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  1. AUTOPILOT An Advanced Perception, Localization and Path Planning Techniques for Autonomous Vehicles Using YOLOv7 and MiDaS

    Oct 5, 2026Harshkumar Devmurari, Gautham Kuckian, Prajjwal VishwakarmaAutonomous Driving PerceptionAutonomous Navigation

    Dept. of CSE(DS) Vidyavardhini’s College of Engineering and Technology Mumbai, India

  2. ColoACT: Multi-Cue Action Chunking for Smooth Autonomous Colon Navigation on a Self-Propelled Endoscopic Robot

    Oct 1, 2026Jian Hu, Shujing He, Leixin Chang +4Robotic Soft EsophagusAutonomous Navigation

    Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China · School of Mechanical Engineering and ZJU-UIUC Institute, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China · School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China

  3. Occlusion-Aware, Quasi-Static, Stability-Oriented Trajectory Planning on Uneven Terrain

    Sep 30, 2026Amith Manoharan, Chinmay Mundane, Aayush Bahukhandi +3TerrainAutonomous Navigation

    Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Estonia · RRC, IIIT Hyderabad, India · Czech Technical University, Prague

  4. MagNav: A Dual-Core Magnetic Track Guidance Framework for Lighting-Invariant Navigation in Two-Wheeled Robots

    Sep 28, 2026Arpita Kumari, Anupam Chatterjee, Richa SrivastavaAutonomous NavigationObject Goal Navigation

    Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering Krishna Institute of Engineering & Technology (KIET), Ghaziabad, Delhi-NCR, Uttar Pradesh, India.

  5. S2Planner: Multi-Scale Semantic Planner for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Sep 24, 2026Zhaowei Lu, Liguo Zhou, Yujie Guo +2Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Navigation

    Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Real-time Systems, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany · Computer Science and Technology School, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, China

  6. Automotive mmWave Spinning Radar Place Recognition with Spatially Gated Feature-Correlation Representation

    Sep 23, 2026Saimunur Rahman, Sagun Singh Shrestha, Abdelwahed Khamis +1RadarVisual Place Recognition

    CSIRO Robotics, CSIRO, Australia · Queensland University of Technology, Australia

  7. TM-APR: Thermal Temporal-Memory Localization via Analytic Online Adaptation

    Sep 22, 2026Yanshuo Bai, Kanji TanakaVisual Place RecognitionSimultaneous Localization And Mapping

  8. Sometimes You Gotta Run Before You Can Walk: Run-then-Walk Scheduling Strategy for VLM Autonomous Driving

    Sep 22, 2026Yuqi Ye, Shangkun Sun, Junhong Lin +6Autonomous NavigationOffline Reinforcement Learning

    Peking University · Minieye Technology Co., Ltd · Fuzhou University

  9. Learning to Drive on Mars: Visual Multimodal Traversability Estimation for Off-World Navigation

    Sep 21, 2026Darren Chiu, Cole Wilson, Andrei Tumbar +2TraversabilityAutonomous Navigation

    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. · Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA. · Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA.

  10. Range-Aided SLAM Initialization Exploiting Accurate Heading Information

    Sep 21, 2026Isabel Lougheed, James Richard ForbesSimultaneous Localization And MappingAutonomous Underwater Vehicles

    Department of Mechanical Engineering McGill University Montreal, QC, Canada

  11. Spiking Neural Network Actor-Critic Proximal Policy Optimization Control for Autonomous UAV Navigation Through Constrained Openings in Civil Infrastructure and Buildings

    Sep 20, 2026Francis Noah Walugembe, Maciej Wielgosz, Tomaž Goričan +1Unmanned Aerial VehiclesAutonomous Navigation

    Applied Intelligence PhD Programme, Alma Mater Europaea University, Maribor, Slovenia · Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical and Telecommunications, AGH University of Krakow, 30-059 Krakow, Poland · Alma Mater Europaea University, Maribor, Slovenia

  12. Learning Safe Humanoid Navigation from Reduced Order Models

    Sep 16, 2026William D. Compton, Zachary Olkin, Ryan Bena +1Robot NavigationAutonomous Navigation

    Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA · Amazon Safe Autonomy Frontiers (SAF) Lab

  13. TIO-Former: Ultra-Lightweight 6-Directional ToF-Inertial Odometry for Nano-UAVs via a Streaming Causal Transformer

    Sep 15, 2026Yang Liu, Yifan He, Wenhao Zhao +9Inertial Navigation SystemsEgocentric Motion Generation

    Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Differential Robotics, Hangzhou, China

  14. READ: Learning Risk-Informed Fields for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Sep 14, 2026Zhiyuan Liu, Yuanxin Tian, Zehong Ke +5Causality-Aware End-To-End Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving

    School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University.

