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  1. H-SPAR: Hydrodynamic-aware Simulation for Particle Transport and Autonomous Robots

    Oct 1, 2026Navid Zarrabi, Nariman Yousefi, Sajad SaeediFluid DynamicsRobot Navigation

    Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Mechatronics Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. · Department of Chemical Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. · Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

  2. Beyond Leaderboard Scores: A Deployment-Focused Protocol for Interpretable Tracking Evaluation in Pedestrian-Centric Environments

    Oct 1, 2026Dominik Wojcikiewicz, Diego Paez-GranadosPedestrian DetectionPedestrian

    Digital Health Care and Rehabilitation, Swiss Paraplegic Research (SPF), Switzerland

  3. Extreme Length Generalization in a Compact Recurrent Architecture for One-Shot Exploration

    Oct 1, 2026Izen Thornton, Aaron Shey, William SuRecurrent Neural NetworksMobile Robots

    FRANK Autonomous Systems Inc., frankautonomous.com · University of California, Berkeley

  4. Prediction is Better than Detection: Traffic Congestion Control using Drones

    Sep 30, 2026Samira Hayat, Christian RaffelsbergerMulti-Drone CoordinationAutonomous Drones

    Lakeside Labs GmbH Klagenfurt, Austria

  5. Local-Minimum Escaper: Programmatic Subgoal Generation for Robust Navigation in Unknown Environments

    Sep 30, 2026Yin Gu, Xinming Zhang, Shanze Wang +2Robot NavigationObject Goal Navigation

    Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China · Tsinghua University, China · Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

  6. Observability Analysis and Online Calibration of Visual-Inertial-Wheel Odometry for 4WIS4WID Mobile Robots

    Sep 29, 2026Branimir Ćaran, Vladimir Milić, Bojan Šekoranja +1OdometryWheel

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

  7. WayFinder: Hierarchical Visual-Language-Action for Zero-Shot Waypoint Generation and Low-Level Kinematic Control

    Sep 29, 2026Timothy K Johnsen, Marco LevoratoWaypointsMobile Robots

    San Diego State University and The University of California, Irvine in CA, USA · University of California, Irvine in CA, USA

  8. Recompositional Robotics: Cross-Domain, Open-set, and Lifelong Modularity Beyond Morphology

    Sep 29, 2026Steven Swanbeck, Jonathan Salfity, Corrie Van Sice +2ReconfigurationModular Framework

    Texas Robotics and the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA

  9. Continuous Online Fault Detection for Mobile Robots via Adaptive Edge Models

    Sep 24, 2026Jordan Levy, Nicolas Verstaevel, Vincent Talon +1Mobile RobotsMobilenetv2

    IRIT, Université Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse, France · TwinswHeel, Soben, France

  10. Privacy-Preserving Semantic Segmentation from High-Resolution Depth and Ultra-Low-Resolution RGB

    Sep 23, 2026Xuying Huang, Swithinraj Moses Daniel, Sicong Pan +2Rgb-Depth Cameras3D Perception

    Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems

  11. Planning Trajectories that Bounce: Reflection Classes for Collision-Tolerant Robots

    Sep 22, 2026Subhadeep Koley, Subhrajit Bhattacharya, David SaldañaCollision-Free TrajectoriesSafe Navigation

    Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA

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

    Sep 22, 2026Jan A. Rudolph, Öykü Kandemir, Markus UlrichMobile RobotsRobot Systems

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

  13. Minimum Time Trajectories for a Car-Like Mobile Robot Moving with Rigid Wheels Under Non-Sliding Constraints

    Sep 21, 2026Joseph Ben-Asher, Elon Rimon, Leeor RavinaWheelMobile Robots

    Dept. of AE, Technion, Israel. · Dept. of ME, Technion, Israel.

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

    Sep 20, 2026Bo Wang, Ishvar SitaldinMobile RobotsMeasures

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

  15. Semantic SLAM in Precision Agriculture using Bayesian Inference

    Sep 17, 2026Ruben Beumer, Sander Doodeman, René van de Molengraft +1Simultaneous Localization And MappingAgricultural Robotics

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  16. RoboFind: Multi-Agent Personalized Object Search for People Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision

    Sep 17, 2026Ruiping Liu, Shaofang Quan, Qian Yin +10Mobile RobotsRobocasa

    The authors are with the Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe 76131, Germany. · The author is with the School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and the National Engineering Research Center of Robot Visual Perception and Control Technology, Hunan University, Changsha 410012, China. · The author is with Mercedes-Benz.

