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  1. Toward Evidence-Driven Human-Agent-Robot Teaming for Earth-Independent Anomaly Triage

    Oct 6, 2026Ignacio G Lopez-Francos, Alexis Gallagher, Samira ShalalHuman-Robot CollaborationSpace Robotics

    NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA · SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, USA · The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA +2

  2. Path-Following Control and Terramechanics Analysis for Planetary Rovers Under Wheel-to-Wheel Traction Asymmetry

    Sep 30, 2026Ryuya Matsuoka, Keisuke Takehana, Kentaro Uno +2Robot Trajectory TrackingSpace Robotics

    Department of Aerospace Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan · Research Center for Green X-Tech, Green Goals Initiative, Tohoku University · Research Center for Space Cross-Tech, Green Goals Initiative, Tohoku University

  3. Terrain-Aware Autonomous Planetary Exploration for Exteroceptive-Proprioceptive Mapping with Quadruped Scouts

    Sep 28, 2026Alberto Sanchez-Delgado, João Carlos Virgolino Soares, Victor Barasuol +1Off-Road Robot NavigationSpace Robotics

    Dynamic Legged Systems lab (DLS), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genoa, Italy

  4. Graph-Based Simultaneous Path and Foothold Planning for Multi-Limbed Intra-Vehicular Robots in Space Stations

    Sep 28, 2026Masazumi Imai, Kentaro Uno, Toshinori Kuwahara +1Space RoboticsRobot Locomotion

    Department of Aerospace Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan · New Industry Creation Hatchery Center (NICHe), Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan · Research Center for Green X-Tech and Research Center for Space Cross-Tech, Green Goals Initiative, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan

  5. Simulation for Planetary Robotic Perception and Autonomy: A Concise Survey of Recent Capabilities and Gaps

    Sep 28, 2026Hoyun Kim, Giseop KimSpace RoboticsRobotics Simulation

    Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, DGIST, Daegu, Republic of Korea

  6. MarsLab: A Martian Rover Simulator for Planetary Rover Autonomous Navigation

    Sep 28, 2026Hoyun Kim, Beomsu Kim, Giseop KimSimultaneous Localization and MappingOff-Road Robot Navigation

    Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, DGIST, Daegu, Republic of Korea

  7. Robot-Assisted Deployment and Maintenance of Inflatable Modules for Lunar Habitation: A Field Demonstration

    Sep 28, 2026Kentaro Uno, Shamistan Karimov, Ashutosh Mishra +5Robotic ConstructionModular Robotics

    Space Robotics Lab. (SRL) in Department of Aerospace Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan · Department of Electrical Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda 278-8510, Japan

  8. Markerless Multi-Modal Autonomous Robotic Inspection of Large Space Structures

    Sep 24, 2026Juan De Dios Alfaro, Arturo Ríos, David Rodríguez-Martínez +1Robotic InspectionSpace Robotics

    Space Robotics Laboratory, University Institute for Research in Mechatronics and Cyber-Physical Systems, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain.

  9. Control Barrier Functions for Safe Free-Flying Robotic Spacecraft Operations in Tumbling Target Capture

    Sep 22, 2026Alexander Meinert, Peter Stadler, Niklas Baldauf +1Space RoboticsSafety-Critical Control

    Space Applications Group, e:fs TechHub GmbH, Gaimersheim, Germany · Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Ingolstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany

  10. Designing an Efficient Excavator Bucket for Lunar ISRU: A Comparative Study with Vision-Based Fill and Displacement Analysis

    Sep 22, 2026Abdulla Hil Kafi, Tomoki Koshi, Jorge Casir +1Space Robotics

    Department of Mechanical and control Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu 804-8550, Japan

  11. A Deployable Four-Finger Payload for Teleoperated Free-Flying Manipulation with Astrobee

    Sep 22, 2026William Su, Jordan Kam, Yunosuke Nakamura +3Space RoboticsRobot Teleoperation

    Aerospace Engineering Program, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA · Department of Aerospace Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA · Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA +1

  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

    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. · Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA. · Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA.

  13. Multi-Agent Transportation of Free-Flyers in Microgravity Via Pushing Interaction Under Human-in-the-Loop Control

    Sep 21, 2026Gregorio Marchesini, Nicola De Carli, Sihyun Cho +5Space RoboticsMulti-Robot Coordination

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden · Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

  14. PINGU: Extending Air-Bearing Spacecraft Emulators with Open-Source Actuators and Learned Control for Contact-Rich Proximity Operations

    Sep 20, 2026Ricard Marsal I Castan, Akiyoshi Uchida, Aman Arora +7Space RoboticsContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    University of Luxembourg · Tohoku University · Georgia Institute of Technology

  15. Resilient Motion Planning for Free-Flying Space Robots under Actuator Failures

    Sep 17, 2026Nicolas de Maddalena, Joris Verhagen, Jana TumovaSpace RoboticsRobotics

    Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, ZH, Switzerland · Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and also affiliated with Digital Futures.

