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  1. A Taxonomy on Collective Awareness

    Oct 5, 2026Guillermo GP-Lenza, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Martín Molina +2Multi-Robot SystemsSituational Awareness

    Computer Vision and Aerial Robotics Group, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Universidad Polit´ecnica de Madrid, C. de los Ciruelos, Boadilla del Monte, 28660, Madrid, Spain. · Computer Vision and Aerial Robotics Group, Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR), Universidad Polit´ecnica de Madrid (UPM-CSIC), Calle Jos´e Guti´rrez Abascal 2, Madrid, 28006, Madrid, Spain. · Automation and Robotics Research Group (ARG), Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability, and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg, L-1359, Luxembourg, Luxembourg. +1

  2. Safe Ergodic Control for Multi-Robot Systems via Quadratic Programming

    Oct 4, 2026Yo Toyomoto, Mohamed Elobaid, Bryce L. Ferguson +2Multi-Robot SystemsQuadrotor

    Electrical and Computer Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia · Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA · Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

  3. DuoMind: Enabling Distributed Multi-Robot Coordination with Semantic Communication

    Oct 1, 2026Hanchu Zhou, Dechen Gao, Hang Wang +5Multi-Robot SystemsDistributed Optimization

    University of California, Davis · Microsoft Research · Analog Devices

  4. OpenSpace Lab Solution to the IROS 2026 Indoor Exploration Competition

    Oct 1, 2026Yuxuan Zhang, Dong Li, Zezhou Sun +5Multi-Robot SystemsIndoor Environments

    China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing · Macau University of Science and Technology · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences +3

  5. Real-Time Human-Adaptive Task Allocation for Multi-Human Multi-Robot Supervision

    Oct 1, 2026Seabin Lee, Sujeong Park, Nayoung Kim +3Multi-Robot SystemsHuman Agency

    Sogang University, Seoul, Korea. 1Dept. of Electronic Engineering. · Sogang University, Seoul, Korea. 2Dept. of Artificial Intelligence.

  6. Centralized Multi-UAV Exploration and 3D Reconstruction Using Single-UAV Planners

    Sep 30, 2026João Félix Mendes, Meysam Basiri, Rodrigo VenturaMulti-UavUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Institute for Systems and Robotics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal

  7. Communication-Free Distributed Multi-Robot Task Allocation under Partial Observations Using Labeled Multi-Bernoulli Filtering

    Sep 30, 2026Takumi Ito, Akiya KamimuraMulti-Robot SystemsDecentralized Autonomous Organization

    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan

  8. Onboard Vision and MPC Navigation for Underwater Robots: An Open BlueROV2 Platform for Multi-Robot Experiments & Docking

    Sep 29, 2026Victor Nan Fernandez-Ayala, Wiktor Kowalczyk, Cezary Banaszek +1Underwater RobotsUnderwater Acoustic Target Recognition

    Department of Decision and Control Systems, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

  9. Trajectory-Level Mode Guidance for Controllable Diffusion-Based Multi-Robot Motion Planning

    Sep 29, 2026Tianyou Yu, Shengze Cai, Chao XuDiffusion PlanningMulti-Robot Motion Planning

    Institute of Cyber-System and Control, College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

  10. Denoising Multi-Robot Trajectories

    Sep 28, 2026Yuhao Zhang, Keisuke Okumura, Ajay Shankar +1Multi-Robot Motion PlanningMulti-Robot Systems

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, U.K. · National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

  11. Hierarchical Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Warehouse Robot Coordination under Communication Loss

    Sep 27, 2026Weihao Sun, Gehui Xu, Andreas A. MalikopoulosMulti-Robot SystemsMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Systems Engineering Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850 USA · Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK · Applied Mathematics, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

  12. WRAP: Fixtureless Wrench-aware Multi-Robot Assembly Planning

    Sep 24, 2026Valentin N. Hartmann, Huang Su, Yijiang Huang +1Multi-Robot Motion PlanningAssembly

    Computational Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich, CH

  13. Connectivity Preservation and Graph Stretching in Range-Only Swarm Dispersion

    Sep 23, 2026Ariel BarelSwarmsMulti-Robot Systems

    Faculty of Computer Science, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

  14. MATE: Multi-Agent Virtual Teleoperation Platform for Humanoid Collaboration Data Collection

    Sep 22, 2026Yichuan Yu, Youzhuo Wang, Yiming Ren +6TeleoperationMulti-Robot Systems

