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  1. 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

  2. Towards Accurate End-Effector Localization for UMI-Style Robotic Manipulation Teaching

    Oct 7, 2026Junjie Zhang, Deteng Zhang, Zhisong Xu +4Robot LocalizationRobot Manipulation Benchmarks

    Chongqing University · Northwestern Polytechnical University · The University of Tokyo +4

  3. FlightMagNav: An Open Dataset and Probabilistic Map Learning and Validation Framework for Outdoor Magnetic Field-Based Positioning

    Oct 6, 2026Isaac Skog, Miguel Ramos Galrinho, Martin GelinRobot LocalizationUAV Navigation

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden · FOI Swedish Defence Research Agency Kista, Sweden

  4. SURGE: Sonar-fUsed Reconstruction and localization via image-gated Graph Estimation

    Oct 5, 2026Mohammed Ibrahim M, Vallabh Deogaonkar, Trung Dong +3Underwater 3D ReconstructionRobot Localization

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of South Florida Tampa, FL, USA · Department of Ocean Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai, India · Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Seoul National University Seoul, South Korea

  5. Towards Quadruped-Provided Localization and Active Tracking for Micro-UAVs

    Oct 5, 2026Alejandro Lorite Mora, Andrés FaíñaUAV NavigationCooperative Localization

    IT University of Copenhagen, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, Copenhagen 2300, Denmark · Helix Lab, Campus Kalundborg 3, 4400 Kalundborg, Denmark · Novo Nordisk A/S, Hallas Alle 1, 4400 Kalundborg, Denmark

  6. FreeLoc: Online Floorplan Localization via Diffusion-Aided Pose Refinement

    Oct 4, 2026Haocheng Peng, Boyang Zhou, Jiarui Hu +7Floor-Plan-Based Visual LocalizationMap-Based Localization

    State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University

  7. BLT*: Informed Belief Localization Trees for Uncertainty-Aware Planning on Digital Twins

    Oct 1, 2026Elliot Preston-Krebs, Abhishek Goudar, Timothy D. BarfootBelief-Space PlanningDigital Twins

    University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), 4925 Dufferin St, Ontario, Canada.

  8. UpDown-SC: Gravity-Canonicalized Dual-Envelope Scan Context for Indoor LiDAR Place Recognition

    Sep 24, 2026Jie Xu, Yongxin Yang, Ziyi Jin +4LiDAR Place RecognitionLiDAR Localization

    Anyverse Dynamics, Beijing, China

  9. A Field-Deployable GNSS-based Navigation Stack for Outdoor Mobile Robots

    Sep 24, 2026Yiyuan Lin, Cole Regnier, Yu JiangRobot Trajectory TrackingRobot Navigation

    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA · School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell AgriTech, Cornell University, Geneva, NY, USA

  10. Dr-LiSA: Direct Radar-Lidar Scan Alignment for SE(3)SE(3) Localization

    Sep 22, 2026Alex Zhang, Daniil Lisus, Cedric Le Gentil +1LiDAR LocalizationMap-Based Localization

    Robotics Institute, University of Toronto, Canada · Mobile Robotics Lab, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

  11. Audio-based UAV Localization with Adaptive Temporal Correspondence via Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 21, 2026Haoxiang Lei, Mingzheng Feng, Daotong Wang +1Active PerceptionRobot Localization

  12. Elevator-VIGS: Separating Elevator Motion from Robot Motion in Visual-Inertial Gaussian Splatting SLAM

    Sep 20, 2026Rui Zhou, Zihan Zhu, Wei Zhang +3Simultaneous Localization and Mapping3DGS SLAM

    University of Zürich · ETH Zürich · University of Stuttgart +1

  13. Navi-Agent: Unlocalized Monocular Navigation Agent

    Sep 17, 2026Wenyuan Xie, Mengyang Hong, Yongzhong Wang +9Robot NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Southern University of Science and Technology · Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics +1

  14. Dynamic-LIVO: A Dynamic-Aware LiDAR-Inertial-Visual Odometry System Using Spatio-Temporal Normals

    Sep 16, 2026Zhixin Zhang, Samuel Ahiwe, Matthew Hale +2Inertial OdometryCamera-LiDAR Fusion

    Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. · Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. · School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, U.K.

