3 papers
cs.RO2026
Onboard MuJoCo-based Model Predictive Control for Shipboard Crane with Double-Pendulum Sway Suppression
Oscar Pang, Lisa Coiffard, Paul Templier +3
Transferring heavy payloads in maritime settings relies on efficient crane operation, limited by hazardous double-pendulum payload sway. This sway motion is further exacerbated in…
cs.RO2026
H-WM: Robotic Task and Motion Planning Guided by Hierarchical World Model
Jinbang Huang, Wenyuan Chen, Zhiyuan Li +9
World models are becoming central to robotic planning and control as they enable prediction of future state transitions. Existing approaches often emphasize video generation or nat…
cs.RO2025
From Tabula Rasa to Emergent Abilities: Discovering Robot Skills via Real-World Unsupervised Quality-Diversity
Luca Grillotti, Lisa Coiffard, Oscar Pang +2
Autonomous skill discovery aims to enable robots to acquire diverse behaviors without explicit supervision. Learning such behaviors directly on physical hardware remains challengin…