    ShanghaiTech University · Nanyang Technological University

  15. AC-DC: Adaptive Communication for Scalable Dynamic Average Consensus in Multi-Robot Ergodic Search

    Sep 21, 2026Robin Inho Kee, Begum Cannataro, Vasileios TzoumasMulti-Robot SystemsCovariance

    Department of Robotics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA · Draper Scholar with the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA · Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA +1

  16. Feasibility Distance Fields for Heterogeneous Constraints in Robot Configuration Space

    Sep 21, 2026Xijing Cui, Huayan Pu, Jun Luo +1Continuous Distance FieldFeasibility

    First and third authors' affiliation · Second author's affiliation

  17. RoboTalk: Learning Multi-Robot Communication and Coordination from Multimodal Demonstrations

    Sep 21, 2026Dorian Benhamou Goldfajn, Mason Nakamura, Saaduddin Mahmud +3Large-Scale Robot Demonstration DatasetsMulti-Robot Systems

    University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. · University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. · Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.

  18. MR-SPITE: Accelerating Multi-Robot Conflict Scans via Hierarchical Swept-Volume Approximations

    Sep 20, 2026Marta Markowicz, James Motes, Marco Morales +1Multi-Robot SystemsCollision Prediction

    The authors are with the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois, 201 N. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. · Department of Computer Science at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico City, México

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

    Sep 20, 2026Animesh Maiti, Prakhar Shukla, Subhash BhagatMulti-Robot SystemsOptimistic Follow-The-Regularized-Leader

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

  20. 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

  21. CC-OPI: Online Distributed Task Allocation for UAV Swarms under Communication Constraints

    Sep 16, 2026Biao Liu, Tong ZhangUnmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsSwarms

  22. Exact Fusion and Coordinated Exploration in Multi-Robot Active Inference

    Sep 15, 2026Peng Wu, Mohsen Imani, Amidu Kamara +3Multi-Robot SystemsExploration

    Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. · University of California, Irvine, CA, USA. · U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC, USA. +1

  23. Waggle Dance Inspired Motion Communication for Multiple UAVs in MuJoCo

    Sep 15, 2026Zhang NengboMujocoUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    School of Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Campus Universiti Sains Malaysia, 14300 Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

  24. Distributed Safe Cooperative Vector Field for Trajectory Curvature Constrained Multi-Robot Systems

    Sep 14, 2026Zhouru Xiao, Tao Teng, Weijia Yao +3Multi-Robot SystemsCollision Avoidance

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China · College of Intelligence Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410082, China

  25. Communication-Constrained Multi-Robot Exploration With Adaptive Communication Windows

    Sep 14, 2026Ben Rossano, Jaein Lim, Jonathan P. HowMulti-Robot SystemsEfficient Exploration

    Aerospace Controls Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA · Draper Scholar with the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA · Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA

  26. Exact Feasibility Certification and Optimal Responsibility Allocation for Multi-Robot CBF Safety Filters

    Sep 14, 2026Chandan Kumar Sah, Jishnu KeshavanControl Barrier FunctionsSafety Filters

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560012, India

  27. Distributed Stochastic Optimal Control for Pattern-Oriented Swarms

    Sep 11, 2026Qingrui Zhang, Chenghao Yu, Feng Xue +1Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsSwarms

    School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, P.R. China

  28. Seeing is Not Believing: Breaking the Physical-to-Digital Trust Boundary in Robotics

    Sep 8, 2026Leming Shen, Shikai Geng, Yuanqing Zheng +1Robot Operating SystemMulti-Robot Systems

    University College London · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  29. mjorbit: A Simulation Framework for Space Robotics

    Sep 7, 2026John Z. Zhang, Joris Verhagen, Fausto Vega +2MujocoMulti-Robot Systems

    Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

  30. Decentralized Safe Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Predictive Shielding

    Sep 7, 2026Yacine El Yamani, Hanna Krasowski, Elena VanneauxMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningMulti-Robot Systems

    ENSTA, IP Paris, Palaiseau, France · UC Berkeley, USA

  31. D3ARC: Time-Critical Distributed Disaster Detection for Asynchronous Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems

    Sep 7, 2026Nikolaos Koursioumpas, Lina Magoula, Nancy Alonistioti +1Wildfire DetectionMulti-Robot Systems

    Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece · Huawei Heisenberg Research Center (Munich), Germany

  32. Formation Matrix and Energy-based Control of Multi-Agent Systems

    Sep 3, 2026Martín Crespo, Sergio Junco, Matías NacusseMulti-Robot SystemsOptimistic Follow-The-Regularized-Leader