  16. Fleet-To-Lab: A Transfer Learning Framework For Lunar Rover Slippage Estimation Via Model Fusion

    Sep 15, 2026Riccardo Viviano, Saki Omi, Andrej Orsula +1Space RoboticsRobotics

    Space Robotics Research Group (SpaceR), Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

  17. Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Space Robot Operations: Technologies, Challenges and Prospects

    Sep 15, 2026Zeyuan Huang, Gang Chen, Zixuan Hao +7Space RoboticsRobotics

    School of Intelligent Engineering and Automation, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

  18. Rethinking Learned Occupancy in Autonomous Active Mapping with Observation-Gated Filtering

    Sep 8, 2026Jiahui Zhang, Bonian Han, Gongbo Liang +1Space RoboticsRobotics

    Boise State University · Texas A&M University–San Antonio

  19. mjorbit: A Simulation Framework for Space Robotics

    Sep 7, 2026John Z. Zhang, Joris Verhagen, Fausto Vega +2Space RoboticsRobotics Simulation

    Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

  20. Hardware-Accelerated Instance Segmentation for Resource-Constrained Space Robotics with Criticality Analysis

    Sep 2, 2026Siddhant Shete, Hilmi Dogu Kücüker, Udo Frese +1Instance SegmentationSpace Robotics

    Robotics Innovation Center of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH (DFKI), Bremen, Germany · University of Bremen, Germany

  21. Risk-Aware Kinodynamic Motion Planning Under Uncertainty For Safe Navigation on Planetary Environments

    Aug 11, 2026Sachin Sunil Kelkar, Tanmay Dokania, Yashwanth Kumar NakkaTrajectory OptimizationKinodynamic Motion Planning

    Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332 USA.

  22. More than a Manipulator: Planning Propellant-Free Attitude Maneuvers for Free-Floating Spacecraft

    Jul 13, 2026Harsh G. Bhundiya, Avi Soval, Keenan AlbeeSpace RoboticsRobotics

    Department of Astronautical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 · Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 · Departments of Astronautical, Aerospace and Mechanical, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089

  23. Distributed Multi Robot Lunar Cargo Transportation via Phase Decomposed Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 30, 2026Ashutosh Mishra, Elian Neppel, Shreya Santra +4Multi-Robot SystemsSpace Robotics

    Space Robotics Lab. (SRL), Department of Aerospace Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980–8579, Japan · École Centrale de Lille, France · Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia

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

    Jun 27, 2026Dong Li, Yujie Zheng, Chengdeng Cao +4Space RoboticsInformative Path Planning

    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

  25. Spacecraft Fiducial Marker for Autonomous Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Docking

    Jun 25, 2026Ravi Kumar Thakur, Matouš Vrba, Martin SaskaSpace RoboticsSpacecraft Rendezvous and Proximity Operations

    Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Karlovo Namesti 13, 121 35 Prague 2, Czechia

  26. RoverDevKit: An open, physics-grounded tradespace toolkit for conceptual design of lunar micro-rovers

    Jun 19, 2026Jon ReifschneiderSpace RoboticsRobotics

    Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA

  27. L-SDPPO: Policy Optimization of Spiking Diffusion Policy for Intra-vehicular Robotic Manipulation

    Jun 4, 2026Liwen Zhang, Dong Zhou, Guanghui Sun +4Space RoboticsRobotic RL

    Department of Control Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China · Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China

  28. TCBiRRT: Rapid Motion Planning for Tightly Coupled Dual-arm Space Manipulator Using Task-space Random Expansion

    May 26, 2026Jiawei Zhang, Xinhao Miao, Jifeng Guo +2Space RoboticsBimanual Robotic Manipulation

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Xidazhi Street 92, 150001, Harbin, China

  29. Towards Low-Gravity Planetary Exploration using Reinforcement Learning for Walking, Jumping, and In-flight Attitude Control

    May 23, 2026Jørgen Anker Olsen, Kostas AlexisRobotic ControlSpace Robotics

    The authors are with the Autonomous Robots Lab, NTNU, O.S. Bragstads Plass 2D, 7034, Trondheim, Norway.

  30. A Dexterous and Compliant Gripper With Soft Hydraulic Actuation for Microgravity Manipulation

    May 18, 2026William Su, Jordan Kam, Yixiao Wang +1Dexterous ManipulationSpace Robotics

    Aerospace Engineering Program, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117575.

  31. Marinarium: A Modular Experimental Facility for Reproducible Maritime and Space-Analog Field Robotics

    Feb 26, 2026Ignacio Torroba, David Dorner, Victor Nan Fernandez-Ayala +14Space RoboticsRobotics

    Division of Aerospace, Moveability and Naval Architecture, Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden · Department of Decision and Control Systems, Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden · Department of Robotics, Perception and Learning, Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden +1