arXiv AI

Crazyflow: An Accurate, GPU-Accelerated, Differentiable Drone Simulator in JAX

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.

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 9

IR-SIM: A Lightweight Skill-Native Simulator for Navigation, Learning, and Benchmarking

arXiv:2606. 08729v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Simulation plays a key role in automated robotics research supported by large language models (LLMs).

By Ruihua Han, Shuai Wang, Chengyang Li, Rui Gao, Xinyi Wang, Zhe Liu, Guoliang Li, Yupu Lu, Qi Hao, Jia Pan, Hengshuang Zhao

llms agents robotics benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jun 3

AirDreamer: Generalist Drone Navigation with World Models

arXiv:2606. 03252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Navigating a drone in unseen and cluttered environments requires reliable generalization to unseen scene layouts and understanding of environmental structure relative to the robot's capabilities.

By Zian Liu, Andong Yang, Chunkai Yang, Ruidong An, Chao Gao, Guyue Zhou

robotics

arXiv Machine Learning

2d ago

AgilePE: Autonomous UAV Pursuit-Evasion via Self-Play Reinforcement Learning

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

agents reinforcement-learning robotics

arXiv AI

Jun 3

Scaling Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning for Underwater Acoustic Tracking via Autonomous Vehicles

arXiv:2505. 08222v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous vehicles (AVs) offer a cost-effective solution for scientific missions such as underwater tracking.

By Matteo Gallici, Ivan Masmitja, Mario Mart\'in

llms agents reinforcement-learning robotics

arXiv AI

Jun 4

DiffAero: A GPU-Accelerated Differentiable Simulation Framework for Efficient Quadrotor Policy Learning

arXiv:2509. 10247v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This letter introduces DiffAero, a lightweight, GPU-accelerated, and fully differentiable simulation framework designed for efficient quadrotor control policy learning.

By Xinhong Zhang, Runqing Wang, Yunfan Ren, Jian Sun, Hao Fang, Jie Chen, Gang Wang

agents efficiency benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 24

SkyJEPA: Learning Long-Horizon World Models for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Control of Quadrotors

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

rag diffusion robotics

arXiv AI

Jul 1

MultiUAV-Plat: An LLM-Oriented Platform, Benchmark and Framework for Multi-UAV Collaborative Task Planning

arXiv:2606. 31073v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) provide a promising interface for high-level robotic task planning, but their use in multi-UAV collaboration remains difficult to evaluate systematically.

By Sheng Zhang, Qinglin Li, Yuechao Zang, Xueqin Huang, Yijia Fu, Cheng Zhu

llms agents robotics benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jul 7

RoboDojo: A Unified Sim-and-Real Benchmark for Comprehensive Evaluation of Generalist Robot Manipulation Policies

arXiv:2607. 04434v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalist robot manipulation policies have advanced rapidly, yet existing benchmarks remain limited in systematically evaluating their capabilities.

By Tianxing Chen, Yue Chen, Zixuan Li, Junyuan Tang, Kailun Su, Weijie Wan, Baijun Chen, Haoran Lu, Haowen Yan, Honghao Su, Zhiyang Dou, Kaixuan Wang, Dandan Zhang, Yunze Liu, Yan Qin, Qiwei Liang, Qiwei Wu, Zijian Lin, Wenwei Lin, Yuran Wang, Minghua He, Tianshu Wu, Ruihai Wu, Jingquan Zhou, Kai-Chong Lei, Haibao Yu, Yuanfeng Ji, Weiyang Jin, Guanyu Lin, Xiaofan Li, Qi Xiong, Renjing Xu, Zhongyu Li, Wenhao Chai, Enze Xie, Ziwei Wang, Yao Mu, Hao Dong, Wojciech Matusik, Mingyu Ding, Wenbo Ding, Ping Luo, Masayoshi Tomizuka

robotics benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 3

ASVSim (AirSim for Surface Vehicles): A High-Fidelity Simulation Framework for Autonomous Surface Vehicle Research

arXiv:2506. 22174v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The transport industry has recently shown significant interest in unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), specifically for port and inland waterway transport.

By Bavo Lesy, Siemen Herremans, Robin Kerstens, Jan Steckel, Walter Daems, Siegfried Mercelis, Ali Anwar

agents computer-vision reinforcement-learning safety

arXiv AI

Jun 9

HARBOR: A Harness Framework for Agentic Robot Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 08610v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a powerful paradigm for robot learning, particularly in sim-to-real settings, but its broader adoption remains limited by the engineering pipeline surrounding the algorithms.

By Zechu Li, Yufeng Jin, Xiaoyang Liu, Puze Liu, Vignesh Prasad, Carlo D'Eramo, Georgia Chalvatzaki

agents reinforcement-learning robotics benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jul 14

RVN-Bench: A Benchmark for Reactive Visual Navigation

arXiv:2603. 03953v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Safe visual navigation is critical for indoor mobile robots operating in cluttered environments.

By Jaewon Lee, Jaeseok Heo, Gunmin Lee, Howoong Jun, Jeongwoo Oh, Songhwai Oh

agents reinforcement-learning robotics benchmarks

arXiv AI

Aug 11

AeroDPO: Unleashing Lightweight UAV Navigation with High-Fidelity Perception and Automated Preference Optimization

arXiv:2608. 07557v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV-VLN) requires rapid and reactive control in complex 3D environments.

By Peng Xu, Chengcheng Wang, Shaohua Wan

llms agents efficiency multimodal benchmarks

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