  17. Mechanical Precision Weeding with a Quadruped Robot

    Sep 17, 2026Ruben Beumer, Tom Janssen, René van de Molengraft +1Agricultural RoboticsLegged Robots

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands · Institute for Transport Planning and Systems, ETH Zürich, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, Zürich, Switzerland.

  18. Distributed Model Predictive Control with Connectivity-based Contracts

    Sep 17, 2026Jorit Geurts, Danilo Saccani, Melanie N. Zeilinger +1Model Predictive ControlMulti-Robot Systems

    Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich, Switzerland · Institute of Mechanical Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

  19. Tele-Traversability: Rethinking Traversability for Teleoperated Ground Robots in Terrain Navigation

    Sep 17, 2026Lewei Feng, Qi Chen, Wenshuo Wang +6TraversabilityTeleoperation

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, China · School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China · Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, China +5

  20. SemSafe-3DGS: Semantic Risk-Aware Active Navigation in Uncertain 3D Gaussian Splatting Maps

    Sep 16, 2026Amirhossein Mollaei Khass, Athanasios Cosse, Nader MoteeViewpoint-Dependent Active PerceptionCollision Avoidance

    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, 18015, USA

  21. VertexCBF: Improving Neural Control Barrier Functions via Vertex-Restricted Control Search

    Sep 11, 2026Bojan Derajić, Sebastian Bernhard, Wolfgang HönigControl Barrier FunctionsLearning-Based Control

    Technical University of Berlin, Germany · AUMOVIO, Germany · Technical University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Germany +1

  22. CT-SAFR: Safe and Interpretable Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Autonomous Robots: A Multi-Layered Verification Framework for Trustworthy AI-Driven Robotic Decision Making

    Sep 9, 2026Cagri TemelAgentic ReasoningArtificial Intelligence Safety

    Hezarfen LLC Seattle, WA, USA · Grand Canyon University Phoenix, AZ, USA

  23. A comparative study on the accuracy & repeatability of mobile robotic platforms for the delivery of precision NDE measurement

    Sep 3, 2026SeyedMohammadAmin Nabi Pour, S. Gareth Pierce, Randika Vithanage +3Mobile RobotsReproducibility

  24. Inverse kinematic solution for generic 3R positional robots using Conformal Geometric Algebra

    Aug 31, 2026Abhilash Nayak, Durgesh Haribhau SalunkheInverse KinematicsKinematics

  25. Entanglement-Free Trajectory Planning for Tethered Mobile Robots with a Slack Tether

    Aug 10, 2026Gianpietro Battocletti, Dimitris Boskos, Bart De SchutterMotion PlanningRobot Trajectories

    Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

  26. A Semantic Communication Approach to Fiducial Marker Processing in 5G-Enabled Edge SLAM

    Aug 10, 2026Boris Radovanovic, Vukan Ninkovic, Katarina Vidojevic +2Robotic PerceptionSimultaneous Localization And Mapping

    Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia · The Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research and Development of Serbia, Serbia

  27. SAIN: Structure-Aware Interactive Navigation with Active Dialogue Grounding for Mobile Robot

    Aug 10, 2026Yuhao Cao, Xiao Liu, Yang Xie +2Vision-Language NavigationObject Goal Navigation

    School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, P.R. China · Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  28. EsaacSim: A Multimodal Event Camera Add-on for NVIDIA Isaac Sim

    Aug 9, 2026Ignacio Bugueno-Cordova, Malte Kuhlmann, Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero +2Nvidia Isaac SimMobile Robots

    Leibniz Universität Hannover, L3S Research Center, Hanover, Germany · Ekumen, Buenos Aires, Argentina · University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark +1

  29. Feasibility of Embedded Photoplethysmography Sensing in Short-Duration Tactile Interactions With Pocket-Sized Robots Using IMU- and Confidence-Based Filtering

    Aug 4, 2026Turjja Datta, Morten Roed FrederiksenRemote PhotoplethysmographyHeart Rate

    Data Systems & Robotics Department of The IT-University of Copenhagen

  30. Principles of Robot Autonomy

    Aug 4, 2026Daniele Gammelli, Joseph Lorenzetti, Katie Luo +2Robot AutonomyMobile Robots

  31. Contact-Driven Localization in a Freeform Robotic Self-Assembled Structure

    Aug 3, 2026Mohammadali Rashidioun, Michael Sosa, Petras SwisslerIndoor LocalizationMobile Robots

