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  1. CMP-IRRT*: A Perception-Assisted Height-Adaptive Planner for Quadruped Robots

    Oct 7, 2026Mingfan Zhao, Wendong Mao, Zhongfeng WangRobot NavigationMotion Planning

    School of Integrated Circuits, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China

  2. Fast and Robust Teach-and-Repeat Navigation Using MixVPR Visual Place Recognition*

    Oct 7, 2026Václav Truhlařík, Tomáš Pivoňka, Libor PřeučilRobot NavigationEmbodied Navigation

    Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, Czech technical University in Prague, Jugosl´avsk´ych partyz´an˚u 1580/3, 160 00 Praha 6, Czech Republic · Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Karlovo n´amˇest´ı 13, 121 35 Praha 2, Czech Republic

  3. SiGNgapore - An Interactive Dataset for Sign-based Visual Navigation

    Oct 7, 2026Nicky Zimmerman, Joel Loo, Zishuo Wang +1Robot NavigationVisual Navigation

    National University of Singapore, SG

  4. RIWANav: Recursive World-Action Models with Self-Improvement for Urban Navigation

    Oct 6, 2026Jing Xie, Shouwei Ruan, Yubin Wang +4Robot Policy LearningWorld Model Learning

    MoE Key Lab of Artificial Intelligence, Institute of AI, School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Beihang University, Beijing, China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China +3

  5. Demo: Closed-Loop Sionna-Isaac Sim Co-Simulation Framework for Wireless-Aware Robot Navigation over ROS 2

    Oct 6, 2026Yi Shen Lim, Seungeun Oh, Jihong ParkRobotics SimulationRobot Navigation

    Singapore University of Technology and Design Singapore

  6. Sensor-Layout-Agnostic Navigation via Geometric Observation Canonicalization

    Oct 6, 2026Welf Rehberg, Kostas AlexisRobot NavigationUAV Navigation

    Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology, Norway

  7. Navigation with RF Cues: Embodied Perception Action under Multipath Uncertainty

    Oct 6, 2026Wenlihan Lu, Tianshun Li, Liuqing Yang +1Robotic InspectionRobot Navigation

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China

  8. Risk-Sensitive Crowd Navigation with Adaptive Ellipsoidal Conformal Prediction

    Oct 5, 2026Ruihan A. Li, Ziyao Guo, Yingying LiDistribution Shift RobustnessRobot Navigation

    Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

  9. What the Elevation Map Cannot See: Semantic-Aware Locomotion and Execution-Aware Navigation for Humanoid Robot

    Oct 5, 2026Shunyu Yao, Songyang Liu, Dinghao Chen +2Humanoid Robot LocomotionRobot Navigation

    Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA · Independent researcher · Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

  10. Odyssey: A Closed-Loop Benchmark for Long-Horizon Real-World Driving with Explicit Navigation Routes

    Oct 5, 2026Jungho Kim, Hongjae Shin, Seunghoon Yu +11Autonomous Driving DatasetsAutonomous Driving Benchmarks

    Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

  11. Dual Variational Autoencoders for Efficient Sim-to-Real Transfer in Low-Cost Robotic Navigation

    Oct 5, 2026Álvaro Díez, Fidel AznarVariational AutoencodersDomain Adaptation

    Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Alicante

  12. MagServo: Uncertainty-Resilient Hierarchical Magnetic Servoing via Learned Latent Representations

    Oct 5, 2026Yuhan Tan, Yameng Zhang, Pei Liu +2Robotic ControlRobot Trajectory Tracking

    Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. · School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Germany.

  13. Robust 2D Traversability Mapping for Construction AMRs via Failure-Mode-Aware Fusion of LiDAR Geometry and Monocular Semantics

    Oct 4, 2026Manoj Karnekar, Om Mandhane, Gautham RamkumarRobotic ConstructionMobile Robotics

    FloMobility Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India

  14. GlassGuard: Verified Glass Plane Mapping for Robot Navigation

    Oct 1, 2026Hanwen Guo, Zhengzhi Lin, Yusen Xie +1Robot NavigationCamera-LiDAR Fusion

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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

    Oct 1, 2026Yuxuan Zhang, Dong Li, Zezhou Sun +5Robot NavigationMulti-Robot Exploration

