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. Learning Robust Control Policies for Inverted Pose on Miniature Blimp Robots

    Feb 27, 2026Yuanlin Yang, Lin Hong, Fumin ZhangRobotic ControlAerial Robotics

    Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

  2. Teleoperated Omni-directional Dual Arm Mobile Manipulation Robotic System with Shared Control for Retail Store

    Feb 27, 2026Rolif Lima, Somdeb Saha, Nijil George +5RoboticsMobile Robotics

    The authors are with TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Bengaluru, Karnataka - 560066, India.

  3. Physics-Embedded Neural ODEs for Learning Antagonistic Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Dynamics

    Feb 27, 2026Xinyao Wang, Jonathan RealmutoPneumatic ActuationSoft Pneumatic Actuators

    Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA

  4. Automated Robotic Needle Puncture for Percutaneous Dilatational Tracheostomy

    Feb 26, 2026Yuan Tang, Bruno V. Adorno, Brendan A. McGrath +1Robotic InsertionSurgical Robotics

    Manchester Centre for Robotics and AI and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK · Manchester Centre for Robotics and AI and the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK · Manchester University Foundation Trust Wythenshawe Hospital Intensive Care Unit, Manchester, UK

  5. LeRobot: An Open-Source Library for End-to-End Robot Learning

    Feb 26, 2026Remi Cadene, Simon Aliberts, Francesco Capuano +14Robot LearningRobotic Control

    Hugging Face · University of Oxford

  6. System Design of the Ultra Mobility Vehicle: A Driving, Balancing, and Jumping Bicycle Robot

    Feb 25, 2026Benjamin Bokser, Daniel Gonzalez, Aaron Preston +39Robot LocomotionRobot Morphology-Control Co-Design

  7. Vector Fields for Path Following on Lie Groups with Application in Robot Control

    Feb 25, 2026Felipe Bartelt, Luciano C. A. Pimenta, Weijia Yao +1Robotic ControlLie Group Methods

  8. How Foundational Skills Influence VLM-based Embodied Agents:A Native Perspective

    Feb 24, 2026Bo Peng, Pi Bu, Keyu Pan +7Embodied Agent BenchmarksEmbodied AI

    University of Science and Technology of China · Alibaba Group · Independent Researcher +1

  9. EEG-Driven Intention Decoding: Offline Deep Learning Benchmarking on a Robotic Rover

    Feb 23, 2026Ghadah Alosaimi, Maha Alsayyari, Yixin Sun +3Brain-Computer InterfacesEEG Decoding

    Department of Computer Science, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia · Department of Computer Science, Durham University, UK · Department of Computer Science, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia +1

  10. Scaling Law of Neural Koopman Operators

    Feb 23, 2026Abulikemu Abuduweili, Yuyang Pang, Feihan Li +1Koopman Operator LearningRobot Dynamics Learning

    Authors are with the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.

  11. Design, Locomotion, and Control of Amphibious Robots: Recent Advances

    Feb 22, 2026Yi Jin, Chang Liu, Roger D. Quinn +2RoboticsRobot Locomotion

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA · John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Allston, MA, 02134, USA · Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA +2

  12. Quasi-Periodic Gaussian Process Predictive Iterative Learning Control

    Feb 20, 2026Unnati Nigam, Radhendushka Srivastava, Faezeh Marzbanrad +1Iterative Learning ControlRobotic Control

    IITB-Monash Research Academy, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India · Department of Mathematics, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India · Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne, Australia

  13. FR-GESTURE: An RGBD Dataset For Gesture-based Human-Robot Interaction In First Responder Operations

    Feb 19, 2026Konstantinos Foteinos, Georgios Angelidis, Aggelos Psiris +3Human-Robot InteractionRobotic Data Collection

    ∗Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens, Athens, Greece · † Department of Networks and Digital Media, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom · ‡ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Greece +1

  14. IRIS: Learning-Driven Task-Specific Cinema Robot Arm for Visuomotor Motion Control

    Feb 19, 2026Qilong Cheng, Matthew Mackay, Ali BereyhiRobotic ControlVision-Based Robot Control

    Mechanical and Aerospace Eng. Department, New York University · MIE Department, University of Toronto · ECE Department, University of Toronto

  15. HERO: Learning Humanoid End-Effector Control for Visual Whole-Body Open-Vocabulary Object Grasping

    Feb 18, 2026Runpei Dong, Ziyan Li, Arjun Gupta +2Robotic ControlHumanoid Loco-Manipulation

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  16. Autonomous Block Assembly for Boom Cranes with Passive Joint Dynamics: Integrated Vision MPC Control

    Feb 17, 2026Gerald Ebmer, Minh Nhat Vu, Tobias Glück +1Robotic ControlRobotic Construction

    Automation & Control Institute (ACIN), TU Wien, Gusshausstrasse 27-29, 1040 Wien, Austria · Center for Vision, Automation & Control, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Giefinggasse 4, 1210 Vienna, Austria

  17. Fluoroscopy-Constrained Magnetic Robot Control via Zernike-Based Field Modeling and Nonlinear MPC

    Feb 17, 2026Xinhao Chen, Hongkun Yao, Anuruddha Bhattacharjee +4Robotic ControlSurgical Robotics

    Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. · Division of Magnetic Manipulation and Particle Research, Weinberg Medical Physics, MD 20852, USA.