    Institute of Technology · Industrial and Mechanical Engineering Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology

  32. Latency-Tolerant Cloud-Edge Collaborative Vision-Language-Action Models via Emergent Representational Specialization

    Aug 1, 2026Daojie Peng, Fulong Ma, Bingtao Wang +2Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsVision-Language-Action Framework

    HKUST(GZ) · Shandong University · HKUST

  33. Embodied GPT-5.1: Evidence of a World Model?

    Jul 27, 2026Roberto Spinelli, Thiago C. MartinsEmbodied Artificial IntelligenceEmbodiment

    Grad. Studies in Mechanical Eng. · Department of Mechatronics

  34. Conformal Constraint Tightening for Chance-Constrained Motion Planning with Unknown Dynamics

    Jul 24, 2026Shubham Natraj, Bruno Sinopoli, Yiannis KantarosMotion PlanningPlanning

    Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Dr, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA · School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, 650 E. Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA

  35. Distributed Acoustic Localization Array Deployed Using a Soft Everting Vine Robot

    Jul 22, 2026Sebastian Lorca Godoy, Ciera McFarland, Michael Val +3Sound Source LocalizationSoft Robotics

  36. A Conceptual Framework for Refining Influence Knowledge from Simulation Evidence in Cyber-Physical Systems

    Jul 22, 2026Barbara da Silva Oliveira, Julien Deantoni, Nicolas FerryCyber-Physical SystemInfluence

    UniCA, Laboratoire I3S - COMRED, KAIROS · Université Côte d’Azur, I3S/INRIA Kairos Sophia Antipolis, France · Laboratoire I3S - COMRED, KAIROS, UniCA

  37. DASH Robot: Minimalistic Design and Optimal Aerial-Terrestrial Locomotion via Contact-Implicit Control

    Jul 20, 2026Ryan Gomes Paiva, Conrad Ho, Jiarong Kang +3Aerial RobotsLocomotion

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, WI, USA. · Shanghai Innovation Institute (SII), Shanghai, China

  38. Merging Reaction to Cognition: A Hybrid Cognitive Strategy for Odour Source Localisation in Natural Environments

    Jul 15, 2026Hugo Magalhães, Rui Baptista, Lino MarquesSmellsCollaborative Sensing

    Institute of Systems and Robotics · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering · University of Coimbra, 3030-290, Coimbra, Portugal

  39. From Language to Navigation Goals: A Vision-Language Approach for Semantic Navigation of Mobile Robots Using RGB-D Perception

    Jul 15, 2026Jose Martínez-Fajardo, Pablo Pueyo, Fernando Caballero +1Robot NavigationMobile Robots

    Univ. Pablo de Olavide

  40. Enabling 24-hour Agricultural Robotics: Unsupervised Day-to-Night Cross-Modal Image Translation for Nighttime Visual Navigation

    Jul 13, 2026Robel Mamo, Rajitha de Silva, Grzegorz Cielniak +1Agricultural RoboticsUnpaired Image-To-Image Translation

    LaSER Lab, Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA 30060, USA. · Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology, University of Lincoln, Lincoln LN2 2LG, UK.

  41. Empirical Pedestrian Safety Assessment in a Mobile Robot Using a Predictive Social Force Model

    Jul 10, 2026Alireza Jafari, Yun-Hao Tsai, Yen-Chen LiuPedestrianMobile Robots

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan

  42. STEMbot: A Compliant Robot for Under-Canopy Plant Navigation

    Jul 8, 2026Zachary Charlick, Nilay Roy Choudhury, Haoyu Ma +2Agricultural RoboticsMobile Robots

    Robotics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

  43. Programmable Synchronization Graphs for Adaptive and Fault-Tolerant Modular Miniature Robots

    Jul 8, 2026Okan Kulekcioglu, Arqam Bin Ahmad, Ines Garcia +3Multi-Robot SystemsMobile Robots

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bilkent University; Ankara, Türkiye. · International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL); Braga, Portugal.