  15. Language-Guided Terrain-Adaptive Neural MPC for Autonomous Traversal of Articulated Tracked Robots

    Sep 11, 2026Zhenfeng Gan, Yanbo Chen, Lirong Che +3Autonomous NavigationRobot Systems

  16. SwarmNxt: Open-source Software-Hardware Platform for Fast and Agile Aerial Swarms

    Sep 11, 2026Charbel Toumieh, Niel Mistry, Benjamin Jarvis +4Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsAutonomous Drones

    Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH1015 Lausanne, Switzerland · Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

  17. Estimating Semantic Ambiguity via Gaussian Context Distributions for VLM-Driven Traversability Analysis

    Sep 8, 2026Ramona Häuselmann, Mario A. V. Saucedo, Christoforos Kanellakis +1TraversabilityVision-Language Navigation

    Robotics & AI Team, Department of Computer, Electrical and Space Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå SE-97187, Sweden.

  18. Generation of Vectorized Maps Beyond Vehicle View

    Sep 7, 2026Clara Gomez, Alberto Jaenal, Antonio Artuñedo +2Lane-Level Map GenerationAutonomous Driving

    Centre for Automation and Robotics, CSIC-UPM, Spain. · Aragon Institute for Engineering Research (I3A), University of Zaragoza, Spain.

  19. A Low-Cost, Open Platform for End-to-End Autonomous Driving on a Miniature Ackermann Vehicle

    Sep 3, 2026Gustavo Claudio Karl Couto, Eric Aislan Antonelo, Gabriel George ZippererAutonomous Driving SimulationAutonomous Driving

    Department of Automation and Systems Engineering Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) – Florianópolis – SC – Brazil

  20. MulDP: Multimodal Diffusion Policy for Autonomous Quadruped Parkour Navigation across Complex Terrains

    Sep 3, 2026Kangmai Hu, Yueqi Zhang, Peng Zhai +5Autonomous NavigationTerrain

    College of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China

  21. Contrast-Free Autonomous Navigation of Untethered Endovascular Microrobots Using Single-Plane Fluoroscopy

    Aug 31, 2026Husnu Halid Alabay, Tuan-Anh Le, Ping Wang +1CathetersAutonomous Navigation

    Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA · School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

  22. Dual Stress: Runtime Safety Monitoring for Safety-Constrained MPC Navigation

    Aug 11, 2026Jamil Chahine, Wenqi Cai, John Abanes +1Safety ConstraintsModel Predictive Control

    Department of Mechanical Engineering American University of Beirut (AUB) Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon · Robotics and Intelligent Systems Control Laboratory New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Abu Dhabi, UAE · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering New York University New York, NY, USA +1

  23. Scalable High-Speed Lateral Control for Single-Body and Articulated Autonomous Vehicles

    Aug 8, 2026Aashish Shaju, Steve Southward, Mehdi AhmadianVehicle DynamicsAdaptive Control

    Center for Vehicle Systems and Safety (CVeSS), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA

  24. EgoTrack3D: A Modular Framework for Egocentric 3D Object Tracking

    Aug 8, 2026Jan Kulik, Bjarni Dagur Thor Karason, Yung-Hsu Yang +33D Tracking3D Generation

    ETH Zürich · ETH Zürich & Microsoft Research · ETH Zürich & TUM & MCML

  25. Drone-Assisted UAV-UGV Collaboration for Autonomous Navigation in Snow-Covered Terrain

    Aug 7, 2026Shreyam Gupta, P. Agrawal, Priyam Gupta +1Multi-UavDrone-View Geo-Localization

    Robotics Research Group, Indian Institute of Technology · Robotics Research Group, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India · University of Colorado, Boulder, USA +2

  26. Enhancing Autonomous Vehicle Navigation with a Clothoid-Based Lateral Controller

    Aug 7, 2026Aashish Shaju, Steve Southward, Mehdi AhmadianAdaptive ControlVehicle Dynamics

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

  27. Does Latent Context Help? A Controlled Evaluation of Inverse Reinforcement Learning in Arctic Shipping

    Aug 6, 2026Vaishnav Vaidheeswaran, Dilith Jayakody, Biruk Ambaw +3Offline Reinforcement LearningAutonomous Navigation

    Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada · Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

  28. Unified Planning-Learning Framework for Robust UUV Navigation Under Partial Observability

    Aug 5, 2026Md Ether Deowan, Eleni KelasidiAutonomous Underwater VehiclesAutonomous Navigation

    Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.

  29. A Vision-based Control Framework for Real-time Autonomous UUV Operations

    Aug 5, 2026Erik Tjærand Frøland, Marco Job, Md Ether Deowan +1Autonomous Underwater VehiclesAutonomous Navigation

    Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, NTNU, Norway · Oceaneering AS, Norway

  30. Context-Informed Ship Trajectory Prediction via Conditional Attention

    Jul 29, 2026Yuan Guan, Chandler Squires, Timothy Hu +1Ego-Trajectory PredictionMaritime Navigation

    Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University · Advanced Technology Laboratories Lockheed Martin

  31. MobiWave: Dispatch-Oriented Graph Wavelets and Drift-Guided Selective Optimization for Autonomous Fleet Rebalancing

    Jul 27, 2026Xiao Han, Pinbo Wang, Yuanshao Zhu +2Robust TrajectoryAutonomous Navigation

  32. Development of Vision-Language Model-based GNSS Spoofing Detection for Autonomous Vehicle Navigation

    Jul 27, 2026Mohammed Aldeen, Muhammad Sami Irfan, Sagar Dasgupta +3Global Navigation Satellite SystemRtk-Gnss

    School of Computing, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA · Department of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA · Glenn Department of Civil Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA

  33. MOJITO: Modal Joint Learning for Unified End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Jul 26, 2026Zhijing Cheng, Xuancheng Zhang, Donglin Di +4Causality-Aware End-To-End Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving

    University of Science and Technology of China, China · Li Auto, China · University of New South Wales, Australia

  34. Safe Learning Predictive Control for Ego-World Robotic Systems

    Jul 24, 2026Davide Valenti, Giuseppe NotarstefanoModel Predictive ControlAutonomous Navigation

    Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  35. Milo, a Fully Autonomous Indoor/Outdoor Robotic Guide Dog

    Jul 21, 2026Florian Golemo, Joanna Wolski, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz +1Autonomous NavigationObstacle Avoidance

    Mila - Quebec AI Institute Montreal, Canada · Mila - Quebec AI Institute, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada

  36. Importance Sampling and PCA for Finding Failures in Commercial Autonomous Vehicles

    Jul 20, 2026Hailey Warner, Duncan Eddy, Shreya Parjan +6Autonomous NavigationCollision Prediction

    Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA · Torc Robotics, Blacksburg, VA

  37. Distilling Global Traversability Priors for Image-based Affordance Prediction in Off-road Environments

    Jul 20, 2026Matthew Sivaprakasam, Samuel Triest, Micah Nye +5TraversabilityAutonomous Navigation

    Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University · Field AI

  38. G2-Nav: Grounded and Guarded Vision-Language Costmaps for Robot Social Navigation

    Jul 18, 2026Yuwen Liao, Yihang Lan, Yizhuo Yang +4Robot NavigationAutonomous Navigation

    School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nanyang Technological University Singapore

  39. An Indoor Navigation System for the Visually Impaired based on UWB Positioning and D* Lite Path Planning Algorithm

    Jul 18, 2026Thanh C. Vo, Dong LT. Tran, Huy HM. Le +4Autonomous NavigationPath Planning

    Viện Công nghệ Kỹ thuật Hàng không Vũ trụ, Đại học Duy Tân, Đà Nẵng

  40. Toward Semantic Communication for Real-time Mobile 3D Reconstruction

    Jul 17, 2026Fangzhou Zhao, Yao Sun, Xuesong Liu +33D ReconstructionRobust Geometric Model Estimation

    School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China · James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, U.K. · School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 257061, China

  41. ImprovedVBGS: Real-time Continual Variational Bayes Gaussian Splatting

    Jul 17, 2026Damani Mguni-CokerGaussian SplattingReal-Time Systems

    Independent Researcher

  42. Recursive ArUco Markers: A Scalable Fiducial Marker Design for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Landing Pads

    Jul 15, 2026Rafael Munoz-Salinas, Francisco Jose Romero-Ramirez, Sergio Garrido-JuradoAutonomous NavigationMarker

    Department of Computer Science and A.I., Universidad de Córdoba, 14071, Córdoba, Spain · Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071, Córdoba, Spain

  43. From Language to Navigation Goals: A Vision-Language Approach for Semantic Navigation of Mobile Robots Using RGB-D Perception

    Jul 15, 2026Jose Martínez-Fajardo, Pablo Pueyo, Fernando Caballero +1Robot NavigationMobile Robots

    Univ. Pablo de Olavide

  44. Breaking Déjà Vu: Independent Auditing of Visual Place Recognition through Vision-Language Reasoning

    Jul 14, 2026Sania Waheed, Michael Milford, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn +1Visual Place RecognitionRobotic Perception

    School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, U.K. · School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia · School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, CO4 3SQ Colchester, U.K.

