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  1. Task-Driven Closed-Loop Design Optimization of Passively Morphing Quadrotors for Contact-Mediated Narrow Gap Traversal

    Nov 6, 2026Etor Arza, Luca Girardi, Gabriel Maquignaz +4Aerial RoboticsRobot Morphology-Control Co-Design

    Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. · Mobile Robotics Lab, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. · Agricultural Robotics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.

  2. An Ordering Optimization for Fruit-Vegetable in High-Density Environment based on Genetic Algorithm

    Nov 5, 2026Jaehwi Seol, Jeonghyeon Pak, Hyoung Il SonRobotic HarvestingRobotic Optimization

    Department of Convergence Biosystems Engineering, Chonnam National University, 77 Yongbong-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61186, Republic of Korea · Kimchi Factory Research Group, World Institute of Kimchi, Gwangju, 61755, Republic of Korea · Interdisciplinary Program in IT-Bio Convergence System, Chonnam National University, 77 Yongbong-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61186, Republic of Korea +1

  3. Structure-Actuation Co-Design of All-Electric Heavy-Duty Robotic Manipulators

    Oct 27, 2026Mohammad Bahari, Amir Hossein Barjini, Jouni MattilaRoboticsRobotic Optimization

    Engineering and Natural Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

  4. Optimization, Optimal Control, and Reinforcement Learning for Robotics

    Oct 23, 2026Yonghyeon LeeOptimal ControlRL for Robotics

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Yonsei University

  5. Joint-Angle Invariance of Jacobian-Based Performance Indices for Serial Robotic Manipulators

    Oct 21, 2026Yaohua Zhou, Mingdao Lin, Jiayu Song +4RoboticsRobot Kinematics

    College of Information Science and Technology, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo 315200, China · Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China · Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China +3

  6. Time-Optimal Ergodic Retrieval

    Oct 15, 2026Christian Sulana, Christian Hughes, Ian AbrahamErgodic ControlRobotic Object Search

    Christian Sulana is with Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, California, USA · Christian Hughes is with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA · Ian Abraham is with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  7. LEAP: Gradient Flow Augmented Lagrangian Trajectory Optimization for Contact Constrained Robots

    Oct 14, 2026César E. Ramos Chuquiure, Ryan Tsai, Yutong Zhou +8Hypergradient OptimizationTrajectory Optimization

    Department of Robotics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. · Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. · Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

  8. Kinematic Reward, Measured Effort: Hardware-Validated RL Morphology Optimization of a Planar 2R Manipulator

    Oct 11, 2026Gunesh Gupta, Arvind Kumar Mishra, Sohom ChakrabartyRobotic OptimizationRobotic Manipulation

    Independent Researcher, Haridwar, India · Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India

  9. Global Optimality of Pose Graph Optimization

    Oct 10, 2026Shuan Ding, Ruishuang Chen, Mengfan Cao +1Pose Graph OptimizationRobotic Optimization

    Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of FullyActuated System Control Theory and Technology, and the School of Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China

  10. Pareto-Optimal Entropy-Regularized Trajectory Optimization

    Oct 6, 2026Dimitrios S. Georgiou, Augustinos D. Saravanos, Evangelos A. TheodorouTrajectory OptimizationTrajectory Generation

    Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. · Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

  11. Robust Nonprehensile Object Transport with Quadruped Robots

    Oct 5, 2026Ainoor Teimoorzadeh, Riccardo Pretto, Mario Selvaggio +2Trajectory OptimizationTrajectory Generation

    Munich Institute of Robotics & Machine Intelligence, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany · Tampere University, Finland · PRISMA Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125, Naples, Italy +1

  12. Denoising Multirobot Trajectories

    Sep 28, 2026Yuhao Zhang, Keisuke Okumura, Ajay Shankar +1Multi-Robot Motion PlanningKinodynamic Motion Planning

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, U.K. · National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan.

