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  1. Pareto-Optimal Entropy-Regularized Trajectory Optimization

    Oct 6, 2026Dimitrios S. Georgiou, Augustinos D. Saravanos, Evangelos A. TheodorouTrajectory OptimizationTrajectory Generation

    Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. · Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

  2. Beyond Waypoint Regression: Query-Based Cost Learning over Reachable Ego Futures for End-to-End Driving

    Oct 6, 2026Ahmed Abouelazm, Rupert Polley, Qingyuan Zhang +4Trajectory GenerationEnd-to-End Autonomous Driving

    FZI Research Center for Information Technology · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology · CARIAD SE

  3. Revisiting Numerical Forecasting Models for Language-Based Trajectory Prediction

    Oct 6, 2026JunGyu Lee, Inhwan Bae, Hae-Gon JeonReward ModelingRL for Language Models

    Yonsei University · DGIST

  4. Robust Nonprehensile Object Transport with Quadruped Robots

    Oct 5, 2026Ainoor Teimoorzadeh, Riccardo Pretto, Mario Selvaggio +2Trajectory OptimizationTrajectory Generation

    Munich Institute of Robotics & Machine Intelligence, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany · Tampere University, Finland · PRISMA Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125, Naples, Italy +1

  5. MoCAR: Motion-code Coordinate-aware AutoRegression for Continuous Trajectory Forecasting

    Oct 5, 2026Yiming Xu, Hao Cheng, Monika SesterTrajectory GenerationTrajectory Representation Learning

    Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics Leibniz University Hannover, 30167 Hannover, Germany · Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation University of Twente, 7522 NH Enschede, The Netherlands

  6. Flash-OPD: Fast On-Policy Distillation

    Oct 5, 2026Wei Chen, Junle Chen, Yitong Yang +6Trajectory GenerationOn-Policy Distillation

    Tencent Hy · HKUST(GZ) · HKUST

  7. P3: Persistent Particle Planning for Constrained Diffusion Control

    Oct 5, 2026Hikmet Simsir, Mahyar Fardinfar, Ozgur S. OguzConstrained Motion PlanningTrajectory Generation

    Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University

  8. Selecting Long-Horizon Trajectories for Reliable and Efficient Terminal-Agent Training

    Oct 5, 2026Cuong Dang, Hoang Anh Just, Ruoxi JiaSupervised Fine-TuningTrajectory Generation

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA, USA

  9. Dynamics-Aware Adaptive Corridors with Feasibility-Perturbed Trust-Region SQP for Certified Nonholonomic Motion Planning

    Oct 5, 2026Yang ShiConstrained Motion PlanningTrajectory Generation

    Jiangsu College of Safety Technology, Jiangsu, China

  10. Spacecraft Rendezvous Trajectory Generation with Modular Constraints via Diffusion Model Composition

    Oct 5, 2026Mariko A. Storey-Matsutani, Richard LinaresConstrained Generative ModelingTrajectory Generation

    Graduate Student, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Cambridge MA · Associate Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Cambridge MA

  11. Relative Transitions, Not Absolute Destinations: A Transfer-and-Ground Framework for Target-Trajectory-Free Human Mobility Generation

    Oct 1, 2026Yidi Wang, Yunhe Zhang, Bangchao Deng +2Trajectory Generation

    SKL-IOTSC, Department of CIS, University of Macau Macau SAR, China

  12. Training-Free Diffusion Planning with Analytical Local Scores

    Oct 1, 2026Michael Y. Fatemi, Jinhao Liang, Ferdinando FiorettoMulti-Robot Motion PlanningConstrained Motion Planning

    University of Virginia

  13. DiffWAM: A Fast and Efficient Navigation World Action Model

    Sep 30, 2026Mo Zhu, Yuze Wu, Xijie Huang +3Trajectory GenerationWorld Models for Robotics

    Zhejiang University · Differential Robotics

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

    Sep 30, 2026Amith Manoharan, Chinmay Mundane, Aayush Bahukhandi +3Trajectory OptimizationOff-Road Robot Navigation

    Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Estonia · RRC, IIIT Hyderabad, India · Czech Technical University, Prague

  15. HorizonFlow: Variable-Length Planning for Offline Goal-Conditioned RL

    Sep 29, 2026JunHyeok Oh, Zian Jang, Byung-Jun LeeHierarchical PlanningTrajectory Generation

    Korea University. · Gauss Labs Inc., Seoul, Republic of Korea.

