arXiv:2606. 08533v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly being deployed in logistics, service robotics, and other real-world applications, creating a growing demand for autonomous payload acquisition and delivery.
By Lixuan Jin, Bingxuan Lan, Xinyi Bao, Xiangyuan Xie, Chunjie Zhang, Zheng Chen, Tianshuo Liu, Ruijie Tian, Jinyu Ru, Gang Wang, Lei Yuan, Yang Yu
arXiv:2606. 23444v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate dynamics models are critical for informed decision-making in robotic systems, particularly for agile aerial vehicles operating under uncertainty.
By Pratyaksh Rao, Wancong Zhang, Randall Balestriero, Yann LeCun, Giuseppe Loianno
arXiv:2608. 14135v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous pursuit-evasion is a fundamental challenge for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), requiring rapid decision-making under tightly coupled dynamics and continuously changing opponent behaviors.
By Wenhao Tang, Tianyang Chen, Zhejun Cui, Boyuan An, Jiayu Chen, Ruize Zhang, Huidong Liu, Tianyue Wu, Qingmin Liao, Fei Gao, Yu Wang, Chao Yu
arXiv:2510. 11103v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Many robotic control tasks require policies to act on orientations, yet the geometry of SO(3) makes this nontrivial.
By Martin Schuck, Sherif Samy, Angela P. Schoellig
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: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
arXiv:2606. 01478v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-quality, large-scale synthetic data from simulations is becoming a cornerstone for pushing the capabilities of robot algorithms.
By Martin Schuck, Marcel P. Rath, Yufei Hua, AbhisheK Goudar, SiQi Zhou, Angela P. Schoellig
arXiv:2607. 03132v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in industrial control often suffers from lag and overshoot due to purely reactive control based on the current tracking error.
By Georg Sch\"afer, Jakob Rehrl, Stefan Huber, Simon Hirlaender
arXiv:2607. 06706v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision Language Action (VLA) models unify visual perception, natural-language understanding, and action generation within a single foundation model, allowing a robot to follow instructions such as fold the towel or fly to the red building directly from camera images.
By Inkyu Sa, Chanoh Park, Hea-Min Lee, Donghee Noh, Ho Seok Ahn
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:2602. 09580v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-world fine-tuning of dexterous manipulation policies remains challenging due to limited real-world interaction budgets and highly multimodal action distributions.
By Chenyu Yang, Denis Tarasov, Davide Liconti, Romain Guntz, Hehui Zheng, Robert K. Katzschmann
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