Mobile Robotics

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Mobile robotics brings together the sensing, mapping, planning, and control needed for robots to move and perform tasks in homes, workplaces, outdoor terrain, and other environments. Common approaches include SLAM and odometry for localization, occupancy and semantic maps for representing surroundings, and classical motion planning and safety control alongside reinforcement learning and vision-language models. Work also addresses mobile manipulation, human-aware navigation, multi-robot coordination, and resource limits such as battery life, computation, and sensing. A central challenge is making methods that succeed in simulation or structured settings remain safe and reliable amid real-world uncertainty, changing conditions, and hardware constraints.

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  1. RAIBO-Wagon: Real-Time Navigation System for a Legged Robot Towing a Wagon

    Oct 29, 2026Insung Yang, Eunchae Kim, Jungwoo Hur +3Mobile RoboticsQuadruped Robot Navigation

    All authors are with the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Lab, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea.

  2. OmniQuad: a Wheeled-Legged Hybrid Robot with Omnidirectional Wheels

    Oct 28, 2026Francesco Iotti, Alok Ranjan, Franco Angelini +1Robot LocomotionMobile Robotics

    Department of Information Engineering of University of Pisa, Via Girolamo Caruso 16 , Pisa, 56122, Italy · Research Center Enrico Piaggio, Largo Lucio Lazzarino 1, Pisa, 56122, Italy

  3. HERON: Real-Time Obstacle-Aware Reachability Maps for Mobile Manipulators

    Oct 28, 2026G. Dupoiron, F. Michaud, J. P. RobergeMobile ManipulationMobile Robotics

    Command and Robotics Laboratory, ´Ecole de technologie sup´erieure, Montreal, H3C 1K3, Quebec, Canada. · Interdisciplinary Institute for Technological Innovation (3IT), Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, Universit´e de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, J1K 0A5, Quebec, Canada.

  4. Floor Friction Assessment from Robot Tire-Surface Interaction

    Oct 24, 2026Kulbhushan Komarraju, Nathaniel Pearson, Yu Gu +1Mobile Robotics

    Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering, West Virginia University · Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University

  5. Micro-Localization: High-Precision Mobile Robot Localization Using Microscopic Ground Texture

    Oct 15, 2026Aaron Wilhelm, Marina de Albuquerque Marcon, Emith Uyanwatte +1Robot LocalizationMobile Robotics

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

  6. MuSTMM: Learning Sound-Triggered Mobile Manipulation across Multiple Scenes

    Oct 15, 2026Hao Ju, Feng Yan, Zhihao Zhong +3Robotic Spatial MemoryMobile Manipulation

    University of Macau · Enacta-AI · Hefei University of Technology

  7. Hierarchical Building-Floo-Room Framework for Privacy-Preserving Autonomous Delivery in Large-Scale Buildings

    Oct 15, 2026Xu Xiaoji, Luo Rui, Chen Jinhua +3Robot Task PlanningRobotics

    Division of Integrative Systems and Design, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

  8. Enabling Tidying Tasks in Robotic Vacuum Cleaners via a Geometry-Induced Self-Locking Deployable Linkage

    Oct 14, 2026Eunseok Song, Jinwoong Kim, Sohee Lim +5Mechanism DesignRobotics

    Samsung Research, Samsung Electronics, 56, Seongchon-gil, Seocho-gu, Seoul, South Korea.

  9. A Minimum Exact Disjunctive Basis for Two-Robot Solvability Profiles

    Oct 13, 2026Tsukasa Ninomiya, Shota Naito, Naoki Kitamura +2Multi-Robot SystemsMobile Robotics

    Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan · The University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan

  10. BT-Agent: Deploying Onboard Robot Agents with Behavior Trees and Multi-Fidelity Evaluation

    Oct 9, 2026Fabio Hübel, Adam Lilja, Yue Yin +5Large Language Model-Based Robot PlanningMobile Robotics

    Stanford University · University of California, Berkeley · NVIDIA

  11. Non-Prehensile Multi-Object Placement with Mobile Robots via Diffusion-Based Trajectory Planning

    Oct 8, 2026Lance Pharand, Megnath Ramesh, Mark Chiu +2Non-Prehensile ManipulationRobotic Object Pushing

    Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Waterloo, ON, Canada

  12. TAPNAV: Humanoid Navigation through Tactile Active Perception

    Oct 7, 2026Huaze Liu, Zhenyu Wu, Jaehwi Jang +8Robot NavigationMobile Robotics

    Georgia Institute of Technology · Harvey Mudd College · Walton High School

  13. Semantic-Aware Predictive Mapping for Exploration and Navigation

    Oct 7, 2026Kenneth J. K. Ong, William W. J. TeoOccupancy Grid MappingSemantic Occupancy Mapping

    NEAR Lab AI.R STC, GTO, ST Engineering · NEAR Lab AI.R STC, GTO, ST Engineering Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, CDE National University of Singapore

