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. Teleoperated Omni-directional Dual Arm Mobile Manipulation Robotic System with Shared Control for Retail Store

    Feb 27, 2026Rolif Lima, Somdeb Saha, Nijil George +5RoboticsMobile Robotics

    The authors are with TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Bengaluru, Karnataka - 560066, India.

  2. Interpretable Multimodal Gesture Recognition for Drone and Mobile Robot Teleoperation via Log-Likelihood Ratio Fusion

    Feb 27, 2026Seungyeol Baek, Jaspreet Singh, Lala Shakti Swarup Ray +3Gesture RecognitionMultimodal Fusion

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea · Department of Computer Science, RPTU Kaisersalutern-Landau, Kaiserslautern, Germany · Embedded Intelligence, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Kaiserslautern, Germany

  3. A Pairwise Human-Human Interaction Detection and Recognition Framework for Mobile Service Robots

    Feb 25, 2026Mengyu Liang, Iolanda Leite, Sarah GilletHuman Activity RecognitionMobile Robotics

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology · MIT Media Lab

  4. EEG-Driven Intention Decoding: Offline Deep Learning Benchmarking on a Robotic Rover

    Feb 23, 2026Ghadah Alosaimi, Maha Alsayyari, Yixin Sun +3Brain-Computer InterfacesEEG Decoding

    Department of Computer Science, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia · Department of Computer Science, Durham University, UK · Department of Computer Science, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia +1

  5. Understanding Fire Through Thermal Radiation Fields for Mobile Robots

    Feb 22, 2026Anton R. Wagner, Madhan Balaji Rao, Xuesu Xiao +1Mobile RoboticsRobot Navigation

    Department of Computer Science, Kiel University, Germany · Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, USA

  6. Lyapunov-Based PI-Like Control for Robust Trajectory Tracking of a Four-Wheel Independently Driven and Steered Robot: Design and Experimental Validation

    Feb 17, 2026Branimir Ćaran, Vladimir Milić, Marko Švaco +1PID ControlRobot Trajectory Tracking

    Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Zagreb HR-10000, Croatia · Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb 10000, Croatia

  7. A ROS2 Benchmarking Framework for Hierarchical Control Strategies in Mobile Robots for Mediterranean Greenhouses

    Feb 16, 2026Fernando Cañadas-Aránega, Francisco J. Mañas-Álvarez, José L- Guzmán +2Robotic ControlMobile Robotics

    Department of Informatics, CIESOL, ceiA3, Universidad de Almería, Ctra. Sacramento s/n, Almería, 04120, Spain · Department of Computer Science and Automation, National University of Distance Education (UNED), C/ Juan del Rosal 16, Madrid, 28040, Spain · Department of Engineering, CIESOL, ceiA3, Universidad de Almería, Ctra. Sacramento s/n, Almería, 04120, Spain

  8. From Instruction to Event: Sound-Triggered Mobile Manipulation

    Jan 29, 2026Hao Ju, Shaofei Huang, Hongyu Li +4Robotics SimulationMobile Robotics

    University of Macau · Beihang University · Hefei University of Technology

  9. CostNav: A Navigation Benchmark for Real-World Economic-Cost Evaluation of Physical AI Agents

    Nov 25, 2025Haebin Seong, Sungmin Kim, Yongjun Cho +20Mobile RoboticsRobot Navigation

    University of California, Irvine · KAIST · Seoul National University

  10. MobileOcc: A Human-Aware Semantic Occupancy Dataset for Mobile Robots

    Nov 21, 2025Junseo Kim, Guido Dumont, Xinyu Gao +3Mobile RoboticsSemantic Occupancy Mapping

    Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 5, 2628 CD Delft, Netherlands

  11. A Shared Control Framework for Mobile Robots with Planning-Level Intention Prediction

    Nov 12, 2025Jinyu Zhang, Lijun Han, Feng Jian +2Mobile RoboticsHuman-Robot Collaboration

  12. ART-TEB: Adaptive Trajectory Planning for Mobile Robots in Cluttered Environments

    Oct 30, 2025Hahjin Lee, Young J. KimTrajectory OptimizationTrajectory Generation

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Ewha Womans University in Korea

  13. Object-Reconstruction-Aware Whole-body Control of Mobile Manipulators

    Sep 4, 2025Fatih Dursun, Bruno Vilhena Adorno, Simon Watson +1Next-Best-View PlanningMobile Robotics

    Manchester Centre for Robotics and AI, University of Manchester, UK

  14. A Graph-Based Reinforcement Learning Approach with Frontier Potential Based Reward for Safe Cluttered Environment Exploration

    Apr 16, 2025Gabriele Calzolari, Vidya Sumathy, Christoforos Kanellakis +1Reward ShapingMobile Robotics

    Luleå University of Technology · Robotics and AI Group, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Luleåa University of Technology, Sweden

  15. Region Based SLAM-Aware Exploration: Efficient and Robust Autonomous Mapping Strategy That Can Scale

    Apr 14, 2025Megha Maheshwari, Sadegh Rabiee, He Yin +3Simultaneous Localization and MappingMobile Robotics

    Amazon Lab126

  16. GO: The Great Outdoors Multimodal Dataset

    Jan 31, 2025Peng Jiang, Kasi Viswanath, Akhil Nagariya +8Mobile RoboticsRobotic Perception

    Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. · DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, USA. · University of Texas at Austin Center for Autonomy, Austin, TX, USA.

  17. TiROD: Tiny Robotics Dataset and Benchmark for Continual Object Detection

    Sep 24, 2024Francesco Pasti, Riccardo De Monte, Davide Dalle Pezze +2Mobile RoboticsContinual Learning

    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, 35131, Italy.

  18. OGM-CBF: Occupancy Grid Map-based Control Barrier Function for Safe Mobile Robot Control with Memory of out of View Obstacles

    May 17, 2024Golnaz Raja, Miloš Prágr, Topi Reino Johannes Kärki +2Mobile RoboticsControl Barrier Functions

    Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Tampere University, Kalevantie 4, 33100 Tampere, Finland