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  1. Finite-Data Safety Informativity Under Dynamic Asymmetric Actuation

    Oct 1, 2026Abhinav Sinha, Praveen Kumar Ranjan, Yongcan CaoProbabilistic SafetyFinite-Sample Certificates

    GALACxIS Lab, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA · Unmanned Systems Lab (USL), Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio, TX 78249, USA

  2. EIDA: Execution-Interface Dynamics Adaptation for Real-to-Sim-to-Real Robot Navigation

    Oct 1, 2026Yiwei Qian, Shanze Wang, Qingyuan Hu +2Inverse DynamicsActuator

    Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China · National University of Singapore, Singapore · Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong +1

  3. Making Waves: A Membrane-Coupled Delta Array for Manipulating Objects Below the Actuator Spacing

    Sep 30, 2026Bailey Dacre, Andrés Faíña, Oliver Kroemer +1Actuator

  4. Residual Wrench Certification and Margin-Aware Control Synthesis for Aerial Physical Interaction

    Sep 30, 2026Abhimanyu Khadga, Abhinav Sinha, Shashi Ranjan KumarQuadrotorContact Wrench Estimation

    Guidance, Autonomy, Learning, and Control for Intelligent Systems (GALACxIS) Lab, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA · Intelligent Systems and Control (ISaC) Lab, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India

  5. Test-Time Adaptation of Manipulation Policies Under Actuator Degradation

    Sep 28, 2026Som Sagar, Ransalu SenanayakeActuatorGoal-Conditioned Value Function

    School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

  6. A Tendon-Driven Robotic Jellyfish with Constrained Soft Actuation and Depth Control via Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 24, 2026Jiarui Peng, Yutong Wu, Zelong Wang +5Soft RoboticsActuator

    Hong Kong Embodied AI Lab, Hong Kong SAR, China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China

  7. CALM: Current Aligned Link Manipulation for Single Arm Oversized Object Lifting

    Sep 24, 2026Jun Hu, Sihan Chen, Kosta Jovanovic +4ActuatorObjects

    School of Advanced Engineering, Great Bay University, Dongguan, Guangdong, China · Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China · School of Computing and Data Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China +2

  8. SG-CPG: Severity-Gated Central Pattern Generators for Adaptive Quadruped Locomotion under Continuous Actuator Degradation

    Sep 22, 2026Adarsh Kumar Kosta, Kaushik RoyGait DynamicsActuator

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA

  9. PINGU: Extending Air-Bearing Spacecraft Emulators with Open-Source Actuators and Learned Control for Contact-Rich Proximity Operations

    Sep 20, 2026Ricard Marsal I Castan, Akiyoshi Uchida, Aman Arora +7ActuatorLearning-Based Control

    University of Luxembourg · Tohoku University · Georgia Institute of Technology

  10. Resilient Motion Planning for Free-Flying Space Robots under Actuator Failures

    Sep 17, 2026Nicolas de Maddalena, Joris Verhagen, Jana TumovaMotion PlanningBidirectional Thrust

    Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, ZH, Switzerland · Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and also affiliated with Digital Futures.

  11. Actuator Dynamics Curricula for Narrow-Viability Tasks in Legged Robot Learning

    Sep 8, 2026Kousheek Chakraborty, Chandan K. Rajendra, Ayham Alharbat +1ActuatorAgile Locomotion

    Saxion University of Applied Sciences · University of Groningen · University of Twente

  12. Learning Fault-Tolerant Locomotion with Adaptive Gait Timing

    Aug 7, 2026Giovanbattista Gravina, Luca Rossini, Carlo Rizzardo +2Legged RobotsGait Dynamics

    Humanoids and Human-Centered Mechatronics Research Line, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa 16163, Italy

  13. Diffusion-Based Body Schema Learning Enabling Abnormal-State Adaptation in Musculoskeletal Robots

    Aug 2, 2026Kento Kawaharazuka, Shuhei IkemotoScalable Robot LearningBiomechanics

    Department of Mechano-Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan. · Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 7230, Hibikino 2-4, Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, 808-0135, Japan.