    Automation and Control Systems Laboratory - FCEIA, National University of Rosario, Argentine

  33. TriSAR: Task Coordination and Collision Avoidance for Aerial Robot Teams in Disaster Response

    Sep 1, 2026Aditya Anil Kapile, Pedro Machado, Isibor Kennedy IhianleMulti-UavCollision Avoidance

    School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom

  34. Connectivity-Aware Graph Extension for Decentralized Multi-Robot Exploration

    Sep 1, 2026Béatrice Garcia Cegarra, Elena Vanneaux, Quentin Picard +1Multi-UavMulti-Robot Systems

    ⋆Pˆole recherche, AMIAD, Palaiseau, France · †UI2S, ENSTA, IP Paris, Palaiseau, France

  35. Genetic Fuzzy System-Based Multi-Robot Coordination for Planetary Missions

    Aug 13, 2026Daegyun Choi, Donghoon KimMulti-Robot SystemsMulti-Uav

    PhD Student, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA. · Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA.

  36. Attune: A Self-Annotation Tool for Understanding Robot Operator Attention Profiles

    Aug 12, 2026Puqi Zhou, Sungsoo Ray Hong, David PorfirioRobot SystemsMulti-Robot Systems

    Department of Computer Science George Mason University Fairfax, VA, USA · Department of Information Sciences and Technology George Mason University Fairfax, VA, USA

  37. TAMS: Task-Aware Multi-View Adaptive Streaming for Wireless Telerobotic Manipulation

    Aug 10, 2026Zexin Deng, Zhenhui Yuan, Lu Tian +2TeleoperationMulti-Robot Systems

    School of Engineering University of Warwick Coventry, United Kingdom · Pengcheng Laboratory & Southern Univ. of Sci. & Tech. Shenzhen, China

  38. TDMA Based Communications Control Co-Design for Cooperative Carrying: Delay Calibration and Sampling-Rate Optimization

    Aug 10, 2026Zahra Seifaei, Maximilian Luebke, Torsten Reissland +2Multi-Robot SystemsHeterogeneous Robot Teams

    Institute for Smart Electronics and Systems, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

  39. Task-Oriented Formation Decision via Reinforcement Learning: Herding an Attacking Swarm

    Aug 10, 2026Zhaozong Wang, Guibin Sun, Jinyong Chen +1Multi-Robot SystemsMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

  40. Complete, Scalable, and Robust Prioritized Planning for Multi-Robot Ordered Storage and Retrieval at Maximum Capacity

    Aug 7, 2026William Zhang, Tzvika Geft, Jingjin Yu +1Multi-Robot Motion PlanningMulti-Robot Systems

    Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

  41. When Coordination Becomes a Threat: Communication Attacks in LLM-Controlled Multi-Robot Systems

    Aug 7, 2026Zhen Huang, Zhihuang Liu, Weijia Shi +3Multi-Robot SystemsMulti-Agent Large Language Model Systems

    College of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China

  42. Coordinated Multi-Robot Disassembly for Makespan Optimization of Large-Scale Assemblies

    Aug 6, 2026Niklas Hargus, Andreas Orthey, Marc ToussaintMulti-Robot Motion PlanningMulti-Robot Systems

    Technical University of Berlin, Germany · Robotics Institute Germany (RIG)

  43. When Prompts Control Robots: Prompt Injection Attacks in Multi-Agent Robotic Systems

    Aug 1, 2026Neha Nagaraja, Amisha Bagari, Hayretdin BahsiIndirect Prompt InjectionMulti-Robot Systems

    School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA · Department of Software Science, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

  44. MDGAM-Based Cooperative Task Scheduling for Communication-Constrained Distributed Multi-Agent Systems

    Aug 1, 2026Licheng Wang, Mingtao Huang, Yuan ShenMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningMulti-Robot Systems

    Department of Electronic Engineering, and Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

  45. MROPE: A Multi-Robot Safe Cooperative Strategy via combined Predictive Safety Filters and Ellipse-based Constraint Compression

    Jul 31, 2026Alice Rosetti, Lorenzo Pichierri, Domenico Cappello +2Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsMulti-Robot Systems

    are with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy. · are with Leonardo S.p.a., Leonardo Innovation Labs, Rome, Italy.

