2 papers
cs.RO2026
Physical Imitation Learning: Distilling Control Policies into Passive Elasticity
Huyue Ma, Yurui Jin, Helmut Hauser +1
Due to brain-body co-evolution, animals' intrinsic body dynamics play a crucial role in their energy-efficient locomotion. Specifically, the control effort is shared between active…
cs.RO2026
Bumper Drone: Elastic Morphology Design for Aerial Physical Interaction
Pongporn Supa, Alex Dunnett, Feng Xiao +3
Aerial robots are evolving from avoiding obstacles to exploiting the environmental contact interactions for navigation, exploration and manipulation. A key challenge in such aerial…