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  1. Provably Safe Motion Planning Under Unknown Disturbances

    May 26, 2026Ibon Gracia, Qi Heng Ho, Luca Laurenti +1Constrained Motion PlanningRobot Safety

    Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA · Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech, VA, USA · Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, and the Italian Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Italy

  2. RCSP: Risk-Sensitive Conjectural Scenario Planning for Safe Dynamic Robot Navigation

    May 25, 2026Zhengye Han, Quanyan ZhuSafe Robot NavigationRobot Safety

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering New York University

  3. Safety-Critical Whole-Body Control for Humanoid Robots via Input-to-State Safe Control Barrier Functions

    May 25, 2026Kwanwoo Lee, Sanghyuk Park, Gyeongjae Park +2Safety-Critical ControlControl Barrier Functions

    Department of Intelligence and Information, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea · Robotics Lab, Hyundai Motor Group, Republic of Korea · Advanced Institute of Convergence Technology, Republic of Korea +1

  4. Silent Failures in Physical AI: A Literature Review of Runtime Action Authorization for Autonomous Systems

    May 23, 2026Barak OrRobot SafetyAI Safety Evaluation

    STATE16

  5. Safe and Steerable Geometric Motion Policies for Robotic Dexterous Manipulation

    May 20, 2026Albert Wu, Riccardo Bonalli, Thomas Lew +1Robotic ControlConstrained Motion Planning

    Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. · Laboratory of Signals and Systems, University of Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CentraleSup´elec, France. · Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, CA 94022, USA.

  6. Sampling-Based Safe Reinforcement Learning

    May 19, 2026Luca Vignola, Bruce D. Lee, Manish Prajapat +4Robot SafetySafe RL

    ETH Zurich

  7. Adversarial Stress Testing of SPARK Humanoid Safety Filters

    May 18, 2026Saurav Ghosh, Abdou Sow, Luke ZhangAdversarial RobustnessRobotics

    aDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, United States

  8. Reactive Robot-Centric Safety for Autonomous Navigation in Constrained and Dynamic Environments

    May 15, 2026Viswa Narayanan Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh K. Viswanathan, Akshit Saradagi +2Safety-Critical ControlControl Barrier Functions

    Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Group of the Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden.

  9. Propagating Unsafe Actions in LLM Controlled Multi-Robot Collaboration via Single Robot Compromise

    May 15, 2026Zhen Huang, Zhihuang Liu, Mengxuan Luo +2Large Language Model-Based Robot PlanningAdversarial Attacks on LLMs

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

  10. Safety-Constrained Reinforcement Learning with Post-Training Reachability Verification for Robot Navigation

    May 13, 2026Qisong He, Xinmiao Huang, Jinwei Hu +4Constrained RLRisk-Sensitive RL

    University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. · Universit´e Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.

  11. SafeManip: A Property-Driven Benchmark for Temporal Safety Evaluation in Robotic Manipulation

    May 12, 2026Chengyue Huang, Khang Vo Huynh, Mellon M. Zhang +3Robot SafetyRobotic Manipulation

    Department of Machine Learning, Georgia Institute of Technology · Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia

  12. Learning When to Act: Communication-Efficient Reinforcement Learning via Run-Time Assurance

    May 11, 2026Adam Haroon, Erick J. Rodríguez-Seda, Cody Fleming +1RL ControlLyapunov-Based Control

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA · Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (NCARAI), U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., USA · Department of Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, USA

  13. A Closed-Form Dual-Barrier CBF Safety Filter for Holonomic Robots on Incrementally Built Occupancy Grid Maps

    May 6, 2026Himanshu Paudel, Basanta Joshi, Dhirendra Raj Madai +3Safety-Critical ControlControl Barrier Functions

  14. From Language to Logic: A Theoretical Architecture for VLM-Grounded Safe Navigation

    May 5, 2026Kristy Sakano, Kalonji Harrington, Mumu XuRoboticsSafe Robot Navigation

    Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, USA. · Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

  15. Differentiable Optimization Layered Safety-Critical Control for Risk-Aware Navigation via Conformal Prediction

    May 5, 2026Jinyang Dong, Shizhen Wu, Yongchun FangSafety-Critical ControlControl Barrier Functions

    Institute of Robotics and Automatic Information Systems, College of Artificial Intelligence, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China · Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China · Institute of Intelligence Technology and Robotic Systems, Shenzhen Research Institute of Nankai University, Shenzhen 518083, China

