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What Would Removing This Corruption Change? Failure Attribution for Vision-Language-Action Models
Vision-language-action (VLA) models are sensitive to visual corruptions, but knowing that a corruption is typically harmful does not establish whether removing it would benefit the current episode.RadGeoLoc: Radar Geolocalization via Particle Filtering
In real-time autonomous field applications, GNSS is often unreliable and inaccurate.Design and Control of a Multimodal Legged-Aerial Robot Through Separate Control Contraction Metrics
The integration of dynamic legged locomotion and aerial mobility offers versatility that is deterred by challenges in payload distribution, actuation, and the contrasting requirements of both domains.Determination of the Human-Robot Interaction Workspace for Robot Assisted Head Stabilization Control
Accurate head immobilization is critical for medical procedures such as neuroimaging and intracranial radiation therapy, where even minor motion can compromise precision.Refuses When Asked, Complies When Acting: A Runtime Safety Check for Robot Control Loops
Frontier models can control robots through agent harnesses that loop on one question: what motion comes next toward the user's goal?Training Controllable World Models via Action Influence Maximization
Action-conditioned video generative models trained on successful, goal-directed demonstrations tend to ignore the commanded action, rendering a plausible expert-like future regardless of what is…Dream What I Can: Sparse Visual Planning for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation
Video models provide rich priors for generalizable robotic manipulation, but plausible visual futures are not always executable.Scalable, Intuitive, Mixed Reality-Based Semi-Autonomous Robotic Telemanipulation for the Execution of a Fine-Grained Bimanual Task
Nowadays, robotic telemanipulation enables humans to control robots so as to execute tasks in a manner similar to how they perform them, and serves as an essential approach for collecting on-robot…Finite-Time Capture by a Dubins Pursuer Against Unknown Evader Strategies
We consider a planar pursuit-evasion problem in which a Dubins pursuer seeks to capture a slower first-order point-mass evader that can change its heading instantaneously.Latent World Models Should Plan with Distances Along the Latent Manifold
Latent world models such as LeWM plan by searching for an action sequence whose predicted terminal latent is closest to the goal latent under an ambient norm, such as the Euclidean distance.Learning Waypoints and Passage Events for Decentralized Multi-Quadrotor Trajectory Planning
Multi-quadrotor passage planning requires coordinated spatial routes and passage times under vehicle dynamics and actuation constraints.VLA-Rolling: Fewer Denoising Steps, Better Control via Adaptive Action Reuse
Flow-matching vision-language-action (VLA) models generate an action chunk by iteratively denoising Gaussian noise, but typically execute only a short prefix before replanning with updated…Localization and Neural Splatting on the Edge: An FPGA Scene Memory for Robots
Resource-constrained robots and autonomous vehicles need scene memories that localize a camera and render nearby views without a desktop GPU.Compile Once, Run Cheap: Frozen, Portable Skills for Embodied Agents, and What Recursive Self-Improvement Adds
Embodied AI lacks the data-rich pretraining that gave language models their agents and skills, so new manipulation capability costs demonstrations per task or a frontier model in every episode.Structure over Reasoning: Unified Zero-Shot Navigation with a Small Vision-Language Model
Vision-language navigation is moving into photorealistic, physically simulated scenes, where the leading zero-shot agents put a vision-language model in the control loop to choose every move and stop.AI-Enhanced Radiation Classification in ROS
This study presents the development of two Robot Operating System (ROS) nodes with a primary focus on differentiating seven radioactive isotopes.GOFusion: Real-Time Gaussian-Occupancy Submap Fusion for Fisher-Informed Autonomous Robot Navigation
In this letter, we present GOFusion, a real-time visual mapping system for autonomous robot navigation that anchors Gaussian primitives to local occupancy maps, providing both spatial awareness for…The Bitter Lesson Comes to Robotics
General purpose multimodal language models (LMs) are increasingly capable of directly controlling robotic arms (e.g., by commanding end effector poses) to manipulate their environment.Vision as Proprioception: Estimating Humanoid Robot Pose from Video
Estimating a humanoid robot's internal state from video has a wide range of real-world applications but remains unexplored.LateMatch: Breaking the Interaction Bottleneck via Cacheable Matching for Efficient Visual Localization
Visual localization is critical for embodied agents, but deploying state-of-the-art deep feature matchers on edge devices is fundamentally limited by their massive computational cost.