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  1. No Need to Stop the Fleet: Localized Anomaly Isolation via Dead Zones in AGV Fleets

    Oct 6, 2026Natalia Ogorelysheva, Falk Howar, Jian-Jia ChenMulti-Robot SystemsSafe Robot Navigation

  2. Seeing the Invisible: Physics-Guided Visual Prompting for Temperature- and Radiation-Aware VLA Navigation

    Oct 6, 2026Hojoon Son, Fan ZhangSafe Robot NavigationVision-Language Navigation

  3. What the Elevation Map Cannot See: Semantic-Aware Locomotion and Execution-Aware Navigation for Humanoid Robot

    Oct 5, 2026Shunyu Yao, Songyang Liu, Dinghao Chen +2Humanoid Robot LocomotionRobot Navigation

  4. End-to-End Safe Social Navigation via Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning and Probabilistic Perception

    Oct 5, 2026Tommaso Van Der Meer, Andrea Garulli, Antonio Giannitrapani +3Robotic RLSafe Robot Navigation

  5. Social Navigation for Tour-guide Robot

    Oct 4, 2026Vikram Shree, Jose NinoSafe Robot NavigationSocial Robot Navigation

  6. Social-WM: Safety-Aware Latent World Models for Robot Social Navigation

    Sep 30, 2026Zhihao Zheng, Mooi Choo ChuahWorld Models for RoboticsWorld Model-Based Planning

  7. RL-Guided PAC-NMPC for Probabilistically-Safe Perception-Based Navigation in Unknown Environments

    Sep 30, 2026Adam Polevoy, Dillon Capalongo, Katherine Tang +3RL for RoboticsNonlinear MPC

  8. Experience-Driven Continual Learning of Terrain Traversability for Quadruped Robots

    Sep 30, 2026Luca Bricarello, João Carlos Virgolino Soares, Alberto Sanchez-Delgado +2Continual Robot LearningSafe Robot Navigation

  9. DODGER: Safety-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Robot Navigation Among Dynamic Obstacles

    Sep 30, 2026Sanghyuk Park, Kwanwoo Lee, Taekyung Kim +2RL for RoboticsControl Barrier Functions

  10. Adversarially Robust Geometric Safety Certificates for Nonholonomic Robots Against Maneuvering Obstacles

    Sep 29, 2026Chandan Kumar Sah, Bazeela Banday, Jishnu KeshavanControl Barrier FunctionsSafe Robot Navigation

  11. Distilling Privileged Control Barrier Functions into RGB-Only Safety Filters for Dynamic Visual Navigation

    Sep 29, 2026Seungyeon Yoo, Gawon Lee, Seungwoo Jung +2Control Barrier FunctionsRobotics

  12. Learning to Drive on Mars: Visual Multimodal Traversability Estimation for Off-World Navigation

    Sep 21, 2026Darren Chiu, Cole Wilson, Andrei Tumbar +2Off-Road Robot NavigationSpace Robotics

  13. Time-Efficient Iterative Learning Planning for Safety-Critical Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance

    Sep 17, 2026Zhiyi Chen, Shuli Lv, Chen Min +3Control Barrier FunctionsSafe Robot Navigation

  14. SemSafe-3DGS: Semantic Risk-Aware Active Navigation in Uncertain 3D Gaussian Splatting Maps

    Sep 16, 2026Amirhossein Mollaei Khass, Athanasios Cosse, Nader Motee3D Gaussian SplattingRobot Navigation

  15. Learning Safe Humanoid Navigation from Reduced Order Models

    Sep 16, 2026William D. Compton, Zachary Olkin, Ryan Bena +1Robot Policy LearningRobot Navigation

  16. TRACER: Adaptive Multi-Robot Social Navigation via Joint Human-Response Prediction and Interaction-Aware Replanning

    Sep 16, 2026Lan Hu, Minghui Liwang, Wenbo Zhu +4Multi-Robot Motion PlanningMulti-Robot Systems

  17. WAVE-Go: World-Model Navigation with Adaptive Execution for Wheel-Legged Robots

    Sep 16, 2026Mingyi Li, Ji Li, Zhihao Ouyang +2Visual NavigationWorld Models for Robotics

  18. VertexCBF: Improving Neural Control Barrier Functions via Vertex-Restricted Control Search

    Sep 11, 2026Bojan Derajić, Sebastian Bernhard, Wolfgang HönigControl Barrier FunctionsSafe Robot Navigation

