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Distributed area coverage path planning subject to the inclusion of a headland path
A deterministic method for the problem of distributed area coverage path planning subject to the inclusion of a headland path is presented.Multimodal Sensor-Gated Mid-Air Launch and Vision-Based Recovery of a Child UAV on a Hovering Mothership Drone
Launching a micro unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from a hovering carrier and recovering it in flight requires reliable confirmation that the child is securely seated before the carrier is allowed to…Model-Based Trailer-Sway Suppression for Autonomous Passenger Vehicles
Trailer sway is a persistent contributor to severe crashes among light passenger vehicles towing trailers, yet it remains largely unaddressed by the autonomous vehicle systems now entering this new…Kinematic Reward, Measured Effort: Hardware-Validated RL Morphology Optimization of a Planar 2R Manipulator
Yoshikawa's Manipulability Index is generally used as a classical measure to define an optimal morphology of a manipulator.Competitive Task Allocation with Temporal Proposal Windows and Improved Artificial Potential Fields for Dual-Arm Industrial Manipulation
Modern industrial automation demands autonomous collaborative systems capable of coordinated manipulation in workspaces with heterogeneous object arrangements.SurgiCLAW: An Interpretable Atomic-Skill Agent for Precision Robotic Micromanipulation
Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) and vision--language--action models have provided robots with new capabilities for long-horizon task understanding and planning.Hand2Robot: Object-Centric 4D Hand Reconstruction from Human Demonstrations for Robotics
Human demonstrations can capture task-relevant manipulation without using the target robot, but the recorded hand motions cannot directly serve as robot action supervision.$Δ$ Flow Matching for Robot Foundation Models
Flow matching is a common generative recipe for robot foundation models.ReTrace: Cross-Stage Failure Attribution for Self-Improving Robotic Manipulation
General-purpose multimodal foundation models are increasingly capable of directly controlling robots, yet improving their manipulation capabilities through autonomous interaction remains challenging.P-BFM: Perceptive Behavioral Foundation Models for Humanoid Control via Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning
Behavioral foundation models (BFMs) provide humanoids with reusable repertoires of whole-body behaviors; in real-world humanoid control, the same behavioral intent may require fundamentally…REFLEX: A Learned On-Board Reflex for Robust Autonomous Collision Recovery of Soft Quadrotors
Collision-resilient airframes allow quadrotors to survive impacts, but do not ensure autonomous post-collision recovery.Efficient Hybrid Hard--Soft Signal Temporal Logic MPC for Driving under Multimodal Uncertainty
Motion planning for automated vehicles in interactive traffic has to simultaneously ensure safety, respect traffic rules, and maintain comfortable progress under multi-modal behavior uncertainty.Jacobian State Augmented Viable Kinematic Safety Filter
Safety Filters (SF) are leveraged to design certifiably safe controllers, which ensures forward invariance on a defined safe set when the filter is feasible.A Hardware-Partitioned micro-ROS Mini-Vehicle for Operator-Supervised Neural Driving
We present a low-cost miniature Ackermann vehicle for embedded neural-driving research, organized as a hardware-partitioned perceive-decide-act agent: an ESP32 camera node streams frames over Wi-Fi…Red-Teaming of Vision-Language-Action Models via Quality Diversity Environment Generation
A long-standing goal in robotics is to develop generalist robots that can perform tasks across a wide range of settings, flexibly specified with images and text.Shared-Control Teleoperation of Omnidirectional Aerial Robots for Continuous Valve Rotation
Omnidirectional aerial robots offer full 6-DoF independent control over position and orientation, making them popular for aerial manipulation.From Field to Planning: Learning Temporal Polar Gradient Fields for Vision-based AAV Trajectory Planning in Dynamic Environments
Autonomous Aerial Vehicle (AAV) trajectory planning requires real-time and accurate safety gradient guidance, especially in dynamic environments.Multi-modal Representation Fusion for Long-term Microsurgical Anastomosis Trajectory Anticipation
Microsurgical anastomosis is one of the most challenging and sophisticated procedures for surgical robotics, requiring accurate manipulation of surgical instruments within a limited space to achieve…TartanMatch: Towards Universal Dense Correspondence Across Modalities
Robotic platforms combine multi-modal sensors to operate across diverse conditions, but most dense correspondence methods are limited to RGB-RGB or a small set of modality pairs.Safety-Critical Quadrotor Navigation Using Fourth-Order Control Barrier Functions with Full Nonlinear Quadrotor Dynamics
Safety-critical quadrotor navigation in cluttered environments typically relies on hierarchical architectures in which a high-level safety filter modifies position references that are then tracked…