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20 papers in the last four weeks, up 300% on the four weeks before. 0.2% of all new papers.

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

    Sep 30, 2026Luca Bricarello, João Carlos Virgolino Soares, Alberto Sanchez-Delgado +2Legged RobotsTraversability

  2. Occlusion-Aware, Quasi-Static, Stability-Oriented Trajectory Planning on Uneven Terrain

    Sep 30, 2026Amith Manoharan, Chinmay Mundane, Aayush Bahukhandi +3TerrainAutonomous Navigation

  3. NEXUS: Perceptive Whole-Body Control for Terrain-Adaptive Teleoperation

    Sep 30, 2026Xiangyu Miao, Junsong Wu, Jiyuan Shi +6Whole-Body ControlTeleoperation

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

    Sep 28, 2026Hoyun Kim, Beomsu Kim, Giseop KimAutonomous Surface VehiclesTerrain

  5. TactileStep: Sole Tactile Learning for Regulating Foot-Terrain Interaction in Humanoid Locomotion

    Sep 24, 2026Zizhuo Wang, Ming-ju Lee, Shaoting Zhu +3TactileTerrain

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

    Sep 21, 2026Darren Chiu, Cole Wilson, Andrei Tumbar +2TraversabilityAutonomous Navigation

  7. UniPoint: Unified Point-Level Sensor Fusion for Humanoid Locomotion Across Challenging Terrains

    Sep 20, 2026Sicen Li, Zhen Chu, Chao Li +2Event-Guided Sensor-Level FusionRobotic Perception

  8. Walking on the Slope: Stable Bipedal Gaits with Genetic-Algorithm-Optimized Trajectories

    Sep 17, 2026Madhav RijalGait DynamicsLegged Robots

  9. Feeling Terrain Before Crossing: World Models for Off-Road Navigation

    Sep 17, 2026E-In Son, Dong-Wook Kim, Ji-Hoon Hwang +4ProprioceptionWorld Models

  10. Tele-Traversability: Rethinking Traversability for Teleoperated Ground Robots in Terrain Navigation

    Sep 17, 2026Lewei Feng, Qi Chen, Wenshuo Wang +6TraversabilityTeleoperation

  11. Learning Safe Humanoid Navigation from Reduced Order Models

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

  12. VCTP: Vehicle-Conditioned Terrain Planning for Off-Road Navigation

    Sep 15, 2026Akshay Naik, Ramavarapu S. Sreenivas, Dustin Nottage +1Vehicle DynamicsPath Planning

  13. Adaptive-MHE : A Sampling-Based Adaptive MPC for Legged Loco-Manipulation via Moving Horizon Estimation

    Sep 15, 2026Hossein Keshavarz, Alejandro Ramirez-Serrano, Majid KhadivHumanoid Loco-ManipulationLegged Robots

  14. LEAP: Learning Emergent Active Perception for Quadruped Navigation

    Sep 15, 2026Ü. Bora Gökbakan, Stéphane Caron, Philippe SouèresViewpoint-Dependent Active PerceptionAgile Locomotion

  15. From Prediction to Decision: World-Model-Guided Action Selection for Continuous Pile Excavation

    Sep 14, 2026Ailing Zhang, Fan Gao, Song Zhang +3World ModelsAction Selection

  16. GM-Loco: Terrain-Adaptive Humanoid Locomotion on Granular Media

    Sep 9, 2026Junnosuke Kamohara, Feiyang Wu, Andy Ningan Zong +4TerrainLocomotion

  17. Frame-Coded Legged Locomotion over Noisy Terrain

    Sep 9, 2026Lav R. VarshneyLocomotionTerrain

  18. TASG-Explore: Traversability-Aware Sector-Guided Exploration for Ground Robot on Uneven Terrain

    Sep 8, 2026Shaocong Wang, Shiliang Shao, Ting Wang +2TraversabilityTerrain

  19. MulDP: Multimodal Diffusion Policy for Autonomous Quadruped Parkour Navigation across Complex Terrains

    Sep 3, 2026Kangmai Hu, Yueqi Zhang, Peng Zhai +5Autonomous NavigationTerrain

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

    Sep 3, 2026Gabriel Manuel Garcia, Stephanie Aravecchia, Miguel Angel Olivares-MendezRobust Lidar-Inertial OdometryAutonomous Surface Vehicles