  16. Trajectory-Level Mode Guidance for Controllable Diffusion-Based Multi-Robot Motion Planning

    Sep 29, 2026Tianyou Yu, Shengze Cai, Chao XuMulti-Robot Motion PlanningTrajectory Generation

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

  17. Denoising Multi-Robot Trajectories

    Sep 28, 2026Yuhao Zhang, Keisuke Okumura, Ajay Shankar +1Multi-Robot Motion PlanningKinodynamic Motion Planning

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, U.K. · National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

  18. STRIDE: Automated Evaluation of Text-to-Trajectory Alignment across Diverse Contexts

    Sep 28, 2026Wanchun Ni, Tao Qi, Leonel Aguilar +4Pedestrian Behavior ModelingTrajectory Generation

    ETH Zurich · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

  19. Trajectory-Safe Orienteering for Human-Robot Shared Environments

    Sep 28, 2026Songqun Gao, Elena Basei, Marco Roveri +2Trajectory GenerationRobot Safety

    Department of Industrial Engineering, Universit`a di Trento, Trento, Italy. · Interdepartmental Robotics Labs (IDRA), University of Trento, Trento, Italy · Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Universit`a di Trento, Trento, Italy.

  20. Planning Trajectories that Bounce: Reflection Classes for Collision-Tolerant Robots

    Sep 22, 2026Subhadeep Koley, Subhrajit Bhattacharya, David SaldañaTrajectory GenerationRobot Navigation

    Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA

  21. Minimum Time Trajectories for a Car-Like Mobile Robot Moving with Rigid Wheels Under Non-Sliding Constraints

    Sep 21, 2026Joseph Ben-Asher, Elon Rimon, Leeor RavinaConstrained Motion PlanningTrajectory Optimization

    Dept. of AE, Technion, Israel. · Dept. of ME, Technion, Israel.

  22. MimicAgent: Quadruped Skills via Prompt-to-Trajectory Generation

    Sep 21, 2026Lucky Kant Nayak, Narayanan Palghat Parameswaran, Neehar Peri +1Reinforcement LearningTrajectory Generation

    Carnegie Mellon University

  23. FlockDiffusion: Assignment-Conditioned Diffusion for Multi-Drone Task Allocation and Completion

    Sep 20, 2026Iana Zhura, Satenik Akopyan, Roohan Ahmed Khan +3Multi-Robot Motion PlanningAerial Robotics

    Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia

  24. FeasibleFlow: One-Step Joint Transport of Configuration Feasibility and Trajectories for End-to-End Driving

    Sep 20, 2026Xiang Li, Bikun Wang, Qing Xu +1Flow MatchingTrajectory Generation

    Cross-Domain Computing Solutions, Bosch

  25. SmellDiffusion: Diffusion-Based Quadruped Navigation with Olfactory Scene Graphs

    Sep 17, 2026Faith Ogunwoye, Iana Zhura, Hajira Amjad +5Trajectory GenerationDiffusion-Based Planning

    Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia

  26. DetAug: Obstacle-Blind Trajectory Augmentation for Zero-shot Obstacle Avoidance

    Sep 16, 2026Reece O'Mahoney, Moritz Zoellner, Ioannis HavoutisRobot Policy LearningTrajectory Generation

    Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK · Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

  27. UDAV: Uncertainty-Driven Adaptive VLM Waypoint Planner

    Sep 14, 2026Ghazal Farhani, Shabnam ShabaniUncertainty Estimation for VLA ModelsTrajectory Generation

    The authors are with the Automotive and Surface Transportation Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, London, Ontario, Canada.

  28. Planning in the Backbone: DiffAdapterVLA for Native Continuous Trajectory Generation with Driving VLMs

    Sep 14, 2026Changxin Lu, Xiaoliang Meng, Yu Wu +5Trajectory GenerationVLMs for Autonomous Driving

    School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University · Dongfeng Research & Development Institute

  29. LieSpline-DP: Lie-Group B-Spline Diffusion Policy for Smooth Robot Manipulation

    Sep 14, 2026Erxuan Xie, Bang Liu, Pingyun Nie +3Trajectory GenerationDiffusion Policy

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  30. Trajectory Bundle Method in SE(3) for Black-Box Fixed-Wing Aircraft Trajectory Optimization

