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  1. Towards Physical Underwater Robotic Assistance for Scuba Diver Movement in Confined Spaces

    Oct 1, 2026Demetrious T. Kutzke, Junaed SattarUnderwater RobotsExoskeleton

  2. Battery-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Aggressive Quadrotor Flight

    Sep 29, 2026Alejandro Sanchez Roncero, Olov Andersson, Petter OgrenQuadrotorBidirectional Thrust

    Department of Robotics, Perception and Learning, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

  3. 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.

  4. Feasibility and Singularity in High-Order Safety-Critical Control for Quadrotor UAVs

    Sep 16, 2026Omayra Yago Nieto, Leonardo ColomboQuadrotorControl Barrier Functions

  5. A Morphing Aerial Robot With Thruster-Integrated Flexible Continuum Links for Shape Adaptive Aerial Manipulation

    Sep 16, 2026Eri Sawada, Kazuki Sugihara, Ayano Miyamichi +2Aerial ManipulationAerial Robots

    Department of Mechano-Infomatics, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

  6. Escape-Aware Control Barrier Functions for Quadrotor Safety under Body-Rate Limits

    Sep 15, 2026Lei Shi, Haosong Wen, Qichao LiuQuadrotorControl Barrier Functions

    University of Wisconsin–Madison · Southeast University · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  7. Swim-and-Breach at Palm Scale: A Rudder-Steered Two-Propeller Underwater Robot Platform with Differential-Thrust Pitch Control

    Sep 15, 2026Daehyun Choi, Ian Bergerson, Hengjia Zhu +2Underwater RobotsBidirectional Thrust

    BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

  8. Learning to Exploit Passive Dynamics for Energy-Efficient Target Hopping of a Spring-Legged Quadcopter

    Sep 14, 2026Ruigang Chen, Qi Zhang, Zhicheng Zhong +3QuadrotorBidirectional Thrust

    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Shantou, 515063, Guangdong, China. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3200003, Israel.

  9. Anti-Gravity Walking by a Flying Humanoid Robot via Thrust-Rate Input Whole-Body Model Predictive Control

    Sep 7, 2026Kazuki Sugihara, Kei OkadaWhole-Body ControlBidirectional Thrust

    Department of Mechano-Informatics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.

  10. Mudskippers use tail thrusting to help crutching to move on mud of various wetness

    Sep 1, 2026Divya Ramesh, Gargi Sadalgekar, Jiangqi Tan +1FishBidirectional Thrust

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

  11. Knowledge-Distilled End-to-End Reinforcement Learning for Smooth 6-DOF Thrust Control and Rapid Adaptation to Ocean Currents in Remotely Operated Vehicles

    Aug 9, 2026Tiankuang Wen, Huiping Li, Gang Liu +1Reinforcement Learning ControlBidirectional Thrust

    Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, China · Wuhan Second Ship Design and Research Institute, Wuhan 430205, China

  12. Exact Thrust-Reversal Limits of Bidirectional Propellers under Bounded Motor Inputs

    Aug 7, 2026Ahmed Ali, Chiara Gabellieri, Antonio FranchiBidirectional ThrustMotion Control

    Robotics and Mechatronics Department, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science (EEMCS) Faculty, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands · Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy

  13. Design and Flight of an Ion-propelled Micro Hovercraft Leveraging Ground Proximity Effects

    Aug 5, 2026C. Luke Nelson, Grant Nations, Mrinmoy Modak +1Bidirectional ThrustUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    C. Luke Nelson1, Grant Nations1, Mrinmoy Modak2, and Daniel S. Drew2

  14. Hybrid Impedance-Admittance Control with Multi-Link Aerial Robot for Contact-Rich Surface Sliding Task

    Aug 3, 2026Zicheng Luo, Maolin Lei, Jinjie Li +3Impedance ControlAerial Robots

    Department of Mechanical-Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

  15. Write-Safe Flow Field Mapping under Ambiguous Onboard Sensing and Localization Drift

    Jul 30, 2026Linhao Jin, Qimin Feng, Peter Gunnarson +1Queryable Sector Flow FieldsBidirectional Thrust