  15. ReRadar: Robust Radar Global Localization via Rotation-Equivariant Descriptor Learning

    Sep 16, 2026Duc Manh Nguyen, Truong Giang Dao, Gia Nghiem Luong +2Millimeter-Wave RadarmmWave Radar Sensing

    School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam · School of Information and Communications Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam

  16. DRT&R: Direct Radar Teach & Repeat

    Sep 15, 2026Alexander Krawciw, Daniil Lisus, Cedric Le Gentil +1Off-Road Robot NavigationEmbodied Navigation

    Robotics Institute, University of Toronto, Canada · Mobile Robotics Lab, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

  17. Comparing Trajectories from Positions Alone: Curvature-Based Time Alignment and Drift Error Metric

    Sep 14, 2026Effie Daum, Daniele De Martini, Claire Dune +1Trajectory GenerationRobot Localization

    Northern Robotics Laboratory, Universit´e Laval, Qu´ebec City, Qu´ebec, Canada · Mobile Robotics Group, Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  18. Beyond Dead Reckoning: A Point of View on Camera--DAS--GNSS Continuity in Road Tunnels

    Sep 13, 2026Lyes Saad Saoud, Hesham A. Rakha, Mona Jaber +1GNSS-Denied LocalizationWireless Localization

    School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, U.K.

  19. 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 +3Robot Trajectory TrackingMobile Robotics

  20. TRaIL-Odom: Tightly Coupled Continuous Time Radar-IMU-LiDAR Odometry with Adaptive Doppler Weighting

    Sep 3, 2026Chiyun Noh, Turcan Tuna, William Talbot +3Adaptive Loss WeightingRadar-Inertial Odometry

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, S. Korea · Robotic Systems Lab (RSL), ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland · Robotics and AI Institute (RAI), Zürich, Switzerland

  21. HorizonNet for visual terrain navigation

    Aug 31, 2026Bertil Grelsson, Andreas Robinson, Michael Felsberg +1Robot NavigationMap-Based Localization

    Computer Vision Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden · Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  22. WRAP: Wasserstein-Robust Adaptive Plug-in for Robot Localization

    Aug 10, 2026Minhyuk Jang, Astghik Hakobyan, Jungjin Lee +2Kalman FilteringRobot Localization

    Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA · Center for Scientific Innovation and Education and the National Polytechnic University of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Automation and Systems Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

  23. A Height-Constrained 2-Point Minimal Solver for Pose Estimation from Active LED Markers with Event Cameras

    Aug 10, 2026Runze Yuan, Alexander Kappler, Jun Zhang +5Camera Pose EstimationRobot Localization

    Institute of Visual Computing, Graz University of Technology · MIS laboratory, University of Picardie Jules Verne · ICB laboratory, University of Burgundy Europe

  24. Tether-Inertial Localization for Planetary Drones

    Aug 10, 2026Dielof van Loon, Anton Bredenbeck, Lennart Puck +2UAV NavigationRobot Localization

    Dept. of Cognitive Robotics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, TU Delft, The Netherlands. · Biomorphic Intelligence Laboratory, Dept. of Control & Operations, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft, The Netherlands. · Planetary Robotics Lab, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

  25. Trajectory-Induced Self-Calibration for Hidden-Target Localization Through an Unknown-Pose Range-Bearing Relay

    Aug 10, 2026Yash BaglaWireless LocalizationRobot Localization

    Michigan State University

  26. Rigid-Covert GNSS Spoofing of UAV Swarms: A Structural Blind Spot, Its Detection Limit, and Absolute-Anchor Defenses

    Aug 7, 2026Minseok Park, Joon Soo YooUAV NavigationCooperative Localization

    Jeonbuk National University · Dept. of Electronic Engineering · Jeonju, Republic of Korea +1

  27. Topometric Autonomous Vehicle Localization by Combining Visual Embeddings and Feed-Forward 3D Models

    Aug 6, 2026Eulogio Quemada-Torres, Alberto Jaenal, Francisco-Angel Moreno +1Visual Place RecognitionMap-Based Localization

    Machine Perception and Intelligent Robotics Group (MAPIR), Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, Malaga Institute for Mechatronics Engineering and Cyber-Physical Systems (IMECH.UMA), University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain · Robotics, Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence Group (RoPeRT), Aragon Institute for Engineering Research (I3A), University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

  28. A Vision-based Control Framework for Real-time Autonomous UUV Operations

    Aug 5, 2026Erik Tjærand Frøland, Marco Job, Md Ether Deowan +1Robot NavigationUnderwater 3D Reconstruction

    Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, NTNU, Norway · Oceaneering AS, Norway

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

    Aug 3, 2026Mohammadali Rashidioun, Michael Sosa, Petras SwisslerModular RoboticsSwarm Robotics

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

  30. LOCUS-DT: Localization via Observation-Conditioned Uncertainty Scoring with Digital Twins

    Aug 1, 2026Haozhe Lei, Roberto Bomfin, Marwa Chafii +1Wireless LocalizationMap-Based Localization

    NYU WIRELESS, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA · Engineering Division, New York University Abu Dhabi, 129188, UAE