arXiv:2606. 05236v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic arms capable of traversing arbitrary spatial paths, especially in highly obstructed workspaces, are highly desired across several industries.
By Tanapath Pornthisan, Thanapat Kemthong, Thanyapisit Kangsathien, Pasut Aranchaiya, Paulo Garcia, Viboon Sangveraphunsiri
arXiv:2606. 27475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots trained on real world data tend to be imprecise, slow, and brittle to perturbations.
By Raymond Yu, William Huey, Mustafa Mukadam, Anusha Nagabandi, Abhishek Gupta
arXiv:2606. 00313v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust deployment of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) policies on real robots remains challenging due to discrepancies between simulation and real-world dynamics.
By Oussama Zaim, M\'elodie Daniel, Aly Magassouba, Miguel Aranda, Olivier Ly
arXiv:2604. 13733v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) enables high-frequency, closed-loop control for robotic manipulation, but scaling to long-horizon tasks with sparse or imperfect rewards remains difficult due to inefficient exploration and poor credit assignment.
By Angelo Moroncelli, Roberto Zanetti, Marco Maccarini, Loris Roveda
arXiv:2606. 08513v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) traditionally rely on complex, heavily engineered pipelines for perception, path planning, and motion control.
By Elisei Shafer, Oren Gal
arXiv:2607. 15935v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has a longstanding tradition in addressing the reach-avoid task problem, especially for controlling robotic arms.
By Jonas Weihing, Shahram Eivazi
arXiv:2607. 04616v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Linear-deformable manipulation remains challenging due to the complex deformations of objects such as cables and ropes.
By Stone Tao, Jie Xu, Hesam Rabeti, Yashraj Narang, Yijie Guo, Iretiayo Akinola
arXiv:2506. 04147v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Building capable household and industrial robots requires mastering the control of versatile, high-degree-of-freedom (DoF) systems such as mobile manipulators.
By Jiaheng Hu, Peter Stone, Roberto Mart\'in-Mart\'in
arXiv:2506. 15700v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Control contraction metrics (CCMs)-defined by Riemannian metrics under which a closed-loop system is incrementally exponentially stable-offer a constructive framework for synthesizing contracting policies in nonlinear path-tracking problems.
By Minjae Cho, Hiroyasu Tsukamoto, Huy T. Tran
arXiv:2607. 02431v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) can overcome the demonstration-coverage limitation of imitation learning (IL) by allowing robots to improve through trial-and-error interaction beyond the states observed in demonstrations.
By Yuquan Xue, Le Xu, Zeyi Liu, Zhenyu Wu, Zhengyi Gu, Xinyang Song, Bofang Jia, Ziwei Wang
arXiv:2606. 05873v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humanoid robots hold great promise for operating in human-centered environments, yet ladder climbing remains one of the most challenging tasks due to sparse footholds and handholds, complex whole-body coordination, and sensitivity to perception and control errors.
By Siheng Zhao, Yuanhang Zhang, Ziqi Lu, Pieter Abbeel, Rocky Duan, Koushil Sreenath, Yue Wang, C. Karen Liu, Guanya Shi
arXiv:2603. 25464v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Zero-shot reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms aim to learn a family of policies from a reward-free dataset, and recover optimal policies for any reward function directly at test time.
By Jiajun Hu, Nuria Armengol Urpi, Jin Cheng, Stelian Coros