Safe Robot Navigation

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14 papers in the last four weeks, up 367% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

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  1. 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

  2. Safety-Constrained Reinforcement Learning with Post-Training Reachability Verification for Robot Navigation

    May 13, 2026Qisong He, Xinmiao Huang, Jinwei Hu +4Constrained RLRisk-Sensitive RL

  3. DynoJEPP: Joint Estimation, Prediction and Planning in Dynamic Environments

    May 13, 2026Mikolaj Kliniewski, Jesse Morris, Yiduo Wang +2Factor Graph OptimizationSafe Robot Navigation

  4. The Unified Autonomy Stack: Toward a Blueprint for Generalizable Robot Autonomy

    May 12, 2026Mihir Dharmadhikari, Nikhil Khedekar, Mihir Kulkarni +7RoboticsSafe Robot Navigation

  5. Learning Material-Aware Hamiltonian Risk Fields for Safe Navigation

    May 7, 2026Aditya Sai Ellendula, Yi Wang, Chandrajit BajajCollision AvoidanceDynamical Systems

  6. From Language to Logic: A Theoretical Architecture for VLM-Grounded Safe Navigation

    May 5, 2026Kristy Sakano, Kalonji Harrington, Mumu XuRoboticsSafe Robot Navigation

  7. Differentiable Optimization Layered Safety-Critical Control for Risk-Aware Navigation via Conformal Prediction

    May 5, 2026Jinyang Dong, Shizhen Wu, Yongchun FangSafety-Critical ControlControl Barrier Functions

  8. Semantic Risk-Aware Heuristic Planning for Robotic Navigation in Dynamic Environments: An LLM-Inspired Approach

    May 4, 2026Hamza Ahmed Durrani, Rafay Suleman DurraniSafe Robot NavigationRobot Safety

  9. Safe Navigation using Neural Radiance Fields via Reachable Sets

    Apr 29, 2026Omanshu Thapliyal, Malarvizhi Sankaranarayanasamy, Ravigopal VennelakantiConstrained Motion PlanningSafe Robot Navigation

  10. Walk With Me: Long-Horizon Social Navigation for Human-Centric Outdoor Assistance

    Apr 29, 2026Lingfeng Zhang, Xiaoshuai Hao, Xizhou Bu +11Robot NavigationSafe Robot Navigation

  11. Safe Navigation in Unknown and Cluttered Environments via Direction-Aware Convex Free-Region Generation

    Apr 26, 2026Zhicheng Song, Yongjian Li, Kai Chen +3Collision AvoidanceTrajectory Generation

  12. Learning from Demonstration with Failure Awareness for Safe Robot Navigation

    Apr 25, 2026Xianghui Wang, Siwei Cheng, Shanze Wang +3Safe Robot NavigationOffline RL

  13. A Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability-Guided Search Framework for Efficient and Safe Indoor Planar Robot Navigation

    Apr 20, 2026Hanyang Hu, Cameron Siu, Mo ChenReachability AnalysisRobot Navigation

  14. Planning Smooth and Safe Control Laws for a Unicycle Robot Among Obstacles

    Apr 19, 2026Aref Amiri, Basak Sakcak, Steven M. LaValleRobotic ControlConstrained Motion Planning

  15. Rule-VLN: Bridging Perception and Compliance via Semantic Reasoning and Geometric Rectification

    Apr 18, 2026Jiawen Wen, Penglei Sun, Wenjie Zhang +4Safe Robot NavigationVision-Language Navigation

  16. Vision-Based Human Awareness Estimation for Enhanced Safety and Efficiency of AMRs in Industrial Warehouses

    Apr 18, 2026Maximilian Haug, Christian Stippel, Lukas Pscherer +5Mobile RoboticsSafe Robot Navigation

  17. LiDAR-based Crowd Navigation with Visible Edge Group Representation

    Apr 17, 2026Allan Wang, Aaron SteinfeldRobot NavigationSafe Robot Navigation

  18. CN-CBF: Composite Neural Control Barrier Function for Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments

    Mar 6, 2026Bojan Derajić, Sebastian Bernhard, Wolfgang HönigControl Barrier FunctionsSafe Robot Navigation

  19. Understanding Fire Through Thermal Radiation Fields for Mobile Robots

    Feb 22, 2026Anton R. Wagner, Madhan Balaji Rao, Xuesu Xiao +1Mobile RoboticsRobot Navigation

  20. UrbanVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Urban Micromobility

    Oct 27, 2025Anqi Li, Zhiyong Wang, Jiazhao Zhang +5Robot NavigationSafe Robot Navigation

  21. HumanHalo: Safe and Efficient 3D Navigation Among Humans via Minimally Conservative MPC

    Oct 20, 2025Simon Schaefer, Helen Oleynikova, Sandra Hirche +1Constrained Motion PlanningUAV Navigation

  22. Real-Time Model Checking for Closed-Loop Robot Reactive Planning

    Aug 26, 2025Christopher Chandler, Bernd Porr, Giulia Lafratta +1Safe Robot NavigationFormal Verification

  23. ZeST: an VLM-based Zero-Shot Traversability Navigation for Unknown Environments

    Aug 26, 2025Shreya Gummadi, Mateus V. Gasparino, Gianluca Capezzuto +2Robot NavigationSafe Robot Navigation

  24. BR-MPPI: Barrier-Rate Guided MPPI for Enforcing Multiple Inequality Constraints with Learned Signed Distance Fields

    Jun 8, 2025Hardik Parwana, Taekyung Kim, Kehan Long +4Constrained Motion PlanningControl Barrier Functions

  25. OGM-CBF: Occupancy Grid Map-based Control Barrier Function for Safe Mobile Robot Control with Memory of out of View Obstacles

    May 17, 2024Golnaz Raja, Miloš Prágr, Topi Reino Johannes Kärki +2Mobile RoboticsControl Barrier Functions

  26. N-dimensional Convex Obstacle Avoidance using Hybrid Feedback Control (Extended version)

    Mar 17, 2024Mayur Sawant, Ilia Polushin, Abdelhamid TayebiCollision AvoidanceSafe Robot Navigation

  27. Learning Traversability for Long Horizon Off-Road Navigation

    Date pendingKasi Viswanath, Jason M. Gregory, Shaunak Kolhe +1Off-Road Robot NavigationGeospatial Representation Learning