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From Local Whole-Body VLA Behaviors to Scene-Scale Aerial Manipulation
Weixiang Guo, Rui Jin, Haotian Jin +7
Vision-language-action (VLA) models enable task-conditioned interaction, but extending them to scene-scale aerial manipulation remains challenging due to costly whole-body demonstr…
G2-Nav: Grounded and Guarded Vision-Language Costmaps for Robot Social Navigation
Yuwen Liao, Yihang Lan, Yizhuo Yang +4
Social navigation requires the robot to reason and respond in complex real-world environments. While recent works attempt to incorporate human-level intelligence into robot plannin…
From Sketch Prior to Trajectories: A Mission-Oriented Coordinated Navigation Framework for Indoor UAV Swarm
Xinhang Xu, Ruiyang Liu, Haotian Jin +4
UAV swarm for applications, such as indoor inspection, security patrol, and logistics delivery, are often mission-oriented rather than exploration-oriented. In these tasks, UAVs ar…
FU-MPC: Frontier- and Uncertainty-Aware Model Predictive Control for Efficient and Accurate UAV Exploration with Motorized LiDAR
Jianping Li, Pengfei Wan, Zhongyuan Liu +6
Efficient UAV exploration in unknown environments requires rapid coverage expansion while maintaining accurate and reliable localization, since safe navigation in complex scenes de…
S3KF: Spherical State-Space Kalman Filtering for Panoramic 3D Multi-Object Tracking
Zhongyuan Liu, Shaonan Yu, Jianping Li +5
Panoramic multi-object tracking is important for industrial safety monitoring, wide-area robotic perception, and infrastructure-light deployment in large workspaces. In these setti…
Line-of-Sight-Constrained Multi-Robot Mapless Navigation via Polygonal Visible Regions
Ruofei Bai, Shenghai Yuan, Xinhang Xu +5
Multi-robot systems rely on underlying connectivity to ensure reliable communication and timely coordination. This paper studies the line-of-sight (LoS) connectivity maintenance pr…
OmniVLN: Omnidirectional 3D Perception and Token-Efficient LLM Reasoning for Visual-Language Navigation across Air and Ground Platforms
Zhongyuang Liu, Min He, Shaonan Yu +5
Language-guided embodied navigation requires an agent to interpret object-referential instructions, search across multiple rooms, localize the referenced target, and execute reliab…
Topological Motion Planning Diffusion: Generative Tangle-Free Path Planning for Tethered Robots in Obstacle-Rich Environments
Yifu Tian, Xinhang Xu, Thien-Minh Nguyen +1
In extreme environments such as underwater exploration and post-disaster rescue, tethered robots require continuous navigation while avoiding cable entanglement. Traditional planne…
Learning Energy-Efficient Air--Ground Actuation for Hybrid Robots on Stair-Like Terrain
Jiaxing Li, Wen Tian, Ishaan Bhimwal +5
Hybrid aerial--ground robots can use thrust to cross obstacles that impede wheel-driven motion, but deciding how much thrust to apply during contact remains challenging. We present…
Energy-Constrained Navigation for Planetary Rovers under Hybrid RTG-Solar Power
Tianxin Hu, Weixiang Guo, Ruimeng Liu +5
Future planetary exploration rovers must operate for extended durations on hybrid power inputs that combine steady radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) output with variable…
Adaptive Motorized LiDAR Scanning Control for Robust Localization with OpenStreetMap
Jianping Li, Kaisong Zhu, Zhongyuan Liu +4
LiDAR-to-OpenStreetMap (OSM) localization has gained increasing attention, as OSM provides lightweight global priors such as building footprints. These priors enhance global consis…
AEOS: Active Environment-aware Optimal Scanning Control for UAV LiDAR-Inertial Odometry in Complex Scenes
Jianping Li, Xinhang Xu, Zhongyuan Liu +3
LiDAR-based 3D perception and localization on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are fundamentally limited by the narrow field of view (FoV) of compact LiDAR sensors and the payload c…
