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  1. Evaluating Depth-Augmented Visual Features for Cross-Dataset Lunar Traversability Estimation

    Nov 2, 2026Jan Baturo, Bartosz PtakLunar RoboticsFeature Fusion

    European Space Agency (ESA Spaceship Poland), Poznań, Poland. · Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence, Poznań University of Technology, Piotrowo 3A, 60-965 Poznań, Poland.

  2. Design and Experimental Validation of the Separation and Deployment System for the CHERI Lunar Micro-Rovers

    Nov 2, 2026Ahmet Mustafa Kangal, Oğuzhan Şahan, Teoman Efe Aycan +5Lunar RoboticsPlanetary Rover Robotics

    Robotics Graduate Program, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Türkiye · Department of Aerospace Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Türkiye

  3. Gaze-Assisted Supervisory Control for Lunar Robotic Arm Teleoperation Under Concurrent Monitoring

    Oct 29, 2026Jiayu He, Yifan Li, Oliver R. Runswick +4Lunar RoboticsRobot Teleoperation

    Department of Engineering, King’s College London, London, UK · Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK · Spacesuit Physiology Laboratory, Centre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences, King’s College London, London, UK +1

  4. A Bi-level Co-design Framework for Lunar Monoped with 2D Jump and Landing Control

    Oct 27, 2026Sanjay Ramkumar, Suraj KumarLunar RoboticsRobotics

    Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology. · Controls and Digital Area, U R Rao Satellite Center.

  5. Evaluation of Front-End Feature Matching for Lunar Visual SLAM

    Oct 22, 2026Guillem Casadesus Vila, Grace GaoPlanetary Rover RoboticsLocal Feature Matching

    Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

  6. End-to-End Reinforcement Learning for Quadrupedal Jumping in Lunar Gravity

    Oct 21, 2026Levin Müller, Oliver Fischer, Marco Trentini +2Lunar RoboticsRobotics

    ETH Zurich, Robotics Systems Lab; Leonhardstrasse 21, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.

  7. MARE: An Open-Source Lunar Rover Simulator with Shadow Ground Truth for Perception and Autonomy

    Oct 20, 2026Raúl Castilla-Arquillo, Miguel Olivares-MendezLunar RoboticsRobotics Simulation

    Space Robotics (SpaceR) Research Group, SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

  8. Safe and Fuel-Efficient Motion Planning for Lunar Propulsive Drones

    Oct 15, 2026Elena Wittemyer, Grace GaoMotion PlanningSafe Motion Planning

    Stanford University, William F. Durand Building, 496 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

  9. Learning Safety-Constrained Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation for Lunar Surface Operations

    Oct 11, 2026Alvaro Belmonte-Baeza, Miguel Cazorla, Gabriel J. García +2Lunar RoboticsRobotics

  10. Toward Lunar Legged Robots: Field Deployment Lessons at LUNA

    Oct 8, 2026Adrian Fuhrer, Joseph Church, Oliver Fischer +6Lunar RoboticsRobotics

    ETH Zurich, Robotics Systems Lab; Leonhardstrasse 21, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland

  11. Robot-Assisted Deployment and Maintenance of Inflatable Modules for Lunar Habitation: A Field Demonstration

    Sep 28, 2026Kentaro Uno, Shamistan Karimov, Ashutosh Mishra +5Robotic ConstructionModular Robotics

    Space Robotics Lab. (SRL) in Department of Aerospace Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan · Department of Electrical Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda 278-8510, Japan

  12. Designing an Efficient Excavator Bucket for Lunar ISRU: A Comparative Study with Vision-Based Fill and Displacement Analysis

    Sep 22, 2026Abdulla Hil Kafi, Tomoki Koshi, Jorge Casir +1Space RoboticsRobotic Excavation

    Department of Mechanical and control Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu 804-8550, Japan

  13. Fleet-To-Lab: A Transfer Learning Framework For Lunar Rover Slippage Estimation Via Model Fusion

    Sep 15, 2026Riccardo Viviano, Saki Omi, Andrej Orsula +1Transfer LearningRobotics

    Space Robotics Research Group (SpaceR), Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

  14. Distributed Multi Robot Lunar Cargo Transportation via Phase Decomposed Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 30, 2026Ashutosh Mishra, Elian Neppel, Shreya Santra +4Multi-Robot Cargo TransportationMulti-Robot Systems

    Space Robotics Lab. (SRL), Department of Aerospace Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980–8579, Japan · École Centrale de Lille, France · Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia

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

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

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, and also with the Faculty of Innovation Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau · OpenSpace Lab, China · College of Artificial Intelligence, China University of Petroleum (Beijing) +5

  16. RoverDevKit: An open, physics-grounded tradespace toolkit for conceptual design of lunar micro-rovers

    Jun 19, 2026Jon ReifschneiderSpace RoboticsRobotics

    Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA

  17. Locomotion analysis of a quadruped interacting with the lunar granular surface

    Jun 9, 2026Yash J VyasGranular Terrain LocomotionRobotics Simulation

    Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padua

  18. Long-Reach Robotic Cleaning for Lunar Solar Arrays

    Mar 31, 2026Stanley Wang, Velin Kojouharov, Long Yin Chung +2RoboticsSpace Robotics

    All authors are with the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

  19. Long-Reach Robotic Manipulation for Assembly and Outfitting of Lunar Structures

    Mar 31, 2026Stanley Wang, Venny Kojouharov, Long Yin Chung +2Robotic ManipulationSpace Robotics

    Stanford University · All authors are with the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

  20. Full Stack Navigation, Mapping, and Planning for the Lunar Autonomy Challenge

    Mar 18, 2026Adam Dai, Asta Wu, Keidai Iiyama +4Robot NavigationLunar Robotics

    Stanford University

  21. Visual SLAM with DEM Anchoring for Lunar Surface Navigation

    Mar 18, 2026Adam Dai, Guillem Casadesus Vila, Grace GaoSimultaneous Localization and MappingVisual SLAM

    Stanford University William F. Durand Building 496 Lomita Mall Stanford, CA 94305

  22. Dual-Horizon Hybrid Internal Model for Low-Gravity Quadrupedal Jumping with Hardware-in-the-Loop Validation

    Mar 9, 2026Haozhe Xu, Yifei Zhao, Wenhao Feng +6Robot LocomotionQuadruped Locomotion