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cs.RO2026

Behavior-Aligned Action Tokenization for Robot Policy Learning

Junbo Dong, Ze Chen, Zhendong Xie +5

Autoregressive robot policies learn continuous control by predicting discrete action tokens from observations. Different tasks often share local motions, yet behavioral corresponde…

cs.RO2026

OpenWAM: An Open, Modular Exploration Towards Systematic World-Action Model Pretraining

Yuran Wang, Siqiao Huang, Mingleyang Li +21

World-Action Models inherit world knowledge from video-generative priors, and channel it into executable control signals through embodied experience. Existing systems, however, are…

cs.RO2026

Smoother Action Chunking Flow Policy via Prior-Corrected Orthogonal Trust-Region Guidance

Kai Fang, Hailong Pei, Xuemin Chi

Flow-matching robot policies commonly use action-chunking inference for efficient closed-loop control, but chunk boundaries can introduce discontinuous action transitions. Existing…

cs.RO2025

Efficient and Real-Time Motion Planning for Robotics Using Projection-Based Optimization

Xuemin Chi, Hakan Girgin, Tobias Löw +6

Generating motions for robots interacting with objects of various shapes is a complex challenge, further complicated by the robot geometry and multiple desired behaviors. While cur…

cs.RO2025

Dynamic Collision Avoidance Using Velocity Obstacle-Based Control Barrier Functions

Jihao Huang, Jun Zeng, Xuemin Chi +3

Designing safety-critical controllers for acceleration-controlled unicycle robots is challenging, as control inputs may not appear in the constraints of control Lyapunov functions(…

cs.RO2025

FSDP: Fast and Safe Data-Driven Overtaking Trajectory Planning for Head-to-Head Autonomous Racing Competitions

Cheng Hu, Jihao Huang, Wule Mao +7

Generating overtaking trajectories in autonomous racing is a challenging task, as the trajectory must satisfy the vehicle's dynamics and ensure safety and real-time performance run…

cs.RO2024

Safe Dynamic Motion Generation in Configuration Space Using Differentiable Distance Fields

Xuemin Chi, Yiming Li, Jihao Huang +3

Generating collision-free motions in dynamic environments is a challenging problem for high-dimensional robotics, particularly under real-time constraints. Control Barrier Function…

cs.RO2024★ 2 cited

Configuration Space Distance Fields for Manipulation Planning

Yiming Li, Xuemin Chi, Amirreza Razmjoo +1

The signed distance field is a popular implicit shape representation in robotics, providing geometric information about objects and obstacles in a form that can easily be combined…

cs.RO2024

GeoPro-VO: Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance with Geometric Projector Based on Velocity Obstacle

Jihao Huang, Xuemin Chi, Jun Zeng +2

Optimization-based approaches are widely employed to generate optimal robot motions while considering various constraints, such as robot dynamics, collision avoidance, and physical…

cs.RO2023

Whole-body Dynamic Collision Avoidance with Time-varying Control Barrier Functions

Jihao Huang, Xuemin Chi, Zhitao Liu +1

Recently, there has been increasing attention in robot research towards the whole-body collision avoidance. In this paper, we propose a safety-critical controller that utilizes tim…

cs.RO2023

Fast Path Planning for Autonomous Vehicle Parking with Safety-Guarantee using Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability

Xuemin Chi, Jun Zeng, Jihao Huang +2

We present a fast planning architecture called Hamilton-Jacobi-based bidirectional A* (HJBA*) to solve general tight parking scenarios. The algorithm is a two-layer composed of a h…

cs.RO2023

Geometric Projectors: Geometric Constraints based Optimization for Robot Behaviors

Xuemin Chi, Tobias Löw, Yiming Li +2

Generating motion for robots that interact with objects of various shapes is a complex challenge, further complicated when the robot's own geometry and multiple desired behaviors a…

cs.RO2023

Obstacle Avoidance for Unicycle-Modelled Mobile Robots with Time-varying Control Barrier Functions

Jihao Huang, Zhitao Liu, Jun Zeng +2

In this paper, we propose a safety-critical controller based on time-varying control barrier functions (CBFs) for a robot with an unicycle model in the continuous-time domain to ac…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

Velocity Obstacle for Polytopic Collision Avoidance for Distributed Multi-robot Systems

Jihao Huang, Jun Zeng, Xuemin Chi +3

Obstacle avoidance for multi-robot navigation with polytopic shapes is challenging. Existing works simplify the system dynamics or consider it as a convex or non-convex optimizatio…

cs.RO2022

Search-Based Path Planning Algorithm for Autonomous Parking:Multi-Heuristic Hybrid A*

Jihao Huang, Zhitao Liu, Xuemin Chi +2

This paper proposed a novel method for autonomous parking. Autonomous parking has received a lot of attention because of its convenience, but due to the complex environment and the…

cs.RO2022

Optimization-based Motion Planning for Autonomous Parking Considering Dynamic Obstacle: A Hierarchical Framework

Xuemin Chi, Zhitao Liu, Jihao Huang +2

This paper introduces a hierarchical framework that integrates graph search algorithms and model predictive control to facilitate efficient parking maneuvers for Autonomous Vehicle…