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  1. Model Predictive Control of Tensegrity Robots via Contact-Aware Graph Neural Dynamics Model

    Sep 8, 2026Nelson Chen, Patrick Meng, Charles Tang +5Robotic ControlRobot Dynamics Identification

    Computer Science, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA. · Mechanical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

  2. Real-Time Dynamics-Based Torque-Sampling MPPI for Compliant and Force Aware Manipulation

    Sep 2, 2026Euncheol Im, Taehyun Kim, Yonghwan Oh +2Robotic ControlModel Predictive Control

    The Center for Humanoid Research, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), 02792 Seoul, South Korea · The School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, 02841 Seoul, South Korea

  3. EmbodiedSkills: A Unified Framework for Orchestrating, Training, and Deploying VLA Agents

    Sep 1, 2026Wei Wang, Wenqiao Zhang, Yutong Lin +14Robotic ControlLarge Language Model-Based Robot Planning

    College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University · Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics · Cornell University +3

  4. On Global Regulatability of Robot Manipulators by Classical PID

    Sep 1, 2026Cheng Zhao, Jingru Zhu, Lei GuoRobotic ControlFeedback Control

    State Key Laboratory of Mathematical Sciences, AMSS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

  5. Behavior--Realization Separation for Constrained Physical Human--Robot Interaction

    Sep 1, 2026Yongyan CaoRobotic ControlAdmittance Control

    Voryx Robotics LLC, San Jose, CA 95136, USA

  6. LM-X: Explainable Vision--Language--Action Modeling via Progress, Event, and Uncertainty Prediction

    Aug 26, 2026Jin Lou, Zhiyuan Jing, Xupeng Wang +21Robotic ControlUncertainty Estimation for VLA Models

    Humanoid Robot (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. · E-surfing Digital Life Technology Co., Ltd., China Telecom

  7. Generative Action-Chunk Sampling for Adaptive Stiffness Control in Physical Human-Robot Collaboration

    Aug 26, 2026Aoi Otake, Ferdinand Hartmann, Ko Igari +1Robotic ControlHuman-Robot Collaboration

    School of Engineering and Design, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan

  8. PonderPounce: A Pretrained MLLM as an Episode Context Engine for Robot Control

    Aug 25, 2026Suhwan Choi, Jaeyoon Jung, Sungkyung Kim +2Robotic ControlLanguage Model-Based Control

    Seoul National University · Georgia Institute of Technology

  9. DreamLedger: Where to Refuse World-Model Imagination Using Execution-Settled Credit

    Aug 24, 2026Xianyao Li, Ruitong Tian, Rui Min +2Selective PredictionRobotics

    Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA · Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

  10. Real-Time Control-Constrained DDP for Underactuated Balancing of Legged Robots

    Aug 19, 2026SeongWon Nam, Hyunyong Lee, Hansol Kang +5Robotic ControlLegged Robotics

    Robotics Innovatory, School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea · AIDIN ROBOTICS Inc., Anyang, South Korea

  11. ORPA: Online Residual Policy Adaptation for Robot Manipulation Control with Human Feedback

    Aug 18, 2026Muhammad A. Muttaqien, Tomohiro Motoda, Ryo Hanai +1Robotic ControlRobot Policy Learning

    Embodied AI Research Team · National Institute of AIST · Tokyo, Japan

  12. Locomotion Variability and User Experience in Smart Wheelchair Human-Robot Interaction

    Aug 11, 2026Sean Kille, Adina M. Panchea, Balint Varga +1Robotic ControlHuman-Robot Collaboration

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Control Systems (IRS), Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany · Université de Sherbrooke, Interdisciplinary Institute for Technological Innovation (3IT), Sherbrooke, J1N 3C6, Canada

  13. From Self-Normal-Positioning to Omni-Directional Tracking: Real-Time Surface Modeling Enabled Probe Tilt Control for Robotic Ultrasound Imaging

    Aug 11, 2026Xihan Ma, Haichong ZhangRobotic ControlUltrasound Imaging

    Department of Robotics Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA 01609 USA

  14. Hip Energized Monopedal Hopping

    Aug 11, 2026Shane Rozen-Levy, Griffon McMahon, Daniel KoditschekRobotic ControlLegged Robotics

    GRASP Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA · GRASP Lab, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

  15. SAFE-CHEM: Uncertainty-Aware Policy Switching for Robust Robotic Chemistry

    Aug 10, 2026Laura Jones, Shazil Shahzad, Ayesha Sana +1Robotic ControlRobot Safety

    School of Computer Science & Informatics, University of Liverpool, UK. · Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, UK.

