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. Sliding Mode Control for Safe Trajectory Tracking with Moving Obstacles Avoidance: Experimental Validation on Planar Robots

    Apr 27, 2026Shubham Sawarkar, P Sangeerth, S Saharsh +1Robot Trajectory TrackingMobile Robotics

    Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems and Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India. · Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India.

  2. An Efficient Beam Search Algorithm for Active Perception in Mobile Robotics

    Apr 25, 2026Kaixian Qu, Han Wang, Victor Klemm +2Active PerceptionMobile Robotics

    Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich

  3. Energy-Efficient Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning of Non-Convex Regions of Interests

    Apr 24, 2026Sourav Raxit, Jose Fuentes, Paulo Padrao +4Multi-Robot Motion PlanningMobile Robotics

    Department of Computer Science, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148, USA · School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA · Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Providence College, Providence, RI 02918

  4. Lifecycle-Aware Federated Continual Learning in Mobile Autonomous Systems

    Apr 22, 2026Beining Wu, Jun HuangMobile RoboticsFederated Continual Learning

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, South Dakota State University, Brookings, 57006 SD

  5. Vision-Based Human Awareness Estimation for Enhanced Safety and Efficiency of AMRs in Industrial Warehouses

    Apr 18, 2026Maximilian Haug, Christian Stippel, Lukas Pscherer +5Mobile RoboticsSafe Robot Navigation

    Fraunhofer Austria Research GmbH, Vienna, Austria · Fraunhofer Austria Research GmbH, 1040 Vienna, Austria · Computer Vision Lab, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria +4

  6. POMDP-based Object Search with Growing State Space and Hybrid Action Domain

    Apr 16, 2026Yongbo Chen, Hesheng Wang, Shoudong Huang +1Mobile RoboticsMonte Carlo Tree Search

    School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, People’s Republic of China · School of Computing, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia (The main part of this work is completed at ANU) · Key Laboratory of System Control and Information Processing, Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai, 200240, People’s Republic of China +1

  7. Learning-Guided Sparsification of Dynamic Graphs in Robotic Exploration

    Apr 15, 2026Adithya V. Sastry, Bibek Poudel, Weizi LiGraph SparsificationMobile Robotics

    Independent Researcher Knoxville, TN, USA · Purdue University West Lafayette, IN, USA · University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA, USA

  8. Incremental Residual Reinforcement Learning Toward Real-World Learning for Social Navigation

    Apr 9, 2026Haruto Nagahisa, Kohei Matsumoto, Yuki Tomita +2Reinforcement LearningMobile Robotics

    Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan · Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

  9. ROS 2-Based LiDAR Perception Framework for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Production Environments, Utilizing Synthetic Data Generation, Transformation-Equivariant 3D Detection and Multi-Object Tracking

    Apr 2, 2026Lukas Bergs, Tan Chung, Marmik Thakkar +4Lidar-Based 3D Object DetectionObject Pose Estimation

    Chair of Intelligence in Quality Sensing (IQS), Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (WZL), RWTH Aachen University, Campus-Boulevard 30, Aachen 52074, Germany · The Sirindhorn International Thai-German Graduate School of Engineering (TGGS), King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB), 1518 Pracharat 1 Road, Wongsawang, Bangsue, Bangkok 10800, Thailand · Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology (IPT), Steinbachstr. 17, Aachen 52074, Germany

  10. Semantic Zone-Based Map Management for Stable AI-Integrated Mobile Robots

    Mar 31, 2026Huichang Yun, Seungho YooMobile RoboticsSimultaneous Localization and Mapping

    Dept. of computer Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea

  11. See Something, Say Something: Context-Criticality-Aware Mobile Robot Communication for Hazard Mitigations

    Mar 30, 2026Bhavya Oza, Devam Shah, Ghanashyama Prabhu +2Robot SafetyMobile Robotics

    ASAS LABS, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, 6 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA. · The City College of New York, Grove School of Engineering, New York, NY 10031, USA.

  12. ContraMap: Contrastive Uncertainty Mapping for Robot Environment Representation

    Mar 29, 2026Chi Cuong Le, Weiming ZhiUncertainty QuantificationSemantic Occupancy Mapping

    School of Computer Science and the Australian Centre for Robotics, University of Sydney, Australia

  13. RHINO-AR: An Augmented Reality Exhibit for Teaching Mobile Robotics Concepts in Museums

    Mar 26, 2026Nils Dengler, Tim Graf, Leif Van Holland +3Augmented RealityMobile Robotics

    Humanoid Robots Lab, University of Bonn, Germany · Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and the Center for Robotics, Bonn, Germany