  19. RoughSense: Lightweight Terrain-Induced Rover Vibration Prediction Using Point Clouds and IMU Feedback

    Sep 3, 2026Gabriel Manuel Garcia, Stephanie Aravecchia, Miguel Angel Olivares-MendezMobile RoboticsSafe Robot Navigation

  20. GAFT: Geo-Anchored Fine-Tuning for Hazard Identification from Rare Failures

    Aug 31, 2026Yanran Xu, Chuanhang Qiu, Yue Wang +2Robot NavigationVision Foundation Model Adaptation

  21. CanonNav: Disentangling Navigation Behavior from Camera Geometry in Cross-Platform Visual Navigation

    Aug 31, 2026Dong-Wook Kim, Ji-Hoon Hwang, E-In Son +2Visual NavigationSafe Robot Navigation

  22. CoCoNav: Conformal Control for Safe Robot Navigation in Crowds

    Aug 7, 2026Cheng Guo, Mingzhe Ni, Zheng Liang +5Constrained Motion PlanningConformal Prediction

  23. SCOPE: Field-of-View-Aware Path Planning in Unknown 3D Environments via Safety-Volume Certification

    Aug 5, 2026Junbin Yuan, Muqing Cao, Yunwoo Lee +2Constrained Motion PlanningSafe Robot Navigation

  24. Control Barrier Functions via Minkowski Operations for Safe Navigation among Polytopes

    Aug 3, 2026Yi-Hsuan Chen, Shuo Liu, Wei Xiao +2Signed Distance FunctionsControl Barrier Functions

  25. Staying on Spec: Real-Time Monitoring under Uncertainty with a Maritime Case Study

    Aug 3, 2026Elizabeth Dietrich, Hanna Krasowski, Emir Cem Gezer +3Reachability AnalysisSafe Robot Navigation

  26. BioVLN: A Simulation Platform for Visual Language Navigation in Biomedical Laboratories

    Jul 29, 2026Zhe Liu, Quan Lu, Zhaohui Du +7Robotics SimulationRobot Navigation

  27. Safe Learning Predictive Control for Ego-World Robotic Systems

    Jul 24, 2026Davide Valenti, Giuseppe NotarstefanoMulti-Agent ControlSafe Robot Navigation

  28. Unified Prediction and Planning via Conflict-Aware Disjoint Parameter Training

    Jul 22, 2026Taewon Seo, Seonae Jeon, Giwon Lee +2Multi-Agent Trajectory PredictionMulti-Task Learning

  29. EA-Nav: Learning Safe Visual Navigation Policies with Embodiment Awareness

    Jul 22, 2026Jialu Zhang, Yong Du, Xianda Guo +6Embodied NavigationCross-Embodiment Robot Learning

  30. Learning Adaptive Safety Margins for Visual Navigation

    Jul 20, 2026Junyi Hu, Shuaihang Yuan, Geeta Chandra Raju Bethala +2Visual NavigationTrajectory Generation

  31. G2-Nav: Grounded and Guarded Vision-Language Costmaps for Robot Social Navigation

    Jul 18, 2026Yuwen Liao, Yihang Lan, Yizhuo Yang +4Robot NavigationSafe Robot Navigation

  32. MemoGuard: An Adaptive Runtime for Guarding Against Memory Traps in Communication-Limited Robot Navigation

    Jul 17, 2026Rajat Bhattacharjya, Hyeonjong Ju, Sing-Yao Wu +2Robot NavigationSafe Robot Navigation

  33. Risk-Aware Belief Control Barrier Functions over Random Finite Sets

    Jul 16, 2026Shaohang Han, Gang Chen, Yixi Cai +5Control Barrier FunctionsSafe Robot Navigation

  34. Layered Risk Mapping for Autonomous Patient Transport in Expeditionary Medical Facilities

    Jul 15, 2026Lorena Maria Genua, Sarvesh Prajapati, Damla Leblebicioglu +1Safe Robot NavigationAssistive Robotics

  35. EFLUX: Elastic Multi-Robot Formation Navigation and Adaptation with Agentic LLMs

    Jul 13, 2026Jinyuan Zhang, Yuwei Wu, Guangyao Shi +3Multi-Robot Formation ControlMulti-Robot Motion Planning

  36. AutoPath: Learning Transferable Goal-Conditioned Stochastic Path Prior for Safe Navigation Without Human Demonstrations

    Jul 13, 2026Ziyang Zhang, Boyang Zhou, Zesong Yang +8Cross-Embodiment Robot LearningSafe Robot Navigation