    Mechanical Engineering Department, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA · School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

  16. BC-NMPC: Battery-Constrained NMPC with Propulsion Prediction and Replanning for High-Speed Flight

    Jul 26, 2026Parakh M. Gupta, Matej Mihulka, Matej Novosad +2Unmanned Aerial Vehicle TrajectoriesBidirectional Thrust

    Multi-robot Systems Group, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

  17. Technical Design Review of Duke Robotics Club's Oogway & Crush: AUVs for RoboSub 2026

    Jul 20, 2026Patrick Zheng, Saagar Arya, Hung Le +16Autonomous Underwater VehiclesBidirectional Thrust

    Duke Robotics Club

  18. More than a Manipulator: Planning Propellant-Free Attitude Maneuvers for Free-Floating Spacecraft

    Jul 13, 2026Harsh G. Bhundiya, Avi Soval, Keenan AlbeeBidirectional ThrustRobotic Manipulator

    Department of Astronautical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 · Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 · Departments of Astronautical, Aerospace and Mechanical, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089

  19. Direct Rotor Thrust Sensing and Feedback Control for Disturbance Rejection of Multirotors Using Load-cells

    Jul 11, 2026Peter Böhm, Michael Brünig, Peyman Z. Moghadam +1Bidirectional ThrustRotorcraft

    University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia · School of EECS, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia · CSIRO Robotics, DATA61, CSIRO, Australia +1

  20. Disturbance-aware Motion Planning for Over-actuated Underwater Vehicles Exploiting Actuation Redundancy for High-fidelity 3D Reconstruction

    Jul 8, 2026Yuer Gao, Tongqing Xu, Qingyang Liu +1Underwater RobotsAutonomous Underwater Vehicles

    Smart Manufacturing Thrust, Systems Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China

  21. Strouhal-Aware Model Predictive Control for Efficient Multi-Fin Flapping Locomotion

    Jul 3, 2026Yuya Hamamatsu, Zixi Chen, Maarja Kruusmaa +1Bidirectional ThrustModel Predictive Control

    Department of Computer Systems, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia · Brubotics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and IMEC, Brussel, Belgium.

  22. QuadRocket: An Aerial Robotic Testbed for Adaptive Thrust-Vector Control of Rocket-Like Vehicles

    Jul 2, 2026Pedro Santos, Joel Reis, Paulo Oliveira +1Bidirectional ThrustQuadrotor

    Instituto Superior T´ecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal · Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao, China

  23. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Spacecraft Attitude Control During Atmospheric Re-Entry

    Jun 30, 2026Alexander Fabisch, Melvin Laux, Mariela De Lucas Álvarez +2Reinforcement Learning ControlActive Flow Control

    Robotics Innovation Center, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Germany · 2Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Germany

  24. Average-Power-Budgeted Underwater Vehicle Control via Constrained Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 24, 2026Yinuo Wang, Gavin Tao, Yuze Liu +1Reinforcement Learning ControlAutonomous Underwater Vehicles

    College of Graduate and Professional Studies, Trine University, Angola, IN 46703, USA · School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, D02 PN40, Ireland · School of Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia +1

  25. What Actually Works for Spacecraft Fault-Tolerant Control: An Honest Settled-Gate Benchmark of Learned and Classical Methods

    Jun 24, 2026Alireza ShojaeiFault ToleranceIntent-Aligned Autonomous Spacecraft Guidance

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

  26. Manipulider: A Multi-Engine Buoyancy-Controlled Robot for Thrusterless Underwater Gliding and Manipulation

    Jun 19, 2026Yitao Jiang, Yewei Huang, Weizhi Cao +5Underwater RobotsBidirectional Thrust

    Dept. of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA. · Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA. · Dept. of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA. +1

  27. Memory-Efficient Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Safety-Critical Control in Adversarial Spacecraft Proximity Operations

    Jun 16, 2026Alejandro Posadas-Nava, Richard Linares, Minduli WijayatungaControl Barrier FunctionsOffline Reinforcement Learning

    Researcher, AeroAstro, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307. · Associate Professor and Rockwell International Career Development Professor, AeroAstro, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307. · Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 104 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801.