  18. A ROS2 Benchmarking Framework for Hierarchical Control Strategies in Mobile Robots for Mediterranean Greenhouses

    Feb 16, 2026Fernando Cañadas-Aránega, Francisco J. Mañas-Álvarez, José L- Guzmán +2Robotic ControlMobile Robotics

    Department of Informatics, CIESOL, ceiA3, Universidad de Almería, Ctra. Sacramento s/n, Almería, 04120, Spain · Department of Computer Science and Automation, National University of Distance Education (UNED), C/ Juan del Rosal 16, Madrid, 28040, Spain · Department of Engineering, CIESOL, ceiA3, Universidad de Almería, Ctra. Sacramento s/n, Almería, 04120, Spain

  19. Augmenting Human Balance with Generic Supernumerary Robotic Limbs

    Feb 16, 2026Xuanyun Qiu, Dorian Verdel, Hector Cervantes-Culebro +2RoboticsRobotic Control

    All authors are with the Bioengineering Department, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, W12 0BZ London, United-Kingdom

  20. RoboSolver: A Multi-Agent Large Language Model Framework for Solving Robotic Arm Problems

    Feb 16, 2026Hamid Khabazi, Ali F. Meghdari, Alireza TaheriRobot KinematicsRobotics

    Social & Cognitive Robotics Laboratory, Center of Excellence in Design, Robotics, and Automation (CEDRA), Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran · Chancellor, Fereshtegaan International Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran · Artificial Intelligence in Design and Complex Systems (AIDACS) Group, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

  21. Soft Swing-up: Benchmarking Model-Based Optimal Control for Rigid-Soft Underactuated Systems

    Feb 3, 2026Daniele Caradonna, Nikhil Nair, Anup Teejo Mathew +5Robotic ControlModel Predictive Control

    The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy · Department of Excellence in Robotics and AI, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy · Department of Cognitive Robotics, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands +3

  22. Flow Policy Gradients for Robot Control

    Feb 2, 2026Brent Yi, Hongsuk Choi, Himanshu Gaurav Singh +9Robotic ControlRL for Robotics

    Amazon FAR · UC Berkeley · Stanford +2

  23. Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap with multipanda_ros2: A Real-Time ROS2 Framework for Multimanual Systems

    Feb 2, 2026Jon Škerlj, Seongjin Bien, Abdeldjallil Naceri +1Robotic ControlRobot Dynamics Identification

    Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany · Technische Universität Nürnberg (UTN), Germany · Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE

  24. Tilt-Ropter: A Fully Actuated Hybrid Aerial-Terrestrial Vehicle with Tilt Rotors and Passive Wheels

    Feb 2, 2026Ruoyu Wang, Xuchen Liu, Zongzhou Wu +3Robotic ControlRobot Trajectory Tracking

    Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong · Faculty of Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong · Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

  25. OGPO: One-Step Generative Policy Optimization for Real-Time Robot Control

    Jan 28, 2026Guowei Zou, Haitao Wang, Hejun Wu +3Robotic ControlReal-Time Robot Control

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China · Guangdong Key Laboratory of Big Data Analysis and Processing, Guangzhou, China

  26. Demonstration-Free Robotic Control via LLM Agents

    Jan 28, 2026Brian Y. Tsui, Alan Y. Fang, Tiffany J. HwuRobotic ControlLanguage Model-Based Control

    All authors are independent researchers.

  27. Tactile Memory with Soft Robot: Robust Object Insertion via Masked Encoding and Soft Wrist

    Jan 27, 2026Tatsuya Kamijo, Mai Nishimura, Nodoka Shibasaki +3Robotic ControlDexterous Manipulation

    OMRON SINIC X Corporation, 5-24-5 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan · The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8654, Japan · Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

  28. TIDAL: Temporally Interleaved Diffusion and Action Loop for High-Frequency VLA Control

    Jan 21, 2026Yuteng Sun, Haoran Wang, Ruofei Bai +4Robotic ControlDiffusion Policy

    Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore · 2Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · 3Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  29. NeuroVLA: A Brain-inspired Embodied Intelligence for Fluid and Fast Reflexive Robotics Control

    Jan 21, 2026Weiyu Guo, He Zhang, Pengteng Li +7Robotic ControlVision-Language-Action Models

    The Thrust of Artificial Intelligence, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China. · AI2 Robotics, Shenzhen, China · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China +1

  30. Simplifying ROS2 controllers with a modular architecture for robot-agnostic reference generation

    Jan 13, 2026Davide Risi, Vincenzo Petrone, Antonio Langella +3Robotic ControlRobot Trajectory Tracking

    Department of Information Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics (DIEM), University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, Italy