Robotic Control

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Robotic control turns sensor readings and task goals into actions, from steering mobile robots to coordinating humanoid bodies and handling delicate contact. Methods range from feedback control, inverse kinematics, and model predictive control to reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and vision-language-action policies. Current work often combines these approaches, adding force or tactile feedback, safety constraints, and sim-to-real adaptation to improve performance on manipulation, locomotion, and human-robot interaction tasks. A central challenge is achieving safe, stable behavior that generalizes to unfamiliar conditions while meeting real-time limits and retaining task performance.

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  1. Interaction Forces and Internal Loads in Parallel Manipulators with Actuation Redundancy

    Apr 29, 2026Joshua Flight, Clément GosselinRobotic ControlRobotics

  2. Reactive Motion Generation via Phase-varying Neural Potential Functions

    Apr 29, 2026Ahmet Tekden, Dimitrios Kanoulas, Aude Billard +1Robotic ControlRobot Motion Generation

    Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden · University College London, UK · Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

  3. Lifting Embodied World Models for Planning and Control

    Apr 28, 2026Alex N. Wang, Trevor Darrell, Pavel Izmailov +2Robotic ControlWorld Model-Based Planning

    Computer Science, New York University · BAIR, UC Berkeley

  4. Libra-VLA: Achieving Learning Equilibrium via Asynchronous Coarse-to-Fine Dual-System

    Apr 27, 2026Yifei Wei, Linqing Zhong, Yi Liu +4Robotic ControlLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    1Beihang University · 2AgiBot

  5. CF-VLA: Efficient Coarse-to-Fine Action Generation for Vision-Language-Action Policies

    Apr 27, 2026Fan Du, Feng Yan, Jianxiong Wu +8Robotic ControlEfficient VLA Model Inference

    1Southern University of Science and Technology · 2Xi’an Jiaotong University · 3United Nova Technology +1

  6. MUSIC: Learning Muscle-Driven Dexterous Hand Control

    Apr 26, 2026Pei Xu, Yufei Ye, Shuchun Sun +3Robotic ControlRL Control

    Stanford University, USA · Clemson University, USA

  7. Cooptimizing Safety and Performance Using Safety Value-Constrained Model Predictive Control

    Apr 26, 2026Hao Wang, Nam Nguyen, Armand Jordana +2Robotic ControlSafety-Critical Control

    Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California · Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University · Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, New York University

  8. Control Barrier Functions Solved with Hierarchical Quadratic Programming for Safe Physical Human-Robot Interaction

    Apr 24, 2026Rui Luo, Jonas Mariager Jakobsen, Wesley Roozing +2Robotic ControlControl Barrier Functions

  9. GCImOpt: Learning efficient goal-conditioned policies by imitating optimal trajectories

    Apr 24, 2026Jon Goikoetxea, Jesús F. PalaciánRobotic ControlImitation Learning

    Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science, Public University of Navarre · Ensimag, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Universit´e Grenoble Alpes · Institute for Advanced Materials and Mathematics (InaMat2)

  10. Learning-augmented robotic automation for real-world manufacturing

    Apr 24, 2026Yunho Kim, Quan Nguyen, Taewhan Kim +2Robotic ControlDeformable Object Manipulation

    All authors are with Neuromeka Co., Ltd.

  11. Dynamic Coupling and Indirect Control of Jointed Robots Rolling Atop A Moving Platform

    Apr 23, 2026Hamidreza Moradi, Scott David KellyRobotic ControlRobot Trajectory Tracking

    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223 USA

  12. Learn Weightlessness: Imitate Non-Self-Stabilizing Motions on Humanoid Robot

    Apr 23, 2026Yucheng Xin, Jiacheng Bao, Haoran Yang +6Robotic ControlHumanoid Robot Control

    Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, China · Shanghai AI Laboratory · University of Science and Technology of China

  13. A Survey of Legged Robotics in Non-Inertial Environments: Past, Present, and Future

    Apr 22, 2026I-Chia Chang, Xinyan Huang, Tzu-Yuan Lin +5Robotic ControlLegged Robotics

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906 USA · Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA · Department of Robotics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA

  14. Benefits of Low-Cost Bio-Inspiration in the Age of Overparametrization

    Apr 22, 2026Kevin Godin-Dubois, Anil Yaman, Anna V. KononovaRobotic ControlRobotic RL

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands · LIACS, Leiden Universiteit, Netherlands

