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2900 papers in cs.RO · page 12
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Modified drift guides streaming stochastic policies
Guided Streaming Stochastic Interpolant Policy
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Self-play RL driving policies fail to generalize to new traffic behaviors
Beyond Self-Play and Scale: A Behavior Benchmark for Generalization in Autonomous Driving
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Caching reuses diffusion steps for 4.6x faster robot plans
Muninn: Your Trajectory Diffusion Model But Faster
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Stereo pairs lift robot manipulation policies above RGB and depth baselines
StereoPolicy: Improving Robotic Manipulation Policies via Stereo Perception
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HiDrive benchmark adds rare objects and moral tests to driving evaluation
HiDrive: A Closed-Loop Benchmark for High-Level Autonomous Driving
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JODA models joint forces, friction and damping as one three-channel field
JODA: Composable Joint Dynamics for Articulated Objects
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Recurrent loop halves VLA parameters with learned early exit
LoopVLA: Learning Sufficiency in Recurrent Refinement for Vision-Language-Action Models
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Explicit geometry parameters let humanoid climb unseen stairs
Explicit Stair Geometry Conditioning for Robust Humanoid Locomotion
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Neural distances guide map-free tractor-trailer control
Neural Distance-Guided Path Integral Control for Tractor-Trailer Navigation
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Adaptive deltas cut world-model token distortion by 7 percent
Network-Efficient World Model Token Streaming
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Semantic executive cuts oscillation in zero-shot navigation
ConsistNav: Closing the Action Consistency Gap in Zero-Shot Object Navigation with Semantic Executive Control
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Semantic executive closes action consistency gap in robot navigation
ConsistNav: Closing the Action Consistency Gap in Zero-Shot Object Navigation with Semantic Executive Control
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Visual loop closures merge USV and AUV maps without acoustics
Above and Below: Heterogeneous Multi-robot SLAM Across Surface and Underwater Domains
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Precomputed bundles cut multi-robot planning time
Efficient Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Precomputed Translation-Invariant Edge Bundles
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Multiple randomized simulations train catchers that transfer directly to hardware
Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Robot Learning: A Dexterous Manipulation Study on Reactive Catching
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Probabilistic sets let Gaussian processes safely explore nonlinear systems
Safe Exploration for Nonlinear Processes Using Online Gaussian Process Learning
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MVBB filter lifts grasp success 2.4x on frontal robot tasks
MVB-Grasp: Minimum-Volume-Box Filtering of Diffusion-based Grasps for Frontal Manipulation
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Off-the-shelf video models cannot yet enable lag-free teleoperation
Towards Generative Predictive Display for Vision-Based Teleoperation: A Zero-Shot Benchmark of Off-the-Shelf Video Models
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Contractive law adapts Koopman models online safely
ASACK : Adaptive Safe Active Continual Koopman Learning for Uncertain Systems with Contractive Guarantees
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Edge offloading cuts robot compute use by 83 percent
ORICF -- Open Robotics Inference and Control Framework
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Tail objectives and RL cut worst-case latency in robot monitoring
Minimizing Worst-Case Weighted Latency for Multi-Robot Persistent Monitoring: Theory and RL-Based Solutions
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Real store footage raises retail robot success over 2x
SABER: A Scalable Action-Based Embodied Dataset for Real-World VLA Adaptation
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Trust region updates enable monotonic inverse RL with local searches
Trust Region Inverse Reinforcement Learning: Explicit Dual Ascent using Local Policy Updates
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Neuromorphic training cuts quadruped controller memory use by 4.3 times
Neuromorphic Reinforcement Learning for Quadruped Locomotion Control on Uneven Terrain
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Model turns videos into interactive deformable object simulators
DeformMaster: An Interactive Physics-Neural World Model for Deformable Objects from Videos
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Model learns to simulate deformable objects from interaction videos
DeformMaster: An Interactive Physics-Neural World Model for Deformable Objects from Videos
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Physics sim from hand forces reconstructs deformable objects
PhysHanDI: Physics-Based Reconstruction of Hand-Deformable Object Interactions
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Power distributions correct sampling errors in robot planning
Drift is a Sampling Error: SNR-Aware Power Distributions for Long-Horizon Robotic Planning
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Semantic queries cut tracking drift by 67.7% over TAP-Net
QueST: Persistent Queries as Semantic Monitors for Drift Suppression in Long-Horizon Tracking
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LLM agent plus solver gives UUVs safe replans for unknown faults
LASSA Architecture-Based Autonomous Fault-Tolerant Control of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
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Excavator controller reaches 1.8 cm grading precision
High Precision Hydraulic Excavator Control for Heavy-Duty Grading
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Adaptive chunk sizes improve long-horizon RL
ACSAC: Adaptive Chunk Size Actor-Critic with Causal Transformer Q-Network
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New benchmark reveals navigation agents fail at mixed tasks
Beyond Isolation: A Unified Benchmark for General-Purpose Navigation
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New method nearly doubles recall in aerial-ground place recognition
MAG-VLAQ: Multi-modal Aerial-Ground Query Aggregation for Cross-View Place Recognition
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RePO-VLA lets vision-language-action models recover from execution drift by treating…
RePO-VLA: Recovery-Driven Policy Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models
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NEXUS turns LLM risks into hard safety rules for robots
NEXUS: Continual Learning of Symbolic Constraints for Safe and Robust Embodied Planning
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Bounded LiDAR noise yields deterministic safety sets for robot odometry
Safety-Critical LiDAR-Inertial Odometry with On-Manifold Deterministic Protection Level
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Adaptive margins cut wasted safety space by 84% in bicycle planning
Mismatch-Aware Adaptive Constraint Tightening for Bicycle-Model Trajectory Optimization
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Robots share map discoveries for 52% faster team navigation
PECMAN: Perception-enabled Collaborative Multi-Agent Navigation in Unknown Environments
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3D scenes turn into editable memories agents can query with self-written tools
Flame3D: Zero-shot Compositional Reasoning of 3D Scenes with Agentic Language Models
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Flow matching predicts TDCR 3D shapes from motor states
Continuum Robot Modeling with Action Conditioned Flow Matching
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Transformer simulates rigid dynamics from point clouds without meshes
RigidFormer: Learning Rigid Dynamics using Transformers
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Duality certificates safely prune convex control problems
SHIELD: Scalable Optimal Control with Certification using Duality and Convexity
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Duality certificates prune convex MPC problems safely
SHIELD: Scalable Optimal Control with Certification using Duality and Convexity
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Hierarchical MARL yields safer traffic simulation controls
Beyond Self-Play: Hierarchical Reasoning for Continuous Motion in Closed-Loop Traffic Simulation
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Augmented Lagrangian speeds contact trajectory optimization 13.8x
IMPACT: An Implicit Active-Set Augmented Lagrangian for Fast Contact-Implicit Trajectory Optimization
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Augmented Lagrangian speeds robot contact planning up to 70x
IMPACT: An Implicit Active-Set Augmented Lagrangian for Fast Contact-Implicit Trajectory Optimization
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Low-cost ROV detects objects at 0.89 mAP and holds position within 15 cm
HyDRA Scorpion: A Cost-effective and Modular ROV for Real-Time Underwater Inspection, Intervention, and Object Detection
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Factor graphs ease Gaussian process continuous-time estimation
Smoothing Out the Edges: Continuous-Time Estimation with Gaussian Process Motion Priors on Factor Graphs
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One shell command onboards hardware for AI agents in 10-15 minutes
Octopus Protocol: One-Shot Hardware Discovery and Control for AI Agents via Infrastructure-as-Prompts