arXiv:2608. 09166v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable uncertainty representation is essential for deploying autonomous systems that interact with their environment, as robots must reason about how uncertainty arising from both stochasticity and model mismatch is impacted by contacts with obstacles (e.
By Lu\'is Marques, Kristian Popov, Dmitry Berenson
arXiv:2608. 07751v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safe and efficient robot navigation in crowds requires anticipating pedestrian motion despite uncertain and potentially shifting prediction errors.
By Cheng Guo, Mingzhe Ni, Zheng Liang, Yihu Ling, Yuan Hu, Michele Caprio, Daniele Pucci, Wei Pan
arXiv:2606. 02562v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous robots that interact with people must make safe and efficient decisions under human-induced uncertainty, such as their preferences, goals, competency, and willingness to cooperate.
By Haimin Hu
arXiv:2606. 14585v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative dynamics models enable planning in challenging robotic systems, but safe deployment requires reliably detecting policy-induced out-of-distribution (OOD) transitions.
By Hongzhan Yu, Chenghao Li, Ruipeng Zhang, Henrik Christensen, Sicun Gao
arXiv:2211.04340v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Autonomous driving systems must be capable of making quick decisions based on the perceived environment and specific driving conditions. Perception...
By Markus K\"angsepp, Meelis Kull
arXiv:2609.27816v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Safe coordination in heterogeneous machine-to-machine (M2M) robotic systems is challenging when robots differ in sensing capabilities, environmental...
By Mohamed Dwedar, Ahmad Hafez, Alexander Jesser, Amr Alanwar
arXiv:2609.37554v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as high-level planners in robot navigation, but their outputs may become unreliable when instructi...
By {\L}ukasz Sobczak, Nur Kele\c{s}o\u{g}lu, S{\l}awomir Piotr Nowak
arXiv:2606. 23754v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying foundation models for robot control raises a central challenge: the expressive power that enables rich, multimodal perception also makes these models opaque and difficult to analyze formally, rendering them intractable for existing verification tools.
By Davide Corsi, Kyungmin Kim, Roy Fox
arXiv:2603. 08862v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous navigation in highly constrained environments remains challenging for mobile robots.
By Yuanjie Lu, Beichen Wang, Zhengqi Wu, Yang Li, Xiaomin Lin, Chengzhi Mao, Xuesu Xiao
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have attracted growing interest as a scalable approach to robotic manipulation. While these models are effective action predictors, deploying them as robotic agents exposes critical gaps: no mechanism for failure recovery, inconsistent execution over long horizons, and limited robustness to shifts in observations, tasks, or embodiments.
arXiv:2609.16368v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) can generate routes directly from aerial imagery for off-road navigation, but their predictions provide no indication o...
By Ghazal Farhani, Shabnam Shabani
arXiv:2512. 21201v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) requires robots to find target objects in unseen environments without task-specific fine-tuning or pre-built maps, a key capability for general-purpose service robots.
By Yu He, Da Huang, Zhenyang Liu, Zixiao Gu, Qiang Sun, Guangnan Ye, Yanwei Fu, Yu-Gang Jiang