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.
arXiv:2609.23731v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic systems are typically composed of multiple independently developed modules that work together to perceive, predict, and act in the environmen...
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.
arXiv:2512.00939v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent progress in contact-rich robotic manipulation has been striking, yet most deployed systems remain confined to simple, scripted routine...
arXiv:2604. 25897v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Contact variability, sensing uncertainty, and external disturbances make grasp execution stochastic.
Planning contact-rich whole-arm manipulation is challenging because interactions that involve extended robot geometry give rise to complex contact dynamics that are difficult to model accurately. This creates a need for planning principles that do not rely heavily on precise contact models.
The paper presents a training-free diffusion-based motion planner that replaces learned global trajectory scores with analytical local scores derived from obstacle, smoothness, velocity, and inter-agent feasibility terms. By reconstructing trajectory scores through local interactions between neighboring waypoints and nearby constraints, the method decomposes the denoising process while preserving the optimization structure of classical trajectory methods. Experiments demonstrate that this approach generates smooth, feasible trajectories for large multi-agent tasks in complex environments quickly, outperforming learning-based and optimization baselines without requiring training data.
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.
arXiv:2607. 09218v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Whole-arm manipulation involves direct contact with the environment while the robot completes a task by distributing contact across multiple links as contacts form, slide, and break.
arXiv:2607. 09218v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Whole-arm manipulation involves direct contact with the environment while the robot completes a task by distributing contact across multiple links as contacts form, slide, and break.
arXiv:2605.10201v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generalizable manipulation involving cross-type object interactions is a critical yet challenging capability in robotics. To reliably accompl...
arXiv:2606. 26700v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Motion feasibility prediction plays a central role in robotics, particularly in task and motion planning and manipulation.
arXiv:2504. 16738v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Planning long-horizon manipulation motions using a set of predefined skills is a central challenge in robotics; solving it efficiently could enable general-purpose robots to tackle novel tasks by flexibly composing generic skills.