  21. SOLO: Stable Omni-terrain Long-Horizon Perceptive Humanoid Locomotion

    Aug 27, 2026Pihai Sun, Gang Han, Jingkai Sun +17TerrainRobot State

  22. GigaBrain-WBC-0.5: A Behavior World Model for Robust Humanoid Whole-Body Tracking with Environment Interaction

    Aug 18, 2026Ziyang Cheng, Tianshu Tang, Jinxin Lan +19Whole-Body ControlWorld Models

  23. Genetic Fuzzy System-Based Multi-Robot Coordination for Planetary Missions

    Aug 13, 2026Daegyun Choi, Donghoon KimMulti-Robot SystemsMulti-Uav

  24. Parameter-Dependent LMI Synthesis for Semi-Global Differential ISS Trajectory Tracking of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots Under Multiplicative Wheel Slip

    Aug 8, 2026Mohammad SabouriSlipsenseWheel

  25. Drone-Assisted UAV-UGV Collaboration for Autonomous Navigation in Snow-Covered Terrain

    Aug 7, 2026Shreyam Gupta, P. Agrawal, Priyam Gupta +1Multi-UavDrone-View Geo-Localization

  26. WorldClaw: Agentic 3D Open-World Generation at Scale

    Aug 5, 2026Chunchao Guo, Jinpeng Li, Yang Li +13D World3D Scene Understanding

  27. TRNet: Topography-Guided Frequency Rectification and Structure-Aware Decoding for Multimodal Paddy Rice Segmentation

    Aug 4, 2026Kaiwen Xiao, Chunlong Fu, Liping Zheng +1Digital Elevation ModelsTerrain

  28. VertiAKD: Adaptive Off-Road Kinodynamics on Vertically Challenging Terrain

    Aug 2, 2026Tong Xu, Chenhui Pan, Francesco Cancelliere +1TerrainVehicle Dynamics

  29. Towards Capability-Aware Traversability Navigation for Unstructured Environments

    Jul 22, 2026Gianluca Capezzuto, Felipe Tommaselli, Matheus P. Angarola +2TraversabilityObstacle Avoidance

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

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

  31. Agile perceptive multi-skill locomotion for quadrupedal robots in the wild

    Jul 15, 2026Jun-Gill Kang, Jaehyun Park, Tae-Gyu Song +3Agile LocomotionLegged Robots

  32. Adapting Generalist Vehicle Models for High-Speed MPC Across Terrains

    Jul 14, 2026Rwik Rana, Jesse Quattrociocchi, Christian Ellis +3Vehicle DynamicsModel Predictive Control

  33. MAMMOTH: A Multi-Modal End-to-End Policy for Off-Road Mobility Robust to Missing Modality

    Jul 14, 2026Ahaan Kotian, Shivani Subramanyan, Suresh SundaramTerrainMissing Modalities

  34. Robust bipedal locomotion on flowable slopes via foot-driven terrain manipulation

    Jul 13, 2026Deniz Kerimoglu, Junnosuke Kamohara, Jiyeon Maeng +4LocomotionTerrain

  35. Differential Analysis of Multispectral Images for Terrain Identification

    Jul 10, 2026Omar Kashmar, Hemendra Arya, Fulvio MastrogiovanniHyperspectral ImageAerial Imagery

  36. LTM: Large-scale Terrain Model for Wildfire-prone Landscapes

    Jul 9, 2026Xiao Fu, Yue Hu, Meida Chen +2Digital Elevation ModelsWildfire Prediction

  37. Physics-Guided Biomechanical Gait Adaptation for Humanoid Locomotion on Extreme Sloped Terrains

    Jul 8, 2026Xuanyu Chen, Mohan Liu, Dengchen Mei +6LocomotionTerrain

  38. Learning Locomotion on Discrete Terrain via Minimal Proximity Sensing

    Jun 30, 2026Jiale Fan, Connor Flynn, Tianao Xu +4ProprioceptionLegged Robots

  39. Learning Perceptive Platform Adaptive Locomotion Controllers for Quadrupedal Robots

    Jun 23, 2026David Rytz, Kim Tien Ly, Ioannis HavoutisAgile LocomotionLegged Robots