  15. Efficient Reinforcement Learning using Linear Koopman Dynamics for Nonlinear Robotic Systems

    Apr 21, 2026Wenjian Hao, Yuxuan Fang, Zehui Lu +1Robotic ControlReinforcement Learning

    School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA · independent researcher

  16. Learning Hybrid-Control Policies for High-Precision In-Contact Manipulation Under Uncertainty

    Apr 21, 2026Hunter L. Brown, Geoffrey Hollinger, Stefan LeeRobotic ControlContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

  17. AeroBridge-TTA: Test-Time Adaptive Language-Conditioned Control for UAVs

    Apr 21, 2026Lingxue LyuRobotic ControlAerial Robotics

    University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

  18. AI-Enabled Image-Based Hybrid Vision/Force Control of Tendon-Driven Aerial Continuum Manipulators

    Apr 21, 2026Shayan Sepahvand, Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi, Farhad AghiliRobotic ControlAerial Robotics

    Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Mechatronics Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada · Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Aerospace Engineering (MIAE), Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, Canada

  19. Autonomous Skeletal Landmark Localization towards Agentic C-Arm Control

    Apr 20, 2026Jay Jung, Ahmad Arrabi, Jax Luo +2Robotic ControlLanguage Model-Based Control

    University of Vermont, Burlington, 05405, Vermont, U.S.A. · Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, 44195, Ohio, U.S.A.

  20. SynAgent: Generalizable Cooperative Humanoid Manipulation via Solo-to-Cooperative Agent Synergy

    Apr 20, 2026Wei Yao, Haohan Ma, Hongwen Zhang +6Robotic ControlHOI Generation

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China +2

  21. Periodic Steady-State Control of a Handkerchief-Spinning Task Using a Parallel Anti-Parallelogram Tendon-driven Wrist

    Apr 20, 2026Lei Liu, Haonan Zhang, Huahang Xu +8Robotic ControlDexterous Manipulation

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · School of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University, Beijing, China +10

  22. 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

  23. Time-Division Multiplexing Actuation in Tendon-Driven Arms: Lightweight Design and Fault Tolerance

    Apr 18, 2026Shoujie Li, Changqing Guo, Jianle Xu +4Robotic ControlRobotics

    Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China · School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639956, Singapore · Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

  24. 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.

  25. Safe and Energy-Aware Multi-Robot Density Control via PDE-Constrained Optimization for Long-Duration Autonomy

    Apr 16, 2026Longchen Niu, Andrew Nasif, Gennaro NotomistaRobotic ControlMulti-Robot Systems

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

  26. Behavior Cloning Under PD Control: A Finite-Horizon Theory of Gain-Dependent Error Amplification

    Apr 15, 2026Junghoon SeoPID ControlBehavior Cloning

    PIT IN Corp., South Korea

  27. HiVLA: A Visual-Grounded-Centric Hierarchical Embodied Manipulation System

    Apr 15, 2026Tianshuo Yang, Guanyu Chen, Yutian Chen +8Hierarchical Robot ControlVisual Grounding for Robotics

    The University of Hong Kong · Shanghai AI Laboratory · Shanghai Jiao Tong University +1

  28. A Dynamic-Growing Fuzzy-Neuro Controller, Application to a 3PSP Parallel Robot

    Apr 15, 2026Mohsen Jalaeian-Farimani, Mohammad-R Akbarzadeh-T, Alireza Akbarzadeh +1Robotic ControlAdaptive Control

    Center of Excellence on Soft Computing and Intelligent Information processing, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

  29. Angle-based Localization and Rigidity Maintenance Control for Multi-Robot Networks

    Apr 13, 2026J. Francisco Presenza, Leonardo J. Colombo, Juan I. Giribet +1Robotic ControlRobot Localization

    Institute of Engineering Technology and Sciences “Hilario Fernández Long” (CONICET-UBA) - Av. Paseo Colón 850, C1063ACV, Buenos Aires, Argentina. · Centre for Automation and Robotics (CSIC-UPM) - Ctra. M300 Campo Real, Km 0.200, Arganda del Rey, 28500, Madrid, Spain. · Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory (UDESA) and CONICET - Vito Dumas 284, B1644BID, Victoria, Argentina.

  30. LARY: A Latent Action Representation Yielding Benchmark for Generalizable Vision-to-Action Alignment

    Apr 13, 2026Dujun Nie, Fengjiao Chen, Qi Lv +4Latent Action LearningVision-Language-Action Models

    Meituan, Beijing, China