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OptiWorld: Optimal Control for Video World Generation under Physical Constraints
May 30, 2026Yu Yuan, Jianhao Yuan, Xijun Wang +4Physical Consistency in Video Generation Image-to-Video Generation
Purdue University · University of Oxford · SixteenMiles Labs
Trajectory Planning for Non-Communicating Mobile Robots using Inverse Optimal Control
May 29, 2026Nina Majer, Yannick Epple, Xin Ye +2Multi-Robot Motion Planning Trajectory Generation
FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Haid-und-Neu-Str.10-14, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany · Institute of Control Systems, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kaiserstraße 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
From GPS Points to Travel Patterns: Flexible and Semantic Trajectory Generation with LLMs
May 28, 2026Silin Zhou, Chenhao Wang, Yuntao Wen +3Trajectory Generation Intelligent Transportation Systems
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu, China · King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Natural Functional Gradients for Smooth Trajectory Optimization
May 27, 2026Kisang Park, Chanwoo Kim, Kyungjae Lee +1Constrained Motion Planning Trajectory Optimization
Department of Artificial Intelligence, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea · Department of Statistics, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea · 3RLWRLD, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Sum of Costs Diffusion with Dynamic Guidance for Motion Planning
May 23, 2026Aysu Aylin Kaplan, Özgür ErkentTrajectory Generation Diffusion-Based Planning
Computer Engineering Department, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
ChainFlow-VLA: Causal Flow Planning with Vision-Language Models
May 22, 2026Xiyang Wang, Xinlin Wang, Tingguang Zhou +7Trajectory Generation VLMs for Autonomous Driving
1Afari Intelligent Drive · 2Tianjin University · University of Macau
Signal Temporal Logic Motion Planning via Graphs of Convex Sets
May 22, 2026Yu Chen, Ancheng Hou, Mingyang Feng +2Constrained Motion Planning Trajectory Generation
School of Automation & Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China · Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Trajectory Planning and Control near the Limits: an Open Experimental Benchmark on the RoboRacer Platform
May 19, 2026Mattia Piccinini, Patrick Zambiasi, Aniello Mungiello +3Autonomous Driving Benchmarks Robot Trajectory Tracking
Professorship of Autonomous Vehicle Systems, Technical University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany; Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI). · Avilus GmbH, Germany. · Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (DIETI), University of Naples Federico II, Naples 80125, Italy. +1
Learning-Accelerated Optimization-based Trajectory Planning for Cooperative Aerial-Ground Handover Missions
May 19, 2026Jingshan Chen, Bochen Yu, Henrik Ebel +1Multi-Robot Motion Planning Trajectory Optimization
Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics, University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany · Mechanical Engineering, LUT University, 53850 Lappeenranta, Finland
CosFly: Plan in the Matrix, Fly in the World
May 18, 2026Hanxuan Chen, Xiangyue Wang, Songsheng Cheng +8Trajectory Generation UAV Navigation
Autel Robotics · Nanjing University · Peking University +2
Modelling Customer Trajectories with Reinforcement Learning for Practical Retail Insights
May 18, 2026Ken Ming Lee, Paul Barde, Maxime C. Cohen +1Trajectory Generation Trajectory Prediction
McGill University Montréal, Canada · Mila - Quebec AI Institute Montréal, Canada
NORM-Nav: Zero-Shot Mobile Robot Navigation with Natural Language Behavioral Constraints
May 16, 2026Dongjie Huo, Junhui Wang, Chao Gao +3Constrained Motion Planning Trajectory Generation
College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology · Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University · Institute of Systems Engineering and Collaborative Laboratory for Intelligent Science and Systems, Macau University of Science and Technology +1
Plan First, Diffuse Later: Extrinsic Graph Guidance for Long-Horizon Diffusion Planning
May 16, 2026Yaniv Hassidof, Adir Morgan, Yilun Du +1Trajectory Generation Diffusion-Based Planning
Technion · Harvard
Constrained MPC-Based Motion Planning for Morphing Quadrotors in Ultra-Narrow Passages under Limited Perception
May 15, 2026Harsh Modi, Xiao Liang, Minghui ZhengAerial Robotics Constrained Motion Planning
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA · Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Privacy Evaluation of Generative Models for Trajectory Generation
May 14, 2026Stavros Bouras, Ioannis Kontopoulos, Chiara Pugliese +5Privacy Auditing Trajectory Generation
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece · Institute of Informatics and Teletematics, National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy · Institute of Information Science and Technologies, National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy
LMPath: Language-Mediated Priors and Path Generation for Aerial Exploration
May 13, 2026Jonathan A. Diller, Fernando Cladera, Camillo J. Taylor +1Trajectory Generation Large Language Model-Based Robot Planning
GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania
Ergodic Trajectory Design by Learned Pushforward Maps: Provable Coverage via Conditional Flow Matching
May 13, 2026Ehsan Aghazadeh, Masoud Malekzadeh, Ahmad Ghasemi +1Trajectory Optimization Trajectory Generation
University of Massachusetts Amherst
TrajPrism: A Multi-Task Benchmark for Language-Grounded Urban Trajectory Understanding
May 11, 2026Lihuan Li, Wilson Wongso, Baiyu Chen +6Trajectory Generation
UNSW Sydney · HKUST (GZ)
diffGHOST: Diffusion based Generative Hedged Oblivious Synthetic Trajectories
May 11, 2026Florent Guépin, Cheick Tidiani Cisse, Denis Renaud +2Trajectory Generation Synthetic Data Generation
Orange Research, Belfort, France · Orange Business, Belfort, France
TrajDLM: Topology-Aware Block Diffusion Language Model for Trajectory Generation
May 11, 2026Wilson Wongso, Lihuan Li, Arian Prabowo +4Trajectory Generation Synthetic Data Generation
University of New South Wales · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Muninn: Your Trajectory Diffusion Model But Faster
May 11, 2026Gokul Puthumanaillam, Hao Jiang, Ruben Hernandez +4Trajectory Generation Diffusion-Based Planning
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. · Florida International University. · Providence College.
Terminal Matters: Kinodynamic Planning with a Terminal Cost and Learned Uncertainty in Belief State-Cost Space
May 9, 2026Zhuoyun Zhong, Seyedali Golestaneh, Constantinos ChamzasBelief-Space Planning Trajectory Optimization
All authors are affiliated with the Department of Robotics Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA 01609, USA
ECTraj: Enhanced Consistency Training for Multi-Agent Trajectory Prediction
May 9, 2026Alen Mrdovic, Qingze, Liu +6Trajectory Generation Multi-Agent Trajectory Prediction
Tony · Rutgers University, New Brunswick · The College of New Jersey
PISTO: Proximal Inference for Stochastic Trajectory Optimization
May 8, 2026Hongzhe Yu, Zinuo Chang, Yongxin ChenTrajectory Optimization Trajectory Generation
School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA · School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Track A*: Fast Visibility-Aware Trajectory Planning for Active Target Tracking
May 6, 2026Hanxuan Chen, Kangli Wang, Ji PeiTrajectory Generation Motion Planning
Autel Robotics
HDFlow: Hierarchical Diffusion-Flow Planning for Long-horizon Tasks
May 6, 2026Nandiraju Gireesh, Yuanliang Ju, Chaoyi Xu +3Hierarchical Planning Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation
1Peking University · University of Toronto. · 2Galbot
Refining Compositional Diffusion for Reliable Long-Horizon Planning
May 4, 2026Kyowoon Lee, Yunhao Luo, Anh Tong +1Trajectory Generation Diffusion-Based Planning
KAIST · University of Michigan · Korea University +1
Action Agent: Agentic Video Generation Meets Flow-Constrained Diffusion
May 2, 2026Jeffrin Sam, Nguyen Khang, Yara Mahmoud +2Trajectory Generation Diffusion-Based Planning
Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory, Skoltech, Bolshoy Boulevard, 30, Moscow 121205, Russia
FlowS: One-Step Motion Prediction via Local Transport Conditioning
Apr 28, 2026Leandro Di Bella, Adrian Munteanu, Bruno CornelisFlow Matching Trajectory Generation
Department of Electronics and Informatics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium · IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
Safe Navigation in Unknown and Cluttered Environments via Direction-Aware Convex Free-Region Generation
Apr 26, 2026Zhicheng Song, Yongjian Li, Kai Chen +3Collision Avoidance Trajectory Generation
Robotics and Autonomous Systems Thrust, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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OptiWorld: Optimal Control for Video World Generation under Physical Constraints

Yu Yuan, Jianhao Yuan, Xijun Wang, Daiqing Li+3

Purdue University · University of Oxford · SixteenMiles Labs

Physical Consistency in Video Generation Image-to-Video Generation Trajectory Generation Controllable Video Generation Optimal Control Video World Models

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Video generation models are becoming a scalable form of world models, but they mainly generate plausible motion rather than proactively control or optimize the underlying dynamics. As a result, an object in the generated video may follow trajectories that are unsafe, not smooth, inefficient, or physically inconsistent. In this work, we propose \textbf{OptiWorld}, a framework that brings classical optimal control into video generation at inference time. OptiWorld first extracts a compact, task-relevant world state, then plans an optimal trajectory under physical constraints, and finally renders the video conditioned on this trajectory. We formulate planning as a geometric problem on a continuous manifold, which converts 3D geometry and task-dependent physical constraints into a unified planning geometry. By adding this optimal-control layer, OptiWorld generates videos with preferable dynamics, demonstrating strong potential in multiple tasks including goal-conditioned image-to-video generation, video dynamics editing, and counterfactual generation.

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