  16. Real-Time Nonlinear MPC via Sequential Quadratic Programming with Structure-Exploiting ADMM and Interior-Point Methods for Underactuated Double-Pendulum Swing-Up

    Aug 10, 2026Nick Karydakis, Konstantinos ChatzilygeroudisRobotic ControlNonlinear MPC

    Laboratory of Automation and Robotics (LAR) in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Patras, GR-26504 Patras, Greece

  17. Trajectory Divergence Horizon Decision for Reliable Dual-Arm Surgical Subtask Manipulation

    Aug 10, 2026Mingwu Su, Guankun Wang, Jinsong Lin +8Robotic ControlBimanual Robotic Manipulation

    Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong, China. · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute, Shenzhen, China. · The Theory Lab, Central Research Institute, 2012 Labs, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Hong Kong SAR, China.

  18. Scalable High-Speed Lateral Control for Single-Body and Articulated Autonomous Vehicles

    Aug 8, 2026Aashish Shaju, Steve Southward, Mehdi AhmadianRobotic ControlAutonomous Driving

    Center for Vehicle Systems and Safety (CVeSS), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA

  19. Enhancing Autonomous Vehicle Navigation with a Clothoid-Based Lateral Controller

    Aug 7, 2026Aashish Shaju, Steve Southward, Mehdi AhmadianRobotic ControlRobot Trajectory Tracking

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

  20. Static Timing Orchestration for Tree-Structured Robot Control Firmware

    Aug 5, 2026Wang Xi, Feiran Wei, Mo Deng +3Robotic ControlReal-Time Scheduling

    Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Key Laboratory of System Control and Information Processing, Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai, China.

  21. Active Stiffness Control of a Supportive Continuum Robot

    Aug 4, 2026Rana Danesh, Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi, Farhad AghiliRobotic ControlRobust Control

    Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Mechatronics Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada · Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada

  22. Projection-Retraction MPPI: Exact Constraint-Manifold Control for Manipulators

    Aug 4, 2026Seulchan Lee, Leesai Park, Minhyeong Kang +1Robotic ControlConstrained Motion Planning

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si 17104, Republic of Korea · Institutes of Convergence Technology, Suwon-si 16229, Republic of Korea

  23. Principles of Robot Autonomy

    Aug 4, 2026Daniele Gammelli, Joseph Lorenzetti, Katie Luo +2Robotic ControlRobot Navigation

  24. How Should Vision-Language-Action Models Use Proprioceptive State?

    Aug 4, 2026Yiren Zhao, Ziyang Chen, Ziyang Rao +5Robotic ControlVision-Language-Action Models

    1The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · 3AI2 Robotics X-Lab · 2Multimedia Laboratory (MMLab), The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  25. A 2-Block Architecture for Real-Time EEG Gait Decoding: A Pilot Study

    Aug 3, 2026Shantanu Sarkar, Saurabh Prasad, Jose L. Contreras-VidalRobotic ControlBrain-Computer Interfaces

    IUCRC BRAIN Center, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA

  26. Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them

    Aug 2, 2026Carlota Parés-Morlans, Nils Kuhn, Isabel Liu +2Robotic ControlContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    Stanford University

  27. Staged Multi-Agent Training (SMAT) for Hip Exoskeletons: Metabolic and Biomechanical Validation of a Simulation-Trained Co-Adaptive Controller

    Aug 1, 2026Yifei Yuan, Jakob Wolf, Ghaith Androwis +1Robotic ControlAssistive Robotics

    Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA · Kessler Foundation, West Orange, NJ 07052, USA

  28. Grasp Execution Without a Planner: Configuration-Space Grasp Distance Fields with Certified Safety & Guaranteed Quality

    Aug 1, 2026Clinton Enwerem, John S. Baras, Calin BeltaRobotic ControlRobotic Grasping

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research (ISR), University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

  29. Latency-Tolerant Cloud-Edge Collaborative Vision-Language-Action Models via Emergent Representational Specialization

    Aug 1, 2026Daojie Peng, Fulong Ma, Bingtao Wang +2Robotic ControlEdge Computing

    HKUST(GZ) · Shandong University · HKUST

  30. Towards General Language-Conditioned Latent Safety Filters

    Jul 31, 2026Ihab Tabbara, Yuxuan Yang, Hussein SibaiRobotic ControlRobot Safety

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63130, USA