23 papers
Efficient Real-World Online Reinforcement Learning for Robot Manipulation via Centralized Training and Critic Decomposition
Changhao Li, Yifang Zhang, Heng Zhang +6
Real-world online reinforcement learning (RL) provides a promising approach for training robotic manipulation policies directly in the physical world, avoiding the sim-to-real gap…
LUCID: Latent-Skill Unified Control via Imagined Dynamics for Long-Horizon Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Cheng Guo, Mingzhe Ni, Angelo Cangelosi +1
Long-horizon humanoid loco-manipulation requires composing versatile whole-body skills and reliable high-level decision making. Existing methods often coordinate pretrained skills…
Robots Need More than VLA and World Models
Elis Karcini, Faisal Mehrban, Quang Nguyen +6
Generalist robot intelligence is often framed as a policy-scaling problem: collect more robot demonstrations, train larger Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, and expect broader g…
PLanAR: Planning-Language-Grounded Agentic Reasoning for Robot Manipulation
Pengyuan Guo, Zhonghao Mai, Zhengtong Xu +8
Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled increasing progress in real-world robot manipulation. However, long-horizon manipulation in unstructured environments…
Dissipative Latent Residual Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Modeling and Identification of Electromechanical Systems
Youyuan Long, Gokhan Solak, Arash Ajoudani
Accurate dynamical modeling is essential for simulation and control of embodied systems, yet first-principles models of electromechanical systems often fail to capture complex diss…
Foundation Models in Robotics: A Comprehensive Review of Methods, Models, Datasets, Challenges and Future Research Directions
Aggelos Psiris, Vasileios Argyriou, Evangelos K. Markakis +6
Over the recent years, the field of robotics has been undergoing a transformative paradigm shift from fixed, single-task, domain-specific solutions towards adaptive, multi-function…