Tire Wear Aware Trajectory Tracking Control for Multi-axle Swerve-drive Autonomous Mobile Robots
Tianxin Hu, Xinhang Xu, Thien-Minh Nguyen +3
Multi-axle Swerve-drive Autonomous Mobile Robots (MS-AGVs) equipped with independently steerable wheels are commonly used for high-payload transportation. In this work, we present…
Unsupervised Anomaly Detection for Autonomous Robots via Mahalanobis SVDD with Audio-IMU Fusion
Yizhuo Yang, Jiulin Zhao, Xinhang Xu +3
Reliable anomaly detection is essential for ensuring the safety of autonomous robots, particularly when conventional detection systems based on vision or LiDAR become unreliable in…
Following Is All You Need: Robot Crowd Navigation Using People As Planners
Yuwen Liao, Xinhang Xu, Ruofei Bai +4
Navigating in crowded environments requires the robot to be equipped with high-level reasoning and planning techniques. Existing works focus on developing complex and heavyweight p…
Handle Object Navigation as Weighted Traveling Repairman Problem
Ruimeng Liu, Xinhang Xu, Shenghai Yuan +1
Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) requires agents to navigate to objects specified via open-ended natural language without predefined categories or prior environmental knowledge.…
LiMo-Calib: On-Site Fast LiDAR-Motor Calibration for Quadruped Robot-Based Panoramic 3D Sensing System
Jianping Li, Zhongyuan Liu, Xinhang Xu +4
Conventional single LiDAR systems are inherently constrained by their limited field of view (FoV), leading to blind spots and incomplete environmental awareness, particularly on ro…
AToM: Adaptive Theory-of-Mind-Based Human Motion Prediction in Long-Term Human-Robot Interactions
Yuwen Liao, Muqing Cao, Xinhang Xu +1
Humans learn from observations and experiences to adjust their behaviours towards better performance. Interacting with such dynamic humans is challenging, as the robot needs to pre…
Cooperative Aerial Robot Inspection Challenge: A Benchmark for Heterogeneous Multi-UAV Planning and Lessons Learned
Muqing Cao, Thien-Minh Nguyen, Shenghai Yuan +12
We propose the Cooperative Aerial Robot Inspection Challenge (CARIC), a simulation-based benchmark for motion planning algorithms in heterogeneous multi-UAV systems. CARIC features…
UA-MPC: Uncertainty-Aware Model Predictive Control for Motorized LiDAR Odometry
Jianping Li, Xinhang Xu, Jinxin Liu +3
Accurate and comprehensive 3D sensing using LiDAR systems is crucial for various applications in photogrammetry and robotics, including facility inspection, Building Information Mo…
Learning Dynamic Weight Adjustment for Spatial-Temporal Trajectory Planning in Crowd Navigation
Muqing Cao, Xinhang Xu, Yizhuo Yang +6
Robot navigation in dense human crowds poses a significant challenge due to the complexity of human behavior in dynamic and obstacle-rich environments. In this work, we propose a d…
Robust Loop Closure by Textual Cues in Challenging Environments
Tongxing Jin, Thien-Minh Nguyen, Xinhang Xu +4
Loop closure is an important task in robot navigation. However, existing methods mostly rely on some implicit or heuristic features of the environment, which can still fail to work…
HelmetPoser: A Helmet-Mounted IMU Dataset for Data-Driven Estimation of Human Head Motion in Diverse Conditions
Jianping Li, Qiutong Leng, Jinxing Liu +7
Helmet-mounted wearable positioning systems are crucial for enhancing safety and facilitating coordination in industrial, construction, and emergency rescue environments. These sys…
A Differential Dynamic Programming Framework for Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Kun Cao, Xinhang Xu, Wanxin Jin +2
A differential dynamic programming (DDP)-based framework for inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) is introduced to recover the parameters in the cost function, system dynamics, and…