    Sep 14, 2026Matthew D. Osburn, Cameron K. Peterson, John L. SalmonTrajectory OptimizationTrajectory Generation

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA

  31. Comparing Trajectories from Positions Alone: Curvature-Based Time Alignment and Drift Error Metric

    Sep 14, 2026Effie Daum, Daniele De Martini, Claire Dune +1Trajectory GenerationRobot Localization

    Northern Robotics Laboratory, Universit´e Laval, Qu´ebec City, Qu´ebec, Canada · Mobile Robotics Group, Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  32. Planning along Differentiable Charts of Constraint Manifolds with General-Purpose IK Solvers

    Sep 11, 2026Thomas Cohn, Seiji Shaw, Harel Biggie +3Constrained Motion PlanningTrajectory Optimization

    Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

  33. Neural-Primitive: An Efficient End-to-end Local Planner with Primitive-based Imitation Learning for Autonomous Flight

    Aug 21, 2026Zhitao Liu, Guangtong Xu, Zihan Wang +3Trajectory GenerationUAV Navigation

    Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China. · Huzhou Institute, Zhejiang University, Huzhou 313000, China. · Institute of Systems Engineering, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621999, China. +3

  34. Non-Parametric Spatiotemporal Trajectory Prediction via State-Conditioned Transition Sampling

    Aug 14, 2026Michael Fore, Akshay Jain, Justin Downes +2Trajectory GenerationVessel Trajectory Prediction

    Amazon Web Services

  35. OccPlanner: Goal-Aware Occupancy-Conditioned Diffusion Planner for PixelGoal Navigation

    Aug 14, 2026Binling Huang, Nianjin Ye, Xi Yang +6Visual NavigationTrajectory Generation

    Changhong Intelligent Robot University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

  36. 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.

  37. Entanglement-Free Trajectory Planning for Tethered Mobile Robots with a Slack Tether

    Aug 10, 2026Gianpietro Battocletti, Dimitris Boskos, Bart De SchutterConstrained Motion PlanningKinodynamic Motion Planning

    Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

  38. Graph-Guided Safe Diffuser: Topological Graph Guidance for Safe Diffusion Planning

    Aug 10, 2026Nakgyu Yang, KwangBin Lee, SooJean HanConstrained Motion PlanningTrajectory Generation

    School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Daejeon, Republic of Korea

  39. CrossTracer: Cross-Embodiment Navigation via VLA Model Reasoning and Trace Residuals Adapting

    Aug 7, 2026Yao Wang, Siyuan Wang, Zhirui Sun +4Trajectory GenerationRobot Navigation

    Peng Cheng Laboratory · Southern University of Science and Technology · Innovation Investment Research Institute +1

  40. GASP: GPU-Accelerated Safe Planner for Real-Time Collision-Aware Motion Generation with Latent Trajectory Sampling

    Aug 5, 2026Colin Merk, Stefanos Charalambous, Peter Dürr +1Constrained Motion PlanningTrajectory Generation

    Sony, Zurich, Switzerland.

  41. Trajectory inference via Acceleration Matching

    Aug 4, 2026Bartolo Dazzini, Giovanni Conforti, Alain Durmus +1Trajectory GenerationTrajectory Inference

    Department of Mathematics, University of Padova. · CMAP, ´Ecole polytechnique. · Institute for Foundations of Data Science, Yale University.

  42. UniNav: A Unified World-Action Diffusion Model for Visual Navigation

    Aug 4, 2026Changqing Zhou, Yueru Luo, Zeyu Jiang +1Visual NavigationTrajectory Generation

    1The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · 2The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

  43. Accelerating Human-Aware Robot Trajectory Generation via Diffusion and Consistency Distillation

    Aug 4, 2026Byeong-Il Ham, Hyun-Bin Kim, Kyung-Soo KimConstrained Motion PlanningTrajectory Generation

  44. Biconvex Optimization for Smooth Minimum-Time Trajectories around Convex Obstacles

    Aug 3, 2026Peter Werner, Tobia Marcucci, Daniela RusConstrained Motion PlanningTrajectory Optimization

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · University of California Santa Barbara

  45. TRACE: Ergodic Trajectory Optimization for Active Scene Reconstruction

    Aug 3, 2026Ziyue Zheng, Linli Shi, Bingkun He +2Trajectory OptimizationTrajectory Generation