  14. Intelligent Navigation and Obstacle-Aware Fabrication for Mobile Additive Manufacturing Systems

    Mar 26, 2026Yifei Li, Ruizhe Fu, Huihang Liu +3Additive ManufacturingRobot Navigation

    The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA · Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

  15. Integrating Deep RL and Bayesian Inference for ObjectNav in Mobile Robotics

    Mar 26, 2026João Castelo-Branco, José Santos-Victor, Alexandre BernardinoObject-Goal NavigationRobot Navigation

    Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal · Institute For Systems and Robotics, Lisbon, Portugal

  16. 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

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College London, London, UK · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA · Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

  17. Enhancing Vision-Based Policies with Omni-View and Cross-Modality Knowledge Distillation for Mobile Robots

    Mar 21, 2026Kai Li, Shiyu ZhaoVision-Based Robot ControlMobile Robotics

    College of Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. · School of Engineering at Westlake University, Hangzhou, China.

  18. vAccSOL: Efficient and Transparent AI Vision Offloading for Mobile Robots

    Mar 17, 2026Adam Zahir, Michele Gucciardom Falk Selker, Anastasios Nanos +4Efficient Neural Network InferenceEdge Inference

    University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M), Madrid, Spain. · NEC Laboratories Europe, Heidelberg, Germany. · Nubificus Ltd, United Kingdom.

  19. GenZ-LIO: Generalizable LiDAR-Inertial Odometry Beyond Confined--Open Boundaries

    Mar 17, 2026Daehan Lee, Hyungtae Lim, Seongjun Kim +7Inertial OdometryMobile Robotics

    Computational Control Engineering Laboratory (CoCEL), Department of Convergence IT Engineering and Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, South Korea · Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems (LIDS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

  20. Industrial cuVSLAM Benchmark & Integration

    Mar 17, 2026Charbel Abi Hana, Kameel Amareen, Mohamad Mostafa +5Visual OdometryVisual SLAM

    Idealworks · NVIDIA

  21. EAAE: Energy-Aware Autonomous Exploration for UAVs in Unknown 3D Environments

    Mar 16, 2026Jacob Elskamp, Moji Shi, Leonard Bauersfeld +2Mobile RoboticsUAV Navigation

    Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands · Institute for Informatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  22. Data-Driven Autoregressive Power Prediction for GTernal Robots in the Robotarium

    Mar 14, 2026Yassin Abdelmeguid, Ammar HasanAutoregressive ModelingMobile Robotics

    American University of Sharjah

  23. OA-NBV: Occlusion-Aware Next-Best-View Planning for Human-Centered Active Perception on Mobile Robots

    Mar 10, 2026Boxun Hu, Chang Chang, Jiawei Ge +4Active PerceptionNext-Best-View Planning

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA · Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA +1

  24. Caterpillar-Inspired Spring-Based Compressive Continuum Robot for Bristle-based Exploration

    Mar 10, 2026Zhixian Hu, Yu She, Juan WachsRobotic InspectionContinuum Robot Control

    Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.

  25. Proprioceptive Safe Active Navigation and Exploration for Planetary Environments

    Mar 9, 2026Matthew Y. Jiang, Feifei Qian, Shipeng LiuPlanetary Rover RoboticsAutonomous Robot Exploration

    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA · University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA

  26. Rethinking the semantic classification of indoor places by mobile robots

    Mar 9, 2026Oscar Martinez Mozos, Alejandra C. Hernandez, Clara Gomez +1Robotic Object SearchRobotic Perception

    Robotics Lab, DISA, Carlos III University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  27. Low-Cost Teleoperation Extension for Mobile Manipulators

    Mar 8, 2026Danil Belov, Artem Erkhov, Yaroslav Savotin +3Robot TeleoperationMobile Robotics

    Research Center for Digital Engineering and Innovation, Moscow, Russia

  28. CAR: Cross-Vehicle Kinodynamics Adaptation via Mobility Representation

    Mar 6, 2026Tong Xu, Chenhui Pan, Xuesu XiaoRobotic ControlMobile Robotics

    Department of Computer Science, George Mason University

  29. LEGS-POMDP: Language and Gesture-Guided Object Search in Partially Observable Environments

    Mar 5, 2026Ivy Xiao He, Stefanie Tellex, Jason Xinyu LiuPartially Observable Markov Decision ProcessesUncertainty-Aware Multimodal Fusion

    Brown University Providence, USA

  30. MiniUGV2_2: A Compact UAV-Deployable Tracked Ground Vehicle with Manipulation Capabilities

    Mar 1, 2026Durgakant Pushp, Swapnil Kalhapure, Shaekh Mohammad Shithil +1RoboticsMobile Robotics

    Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA. · S. Kalhapure is an Independent Researcher at the time of work.