3 papers
cs.RO2026
Large Scale Robotic Material Handling: Learning, Planning, and Control
Filippo A. Spinelli, Yifan Zhai, Fang Nan +6
Bulk material handling involves the efficient and precise moving of large quantities of materials, a core operation in many industries, including cargo ship unloading, waste sortin…
cs.RO2025
Towards Learning Boulder Excavation with Hydraulic Excavators
Jonas Gruetter, Lorenzo Terenzi, Pascal Egli +1
Construction sites frequently require removing large rocks before excavation or grading can proceed. Human operators typically extract these boulders using only standard digging bu…
cs.RO2025
ExT: Towards Scalable Autonomous Excavation via Large-Scale Multi-Task Pretraining and Fine-Tuning
Yifan Zhai, Lorenzo Terenzi, Patrick Frey +3
Scaling up the deployment of autonomous excavators is of great economic and societal importance. Yet it remains a challenging problem, as effective systems must robustly handle uns…