  40. SlipSense: Multimodal Sensing for Online Slip Detection in Legged Robots

    Jun 23, 2026Iris Szu-Yao Liu, Chien Chern Cheah, Meng Yee Michael ChuahSlipsenseLegged Robots

  41. Long-Distance Real-World Navigation of the Legged-Wheeled Robot Go2-W Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 19, 2026Takaaki Matsuzawa, Kiyoshi Irie, Tomoaki Yoshida +3Legged RobotsAutonomous Navigation

  42. CTS-MoE: Implicit Terrain Adaptation via Mixture-of-Experts for Perceptive Locomotion

    Jun 17, 2026Francisco Affonso, Matheus P. Angarola, Ana Luiza Mineiro +3Agile LocomotionTerrain

  43. Deep Learning-Based Lunar Crater Terrain Relative Navigation

    Jun 10, 2026Batu Candan, Simone ServadioPlanetary ExplorationRosetta

  44. MARCH: Model-Assisted Reinforcement Learning for the Perceptive Control of Humanoids over Sparse Footholds

    Jun 9, 2026Codrin Crismariu, Ryan K. CosnerAgile LocomotionScalable Robot Learning

  45. TACT-ful: Multi-Channel Terrain Affordance and Compliance Training for Payload-Robust Perceptive Humanoid Locomotion

    Jun 6, 2026Thanh Ly, Truong-Duy Dang, Chien Le +5TerrainHumanoid

  46. QuadVerse: An Integrated Framework Aligning Visual-Physical Reality for Quadruped Simulation

    Jun 5, 2026Yuxiang Chen, Yuanhao Wang, Ziheng Zhang +6TerrainRobot Systems

  47. Learning All-Terrain Locomotion for a Planetary Rover with Actively Articulated Suspension

    Jun 5, 2026Arthur Bouton, Tristan D. Hasseler, Michael Paton +5TerrainAutonomous Surface Vehicles

  48. TAGA: Terrain-aware Active Gaze Learning for Generalizable Agile Humanoid Locomotion

    Jun 4, 2026Peizhuo Li, Hongyi Li, Mingfeng Fan +9Agile LocomotionViewpoint-Dependent Active Perception

  49. Democracy on Rugged Landscapes: Phase Transitions in Optimal Voting Rules

    Jun 1, 2026Joshua NunleyMajority VotingDemocracy

  50. Global-Local Attention Decomposition for Terrain Encoding in Humanoid Perceptive Locomotion

    May 30, 2026Shengcheng Fu, Yang Zhang, Zhanxiang Cao +4Agile LocomotionTerrain

  51. Rethinking Amortized Neural Representations for High-Resolution Terrain Elevation Data

    May 29, 2026Haoan Feng, Xin Xu, Leila De FlorianiNeural RepresentationsTerrain

  52. MARTIAN: A Rendering Framework for Aerial Mars Imagery from HiRISE Orbital Data

    May 28, 2026Dario Pisanti, Georgios GeorgakisRosettaAerial Navigation

  53. Trinity: Unifying Class-Agnostic Terrain and Semantic Segmentation for Unstructured Outdoor Environments by Leveraging Synthetic Data

    May 26, 2026Marcus G Müller, Wout Boerdijk, Maximilian Durner +5TraversabilityTerrain

  54. Learning, locomotion, and navigation of soft synthetic snakes in three-dimensional, heterogeneous environments

    May 24, 2026Xiaotian Zhang, Ali Albazroun, Tixian Wang +3Agile LocomotionLocomotion

  55. Terrain-Adaptive Grouser Wheel for Optimal Planetary Exploration: Design and Experimental Investigation

    May 23, 2026Vincent Griffo, Yashwanth Kumar NakkaAutonomous Surface VehiclesTerrain

  56. ImplicitTerrainV2: Wavelet-Guided Spatially Adaptive Neural Terrain Representation

    May 21, 2026Haoan Feng, Xin Xu, Leila De FlorianiDigital Elevation ModelsNeural Representations