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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…
ComposableNav: Instruction-Following Navigation in Dynamic Environments via Composable Diffusion
Zichao Hu, Chen Tang, Michael J. Munje +6
This paper considers the problem of enabling robots to navigate dynamic environments while following instructions. The challenge lies in the combinatorial nature of instruction spe…
SocialNav-SUB: Benchmarking VLMs for Scene Understanding in Social Robot Navigation
Michael J. Munje, Chen Tang, Shuijing Liu +6
Robot navigation in dynamic, human-centered environments requires socially-compliant decisions grounded in robust scene understanding. Recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit…
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…
Joint Verification and Refinement of Language Models for Safety-Constrained Planning
Yunhao Yang, Neel P. Bhatt, William Ward +3
Large language models possess impressive capabilities in generating programs (e.g., Python) from natural language descriptions to execute robotic tasks. However, these generated pr…
SoMaSLAM: 2D Graph SLAM for Sparse Range Sensing with Soft Manhattan World Constraints
Jeahn Han, Zichao Hu, Seonmo Yang +2
We propose a graph SLAM algorithm for sparse range sensing that incorporates a soft Manhattan world utilizing landmark-landmark constraints. Sparse range sensing is necessary for t…
Robo-Instruct: Simulator-Augmented Instruction Alignment For Finetuning Code LLMs
Zichao Hu, Junyi Jessy Li, Arjun Guha +1
Code LLMs have shown promising results with converting tasks in natural language to programs that can be executed by service robots. We are interested in finetuning small, speciali…
On a Foundation Model for Operating Systems
Divyanshu Saxena, Nihal Sharma, Donghyun Kim +15
This paper lays down the research agenda for a domain-specific foundation model for operating systems (OSes). Our case for a foundation model revolves around the observations that…
Efficient 2D Graph SLAM for Sparse Sensing
Hanzhi Zhou, Zichao Hu, Sihang Liu +1
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) plays a vital role in mapping unknown spaces and aiding autonomous navigation. Virtually all state-of-the-art solutions today for 2D SL…
Deploying and Evaluating LLMs to Program Service Mobile Robots
Zichao Hu, Francesca Lucchetti, Claire Schlesinger +5
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have spurred interest in using them for generating robot programs from natural language, with promising initial results. We inve…
Rethinking Social Robot Navigation: Leveraging the Best of Two Worlds
Amir Hossain Raj, Zichao Hu, Haresh Karnan +6
Empowering robots to navigate in a socially compliant manner is essential for the acceptance of robots moving in human-inhabited environments. Previously, roboticists have develope…