14 papers
AAAI-26 Dual Submissions: Novel Challenges
Kiri L. Wagstaff, Joydeep Biswas, Erich Merrill +4
Dual submissions, in which identical or substantially similar papers are simultaneously submitted to one or more archival venues, without cross-citation or disclosure, are a growin…
Learning Agile Striker Skills for Humanoid Soccer Robots from Noisy Sensory Input
Zifan Xu, Myoungkyu Seo, Dongmyeong Lee +8
Learning fast and robust ball-kicking skills is a critical capability for humanoid soccer robots, yet it remains a challenging problem due to the need for rapid leg swings, postura…
VOFA: Visual Object Goal Pushing with Force-Adaptive Control for Humanoids
Zichao Hu, Zifan Xu, Dongsik Chang +6
The ability to push large objects in a goal-directed manner using onboard egocentric perception is an essential skill for humanoid robots to perform complex tasks such as material…
AI-Assisted Peer Review at Scale: The AAAI-26 AI Review Pilot
Joydeep Biswas, Sheila Schoepp, Gautham Vasan +10
Scientific peer review faces mounting strain as submission volumes surge, making it increasingly difficult to sustain review quality, consistency, and timeliness. Recent advances i…
Terrain Costmap Generation via Scaled Preference Conditioning
Luisa Mao, Garrett Warnell, Peter Stone +1
Successful autonomous robot navigation in off-road domains requires the ability to generate high-quality terrain costmaps that are able to both generalize well over a wide variety…
HEIGHT: Heterogeneous Interaction Graph Transformer for Robot Navigation in Crowded and Constrained Environments
Shuijing Liu, Haochen Xia, Fatemeh Cheraghi Pouria +5
We study the problem of robot navigation in dense and interactive crowds with static constraints such as corridors and furniture. Previous methods fail to consider all types of spa…