    1Johns Hopkins University, USA · University of Pennsylvania, USA

  46. Learning Smooth SE(3) Trajectories under Left-Invariant Riemannian Metrics

    Aug 3, 2026Yuwei Wu, Vijay KumarTrajectory OptimizationTrajectory Generation

    GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 USA

  47. DreamTrajectory: Trajectory-Guided Action Generation with World Model Alignment for Mobile Manipulation

    Aug 2, 2026Zheng Yang, Wenjie Zhang, Xiangyu Chen +7Trajectory GenerationWorld Models for Robotics

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Ola Dimensions

  48. DreamTraj: Generating 6-DoF Object Trajectories by Reading Unrendered Video Diffusion Latents

    Aug 1, 2026Tongsheng Ding, Zhen Luo, Yixuan Yang +4Trajectory GenerationRobotic Manipulation

    1Southern University of Science and Technology · 2Shanghai Innovation Institute · 3Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen +1

  49. CinemaTraj: Composing Atomic Camera Trajectories for 3D Scenes with LLM Agents

    Jul 29, 2026Qianru Li, Xuyang Chen, Erkin Türköz +5Trajectory GenerationLLM Agent Trajectory Synthesis

    Technical University of Munich Munich, Germany · Huawei Dresden Research Center Munich, Germany

  50. Risk-Aware Motion Planning with Learned Trajectory Primitives and Probabilistic Safety Assessment

    Jul 29, 2026Marc Kaufeld, Dian Zhuang, Johannes BetzCollision AvoidanceConstrained Motion Planning

    Professorship of Autonomous Vehicle Systems, Technical University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany; Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) · School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany

  51. Vision-TL-Action: Neuro-Symbolic Trajectory Generation from Visual Observations and Temporal Logic

    Jul 29, 2026Zezhi Liu, Zhiwei Zheng, Hanqian Luo +3Trajectory GenerationRobot Motion Generation

    Nankai University · Zhongguancun Academy · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  52. Model Predictive Planner for UAV Navigation in Non-Convex Air Corridors

    Jul 27, 2026Henrique Silva, Marcelo A. Santos, Guilherme V. RaffoConstrained Motion PlanningTrajectory Generation

    Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil · Department of Management, Information and Production Engineering, University of Bergamo, Dalmine, BG, Italy · Department of Electronic Engineering, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

  53. From Distances to Trajectories: Real-Time Signed Distance Function Mapping and Distance-Accelerated Motion Planning for UAVs

    Jul 21, 2026Jason Stanley, Zhirui Dai, Qihao Qian +6Trajectory GenerationSigned Distance Functions

    UC San Diego, La Jolla, USA · Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, 92093, CA, USA. · Shield AI, San Diego, USA +1

  54. Learning Adaptive Safety Margins for Visual Navigation

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

    New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE.

  55. SEE: Structure-aware Exploring & Exploiting for Long-horizon GUI Agent Trajectory Synthesis

    Jul 20, 2026Zhuohang Fan, Beichen Zhang, Yuanfa Li +4Trajectory GenerationSynthetic Data Generation

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai, China · Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai) Qingdao Research Institute, Qingdao, China

  56. FARO: Feasibility-Aware Robot Motion Optimization

    Jul 20, 2026Michal Ciebielski, Shafeef Omar, Aaron Johnson +1Humanoid Loco-ManipulationKinodynamic Motion Planning

    Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. · Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

  57. Vessel Trajectory Prediction using COLREGs-aware Optimal Planning

    Jul 17, 2026David Kaikkonen, Fredrik Ljungberg, Erik FriskTrajectory OptimizationTrajectory Generation

    ABB Corporate Research, Västerås, Sweden · Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden

  58. Minimum Time Dubins Airplane Paths with Asymmetric Climb Rates

    Jul 17, 2026Jaeyoung Lim, Giuseppe LoiannoAerial RoboticsConstrained Motion Planning

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

  59. NavCMPO: Critic-Guided MeanFlow Policy Optimization for Adaptive Navigation

    Jul 16, 2026Junjie An, Yi Wu, Xiao Liu +5Flow MatchingRobot Policy Adaptation

    Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Shandong University

  60. DRIFT: Drift and Aggregation for Motion Planning

    Jul 16, 2026Yining Xing, Zhiyuan Liu, Zehong Ke +2Trajectory GenerationEnd-to-End Autonomous Driving

    School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Green Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China