  44. Co-STAR: Cognitive Stimulation Therapy by an Autonomous Robot for Dementia -- A One-Week In-Home Study

    Jul 7, 2026Emmanuel Akinrintoyo, Nicole SalomonsCognitive Behavioral TherapyMobile Robots

    Imperial College London

  45. ECO: Incremental Ego-Centric Octree Update for Point Streams

    Jul 6, 2026Jaemin Yu, Seongyoon Jeong, Kang-Wook Chon +1Octree3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction

    Korea University of Technology and Education (KOREATECH), Cheonan, Republic of Korea

  46. LIME: Learning Intent-aware Camera Motion from Egocentric Video

    Jul 2, 2026Boyang Sun, Jiajie Li, Yung-Hsu Yang +6Camera ControlCamera

    ETH Zurich · Microsoft · University of Bonn

  47. Technical Report: Asynchronous Distributed Trajectory Estimation of Multi-Robot Systems

    Jul 1, 2026Adam Pooley, Matthew HaleMulti-Robot SystemsState Estimation

    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

  48. SPINE: Bridging the Cyber-Physical Gap with Agentic AI

    Jun 29, 2026Minkyu Ham, Dongho Kim, Chan Lee +4Embodied Artificial IntelligenceBimanual Manipulation

    Department of Statistics and Data Science, Northwestern University · Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University

  49. Analyzing Uncertainty in the Spatial Representation of the Kinematic Bicycle Model

    Jun 28, 2026Shafayat Abrar, M. Zaeem Baig, Shahir Ul Islam Anzal +1OdometryCovariance

    Dhanani School of Science and Engineering Habib University, Karachi 75290

  50. Joint Discovery of Object and Action Symbols through Effect Prediction for Robotic Manipulation Planning

    Jun 22, 2026Burcu Kilic, Berke Kartal, Fatih Dogangun +2Sensorimotor ExperienceAction Expert

    Bogazici University · Ozyegin University · Osaka University

  51. PanoVine: Whole-Body Visuomotor Control for Soft Growing Vine Robot

    Jun 22, 2026Yimeng Qin, Xiaomeng Xu, William Heap +3Mobile RobotsRobot State

    Stanford University

  52. SPiralRoll: A Novel Adjustable-Stiffness Underactuated 3-DoF Joint with Torsion Springs for Rolling Robots

    Jun 21, 2026Louis Keith, George Ripper, and Seyed Amir TafrishiKinematic ChainMobile Robots

    Geometric Mechanics and Mechatronics in Robotics (gm2R) Lab, the School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, United Kingdom

  53. RogueRover: Autonomous Rogue Device Localization for Incident Response

    Jun 19, 2026Priyanka Prakash Surve, Asaf Shabtai, Yuval EloviciIndoor LocalizationMobile Robots

    Ben Gurion University of the Negev

  54. An Infrastructure-less, Control-Independent Solution to Relative Localisation of a Team of Mobile Robots using Ranging Measurements

    Jun 18, 2026Paolo Golinelli, Tommaso Faraci, Daniele FontanelliMulti-Robot SystemsIndoor Localization

    Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento, Trento, Italy · Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

  55. VOiLA: Vectorized Online Planning with Learned Diffusion Models for POMDP Agents

    Jun 18, 2026Marcus Hoerger, Rishikesh Joshi, Rahul Shome +2Partially Observable Markov Decision ProcessDiffusion Planning

    Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia · The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

  56. Safe Local Navigation for Ackermann-Steered Robots in Unmapped Environments

    Jun 18, 2026Christian Schaible, Shahin SirouspourObstacle AvoidanceMobile Robots

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada

  57. Congestion-Aware Robot Tour Planning in Crowded Environments

    Jun 17, 2026Stefano Bernagozzi, Charlie Street, Masoumeh Mansouri +1Robot PlanningPedestrian Trajectory Prediction

    1Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia – Genova, Italia · 2Universit`a di Genova – Genova, Italia · University of Birmingham – Birmingham, United Kingdom

  58. High-Degree-of-Freedom Lightweight Bioinspired Leg for Enhanced Mobility in Small Robots

    Jun 17, 2026Haoqi Han, Yifei Yu, Jiaming Zhang +3Kinematic ChainLegged Robots

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China · Department of Automation Engineering,Shanghai University of Electric Power,Shanghai,China · Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China +2

  59. EffiNav: Fusing Depth and Vision-Language for Efficient Object Goal Navigation

    Jun 17, 2026Zecheng Yin, Benedict Jun MaObject Goal NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    Systems Hub of Intelligence Transportation HKUST(GZ) Guangzhou, Guangdong

  60. Contactless Respiratory Monitoring on Heterogeneous Mobile Robots: A Multimodal Edge-Computing Framework

    Jun 16, 2026Milind Rampure, Shadman Sakib, Haley Patel +2Respiratory MotionMulti-Modal Sensing

    Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA · Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA