamics, Asymmetric Actions: Parking as a Trajectory-Level Affordance
Drivers are often told to back into a tight parking space, not drive in nose first.A Unified Fractal Impedance Control Framework
Physical human--robot interaction requires controllers capable of maintaining intrinsically bounded interactions with the environment.Symmetry-Aware Surrogate-Assisted Testing of UAVs
We investigate a symmetry-aware surrogate-assisted testing approach for UAV autopilots.Development of Anthropomorphic Arm for collaborative and Home Service Robot CHARMIE
Service Robots are becoming a reality and are progressing by leaps and bounds.HITCH: Teaching a Vision-Language Model to Operate a Humanoid through a Whole-Body Harness
Enabling vision-language models (VLMs) to control humanoid robots requires both reliable whole-body interfaces and knowledge of how to use the body that carries over across tasks.Terrain-Indexed Motion Priors and Geometric Support for Extreme Humanoid Parkour
We present a progressive imitation framework that learns terrain-appropriate humanoid parkour skills and subsequently adapts their hand--knee support.Leave It Better Than Found: Value-Guided Cooperation in Sequential Tasks
We consider the problem of sequential task continuation, where one robot acts in a workspace that has been affected by a previous robot.STEP: Spatiotemporal Training with Explicit Prediction for Perceptive Humanoid Locomotion
For perceptive humanoid locomotion, the relevance of terrain geometry depends on the robot's body state and how both evolve under its actions.An Integrated Open-Source Stack for Vision-Based Autonomous Navigation of Wheeled Rovers
Vision-based rover autonomy requires integrating perception, localization, planning and platform-specific control under limited sensing and computing resources.Reinforcing End-to-End Autonomous Driving Safety via Negative-Aware Planning in a Unified World-Action Model
World-action models (WAMs) jointly model future traffic states and driving actions for end-to-end autonomous driving in intelligent transportation systems.H-BRICK: Hierarchical Boundary Reachability Index with Compressed Kleene Closure for Directed Grid Graphs
Repeated directed reachability queries arise in online path planning, task-agent allocation, and swarm control on static grid maps, where reachability is asymmetric and full transitive closure is…H-TRIP: Exact Many-to-Many Distance Index for Multi-Robot Exploration
Frontier-based exploration systems repeatedly evaluate geodesic travel costs between robot poses and candidate viewpoints, and tour-based planners consume the full pairwise distance matrix built…Educational robotics beyond ROS: a custom library for direct transfer of Webots controllers in the Turtlebot3
Robot Operating System (ROS) is becoming a standard in robotics courses at higher education, but its installation, configuration and distributed programming model can introduce a significant entry…Detecting Silent Faults at the Environment-Trainer Boundary in Reinforcement Learning
Robot reinforcement learning increasingly runs environments outside the trainer: in another process, on another machine, in another language.La-JEPA: Compact Robot Policies with Latent World Modeling
World-action models adapt pretrained video generators, and vision-language-action models build on pretrained vision-language backbones; both tie policy architecture and inference cost to large…RoboARCade: Benchmarking Agentic Robot Control
Improvements in multi-modal capabilities have enabled agents to act directly as robot policies, a setting we refer to as agentic robot control (ARC).Fault-Geometry-Aware Control Allocation for Emergency Quadrotor Landing under Single-Motor Loss of Effectiveness
Partial single-motor loss of effectiveness (LoE) changes the remaining control-authority geometry of a quadrotor and can change which control allocator performs best during emergency landing[cite…Aligning Policy Encoders with a Shape Teacher
3D-aware representations can improve robotic manipulation by providing geometric information that is robust to changes in viewpoint, object position, and occlusion.Transformer-Based Trajectory Prescription for sEMG-Optimizing Robot-Mediated Rehabilitation
Robot-mediated rehabilitation has the potential to deliver high-intensity, individualized therapy, but existing systems (which have not consistently improved outcomes) typically prescribe kinematic…