arXiv AI

From Distances to Trajectories: Real-Time Signed Distance Function Mapping and Distance-Accelerated Motion Planning for UAVs

arXiv:2607. 19306v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous flight in cluttered environments requires a robot to build a geometric map of its surroundings and plan safe, dynamically feasible trajectories, all onboard and in real time.

arXiv AI
Jul 1

3D HAMSTER: Bridging Planning and Control in Hierarchical Vision Language Action Models through 3D Trajectory Guidance

arXiv:2606. 31329v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models decouple high-level planning from low-level control to improve generalization in robot manipulation.

By Dongyoon Hwang, Byungkun Lee, Dongjin Kim, Hyojin Jang, Hoiyeong Jin, Jueun Mun, Minho Park, Hojoon Lee, Hyunseung Kim, Jaegul Choo
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

Anticipatory Risk-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Safe Flight Through Dynamic Clutter

arXiv:2607. 23565v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safe quadrotor navigation in cluttered and dynamic environments depends not only on instantaneous geometric perception, but more critically on anticipating collision risks induced by relative motion.

By Yuchao Mei, Guohao Zhang, Luxia Ai, Haopeng Chen, Wenbing Tao
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1

Flow-Opt: Scalable Centralized Multi-Robot Trajectory Optimization with Flow Matching and Differentiable Optimization

arXiv:2510. 09204v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Centralized trajectory optimization in the joint space of multiple robots allows access to a larger feasible space that can result in smoother trajectories, especially while planning in tight spaces.

By Simon Idoko, Prajyot Jadhav, Arun Kumar Singh
arXiv AI
Jul 10

Time-to-Collision Based Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance Using Pretrained Vision Models for Robots in Unstructured Environments

arXiv:2607. 07885v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic obstacle avoidance in unstructured outdoor environments remains a critical challenge for autonomous mobile robots, particularly when large-scale robot-specific training data and simulation-based policies are impractical.

By Erik Jagnandan, Mulugeta Haile, Gregory Barber, Pratik Chaudhari
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 26

Anticipatory Risk-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Safe Flight Through Dynamic Clutter

Safe quadrotor navigation in cluttered and dynamic environments depends not only on instantaneous geometric perception, but more critically on anticipating collision risks induced by relative motion. Conventional modular pipelines frequently suffer from perception latency, while end-to-end learning methods relying on implicit scalar rewards often struggle to extract reliable spatio-temporal features without physics-grounded supervision.