  37. Navigating the Crowd: Non-linear MPC with Social Forces Dynamics for Human-Aware Robot Navigation

    Jul 11, 2026Stefano Trepella, Andrea Ostuni, Mauro Martini +5Nonlinear MPCSafe Robot Navigation

  38. SEAMLiS: Visibility-Aware Safety for Perception-Limited Multi-Robot Exploration

    Jul 10, 2026Taekyung Kim, Rahul H Kumar, Aswin D. Menon +2Robotic ControlMulti-Robot Exploration

  39. Empirical Pedestrian Safety Assessment in a Mobile Robot Using a Predictive Social Force Model

    Jul 10, 2026Alireza Jafari, Yun-Hao Tsai, Yen-Chen LiuSafe Robot NavigationSocial Robot Navigation

  40. Input-Constrained Spatiotemporal Tubes for Safe Navigation of Unknown Euler-Lagrange Systems in Dynamic Environments

    Jul 9, 2026Siddhartha Upadhyay, Ratnangshu Das, Pushpak JagtapDynamical SystemsRobust Control

  41. Vision-Language Models for Deployable Social Robot Navigation: Bridging Semantic Reasoning and Low-Level Control

    Jun 27, 2026Runji Cai, Toshihiko Yamasaki, Ling XiaoSafe Robot NavigationSocial Robot Navigation

  42. Event-Adaptive Motion Planning with Distilled Vision-Language Model in Safety-Critical Situations

    Jun 24, 2026Zhenwei Huang, Changsheng You, Shuai Wang +3Safe Robot NavigationModel Predictive Control

  43. Conflict-Aware Switching for CBF-CLF-Based Multi-Goal Navigation

    Jun 19, 2026Rohan Walia, Kevin LeahyRobot NavigationControl Barrier Functions

  44. Safe Local Navigation for Ackermann-Steered Robots in Unmapped Environments

    Jun 18, 2026Christian Schaible, Shahin SirouspourRobot NavigationSafe Robot Navigation

  45. pdSTL: Probabilistic Differentiable Signal Temporal Logic for Stochastic Systems

    Jun 17, 2026Bennett Dogbey, Hemanth ManjunathaSignal Temporal LogicSafe Robot Navigation

  46. SCAN-Planner: Spatial Collision-Aware Local Planning for Route-Guided Long-Range Quadruped Navigation

    Jun 17, 2026Han Zheng, Zhe Chen, Yiwen Fu +2Collision AvoidanceRobot Navigation

  47. SemGeoNav:A Safety-Guided Visual Navigation Approach with Semantic Reasoning and Geometric Planning

    Jun 15, 2026Yu Liu, Zongyang Chen, Yan Guo +2Robot NavigationSafe Robot Navigation

  48. UGV-Conditioned Multi-UAV Informative Planning on a Shared Exposure Belief

    Jun 10, 2026Lars Oerlemans, Moji Shi, Marija PopovicInformative Path PlanningSafe Robot Navigation

  49. SAFER-Nav: Enhancing Safety for Visual Robot Navigation via Segmentation-Aware Fine-Tuning

    Jun 10, 2026Geonyeong Ko, Giung Lee, Changjoo NamRobot Policy LearningTrajectory Generation

  50. AgniNav: Configuration-Driven Cross-Embodiment Local Planning for Robot Navigation

    Jun 9, 2026Tianhao Zang, Siwei Cheng, Haidong Huang +2Robot NavigationSafe Robot Navigation

  51. Act on What You See: Unlocking Safe Social Navigation in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jun 9, 2026Qingzi Wang, Xiyang Wu, Guangyao Shi +3Safe Robot NavigationSocial Robot Navigation

  52. Embedding Semantic Risk into Distance Fields and CBFs for Online Monocular Safe Control

    Jun 1, 2026Dawei Zhang, Nuo Chen, Shuo Liu +2Signed Distance FunctionsControl Barrier Functions

  53. Geometry-Aware Control Barrier Functions for Collision Avoidance via Bernstein Polynomial Approximations

    May 29, 2026Siwon Jo, Yanze Zhang, Yupeng Yang +1Multi-Robot Motion PlanningSigned Distance Functions

  54. Ontology-Guided Reasoning for Affordance-Based Explanations of Robot Navigation

    May 27, 2026Amar Halilovic, Vahidin Hasic, Senka KrivicRobot NavigationSafe Robot Navigation

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

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

  56. Learning to Evolve: Multi-modal Interactive Fields for Robust Humanoid Navigation in Dynamic Environments

    May 21, 2026Peifeng Jiang, Hong Liu, Jin Jin +23D Gaussian SplattingSafe Robot Navigation

  57. 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