  45. Improving Autonomous Nano-drones Performance via Automated End-to-End Optimization and Deployment of DNNs

    Jul 14, 2026Vlad Niculescu, Lorenzo Lamberti, Francesco Conti +2Unmanned Aerial VehiclesAutonomous Navigation

    Integrated Systems Laboratory - ETH Zürich, Switzerland · Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering - University of Bologna, Italy · Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence - USI-SUPSI, Switzerland

  46. PIER-Flow: Physics-Informed Efficient Rectified Flow for Real-Time Mobile Robot Navigation

    Jul 11, 2026Shibo Li, Zhongcheng Wang, Jiahe Cao +2Flow PoliciesRobot Navigation

    School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China · Department of Robotics, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi SE45 05, United Arab Emirates

  47. Socially-Aware Autonomous Doorway Traversal and Payload Delivery for Emergency Assistance

    Jul 6, 2026Andrew Snowdy, Ananya Trivedi, Sarvesh Prajapati +2Emergency AssistanceAutonomous Navigation

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA

  48. A Reliable Context-Aware and Temporal Planning Framework for Autonomous Driving

    Jul 6, 2026Argho Dey, Yunfei Yin, Swachha Ray +5Autonomous DrivingBird'S-Eye View

    College of Computer Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China

  49. TRISTAR: Triple-Signal Stair Recognition and Vision-Only Indoor Navigation for Search-and-Rescue Micro-UAVs

    Jul 4, 2026Octavian Gîngu, Stelian SpînuUnmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionAutonomous Navigation

    Military Technical Academy “Ferdinand I”, Bucharest, Romania

  50. Lightweight Safe Reinforcement Learning for End-to-End UAV Navigation

    Jul 2, 2026Shenghui Zhang, YuXuan Gao, Songwei Zhao +3Unmanned Aerial VehiclesAutonomous Navigation

  51. PriorEye: Geospatial Visual Priors for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Jun 30, 2026Kyuhwan Yeon, Benjamin Ramtoula, Daniele De MartiniAutonomous DrivingSpatial Priors

    Mobile Robotics Group, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

  52. Information-Aided DVL Calibration

    Jun 30, 2026Zeev Yampolsky, Itzik KleinAutonomous Underwater VehiclesDoppler Velocity Log

    The Hatter Department of Marine Technologies Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

  53. MOAR Planner: Multi-Objective and Adaptive Risk-Aware Path Planning for Infrastructure Inspection with a UAV

    Jun 29, 2026Louis Petit, Alexis Lussier DesbiensUnmanned Aerial Vehicle TrajectoriesPath Planning

    the Createk Design Lab, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, J1K 2R1, Canada

  54. Analyzing Uncertainty in the Spatial Representation of the Kinematic Bicycle Model

    Jun 28, 2026Shafayat Abrar, M. Zaeem Baig, Shahir Ul Islam Anzal +1OdometryCovariance

    Dhanani School of Science and Engineering Habib University, Karachi 75290

  55. CORE Planner: Contextual-memory Oriented Reinforcement-learning in Unknown Environments for Robot Navigation

    Jun 28, 2026Jintao Kong, Zhihao Zhang, Weihuang Chen +4Robot NavigationAutonomous Navigation

    State Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence, Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University

  56. ASSCG: Just-Right Gating over Chattering for Fast-Slow LLM Planning in Autonomous Driving

    Jun 24, 2026Sining Ang, Yuan Chen, Liu Haiyan +5Autonomous DrivingLarge Language Model Planning

    Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University · Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China · Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics +1

  57. Semantic-Aware Autonomous Exploration for UAVs in Unknown Indoor Environments

    Jun 21, 2026Duc-Thien Nguyen, Ngoc Minh Do, Xiem HoangVan +1Autonomous NavigationUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, 10000, Hanoi, Vietnam. · School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, 923-1211, Ishikawa, Japan.

  58. Long-Distance Real-World Navigation of the Legged-Wheeled Robot Go2-W Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 19, 2026Takaaki Matsuzawa, Kiyoshi Irie, Tomoaki Yoshida +3Legged RobotsAutonomous Navigation

    Future Robotics Technology Center (fuRo), Chiba Institute of Technology, Narashino, Chiba, Japan.

  59. Fast Human Attention Prediction for Fixation-guided Active Perception in Autonomous Navigation

    Jun 18, 2026Fatma Youssef Mohammed, Grzegorz Malczyk, Kostas AlexisViewpoint-Dependent Active PerceptionAutonomous Navigation

    Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

  60. D2HDMap: Non-visible Driveline Map Prior for Online Vectorized HD Map Prediction

    Jun 17, 2026Seojun Shon, Chikao Tsuchiya, Dhaval Bhanderi +3Lane-Level Map GenerationDrives

    Nissan North America · Nissan Advanced Technology Center - Silicon Valley, Nissan North America, Santa Clara, CA 95014, USA