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

  16. ColoACT: Multi-Cue Action Chunking for Smooth Autonomous Colon Navigation on a Self-Propelled Endoscopic Robot

    Oct 1, 2026Jian Hu, Shujing He, Leixin Chang +4EndoscopyRobot Policy Learning

    Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China · School of Mechanical Engineering and ZJU-UIUC Institute, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China · School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China

  17. EIDA: Execution-Interface Dynamics Adaptation for Real-to-Sim-to-Real Robot Navigation

    Oct 1, 2026Yiwei Qian, Shanze Wang, Qingyuan Hu +2Robot Dynamics IdentificationRobotics Simulation

    Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China · National University of Singapore, Singapore · Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong +1

  18. UniTrackPLA: Unified Panorama-Language-Action Model for Instruction-Guided Navigation and Dynamic Person Tracking

    Oct 1, 2026Pengfei Qi, Haoran Lin, Sizhuang Chen +7Visual Object TrackingRobot Navigation

    College of Integrated Circuits, Hunan University, Changsha, China · School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and the National Engineering Research Center of Robot Visual Perception and Control Technology, Hunan University, Changsha, China · School of Advanced Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China +1

  19. GPU-Accelerated Path-Dependent Marginal Information Gain for Autonomous Exploration

    Sep 30, 2026João Félix Mendes, Rodrigo Ventura, Meysam BasiriGPU AccelerationRobot Navigation

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

  20. UniWAM Technical Report: Unified Mobile Manipulation via Mixed-Stream World-Action Modeling and Manipulation Anchor Pose Supervision

    Sep 30, 2026Wei Xue, Keliang Liu, Mingzhang Cui +14Mobile ManipulationRobot Navigation

    Physical Superintelligence Lab, Fysics AI · College of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing, Fudan University

  21. FORTE: Forecasting Occupancy for Spatiotemporal Risk-Aware Planning in Dynamic Environments

    Sep 30, 2026Hahjin Lee, Young J. KimRobot NavigationSafe Motion Planning

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

  22. Beyond the Remembered World: Predictive 4D Belief for Persistent Navigation in Evolving Worlds

    Sep 30, 2026Mingjian Gao, Zhaocheng Li, Haoyang Huang +7Belief-Space PlanningEmbodied Navigation

    Zhejiang University · University of California, San Diego · Deeprobotics +1

  23. Concurrent Semantic Search and Mission Execution for LTL Missions in Unknown Environments

    Sep 30, 2026Fernando Salanova Gaspar, David Morilla Cabello, Cristian Mahulea Poleuca +1Symbolic PlanningRobot Navigation

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

    Sep 30, 2026Yin Gu, Xinming Zhang, Shanze Wang +2Hierarchical PlanningRobot Navigation

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

  25. Systematically Exploring the Capabilities of GPT-6 Astra as Embodied Policies

    Sep 29, 2026Galbot Team, Xuchuan Chen, Xiaoqian Cheng +31Language Model-Based ControlRobot Foundation Models

    Galbot Team

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

    Sep 29, 2026Timothy K Johnsen, Marco LevoratoRobotic ControlLarge Language Model-Based Robot Planning

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

  27. Risk-Aware Semantic Grounding for Trustworthy LLM-Based Robot Planning

    Sep 29, 2026Łukasz Sobczak, Nur Keleşoğlu, Sławomir Piotr NowakLarge Language Model-Based Robot PlanningRobot Navigation

    Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Gliwice 44-100, Poland

  28. BCNav: Bearing-Conditioned Depth Policies for Sound Source Navigation

    Sep 29, 2026Yaozhong Kang, Jiang Wang, Takeshi Ashizawa +2Robot Policy LearningRobot Navigation

    Department of Systems and Control Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan

  29. LQR-ArUco Fusion: Robust Hierarchical Control for Navigation and Asymmetric Manipulation in Two-Wheeled Robots

    Sep 28, 2026Anupam Chatterjee, Arpita KumariRobotic ControlRobot Navigation

    This work was conducted as independent research and received no financial or institutional support from any organization.

  30. Terrain-Aware Autonomous Planetary Exploration for Exteroceptive-Proprioceptive Mapping with Quadruped Scouts

    Sep 28, 2026Alberto Sanchez-Delgado, João Carlos Virgolino Soares, Victor Barasuol +1Off-Road Robot NavigationSpace Robotics

    Dynamic Legged Systems lab (DLS), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genoa, Italy