  16. Jiao: Bridging Isolation and Customization in Mixed Criticality Robotics

    May 5, 2026James Yen, Zhibai Huang, Zhixiang Wei +5Safety-Critical ControlRobotics

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · OpenMind, China

  17. Semantic Risk-Aware Heuristic Planning for Robotic Navigation in Dynamic Environments: An LLM-Inspired Approach

    May 4, 2026Hamza Ahmed Durrani, Rafay Suleman DurraniSafe Robot NavigationRobot Safety

    Sejong University, Computer Science Engineering · Technische Universität Ilmenau, Computer Engineering

  18. To Do or Not to Do: Ensuring the Safety of Visuomotor Policies Learned from Demonstrations

    May 2, 2026Riad Ahmed, Moniruzzaman Akash, Momotaz BegumVisuomotor Policy LearningImitation Learning

    Department of Computer Science University of New Hampshire

  19. Online Safety Filter for Deformable Object Manipulation with Horizon Agnostic Neural Operators

    May 1, 2026Jiaxing Li, Hanjiang Hu, Zhuoyuan Wang +2Safety-Critical ControlDeformable Object Manipulation

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  20. Safe Navigation using Neural Radiance Fields via Reachable Sets

    Apr 29, 2026Omanshu Thapliyal, Malarvizhi Sankaranarayanasamy, Ravigopal VennelakantiConstrained Motion PlanningSafe Robot Navigation

    Researcher, Hitachi America Ltd. Santa Clara, USA

  21. Dyna-Style Safety Augmented Reinforcement Learning: Staying Safe in the Face of Uncertainty

    Apr 28, 2026Artur Eisele, Bernd Frauenknecht, Friedrich Solowjow +1Robot SafetySafety Filtering

    Institute for Data Science in Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

  22. Semantic Denial of Service in LLM-controlled robots

    Apr 25, 2026Jonathan Steinberg, Oren GalLanguage Model Safety EvaluationAdversarial Attacks on LLMs

    Swarms & AI Lab (SAIL) · University of Haifa

  23. RedVLA: Physical Red Teaming for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Apr 24, 2026Yuhao Zhang, Borong Zhang, Jiaming Fan +4RoboticsAdversarial Attacks on VLA Models

    Institute for AI, Peking University · State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, Peking University

  24. Full-Body Dynamic Safety for Robot Manipulators: 3D Poisson Safety Functions for CBF-Based Safety Filters

    Apr 23, 2026Meg Wilkinson, Gilbert Bahati, Ryan M. Bena +3Control Barrier FunctionsRobot Safety

    Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology. · Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology.

  25. LLM-Guided Safety Agent for Edge Robotics with an ISO-Compliant Perception-Compute-Control Architecture

    Apr 22, 2026Xu Huang, Ruofan Zhang, Lu Cheng +9RoboticsRobot Safety

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · SIMMIR Tech

  26. SafetyALFRED: Evaluating Safety-Conscious Planning of Multimodal Large Language Models

    Apr 21, 2026Josue Torres-Fonseca, Naihao Deng, Yinpei Dai +5LLM Safety BenchmarksLarge Language Model-Based Robot Planning

    University of Michigan · Boise State University

  27. Using large language models for embodied planning introduces systematic safety risks

    Apr 20, 2026Tao Zhang, Kaixian Qu, Zhibin Li +4Large Language Model-Based Robot PlanningRobot Safety

    ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. · University College London, London, United Kingdom. · Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States. +2

  28. Planning Smooth and Safe Control Laws for a Unicycle Robot Among Obstacles

    Apr 19, 2026Aref Amiri, Basak Sakcak, Steven M. LaValleRobotic ControlConstrained Motion Planning

    Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu · Department of Advanced Computing Sciences, Maastricht University

  29. Emergency Stopping for Liquid-manipulating Robots

    Apr 17, 2026Samuli Hynninen, Ville KyrkiRobotic ControlRobot Safety

    Intelligent Robotics Group at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation, School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland.

  30. Vision-Based Safe Human-Robot Collaboration with Uncertainty Guarantees

    Apr 16, 2026Jakob Thumm, Marian Frei, Tianle Ni +2Conformal PredictionRobot Safety

    Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University · Chair of Imaging and Computer Vision, RWTH Aachen University · School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University +1