  28. Agile Fall Recovery for Quadrotors with Bidirectional Thrust via Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 15, 2026Anke Zhao, Yuhang Zhong, Kenghou Hoi +5QuadrotorBidirectional Thrust

    Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China · Differential Robotics, Hangzhou 311121, China

  29. Distribution-Agnostic Robust Trajectory Optimization via Chance-Constrained Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 11, 2026Yashdeep Chaudhary, Roberto Armellin, Harry Holt +1Intent-Aligned Autonomous Spacecraft GuidanceRobust Trajectory

    Faculty of Engineering, Waipapa Taumata Rau – University of Auckland, 20 Symonds Street, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand · Advanced Concepts Team, European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESA, Noordwijk, 2201 AZ, The Netherlands · Department of Industrial Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Via Zamboni 33, Bologna, 40126, Italy

  30. Embodiment-conditioned Generalist Control for Multirotor Aerial Robots

    Jun 9, 2026Orestis Konstantaropoulos, Welf Rehberg, Mihir Kulkarni +1QuadrotorAerial Robots

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

  31. Hybrid Neural Network and Conventional Controller Approach for Robust Control of Highly Unstable Systems: Application to Tilt-Rotor Control

    Jun 7, 2026Ali Kafili Gavgani, Amin Talaeizadeh, Aria Alasty +1RotorcraftLearning-Based Control

    Advanced Research Lab for Control and Agricultural Robotics (Sharif AgRoLab) Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

  32. Decoupled Thrust-Axis Attitude Control Using Quaternions for Chandrayaan-3 Lunar Landing Mission

    May 28, 2026Aditya Rallapalli, Suraj Kumar, Rijesh M P +2Bidirectional ThrustActive Flow Control

    Controls and Digital Area, U R Rao Satellite Centre, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Bangalore, India

  33. AcroRL: Learning Aggressive Quadrotor Inversion using Bidirectional Thrust

    May 23, 2026Gabriel Rodriguez, Henri Sayag, Abhishek Rathod +4QuadrotorBidirectional Thrust

    Carnegie Mellon University · Shield AI

  34. Adaptive Outer-Loop Control of Quadrotors via Reinforcement Learning

    May 15, 2026Vishnu Saj, Sushil Vemuri, Dileep Kalathil +1QuadrotorAdaptive Control

    Texas A&M University College Station, TX, USA

  35. Power-Efficiency and Scalability Analysis of Magnetically-Actuated Satellite Swarms via Convex Optimization

    May 7, 2026Yuta Takahashi, Seang Shim, Hiraku Sakamoto +1Multiple Satellite SystemsMagnetic Tunnel Junction

    Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan · Department of Space and Astronautical Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-5210, Japan · Spacecraft Engineering, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-5210, Japan

  36. Sensitivity-Based Tube NMPC for Cooperative Aerial Structures Under Parametric Uncertainty

    Apr 28, 2026Giuseppe Silano, Quentin Sablé, Marco Tognon +2Model Predictive ControlCooperative Air Combat

    Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico S.p.A., Milan, Italy, and Czech Technical University, Prague, Czechia · University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands · University of Rennes, CNRS, Inria, IRISA, 35042, France +2

  37. Characterizing pitch and roll torque coupling in insect-sized flapping-wing robots using a microfabricated gimbal

    Apr 23, 2026Aaron Weber, Daksh Dhingra, Sawyer B. FullerRotorcraftBidirectional Thrust

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA · Humanoid, Boston, USA · Department of Mechanical Engineering and Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

  38. Thrust Regulation Through Wing Linkage Modulation on the Aerobat Platform: Piezoelectric Slip-Stick Actuated Regulator Development

    Apr 20, 2026Luca CiampagliaBidirectional ThrustKinematic Chain

    Northeastern University

  39. Drag-Aware Aerodynamic Manipulability for Torque-Limited Redundant Multirotors: Aerodynamic Promptness based on the Symmetric Acceleration Capacity

    Mar 9, 2026Antonio FranchiBidirectional ThrustUnderactuated Dynamics

    Robotics and Mechatronics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands · Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy