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SceneAgent: An Agentic Pipeline from 3D and 4D Captures to Simulation Environments
Visual captures provide detailed scene appearance, but converting them into interactive simulation environments requires object reconstruction, physical modeling, and correction of intermediate…ISB-NMPC: Interception-Oriented Spherical-Bearing Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Quadrotors
Quadrotor interceptors equipped with strapdown cameras offer a low-cost solution for physically countering unauthorized UAVs.Behavioural Quality Is Not Learning Utility: Objective Mismatch in Human Behaviour Models for Robot Learning
Human behaviour models are increasingly used to provide simulated human interactions for training robots via reinforcement learning (RL).Physics-Informed and Data-Driven Composite Disturbance Separation and Predictive Control for Airborne Electro-Optical Gimbals with Multiple Constraints
This paper studies the constrained pointing control problem of airborne electro-optical gimbals subjected to composite periodic and aperiodic disturbances.Localization-Uncertainty-Aware UAV Swarm Search for GNSS-Denied Maritime Surveillance
This paper studies UAV swarm search in GNSS-denied maritime environments, where inter-UAV ranging drives cooperative localization and uncertainty propagates along the multi-hop reference chain…MMGNet: Multi-Modal 6-DoF Grasp Synthesis for Cluttered Scenes
Grasping is a foundational capability in robotic manipulation.Quantile-Based Command-Reserve MPC for Current-Command Gimbal Pointing
This paper studies the constrained line-of-sight pointing control problem of a two-axis current-command gimbal subjected to mismatched mechanical disturbances.Learning Direct Control from Optimization for Dynamic Target Tracking
Dynamic target tracking requires a mobile robot to maintain target visibility while navigating obstacles with smooth, feasible controls.JevVLA: Jev-Inspired Energy-Based Adaptation for Vision-Language-Action Policies
Vision-language-action (VLA) policies can select among discrete candidates for pick-and-place manipulation or generate continuous action chunks for motion control.Context-dependent Runtime Construction of Safe Regions of Attraction from Design-Time Identification for Multi-Candidate Simplex Architectures
Deploying safety-critical cyber-physical systems requires control strategies that reconcile high performance and adaptability with rigorous safety guarantees.DriveUniTok: A Unified Multimodal Tokenizer for Driving World-Action Models
World models are emerging as a fundamental component of policy learning for real-world agents, enabling agents to predict future world states and plan actions within a learned representation of the…VISTA: Active Exploration for Self-Improvement in Embodied Agents
Agentic embodied intelligence plays a foundational role in open-ended, dynamic physical environments.3D-Force Estimation for Dual-arm Manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects via Factor Graphs
Estimating forces acting on Deformable Linear Objects (DLOs) is challenging due to their underactuated nature.PushAround: Collaborative Path Clearing via Physics-Informed Hybrid Search
Large vehicles in cluttered environments are often blocked by movable obstacles, motivating mobile robot teams to clear traversable corridors.Zero-HLM: Generalizable Humanoid Loco-Manipulation without Real Robot Data
Learning generalizable humanoid loco-manipulation remains bottlenecked by costly real-world demonstrations.Uncertainty Evaluation to Support Safety of the Intended Functionality Analysis for Determining the Applicability of Performance Targets Across Triggering Conditions in ML-Based LiDAR Object Detection
For safety of the intended functionality (SOTIF) analysis according to ISO 21448, a machine learning object detector for light detection and ranging (LiDAR) point clouds can meet a performance…The Language of Deformation: Semantic Failure Analysis as a Prerequisite for Dexterous Manipulation of Deformable Objects
Dexterous manipulation of rigid objects has reached a level of maturity where grasp stability, control, and planning strategies are successfully applied in industry and logistics.How Tuning, Reference Preview, Actuator Modeling, and Fallback Policies Change Quadrotor Controller Comparisons: A Reproducible Simulation Study
Quadrotor controller comparisons commonly report a single tracking error, although the resulting ranking also depends on tuning effort, reference information, actuator prediction, optimizer…RetroNav: Scene-Grounded Retrospection and Retry for Self-Evolving Lifelong Navigation
Existing robot navigation methods primarily focus on isolated tasks, overlooking the need to accumulate knowledge and experience across repeated navigation episodes.Thermal-Headroom Routing for Efficient Robot Perception in Extreme Heat
Adaptive robot perception systems must balance detector accuracy, inference latency, and energy consumption, particularly when high ambient temperatures cause processors to thermally throttle.