  13. Amplify: A Lightweight Library for Reproducible Nonlinear Programming Problems in Robotics

    Sep 23, 2026Nelson RosaRobotic OptimizationTrajectory Optimization

  14. RIT*: Riemannian Informed Trees for Cost-Adaptive Optimal Motion Planning

    Aug 1, 2026Muhayy Ud Din, Ahmed Nadar, Jan Rosell +1Constrained Motion PlanningMotion Planning

    Center for Autonomous Robotic Systems, Khalifa University (KU-CARS) · Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  15. Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-design

    Jul 28, 2026Huy Ha, C. Karen Liu, Shuran SongRobot Morphology-Control Co-DesignDiffusion Transformer

    Stanford University · Columbia University

  16. FARO: Feasibility-Aware Robot Motion Optimization

    Jul 20, 2026Michal Ciebielski, Shafeef Omar, Aaron Johnson +1Humanoid Loco-ManipulationKinodynamic Motion Planning

    Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. · Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

  17. AO-ARC: Almost-Surely Asymptotically Optimal Multi-Robot Motion Planning with ARC

    Jun 25, 2026James D. Motes, Marco Morales, Nancy M. AmatoMulti-Robot Motion PlanningMotion Planning

    Parasol Lab, School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL, 61820 USA · Department of Computer Science at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico City, México

  18. Scaling Nonlinear Optimization: Many Problems One GPU

    Jun 24, 2026John Viljoen, Johanna Haffner, Lasse Peters +2Trajectory OptimizationGPU Acceleration

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. · Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, during the completion of this work.

  19. Generating Robot Hands from Human Demonstrations

    Jun 18, 2026Sha Yi, Nicklas Hansen, Xueqian Bai +3Robotic Hand DesignRobotic Manipulation

    University of California San Diego · Amazon Frontier AI & Robotics

  20. Bayesian Optimization for Learning Nonlinear MPC in Autonomous Agent Navigation

    Jun 8, 2026Lorenzo Ortolani, Gabriel Voss, Gabriele Beltrami +2Constrained Motion PlanningNonlinear MPC

    Talos Robotics AI Milan, Italy

  21. RAM: Reachability Across Morphologies

    Jun 8, 2026Tim Walter, Xinyu Chen, Jonathan Külz +1Reachability AnalysisImplicit Neural Representations

    Department of Computer Engineering, Technical University Munich, Germany · German Electron Synchrotron, University of Hamburg, Germany

  22. Shape Your Body: Value Gradients for Multi-Embodiment Robot Design

    May 30, 2026Nico Bohlinger, Jan PetersCross-Embodiment Robot LearningRobotic RL

    Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany · Robotics Institute Germany (RIG); German Research Center for AI (DFKI); hessian.AI

  23. Natural Functional Gradients for Smooth Trajectory Optimization

    May 27, 2026Kisang Park, Chanwoo Kim, Kyungjae Lee +1Constrained Motion PlanningTrajectory Optimization

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea · Department of Statistics, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea · 3RLWRLD, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  24. When Search Becomes Memory: Accelerating Robot Design Discovery with Self-Evolving Skills

    May 25, 2026Yunfei Wang, Xiaohao Xu, Yang Li +1RoboticsLLM Agent Skill Learning

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  25. CMC-Opt: Constraint Manifold with Corners for Inequality-Constrained Optimization

    May 20, 2026Yetong Zhang, Frank DellaertKinodynamic Motion PlanningRiemannian Optimization

    College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, USA

  26. Lamarckian Inheritance in Dynamic Environments: How Key Variables Affect Evolutionary Dynamics

    May 15, 2026K. Ege de Bruin, Kyrre Glette, Kai Olav EllefsenRoboticsEvolutionary Robotics

    Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway · RITMO, University of Oslo, Norway

  27. Adaptive Smooth Tchebycheff Attention for Multi-Objective Policy Optimization

    May 12, 2026Alejandro Murillo-Gonzalez, Mahmoud Ali, Lantao LiuMulti-Objective Reinforcement LearningPolicy Optimization

    Indiana University–Bloomington

  28. PISTO: Proximal Inference for Stochastic Trajectory Optimization

    May 8, 2026Hongzhe Yu, Zinuo Chang, Yongxin ChenTrajectory OptimizationTrajectory Generation

    School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA · School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

  29. Bi-Level Optimization for Contact and Motion Planning in Rope-Assisted Legged Robots

    Apr 29, 2026Ruben Malacarne, Ioannis Tsikelis, Enrico Mingo Hoffman +1Legged RoboticsTrajectory Optimization

    The authors are with the Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell’Informazione (DISI), University of Trento. · The authors are with Inria, Université de Lorraine, CNRS, 54000 Nancy, France.

  30. DRAFTO: Decoupled Reduced-space and Adaptive Feasibility-repair Trajectory Optimization for Robotic Manipulators

    Mar 10, 2026Yichang Feng, Xiao Liang, Minghui ZhengTrajectory OptimizationRobotic Optimization

    Yichang Feng and Minghui Zheng are with the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA · Xiao Liang is with the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA