arXiv:2511. 06667v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With the explosive growth of rigid-body simulators, policy learning in simulation has become the de facto standard for most rigid morphologies.
By Andrew Choi, Dezhong Tong, Xiaonan Huang
arXiv:2602.00532v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Constraint handling is central to constrained black-box optimization (BBO), where objective improvement and feasibility restoration often pro...
By Sijie Ma, Zeyuan Ma, Yue-Jiao Gong, Ran Cheng
arXiv:2605. 26452v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Safe reinforcement learning (RL) for robotic systems requires policies that improve task performance while satisfying state and input constraints during both training and deployment.
By Dhruv S. Kushwaha, Zoleikha A. Biron
arXiv:2606. 24039v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotics increasingly relies on GPUs for parallel simulation, large-scale learning, and neural-network inference.
By Gabriel Bravo-Palacios, Jianghan Zhang, Zachary Pestrikov, Brian Plancher, Thomas Lew
arXiv:2604. 12474v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In many robotic tasks, agents must traverse a sequence of spatial regions to complete a mission.
By Lidor Erez, Shahaf S. Shperberg, Ayal Taitler
arXiv:2602. 04132v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved remarkable success in solving complex sequential decision-making problems.
By Dhruv S. Kushwaha, Zoleikha A. Biron
GLAMDRING is a framework that jointly designs a quadruped robot’s morphology and its gait controller using reinforcement learning of Hopf-oscillator Central Pattern Generators (CPGs). Given specifications such as forward‑velocity bounds, actuator power budgets, an actuator library, and payload requirements, the system returns an optimized robot design and a corresponding gait policy, ranking designs by objectives like maximum speed, minimum Cost of Transport, or maximum payload margin. Experiments demonstrate that co‑designing body and gait is essential for meeting locomotion constraints, that actuator feasibility determines payload capacity, and that natural animal gaits emerge from the design process, with a real‑world demonstration confirming the approach’s effectiveness.
By Amogh Joshi, Kaushik Roy
arXiv:2507.06625v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Model Predictive Control (MPC) enables reliable trajectory optimization under dynamics constraints, but often depends on accurate dynamics mo...
By Shizhe Cai, Zeya Yin, Jayadeep Jacob, Fabio Ramos
arXiv:2607. 09218v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Whole-arm manipulation involves direct contact with the environment while the robot completes a task by distributing contact across multiple links as contacts form, slide, and break.
By Rishabh Madan, Angchen Xie, Samantha Saak, Andres Blanco, Dohyeok Lee, Sarah Grace Brown, Yunting Yan, Mark Zolotas, Jose Barreiros, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
arXiv:2606. 13825v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep unfolding (DU) accelerates iterative optimizers by introducing learnable components and training them through unrolled iterations, but extending DU to the large-scale semidefinite programs (SDPs) common in robotics has remained limited.
By Alex Oshin, Rahul Vodeb Ghosh, Evangelos A. Theodorou
arXiv:2607. 09218v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Whole-arm manipulation involves direct contact with the environment while the robot completes a task by distributing contact across multiple links as contacts form, slide, and break.
By Rishabh Madan, Angchen Xie, Samantha Saak, Andres Blanco, Dohyeok Lee, Sarah Grace Brown, Yunting Yan, Mark Zolotas, Jose Barreiros, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
arXiv:2608. 06650v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reduced-order models based on Cosserat-rod theory are now well established, and modeling theory is no longer the primary bottleneck in soft-robot control.
By Maximilian St\"olzle, Solange Gribonval, Daniel Feliu-Talegon, Vito Daniele Perfetta, Michele Martini, Chuhan Zhang, Kiwan Wong, Mohammed Tarnini, Anup Teejo Mathew, Federico Renda, Daniela Rus, Cosimo Della Santina