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Navigating the Clutter: Waypoint-Based Bi-Level Planning for Multi-Robot Systems

Jiabao Ji, Yongchao Chen, Yang Zhang, Ramana Rao Kompella, Chuchu Fan, Gaowen Liu, Shiyu Chang ยท 2026

Multi-robot control in cluttered environments is a challenging problem that involves complex physical constraints, including robot-robot collisions, robot-obstacle collisions, and unreachable motions.โ€ฆ

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COFFAIL: A Dataset of Successful and Anomalous Robot Skill Executions in the Context of Coffee Preparation

Alex Mitrevski, Ayush Salunke ยท 2026

In the context of robot learning for manipulation, curated datasets are an important resource for advancing the state of the art; however, available datasets typically only include successful executioโ€ฆ

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Data-Driven Reachability Analysis Using Matrix Perturbation Theory

Peng Xie, Abdulla Fawzy, Zhen Zhang, Amr Alanwar ยท 2026

We propose a matrix zonotope perturbation framework that leverages matrix perturbation theory to characterize how noise-induced distortions alter the dynamics within sets of models. The framework deriโ€ฆ

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ScoRe-Flow: Complete Distributional Control via Score-Based Reinforcement Learning for Flow Matching

Xiaotian Qiu, Lukai Chen, Jinhao Li, Qi Sun, Cheng Zhuo, Guohao Dai ยท 2026

Flow Matching (FM) policies have emerged as an efficient backbone for robotic control, offering fast and expressive action generation that underpins recent large-scale embodied AI systems. However, FMโ€ฆ

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Second Order Physics-Informed Learning of Road Density using Probe Vehicles

S. Betancur Giraldo, J. M{aa}rtensson, M. Barreau ยท 2026

We propose a Physics Informed Learning framework for reconstructing traffic density from sparse trajectory data. The approach combines a second-order Aw-Rascle and Zhang model with a first-order trainโ€ฆ

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See Something, Say Something: Context-Criticality-Aware Mobile Robot Communication for Hazard Mitigations

Bhavya Oza, Devam Shah, Ghanashyama Prabhu, Devika Kodi, Aliasghar Arab ยท 2026

The proverb ``see something, say something'' captures a core responsibility of autonomous mobile robots in safety-critical situations: when they detect a hazard, they must communicate--and do so quickโ€ฆ

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The Neural Compass: Probabilistic Relative Feature Fields for Robotic Search

Gabriele Somaschini, Adrian Rofer, Abhinav Valada ยท 2026

Object co-occurrences provide a key cue for finding objects successfully and efficiently in unfamiliar environments. Typically, one looks for cups in kitchens and views fridges as evidence of being inโ€ฆ

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Rethinking the semantic classification of indoor places by mobile robots

Oscar Martinez Mozos, Alejandra C. Hernandez, Clara Gomez, Ramon Barber ยท 2026

A significant challenge in service robots is the semantic understanding of their surrounding areas. Traditional approaches addressed this problem by segmenting the floor plan into regions correspondinโ€ฆ

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LITHE: Bridging Best-Effort Python and Real-Time C++ for Hot-Swapping Robotic Control Laws on Commodity Linux

He Kai Lim, Tyler R. Clites ยท 2026

Modern robotic systems rely on hierarchical control, where a high-level "Brain" (Python) directs a lower-level "Spine" (C++ real-time controller). Despite its necessity, this hierarchy makes it difficโ€ฆ

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RoboCasa365: A Large-Scale Simulation Framework for Training and Benchmarking Generalist Robots

Soroush Nasiriany, Sepehr Nasiriany, Abhiram Maddukuri, Yuke Zhu ยท 2026

Recent advances in robot learning have accelerated progress toward generalist robots that can perform everyday tasks in human environments. Yet it remains difficult to gauge how close we are to this vโ€ฆ

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MEM: Multi-Scale Embodied Memory for Vision Language Action Models

