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  1. Demo: Closed-Loop Sionna-Isaac Sim Co-Simulation Framework for Wireless-Aware Robot Navigation over ROS 2

    Oct 6, 2026Yi Shen Lim, Seungeun Oh, Jihong ParkRobot Navigation

    Singapore University of Technology and Design Singapore

  2. Navigation with RF Cues: Embodied Perception Action under Multipath Uncertainty

    Oct 6, 2026Wenlihan Lu, Tianshun Li, Liuqing Yang +1Robot Navigation

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China

  3. Dual Variational Autoencoders for Efficient Sim-to-Real Transfer in Low-Cost Robotic Navigation

    Oct 5, 2026Álvaro Díez, Fidel AznarSim-To-Real Reinforcement LearningRobot Navigation

    Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Alicante

  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 +3Robot Navigation

    Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione e Scienze Matematiche, Universit`a di Siena, Siena, Italy · Uninettuno University, Rome, Italy · Visual Intelligence for Transportation (VITA) Lab, ´Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´erale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

  5. Social Navigation for Tour-guide Robot

    Oct 4, 2026Vikram Shree, Jose NinoRobot Navigation

    Work done at the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca NY (USA). · SiLC Technologies, Monrovia CA (USA). · Draper, Cambridge MA (USA).

  6. GlassGuard: Verified Glass Plane Mapping for Robot Navigation

    Oct 1, 2026Hanwen Guo, Zhengzhi Lin, Yusen Xie +1Simultaneous Localization And MappingRobot Navigation

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  7. H-SPAR: Hydrodynamic-aware Simulation for Particle Transport and Autonomous Robots

    Oct 1, 2026Navid Zarrabi, Nariman Yousefi, Sajad SaeediFluid DynamicsRobot Navigation

    Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Mechatronics Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. · Department of Chemical Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. · Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

  8. STARS: From Spatiotemporal Dynamics to Social Representations in Human-Robot Interaction

    Sep 30, 2026Nathan Tsoi, Michael J. Munje, Tejas Oberoi +5Vision-Language NavigationRobot Navigation

    Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin

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

    Sep 30, 2026Zhihao Zheng, Mooi Choo ChuahRobot NavigationSafe Navigation

    Computer Science and Engineering department, P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA.

  10. Rethinking Legibility in Social Robot Hallway Navigation: Impact of Intent Representation and Human Distraction

    Sep 30, 2026Pranav Goyal, Andrew Stratton, Christoforos MavrogiannisRobot NavigationHuman-Robot Interaction

    University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA

  11. Local-Minimum Escaper: Programmatic Subgoal Generation for Robust Navigation in Unknown Environments

    Sep 30, 2026Yin Gu, Xinming Zhang, Shanze Wang +2Robot NavigationObject Goal Navigation

    Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China · Tsinghua University, China · Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

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

    Sep 30, 2026Sanghyuk Park, Kwanwoo Lee, Taekyung Kim +2Obstacle AvoidanceRobot Navigation

    Department of Intelligence and Information, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea · Department of Robotics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea +1

  13. Planning Oriented 3D Scene Completion via Coupled TUDF Occupancy Representation Learning from Partial Observations

    Sep 29, 2026Tianyou Yu, Pengfei Zhao, Chao Xu3D Semantic Occupancy PredictionRobot Navigation

    Institute of Cyber-System and Control, College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.

  14. Large Language Models for Model-Based Robot Design

    Sep 27, 2026Andrew Wilhelm, Angelina Zhao, Nils NappEngineeringOptimal Design

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States

  15. ReVNM: Learning-Based Visual Navigation from a Remote Camera

    Sep 24, 2026Michikuni Eguchi, Kohei Honda, Masafumi Endo +2Robot NavigationEgocentric Vision

    The Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. Work done during an internship at CyberAgent AI Lab. · CyberAgent AI Lab, Tokyo, Japan · The Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan

  16. Performance-Preserving Online Adaptation in Social Navigation via Diffusion Steering

    Sep 21, 2026Haruto Nagahisa, Kohei Matsumoto, Yuki Hyodo +1Diffusion-Based Reinforcement Learning MethodsRobot Navigation

    Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan · Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

