19 papers
Tripody: An Overconstrained 3-SPR-like Parallel Robot for High-Reach Construction Tasks
Julien Kindle, Jakub Raczy, Riccardo Balbi +3
Many ceiling construction tasks still rely on heavy serial manipulators that are difficult to deploy in cluttered interiors, motivating lightweight, field-ready alternatives that r…
Robots Need More than VLA and World Models
Elis Karcini, Faisal Mehrban, Quang Nguyen +6
Generalist robot intelligence is often framed as a policy-scaling problem: collect more robot demonstrations, train larger Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, and expect broader g…
An Efficient Beam Search Algorithm for Active Perception in Mobile Robotics
Kaixian Qu, Han Wang, Victor Klemm +2
Active perception is a fundamental problem in autonomous robotics in which the robot must decide where to move and what to sense in order to obtain the most informative observation…
CaRLi-V: Camera-RADAR-LiDAR Point-Wise 3D Velocity Estimation
Landson Guo, Andres M. Diaz Aguilar, William Talbot +3
Accurate point-wise velocity estimation in 3D is crucial for robot interaction with non-rigid dynamic agents, enabling robust performance in path planning, collision avoidance, and…
Learning Multi-Agent Local Collision-Avoidance for Collaborative Carrying tasks with Coupled Quadrupedal Robots
Francesca Bray, Simone Tolomei, Andrei Cramariuc +2
Robotic collaborative carrying could greatly benefit human activities like warehouse and construction site management. However, coordinating the simultaneous motion of multiple rob…
Path-conditioned Reinforcement Learning-based Local Planning for Long-Range Navigation
Mateo Haro, Julia Richter, Fan Yang +2
Long-range navigation is commonly addressed through hierarchical pipelines in which a global planner generates a path, decomposed into waypoints, and followed sequentially by a loc…