Marcel Torne, Karl Pertsch, Homer Walke, Kyle Vedder, Suraj Nair, Brian Ichter, Allen Z. Ren, Haohuan Wang, Jiaming Tang, Kyle Stachowicz, Karan Dhabalia, Michael Equi, Quan Vuong, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Danny Driess ยท 2026

Conventionally, memory in end-to-end robotic learning involves inputting a sequence of past observations into the learned policy. However, in complex multi-stage real-world tasks, the robot's memory mโ€ฆ

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STRIDE: Post-Training LLMs to Reason and Refine Bio-Sequences via Edit Trajectories

Daiheng Zhang, Shiyang Zhang, Sizhuang He, Yangtian Zhang, Syed Asad Rizvi, David van Dijk ยท 2026

Discrete biological sequence optimization requires iterative refinement under strict syntactic constraints. Diffusion models offer progressive refinement but do not naturally expose controllable discrโ€ฆ

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What Do Neurons Listen To? A Neuron-level Dissection of a General-purpose Audio Model

Takao Kawamura, Daisuke Niizumi, Nobutaka Ono ยท 2026

In this paper, we analyze the internal representations of a general-purpose audio self-supervised learning (SSL) model from a neuron-level perspective. Despite their strong empirical performance as feโ€ฆ

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The Law of Task-Achieving Body Motion: Axiomatizing Success of Robot Manipulation Actions

Malte Huerkamp, Jonas Dech, Michael Beetz ยท 2026

Autonomous agents that perform everyday manipulation actions need to ensure that their body motions are semantically correct with respect to a task request, causally effective within their environmentโ€ฆ

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Offline Discovery of Interpretable Skills from Multi-Task Trajectories

Chongyu Zhu, Mithun Vanniasinghe, Jiayu Chen, Chi-Guhn Lee ยท 2026

Hierarchical Imitation Learning is a powerful paradigm for acquiring complex robot behaviors from demonstrations. A central challenge, however, lies in discovering reusable skills from long-horizon, mโ€ฆ

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Listen, Look, Drive: Coupling Audio Instructions for User-aware VLA-based Autonomous Driving

Ziang Guo, Feng Yang, Xuefeng Zhang, Jiaqi Guo, Kun Zhao, Yixiao Zhou, Peng Lu, Sifa Zheng, Zufeng Zhang ยท 2026

Vision Language Action (VLA) models promise an open-vocabulary interface that can translate perceptual ambiguity into semantically grounded driving decisions, yet they still treat language as a staticโ€ฆ

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Online Estimation and Manipulation of Articulated Objects

Russell Buchanan, Adrian Rofer, Joao Moura, Abhinav Valada, Sethu Vijayakumar ยท 2026

From refrigerators to kitchen drawers, humans interact with articulated objects effortlessly every day while completing household chores. For automating these tasks, service robots must be capable of โ€ฆ

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Perceptual evaluation of Acoustic Level of Detail in Virtual Acoustic Environments

Stefan Fichna, Steven van de Par, Bernhard U. Seeber, Stephan D. Ewert ยท 2025

Virtual acoustic environments enable the creation and simulation of realistic and eco-logically valid daily-life situations vital for hearing research and audiology. Reverberant indoor environments arโ€ฆ

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TokCom-UEP: Semantic Importance-Matched Unequal Error Protection for Resilient Image Transmission

Kaizheng Zhang, Zuolin Jin, Zhihang Cheng, Ming Zeng, Li Qiao, Zesong Fei ยท 2025

Based on the provided LaTeX code, here is the metadata for the submission form: Title: TokCom-UEP: Semantic Importance-Matched Unequal Error Protection for Resilient Image Transmission Author(s): Kaizโ€ฆ

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ArtiBench and ArtiBrain: Benchmarking Generalizable Vision-Language Articulated Object Manipulation

Yuhan Wu, Tiantian Wei, Shuo Wang, ZhiChao Wang, Yanyong Zhang, Daniel Cremers, Yan Xia ยท 2025

Interactive articulated manipulation requires long-horizon, multi-step interactions with appliances while maintaining physical consistency. Existing vision-language and diffusion-based policies struggโ€ฆ

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