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most citedIR2: Implicit Rendezvous for Robotic Exploration Teams under Sparse Intermittent Connectivity

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14 papers

cs.RO2026

Beyond Planning: Differentiable Control-in-the-loop End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Zhidong Wang, Zirui Li, Zitong Shan +6

End-to-end autonomous driving has achieved remarkable progress by planning trajectories directly from raw sensor data. Yet the step from planning to control still relies on hand-tu…

cs.RO2026

RoboFoundry: System-as-Policy Evolution for Self-Learning Embodied Agents

Jingsong Liang, Shuhao Liao, Shizhe Zhang +15

A foundation model should not act in isolation as an embodied agent. Yet, existing methods often optimize individual components of the agent stack, such as memory, context, skills,…

cs.RO2026

PV-WM: A Heterogeneous Micro-Macro World Model for Articulated Pedestrian-Vehicle Co-Rollout

Haozhuang Chi, Jingsong Liang, Ziying Song +4

Local pedestrian-vehicle forecasting spans heterogeneous physical scales: pedestrians combine root locomotion with articulated motion, whereas vehicles are rigid bodies described b…

cs.RO2026

Ego-Dynamics-Augmented World Model for Autonomous Driving with Zero-Shot Cross-Embodiment Adaptation

Zhidong Wang, Jingsong Liang, Zirui Li +3

End-to-end autonomous driving requires generalization ability across platforms with dissimilar physical characteristics. The chassis defines the physical embodiment of each platfor…

cs.RO2026

FARE: Fast-Slow Agentic Robotic Exploration

Shuhao Liao, Xuxin Lv, Jeric Lew +6

This work advances autonomous robot exploration by integrating agent-level semantic reasoning with fast local control. We introduce FARE, a hierarchical autonomous exploration fram…

cs.RO2026

ORION: Option-Regularized Deep Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Multi-Agent Online Navigation

Shizhe Zhang, Jingsong Liang, Zhitao Zhou +6

Existing methods for multi-agent navigation typically assume fully known environments, offering limited support for partially known scenarios with outdated or imperfect prior maps,…

cs.RO2025

HEADER: Hierarchical Robot Exploration via Attention-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning with Expert-Guided Reward

Yuhong Cao, Yizhuo Wang, Jingsong Liang +4

This work pushes the boundaries of learning-based methods in autonomous robot exploration in terms of environmental scale and exploration efficiency. We present HEADER, an attentio…

cs.RO2025

GRATE: a Graph transformer-based deep Reinforcement learning Approach for Time-efficient autonomous robot Exploration

Haozhan Ni, Jingsong Liang, Chenyu He +2

Autonomous robot exploration (ARE) is the process of a robot autonomously navigating and mapping an unknown environment. Recent Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based approaches typical…

cs.RO2025

CogniPlan: Uncertainty-Guided Path Planning with Conditional Generative Layout Prediction

Yizhuo Wang, Haodong He, Jingsong Liang +3

Path planning in unknown environments is a crucial yet inherently challenging capability for mobile robots, which primarily encompasses two coupled tasks: autonomous exploration an…

cs.AI2025

Multimodal Fused Learning for Solving the Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem in Robotic Task Planning

Jiaqi Cheng, Mingfeng Fan, Xuefeng Zhang +4

Effective and efficient task planning is essential for mobile robots, especially in applications like warehouse retrieval and environmental monitoring. These tasks often involve se…

cs.RO2024

DARE: Diffusion Policy for Autonomous Robot Exploration

Yuhong Cao, Jeric Lew, Jingsong Liang +2

Autonomous robot exploration requires a robot to efficiently explore and map unknown environments. Compared to conventional methods that can only optimize paths based on the curren…

cs.RO2024★ 2 cited

IR2: Implicit Rendezvous for Robotic Exploration Teams under Sparse Intermittent Connectivity

Derek Ming Siang Tan, Yixiao Ma, Jingsong Liang +3

Information sharing is critical in time-sensitive and realistic multi-robot exploration, especially for smaller robotic teams in large-scale environments where connectivity may be…

cs.RO2024

HDPlanner: Advancing Autonomous Deployments in Unknown Environments through Hierarchical Decision Networks

Jingsong Liang, Yuhong Cao, Yixiao Ma +2

In this paper, we introduce HDPlanner, a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based framework designed to tackle two core and challenging tasks for mobile robots: autonomous explorati…

cs.RO2024

Privileged Reinforcement and Communication Learning for Distributed, Bandwidth-limited Multi-robot Exploration

Yixiao Ma, Jingsong Liang, Yuhong Cao +2

Communication bandwidth is an important consideration in multi-robot exploration, where information exchange among robots is critical. While existing methods typically aim to reduc…