  14. Enhancing Robotic Perception and Adaptability through Sensor Fusion and Origami-Inspired Designs

    Oct 7, 2026Namai Chandra, Jaison Jose, Kavi Arya +1Robotic PerceptionMobile Robotics

    IIT Madras · e-Yantra, IIT Bombay

  15. Emergency Obstacle Avoidance Maneuvers in Differential-Drive Mobile Robots

    Oct 4, 2026Kautik Mandve, Nilay KantCollision AvoidanceMobile Robotics

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409, USA

  16. Robust 2D Traversability Mapping for Construction AMRs via Failure-Mode-Aware Fusion of LiDAR Geometry and Monocular Semantics

    Oct 4, 2026Manoj Karnekar, Om Mandhane, Gautham RamkumarRobotic ConstructionRobot Traversability Estimation

    FloMobility Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India

  17. Autonomous mobile robot operations logistics: a dataset of jobs, dispatch events and robot states

    Oct 1, 2026Jan-Felix Klein, Yongkuk JeongMobile RoboticsRobotic Data Collection

    Department of Production Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden · Digital Futures, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  18. ALFRED: Requirement-driven development of an open-source mobile manipulator for long-term plant monitoring

    Oct 1, 2026Ciarán Miceal Johnson, Christopher Quail, Garry Ellard +3Modular RoboticsMobile Robotics

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

    Sep 28, 2026Arpita Kumari, Anupam Chatterjee, Richa SrivastavaRobotic ControlRobot Trajectory Tracking

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

  20. Laser-Tracker-Assisted Camera-to-Robot Calibration for Mobile Robots

    Sep 22, 2026Jan A. Rudolph, Öykü Kandemir, Markus UlrichMobile RoboticsHand-Eye Calibration

    Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (IPF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Englerstr. 7, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

  21. Zephyron: Integrated Design and Analytical Evaluation of a Solar-Assisted Mobile Manipulator for Multimodal Environmental Reconnaissance and Distributed Visual Inference

    Sep 22, 2026Sabik Bin Sultan, Shafi Bin Sultan, Safwan SadadMobile ManipulationMobile Robotics

    Bangladesh Air Force Shaheen College Kurmitola · St.Joseph Higher Secondary School · Greenland Residential School

  22. Partial-Scan-and-Move Source Seeking for Mobile Robots

    Sep 20, 2026Bo Wang, Ishvar SitaldinMobile RoboticsRobot Navigation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, The City College of New York, The City University of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA

  23. Conflicting Pattern Formation by Teams of Anonymous, Fully Disoriented Robots

    Sep 20, 2026Animesh Maiti, Prakhar Shukla, Subhash BhagatMulti-Robot Formation ControlMobile Robotics

    Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

  24. FORTE: Task-Adaptive Force Capability Optimization for Mobile Manipulators

    Sep 18, 2026Xiao Wang, Heng Zhang, Gokhan Solak +2Force-Controlled Robotic ManipulationWhole-Body Robotic Manipulation

    HRI2 Lab, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, 16163, Italy · Ph.D. program of national interest in Robotics and Intelligent Machines (DRIM) and University of Genova, Genoa, 16126, Italy · School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, China

  25. AeRove: A Compact Bimodal Aerial-Terrestrial Drone with Rapid Bistable Reconfiguration for Close-Range Pipeline Inspection

    Sep 17, 2026Caleb Polillio, Petras SwisslerAerial RoboticsRobotic Inspection

    Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102

  26. A3P5 NEMESIS Integrated Rover Design for Environmental Reconnaissance and Robotic Sampling with Reproducible Mobility Analysis and an External Data Machine Learning Calibration Benchmark

    Sep 16, 2026Shafi Bin Sultan, Sabik Bin Sultan, Safwan SadadRobotic Data CollectionMobile Robotics

    St. Joseph Higher Secondary School · BAF Shaheen College Kurmitola · Greenland Residential School

  27. Overcoming technical adoption barriers for mobile service robots in rehabilitation

    Sep 15, 2026Christian Sternitzke, Sebastian Blumenthal, Lukas Kleedoerfer +2Mobile RoboticsAssistive Robotics

    TEDIRO Healthcare Robotics, Ehrenbergstr. 11, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany · MetraLabs GmbH Neue Technologien und Systeme, Weimarer Str. 28, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany

  28. 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

    State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China · Key Laboratory of Maritime Intelligent Network Information Technology, Ministry of Education, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China

  29. MamMA: A Mamba-Based Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction Algorithm Considering Occupancy Map and Pedestrian Awareness States

    Sep 7, 2026Juncen Long, Xiaofeng Jin, Gianluca Bardaro +2Pedestrian Behavior ModelingPedestrian Trajectory Prediction

    Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

  30. Physico-Geospatial Grounded Scene Interpretation for Mobile Robotics

    Sep 6, 2026Nicolas Schuler, Janik Kurtz, Lea Dewald +3Robotic PerceptionVision-Language Grounding

    Department of Computer Science Trier University of Applied Sciences Trier, Germany · Department of Engineering University of Luxembourg Kirchberg, Luxembourg