3 papers
cs.RO2026
CommCP: Efficient Multi-Agent Coordination via LLM-Based Communication with Conformal Prediction
Xiaopan Zhang, Zejin Wang, Zhixu Li +2
To complete assignments provided by humans in natural language, robots must interpret commands, generate and answer relevant questions for scene understanding, and manipulate targe…
cs.RO2025
Towards Generalizable Safety in Crowd Navigation via Conformal Uncertainty Handling
Jianpeng Yao, Xiaopan Zhang, Yu Xia +3
Mobile robots navigating in crowds trained using reinforcement learning are known to suffer performance degradation when faced with out-of-distribution scenarios. We propose that b…
cs.RO2025
SoNIC: Safe Social Navigation with Adaptive Conformal Inference and Constrained Reinforcement Learning
Jianpeng Yao, Xiaopan Zhang, Yu Xia +3
Reinforcement learning (RL) enables social robots to generate trajectories without relying on human-designed rules or interventions, making it generally more effective than rule-ba…