  17. Marginal Calibration Does Not Compose: Hidden Dependence in Modular Robot Navigation

    Sep 20, 2026Rista BaralCalibrated UncertaintyRobot Navigation

    University of Delaware

  18. RiverVLN: Phase-Grounded Temporal Vision--Language Navigation for Unmanned Surface Vehicles

    Sep 20, 2026Jieling Wu, Yuehao Huang, Jiajun Lv +3Vision-Language NavigationAerial Vision-Language Navigation

  19. Universal Navigation Interface: Robot-Free Data for Wheeled Robot Navigation

    Sep 17, 2026Sarvesh Prajapati, Ananya Trivedi, Lorena Maria Genua +3Robot NavigationRobotic Data Acquisition

    Institute for Experiential Robotics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA. · Khoury College of Computer Science, Northeastern University, Seattle, WA, USA.

  20. Learning Safe Humanoid Navigation from Reduced Order Models

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

    Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA · Amazon Safe Autonomy Frontiers (SAF) Lab

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

    Sep 16, 2026Lan Hu, Minghui Liwang, Wenbo Zhu +4Robot NavigationAction Prediction

    Guohao School, Tongji University, Shanghai, China · Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems, the State Key Laboratory of Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Department of Control Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

  22. PRISM: Predictive Representation of Interaction Style and Motion for Social Robot Navigation

    Sep 16, 2026Bo-Han Chen, Hiromu Taketsugu, Norimichi UkitaRobot NavigationInteraction Data

    National Chung Hsing University · Toyota Technological Institute

  23. Visual Cue Guided Video Planning for Generalizable Robot Navigation

    Sep 15, 2026Hojin Lee, Sizhe Lester Li, Maximilian Hilger +4Object Goal NavigationRobot Navigation

    Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), Technical University of Munich, 80797 Munich, Germany. · Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. · Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS), Örebro University, 72081 Örebro, Sweden.

  24. Tuning ROS 2 for Energy-Efficient Navigation: Empirical Insights from Costmap 2D Configurations

    Sep 14, 2026Michel Albonico, Andreas Wortmann, Ivano MalavoltaRobot NavigationRobot Operating System

    Federal University of Technology - Paran´a (UTFPR), DAINF-FB, Francisco Beltr˜ao, Brazil · University of Southern Denmark (SDU), MMMI, Centre for Software Technology (CST), Vejle, Denmark · Institute for Control Eng. of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units (ISW), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany +1

  25. Mini-Batch Risk-Averse Deep Q-Learning: A Robot Navigation Case Study

    Sep 7, 2026Aayush Patel, Andrzej RuszczyńskiMarkov Decision ProcessesRobot Navigation

    Department of Management Science and Information Systems, Rutgers University

  26. Toward Unified Robot Learning: Bridging Representation, Vision-Language-Action, and World Models

    Sep 3, 2026Shaunak A. Mehta, Ananya Hazarika, Haochen Zhang +5Scalable Robot LearningEfficient World-Action Model

    Fujitsu Research of America · Carnegie Mellon University · Fujitsu Limited[cs.RO]

  27. Scalable Rao-Blackwellized Online Planning for High-Dimensional POMDPs

    Sep 1, 2026Jiho Lee, Nisar Ahmed, Kyle Hollins Wray +1Partially Observable Markov Decision ProcessRobot Navigation

    Ann And H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA · Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA

  28. Towards Socially Compliant Navigation in Deep Reinforcement Learning via Proxemics-Based Reward Modeling

    Aug 13, 2026Takieddine Soualhi, Jacques Saraydaryan, Laetitia MatignonRobot NavigationSafe Navigation

    CHROMA · Inria, CITI Lab, INRIA–INSA Chroma Team, Villeurbanne, France. · CPE, CHROMA +3

  29. MPPI Planning with Gaussian-Based Human Cost Function for Social Navigation

    Aug 8, 2026Chinmay MundanePedestrian Trajectory PredictionRobot Navigation

    VJTI, India

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

    Aug 7, 2026Cheng Guo, Mingzhe Ni, Zheng Liang +5Robot NavigationModel Predictive Control

    Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. · Human-Robot Interfaces and Interaction Laboratory, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy. · Genisom AI, Shanghai, China. +3

  31. Toward Integrating Adaptive Experience Replay and Online Uncertainty Estimation in Safe Actor-Critic Optimal Control

    Aug 5, 2026Mahshad Rastegarmoghaddam, Davoud Nikkhouy, Shima SamadzadehControl Barrier FunctionsSoft Actor-Critic