  46. D-VLC: Decentralized Vision-Language Collaboration for Heterogeneous Embodied Multi-Robot Systems in Unknown Environments

    Jul 31, 2026Yuan Zhou, Ruitong Lin, Shen Wang +5Heterogeneous Robot TeamsMulti-Robot Systems

    Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Differential Robotics, Hangzhou, China · Beihang University, Beijing, China

  47. Multi-Objective Compliance-Integrated Coevolution For Simulated And Real-World Deployment Of Multi-Robot Marine Autonomy

    Jul 28, 2026Everardo Gonzalez, Tyler M. Paine, Manuel Agraz Vallejo +3Multi-Robot SystemsHuman-Centric Mission Planning

    Collaborative Robotics And Intelligent Systems Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA · MIT Marine Autonomy Lab, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

  48. Embodying Multi-Hand Manipulation Policies by Searching the Assignment and Null Spaces

    Jul 24, 2026Yorai Shaoul, Jiaoyang Li, Maxim LikhachevRobotic ManipulatorRobotic Manipulation Policies

    The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

  49. Distributed Model-Based Diffusion For Scalable Multi-Robot Trajectory Optimization

    Jul 23, 2026Haejoon Lee, Xinyi Wang, Taekyung Kim +1Multi-Robot SystemsMulti-Robot Motion Planning

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

  50. Safe and Scalable Multi-Drone Payload Transport via CBF-based Reinforcement Learning with Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Transfer

    Jul 22, 2026Jaeyoun Choi, Oswin So, Songyuan Zhang +2Multi-Drone CoordinationMulti-Robot Systems

    Reliable Autonomous Systems Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

  51. ADMM-Based Safety-Critical Distributed NMPC for Cooperative Transportation by Quadrupedal Robots

    Jul 18, 2026Ruturaj S. Sambhus, Kapi Ketan Mehta, Yicheng Zeng +1Multi-Robot SystemsModel Predictive Control

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

  52. Simultaneous Arrival Control for Distributed Multi-Robot Systems with Curvature and Constant-Speed Constraints

    Jul 16, 2026Zhouru Xiao, Yang Lu, Weijia Yao +2Multi-Robot SystemsQueue Control

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University, China · College of Intelligence Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, China

  53. Stochastic Filtering for Quorum Sensing in Robot Swarms under Anonymous Communication

    Jul 15, 2026Fabio Oddi, Andreagiovanni Reina, Vito TrianniSwarmsCollaborative Sensing

    DIAG, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy · ISTC, National Research Council, Rome, Italy · Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany +2

  54. Min-Max Regret Task Allocation and Planning of Heterogeneous Multi-Robot System in Partially Known Environments

    Jul 15, 2026Xinkai Liang, Huixuan Chan, Ying Liu +2Multi-Robot SystemsMulti-Agent Planning

  55. Unveiling Complex Collective Behaviors from Simple Rewards

    Jul 14, 2026Yize Mi, Jianan Li, Liang Li +1Multi-Robot SystemsMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. · WINDY Lab, School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China · Shanghai AI Laboratory, 200030, Shanghai, China +4

  56. EFLUX: Elastic Multi-Robot Formation Navigation and Adaptation with Agentic LLMs

    Jul 13, 2026Jinyuan Zhang, Yuwei Wu, Guangyao Shi +3Multi-Robot SystemsRobot Trajectories

    GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA · Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA

  57. From Non-Rigid to Rigid: Safe Acquisition of Rigid Communication Graphs under Limited Sensing

    Jul 11, 2026Saharsh, Vedhas Talnikar, Pushpak JagtapMulti-Robot SystemsOptimistic Follow-The-Regularized-Leader

    Department of Cyber Physical Systems · Indian Institute of Science · Bengaluru, 560012, India

  58. SEAMLiS: Visibility-Aware Safety for Perception-Limited Multi-Robot Exploration

    Jul 10, 2026Taekyung Kim, Rahul H Kumar, Aswin D. Menon +2Multi-Robot SystemsObstacle Avoidance

    Department of Robotics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA · Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA · Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

  59. CoDiMAD: Diffusion-Based Privileged Distillation for Communication-Free Multi-Robot Coordination

    Jul 10, 2026Jiyue Tao, Shunheng Xin, Tongsheng Shen +2Multi-Robot SystemsAware Heterogeneous Multi-Teacher Multimodal On-Policy Distillation

    Robotics and Control Laboratory, School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, and the State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex Systems, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China · National Innovation Institute of Defense Technology, Beijing 100071, China

  60. Dec-MARVEL: Decentralized Multi-Agent Exploration without Communication under Budget Constraints

    Jul 10, 2026Janghyun Cho, Jimmy Chiun, Guillaume Sartoretti +1Multi-UavMulti-Robot Systems

    1Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Sogang University. · 2Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore. · 3Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Sogang University.