  14. A Robotic System for Automated Manufacturing of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

    Aug 1, 2026Van Remenar, Anatol Gogoj, Ang Li +4Soft Pneumatic ActuatorsActuator

  15. Generalizing deep reinforcement learning across cable-driven parallel robot configurations with actuator-level policies

    Jul 31, 2026Abir Bouaouda, Mohamed Boutayeb, François Charpillet +2Reinforcement Learning ControlRobotic Manipulator

    CRAN, UIR · Université de Lorraine, INRIA, CNRS, LORIA, Nancy, F-54000, France · International University of Rabat, Rabat, 11103, Morocco +5

  16. Physics-Aware End-to-End Deep Reinforcement Learning for Quadcopter Control with Actuator Dynamics

    Jul 28, 2026Ya-Chia Shen, Woei-Leong ChanQuadrotorUnderactuated Dynamics

    Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University · Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University

  17. Actuator-Aware Spatiotemporal Tube Synthesis for Temporal Reach-Avoid-Stay Tasks

    Jul 25, 2026Keshab Patra, K Madhava KrishnaSpatiotemporal TubeActuator

    Robotics Research Center, International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  18. SHAPE: Simultaneous Water Hydraulic Actuation and Position Estimation of a Sensorless Remote Actuator through a Thin and Long Flexible Tube

    Jul 19, 2026Yuki Nakamura, Shuto Yoshimura, Tomoyuki Noda +1Spatiotemporal TubeActuator

    Department of Mechanical and Intelligent Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo, 182-8585, Japan · Chugai Technos Corporation, 4-3-1 Ishiuchikita, Saeki-ku, Hiroshima, 731-5109, Japan · Department of Brain Robot Interface, ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, 2-2-2 Hikaridai Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-0288, Japan

  19. Design and Characterization of a Limb Encircling Actuator

    Jul 14, 2026Japmanjeet Singh Gill, Gray Cortright Thomas, Nikko Van Crey +2ExoskeletonActuator

    Department of Robotics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

  20. NeuralActuator: Neural Actuation Modeling for Robot Dynamics and External Force Perception

    Jul 13, 2026Zhiyang Dou, John U. Onyemelukwe, Hangxing Zhang +9ActuatorInverse Dynamics

    1MIT · 2Amazon Robotics

  21. Input-Constrained Spatiotemporal Tubes for Safe Navigation of Unknown Euler-Lagrange Systems in Dynamic Environments

    Jul 9, 2026Siddhartha Upadhyay, Ratnangshu Das, Pushpak JagtapSpatiotemporal TubeActuator

    Department of Cyber-Physical Systems Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India · Department of Cyber-Physical Systems Indian Institute of Science„ Bengaluru, India

  22. Power from Potential: A Survey of Electrostatic Actuators for Haptics

    Jul 6, 2026Ahad M. Rauf, Ran Zhou, Eric Acome +5Soft Pneumatic ActuatorsHaptic Feedback

    Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America · Division of Media Technology and Interaction Design at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden · Artimus Robotics, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America +4

  23. Layout-independent actuation allocator for fin-actuated marine robots

    Jul 3, 2026Yuya Hamamatsu, Maarja Kruusmaa, Asko RistolainenActuatorRobot Systems

    Department of Computer Systems, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

  24. Neuromorphic Energy-Aware Learning for Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation

    Jun 26, 2026Binh Nguyen, Colleen Josephson, Mircea Teodorescu +2Adaptive Deep Brain StimulationNeuromorphic Computing

    Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA · Dept. of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

  25. Reliability-Asymmetric Spacecraft Autonomy: Co-Designing a Capable Learned GNC Stack with a Verified, Adaptation-Aware Runtime Shield

    Jun 24, 2026Alireza ShojaeiPlanetary ExplorationActuator

    Myers-Lawson School of Construction, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA

  26. Selective Unit-Cell Actuation in Lattice Structures for Distributed Morphology in Soft Robots

    Jun 17, 2026Trevor Exley, Altair Coutinho, Lucia BeccaiSoft RoboticsActuator

    Soft BioRobotics Perception Lab of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genova 16163, Italy

  27. Damage Adaptation in Seconds for Architected Materials

    Jun 16, 2026James Avtges, Jake Ketchum, Helena Young +3Soft RoboticsActuator

    Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

  28. Distributed Safe Consensus Under Asymmetric Input and Time-Varying Output Constraints

    Jun 15, 2026Abhinav Sinha, Shashi Ranjan KumarSafety ConstraintsActuator

    Guidance, Autonomy, Learning, and Control for Intelligent Systems (GALACxIS) Lab, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA · Intelligent Systems and Control (ISaC) Lab, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India

  29. An integrated interpretable control effectiveness learning and nonlinear control allocation methodology for overactuated aircrafts

    Jun 11, 2026Umut Demir, Aamir Ahmad, Walter FichterNonlinear DynamicsOptimal Control

    University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and Geodesy, Institute of Flight Mechanics and Control (iFR), Germany.

  30. Mag-VLA: Vision-Language-Action Model for Bimanual Magnetically Actuated Microrobot Manipulation

    May 27, 2026Yongchen Wang, Kangyi Lu, Lan Wei +1Robotic ManipulationActuator

    Department of Bioengineering, Imperial-X, Imperial College London

  31. Investigating the Effect of a Series Elastic Actuation Retrofit to Black-Box Actuators

    May 22, 2026Ivan Tregear, Ayhan Aktas, Ferdinando Rodriguez y BaenaSoft Pneumatic ActuatorsActuator

    Imperial College London, Mechanical Engineering Department, UK · KAIKAKU.AI, London, N1 6NG, UK · Imperial College London, Mechanical Engineering Department, SW7 2AZ, UK

  32. Fully Actuated Manifold Constraint Based Output Feedback Control for Input-Constrained Uncertain Nonlinear Systems

    May 20, 2026Dianrui Mu, Changchun Hua, Yafeng Li +2Robust ControlInequality Constraints

    Institute of Electrical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, 066004, China

  33. A Reproducible and Physically Feasible Dynamic Parameter Identification Framework for a Low-Cost Robot Arm

    May 15, 2026Junji Oaki, Koki Yamane, Koki Inami +1System IdentificationRigid-Body Dynamics

    Institute of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan

  34. VRA: Grounding Discrete-Time Joint Acceleration in Voltage-Constrained Actuation

    May 11, 2026Lingwei Zhang, Jiaming Wang, Tianlin Zhang +5ActuatorAcceleration

    Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering; Hong Kong Embodied AI Lab, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  35. Constraint-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning Based on Dynamic Decoupled Spherical Radial Squashing

    May 5, 2026Qijun Liao, Zhaoxin Yu, Jue YangActuatorHumanoid Robotics

    School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  36. False Feasibility in Variable Impedance MPC for Legged Locomotion

    Apr 24, 2026Vishal RameshImpedance ControlModel Predictive Control

  37. DTEA: A Dual-Topology Elastic Actuator Enabling Real-Time Switching Between Series and Parallel Compliance

    Apr 17, 2026Vishal Ramesh, Aman Singh, Shishir KolathayaSoft Pneumatic ActuatorsActuator

    Department of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India

  38. A Co-Design Framework for High-Performance Jumping of a Five-Bar Monoped with Actuator Optimization

    Apr 7, 2026Aastha Mishra, Aman Singh, Shishir KolathayaKinematic ChainCo-Design

    Department of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India.

  39. Design, modelling and experimental validation of single and multisloped bipenniform architecture-based shape memory alloy-driven linear actuator

    Date pendingKanhaiya Lal Chaurasiya, Ruchira Kumar Pradhan, Yashaswi Sinha +5Soft Pneumatic ActuatorsActuator

    Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, 208016, India · Johnson Controls India Private Limited, Pune, Maharashtra, 411006, India