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

  32. LOCUS-DT: Localization via Observation-Conditioned Uncertainty Scoring with Digital Twins

    Aug 1, 2026Haozhe Lei, Roberto Bomfin, Marwa Chafii +1Indoor LocalizationDigital Twins

    NYU WIRELESS, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA · Engineering Division, New York University Abu Dhabi, 129188, UAE

  33. Learning Social Robot Navigation By Sensing Human Legs

    Jul 30, 2026Alberto Vaglio, Andrea Garulli, Antonio Giannitrapani +2Robot NavigationTwo-Dimensional Light Detection And Ranging

    Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics, University of Siena, Siena, Italy · Uninettuno University, Rome, Italy

  34. Offline Vision-Language Navigation with Geometric Goal Localization for Outdoor Environments

    Jul 24, 2026Ali Salmasi, Xianjia Yu, Tomi WesterlundVision-Language NavigationRobot Navigation

    Turku Intelligent Embedded and Robotic Systems (TIERS) Lab, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.

  35. ACME: A Multi-Cultural, Multi-Embodiment Social-Navigation Dataset

    Jul 24, 2026Shashank Rao Marpally, Allan Wang, Atharva Ghotavadekar +35Robot NavigationMultimodal Dataset

    School of Computing, National University of Singapore · Miraikan - The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation · George Mason University +7

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

    Jul 22, 2026Taewon Seo, Seonae Jeon, Giwon Lee +2Robot NavigationObject Goal Navigation

    DGIST, Republic of Korea · KAIST, Republic of Korea

  37. SOPD-SocialNav: Selective On-Policy Distillation for Vision-Language Social Navigation

    Jul 22, 2026Xinyu Zhang, Zishuo Wang, Ling XiaoVision-Language NavigationRobot Navigation

    Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

  38. Lifelong Localization in Dynamic Indoor Environments Combining Odometry with Sparse Distance Sampling

    Jul 20, 2026Michael M. Bilevich, Tomer Buber, Dan HalperinOdometryRobot Navigation

    Blavatnik School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

  39. Stability and Comfort in Mobile Robot-Pedestrian Interactions

    Jul 20, 2026Alireza Jafari, Hong-Son Nguyen, Yen-Chen LiuPedestrianRobot Navigation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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

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

    School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nanyang Technological University Singapore

  41. A BIM-enabled, Agent-based Discrete-event Simulation Platform for Robotic Studies: A Method based on Graph Theory

    Jul 18, 2026Ping Xu, Xinghua GaoRobot NavigationBuilding Information Modeling

    Myers-Lawson School of Construction, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, 24060, United States. · Myers-Lawson School of Construction, Virginia Tech, 320J Hitt Hall, Blacksburg, 24060, United States

  42. SAGE: A Socially-Aware Generative Engine for Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Navigation

    Jul 18, 2026Lan Hu, Minghui Liwang, Wenbo Zhu +5Robot Navigation

    Guohao School, Tongji University, Shanghai, China · Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems, the State Key Laboratory of Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Department of Control Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Western University, Ontario, Canada +2

  43. PRISM: Multimodal Terrain Mapping for Rover Navigation in Unstructured Environments

    Jul 17, 2026Raul Castilla-Arquillo, Carlos Perez-del-Pulgar, Levin Gerdes +2Digital Elevation ModelsTerrain

    Space Robotics (SpaceR) Research Group, SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · Department of Automation and Systems Engineering, Universidad de Málaga, Andalucia Tech, 29070 Málaga, Spain

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

    Jul 17, 2026Rajat Bhattacharjya, Hyeonjong Ju, Sing-Yao Wu +2Robot NavigationEpisodic Memory

    Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine · Department of Computer Science, Yonsei University, South Korea

  45. Modeling and Validation of Quality of Control for Edge-Offloaded Collaborative Navigation

    Jul 16, 2026Neelabhro Roy, Mikael Hammarling, Victor Nan Fernandez-Ayala +4Robot NavigationMulti-Drone Coordination

    †KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden · ∗National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India

  46. From Language to Navigation Goals: A Vision-Language Approach for Semantic Navigation of Mobile Robots Using RGB-D Perception

