Autonomous Robot Exploration

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32 papers8 papers in the last four weeks, up 167% on the four weeks before. 0.0% of all new papers.

  1. Time-Optimal Ergodic Retrieval

    Oct 15, 2026Christian Sulana, Christian Hughes, Ian AbrahamErgodic ControlRobotic Object Search

  2. RoboQuest: Generalist Physical Agents that Search, Inspect and Test

    Oct 7, 2026Liu Renhang, Navonil Majumder, Tej Deep Pala +1Embodied Agent BenchmarksAutonomous Robot Exploration

  3. Reactive Exploration of Unknown Environments for Redundant Robots using Virtual Model Control

    Oct 6, 2026Alessio Canzolino, Omar Faris, Alessandro De Blasi +1Active Vision for Robot ManipulationRobotics

  4. ProactiveVLA: Augmenting Embodied Memory through Proactive Environment Exploration

    Oct 4, 2026Shizuo Tian, Haodong Luo, Yutong Li +3Robot LearningRobot Policy Adaptation

  5. Tactile Curiosity Drives Robot Interaction

    Sep 30, 2026Klemens Iten, Alexander Proshkin, Bhavya Sukhija +4Robotic RLData-Efficient Robot Learning

  6. Asymmetric Scout-Worker Reconnaissance for Route Validation in Unknown Environments

    Sep 29, 2026Kashif Khurshid Noori, Jaskrit Singh, Athanasios Ch. Kapoutsis +2Multi-Robot Motion PlanningEmbodied Navigation

  7. Terrain-Aware Autonomous Planetary Exploration for Exteroceptive-Proprioceptive Mapping with Quadruped Scouts

    Sep 28, 2026Alberto Sanchez-Delgado, João Carlos Virgolino Soares, Victor Barasuol +1Off-Road Robot NavigationSpace Robotics

  8. SOR-Nav: Search or Relocate? Context-Gated Exploration and Cross-Region Relocation for Object Navigation

    Sep 28, 2026Yuan Ji, Zirui Li, Yuxin Cai +3Robot NavigationObject-Goal Navigation

  9. Pose-aware Legged Robot Semantic Exploration with Omnidirectional Perception in Confined Unknown Environments

    Sep 16, 2026Xiaoyang Zhan, Shiyu Chen, Kenji ShimadaLegged RoboticsNext-Best-View Planning

  10. TASG-Explore: Traversability-Aware Sector-Guided Exploration for Ground Robot on Uneven Terrain

    Sep 8, 2026Shaocong Wang, Shiliang Shao, Ting Wang +2Off-Road Robot NavigationMobile Robotics

  11. RAEM: Robust Autonomous Exploration for Multi-Floor Environments with a Quadruped Robot

    Aug 26, 2026Zikang Yuan, Yuan Ren, Yian Wang +10Autonomous Robot ExplorationRobot Navigation

  12. Expected Free Energy-based Informative Path Planning for Robotic Mars Exploration

    Aug 14, 2026Ajith Anil Meera, Pablo Lanillos, Wouter KouwInformative Path PlanningAutonomous Robot Exploration

  13. Situation Aware Frontier Prioritization for Quadruped Search and Rescue

    Aug 3, 2026Kevin Farias, Santiago Martin, Barbara Flores +5Exploration-Exploitation TradeoffRobotics

  14. Decentralized Scalable Exploration via Emergent Adaptive Lévy Walks on Minimal-Sensing Platforms

    Jul 28, 2026Wai Lun Leong, Teo Swee Huat RodneyAerial RoboticsSwarm Robotics

  15. Beyond Frontiers: Scene-Anomaly Guided Autonomous Exploration

    Jul 17, 2026Akash Kumbar, Abhinav Raundhal, Madhava Krishna3D ReconstructionRobotics

  16. Dec-MARVEL: Decentralized Multi-Agent Exploration without Communication under Budget Constraints

    Jul 10, 2026Janghyun Cho, Jimmy Chiun, Guillaume Sartoretti +1Aerial RoboticsMulti-Robot Exploration

  17. ASPIRE: Agentic /Skills Discovery for Robotics

    Jun 30, 2026Runyu Lu, Yubo Wu, Ethan Kou +11Robot Policy LearningLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

  18. SPACE: Swarm Pheromone Fields for Adaptive Collision-Aware Exploration

    Jun 28, 2026Haohua Que, Haojia Gao, Mingkai Liu +3Robot Collision AvoidanceSwarm Robotics

  19. He3-Seeker: Robotic Information Planning for Lunar Helium-3 Distribution Mapping

    Jun 27, 2026Dong Li, Yujie Zheng, Chengdeng Cao +4Space RoboticsInformative Path Planning

  20. RoboAtlas: Contextual Active SLAM

    Jun 24, 2026Alexander Schperberg, Shivam K. Panda, Abraham P. Vinod +3Simultaneous Localization and MappingRobot Navigation

  21. IntentNav: Learning Spatial-Visual Object Navigation from Human Demonstrations

    Jun 6, 2026Yuxin Cai, Zongtai Li, Maonan Wang +9VLMs for RoboticsRobot Imitation Learning

  22. OPAL: Omnidirectional Path-efficient Aerial 3D expLoration

    May 25, 2026Yoga Satwik Chappidi, Avideh ZakhorAerial RoboticsMobile Robotics

  23. Autonomous Frontier-Based Exploration with VLM Guidance

    May 22, 2026Aarush Aitha, Avideh ZakhorMobile RoboticsFrontier-Based Exploration

  24. PRoID: Predicted Rate of Information Delivery in Multi-Robot Exploration and Relaying

    Apr 12, 2026Seungchan Kim, Seungjae Baek, Micah Corah +3Multi-Robot ExplorationMulti-Robot Coordination

  25. Variable-Resolution Virtual Maps for Autonomous Exploration with Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs)

    Mar 24, 2026Ye Li, Yewei Huang, Yongchang Xie +4Simultaneous Localization and MappingMobile Robotics

  26. Proprioceptive Safe Active Navigation and Exploration for Planetary Environments

    Mar 9, 2026Matthew Y. Jiang, Feifei Qian, Shipeng LiuAutonomous Robot ExplorationRobotics

  27. LLM-Guided Decentralized Exploration with Self-Organizing Robot Teams

    Mar 5, 2026Hiroaki Kawashima, Shun Ikejima, Takeshi Takai +2Multi-Robot ExplorationAutonomous Robot Exploration

  28. OmniPlanner: Universal Exploration and Inspection Path Planning Across Robot Morphologies

    Mar 4, 2026Angelos Zacharia, Mihir Dharmadhikari, Mohit Singh +1Robotic InspectionRobot Task Planning

  29. SCOPE: Skeleton Graph-Based Computation-Efficient Framework for Autonomous UAV Exploration

    Feb 26, 2026Kai Li, Shengtao Zheng, Linkun Xiu +4Autonomous Robot ExplorationRobot Navigation