3 papers
cs.RO2026
Bench-Push: Benchmarking Pushing-based Navigation and Manipulation Tasks for Mobile Robots
Ninghan Zhong, Steven Caro, Megnath Ramesh +3
Mobile robots are increasingly deployed in cluttered environments with movable objects, posing challenges for traditional methods that prohibit interaction. In such settings, the m…
cs.RO2026
Bench-NPIN: Benchmarking Non-prehensile Interactive Navigation
Ninghan Zhong, Steven Caro, Avraiem Iskandar +2
Mobile robots are increasingly deployed in unstructured environments where obstacles and objects are movable. Navigation in such environments is known as interactive navigation, wh…
cs.RO2025
Push Smarter, Not Harder: Hierarchical RL-Diffusion Policy for Efficient Nonprehensile Manipulation
Steven Caro, Stephen L. Smith
Nonprehensile manipulation, such as pushing objects across cluttered environments, presents a challenging control problem due to complex contact dynamics and long-horizon planning…