    Jul 15, 2026Jose Martínez-Fajardo, Pablo Pueyo, Fernando Caballero +1Robot NavigationMobile Robots

    Univ. Pablo de Olavide

  47. Flow-aware Optimal Navigation in Unsteady Flows through Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 15, 2026Andrea Maria Braghin, Nicolò Botteghi, Matteo Tomasetto +2Robot NavigationReinforcement Learning Control

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy · MOX, Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

  48. Think When It Matters: Conditional VLM Reasoning for Social Navigation with RL Policies

    Jul 13, 2026Ali Ahmadi, Hamed Rahimi, Adrien Jacquet Cretides +3Robot NavigationSafe Navigation

    Institut des Syst`emes Intelligents et de Robotique (ISIR) Sorbonne Universit´e France

  49. PIER-Flow: Physics-Informed Efficient Rectified Flow for Real-Time Mobile Robot Navigation

    Jul 11, 2026Shibo Li, Zhongcheng Wang, Jiahe Cao +2Flow PoliciesRobot Navigation

    School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China · Department of Robotics, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi SE45 05, United Arab Emirates

  50. Validating Virtual Reality for Studying Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction in Socially Aware Robot Navigation

    Jul 10, 2026Hariharan Arunachalam, Phani Teja Singamaneni, Rachid AlamiHuman-Robot InteractionVirtual Reality

    LAAS-CNRS, Universite de Toulouse, France · Inria Nancy, France

  51. HumAIN: Human-Aware Implicit Social Robot Navigation

    Jul 8, 2026Daeun Song, Nhat Le, Jeffrey Chen +7Robot NavigationRobot Systems

    Ewha Womans University, Korea. · George Mason University, USA. · University of Virginia, USA. +3

  52. GemNav: Discrete-Token Visual Robot Navigation using a Multimodal Large Language Model

    Jul 8, 2026Peter Bohm, Saimunur Rahman, Abdelwahed Khamis +3Vision-Language NavigationRobot Navigation

    CSIRO Technology, Australia

  53. Green for Go, Red for No: Visual Grounding via Semantic Segmentation for VLA Navigation Policies

    Jul 6, 2026Adrian Szvoren, Dimitrios Kanoulas, Nilufer TuptukVision-Language NavigationObject Goal Navigation

    Department of Computer Science University College London · Department of Security and Crime Science University College London

  54. GDPR-Aware Trajectory Sharing for ISAC-Assisted Robot Navigation: A Case Study on FID-Constrained Collision Prediction

    Jul 3, 2026Zexin Fang, Bin Han, Donglin Wang +2Trajectory GenerationPrivacy-Utility Trade-Offs

    RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany · Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany · German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany.

  55. SPLC: Social Preference Learning for Crowd Robot Navigation

    Jul 2, 2026Zixuan Chen, Hao Fu, Haiwen Hu +1Robot NavigationHuman-Robot Collaboration

    Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology and also with the Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing and Real-time Industrial System, Wuhan 430081, China

  56. Robots Ask the Way: Communication-Enabled Social Navigation

    Jul 1, 2026Valentino Sacco, Luca Scofano, Indro Spinelli +1Robot NavigationSafe Navigation

    Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

  57. ASPIRE: Agentic /Skills Discovery for Robotics

    Jun 30, 2026Runyu Lu, Yubo Wu, Ethan Kou +11Human-To-Robot TransferRobot Navigation

    NVIDIA · UMich · UIUC +2

  58. CORE Planner: Contextual-memory Oriented Reinforcement-learning in Unknown Environments for Robot Navigation

    Jun 28, 2026Jintao Kong, Zhihao Zhang, Weihuang Chen +4Robot NavigationAutonomous Navigation

    State Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence, Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University

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

    Jun 27, 2026Runji Cai, Toshihiko Yamasaki, Ling XiaoVision-Language NavigationRobot Navigation

    Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0814, Japan. · Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan.

  60. He3-Seeker: Robotic Information Planning for Lunar Helium-3 Distribution Mapping

    Jun 27, 2026Dong Li, Yujie Zheng, Chengdeng Cao +4Planetary ExplorationRosetta

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, and also with the Faculty of Innovation Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau · OpenSpace Lab, China · College of Artificial Intelligence, China University of Petroleum (Beijing) +5