arXiv:2607. 13319v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-speed off-road autonomy requires precise closed-loop control for a target vehicle while remaining robust across changing terrains.
By Rwik Rana, Jesse Quattrociocchi, Christian Ellis, Nathan Tsoi, Garrett Warnell, Joydeep Biswas
arXiv:2605. 04568v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: State-of-the-art model-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches either use gradient-free, population-based methods for planning, learned policy networks, or a combination of policy networks and planning.
By Jonathan Spieler, Sven Behnke
arXiv:2607. 13028v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training robust autonomous driving agents requires a simulator that is fast enough for reinforcement learning at scale, realistic enough to ground behavior in real-world map structure, and diverse enough to cover the safety-critical long tail that logged data rarely contains.
By Zhouchonghao Wu, Akshay Rangesh, Weixin Li, Wei-Jer Chang, Zachary Lee, Tim Wang, Wei Zhan
arXiv:2608. 02069v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Developing deployable locomotion policies through conventional reinforcement learning often requires complex reward engineering and expensive training times.
By Martin Opat
arXiv:2606. 00383v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Model Predictive Control (MPC) provides strong stability and robustness, it imposes a significant computational burden on real-time systems.
By Theo Guegan, Dexter Wen Jie Teo
arXiv:2606. 14763v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time autonomous navigation in dynamic, unknown environments remains a fundamental challenge for mobile robotics.
By Lorenzo Ortolani, Gabriel Voss, Gabriele Beltrami, Francesco Dorati, Tommaso Felice Banfi
arXiv:2507. 21638v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The development of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms has been largely driven by ambitious challenge tasks and benchmarks.
By Leonard Hinckeldey, Elliot Fosong, Rimvydas Rubavicius, Elle Miller, Trevor McInroe, Fan Zhang, Patricia Wollstadt, Stefano V. Albrecht, Subramanian Ramamoorthy
arXiv:2606. 16480v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots deployed in the real world must plan motions across diverse scenarios without per-scenario retuning.
By Youngjae Min, Jovin D'sa, Faizan M. Tariq, David Isele, Navid Azizan, Sangjae Bae
arXiv:2608. 12063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Integrating locomotion and manipulation is essential for robot autonomy, but scaling standard Reinforcement Learning (RL) to complex tasks is severely bottlenecked by the slow, manual process of dense reward shaping.
By Martin Schuck, Maks Sorokin, Simone Manni, Duy Ta, Angela P. Schoellig, Marco Hutter, Simon Le Cleac'H, Jan Br\"udigam
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
Neural world models coupled with model predictive control (MPC) replan at every environment step to bound accumulated prediction error, but this incurs substantial computational overhead. Reusing a cached plan reduces this overhead, yet its effectiveness depends on how prediction mismatch propagates through the local dynamics.
arXiv:2608. 10777v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Linear Quadratic Stochastic Optimal Control (LQ-SOC) establishes a fundamental framework for steering noisy dynamical systems and has recently gained renewed interest in the machine learning community.
By Bangyan Liao, Chenglei Yu, Yuchen Yang, Chuanrui Wang, Zhisheng Song, Peidong Liu, Tailin Wu