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LOCOMOTION papers(24,313)
Clear ✕Stable Walking for Bipedal Locomotion under Foot-Slip via Virtual Nonholonomic Constraints
Leonardo Colombo, Álvaro Rodríguez Abella, Alexandre Anahory Simoes +1 more
2026
A Foldable and Agile Soft Electromagnetic Robot for Multimodal Navigation in Confined and Unstructured Environments
Zhihao Lv, Xiaoyong Zhang, Mengfan Zhang +5 more
2026
Cost-Matching Model Predictive Control for Efficient Reinforcement Learning in Humanoid Locomotion
Wenqi Cai, Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis, Sébastien Gros +1 more
2026
Safety Guardrails in the Sky: Realizing Control Barrier Functions on the VISTA F-16 Jet
Andrew W. Singletary, Max H. Cohen, Tamas G. Molnar +1 more
2026
TerraSkipper: A Centimeter-Scale Robot for Multi-Terrain Skipping and Crawling
Shashwat Singh, Sheri Zhang, Spencer Matonis +1 more
2026
FlowRL: A Taxonomy and Modular Framework for Reinforcement Learning with Diffusion Policies
Chenxiao Gao, Edward Chen, Tianyi Chen +1 more
2026
Agent-Driven Autonomous Reinforcement Learning Research: Iterative Policy Improvement for Quadruped Locomotion
Nimesh Khandelwal, Shakti S. Gupta
2026
Design of an In-Pipe Robot with Contact-Angle-Guided Kinematic Decoupling for Crosstalk-Suppressed Locomotion
Min Yang, Yang Tian, Longchuang Li +2 more
2026
ROSClaw: An OpenClaw ROS 2 Framework for Agentic Robot Control and Interaction
Irvin Steve Cardenas, Marcus Anthony Arnett, Natalie Catherine Yeo +2 more
2026
Chasing Autonomy: Dynamic Retargeting and Control Guided RL for Performant and Controllable Humanoid Running
Zachary Olkin, William D. Compton, Ryan M. Bena +1 more
2026
Maximum Entropy Behavior Exploration for Sim2Real Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning
Jiajun Hu, Nuria Armengol Urpi, Jin Cheng +1 more
2026
SafeGuard ASF: SR Agentic Humanoid Robot System for Autonomous Industrial Safety
Thanh Nguyen Canh, Thang Tran Viet, Thanh Tuan Tran +1 more
2026
PCHC: Enabling Preference Conditioned Humanoid Control via Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning
Huanyu Li, Dewei Wang, Xinmiao Wang +4 more
2026
Quadrature Oscillation System for Coordinated Motion in Crawling Origami Robot
Sean Liu, Ankur Mehta, Wenzhong Yan
2026
Learning Multi-Agent Local Collision-Avoidance for Collaborative Carrying tasks with Coupled Quadrupedal Robots
Francesca Bray, Simone Tolomei, Andrei Cramariuc +2 more
2026
Task-Aware Positioning for Improvisational Tasks in Mobile Construction Robots via an AI Agent with Multi-LMM Modules
Seongju Jang, Francis Baek, SangHyun Lee
2026
CATNAV: Cached Vision-Language Traversability for Efficient Zero-Shot Robot Navigation
Aditya Potnis, Francisco Affonso, Shreya Gummadi +2 more
2026
Allometric Scaling Laws for Bipedal Robots
Naomi Oke, Aja M. Carter, Ben Gu +4 more
2026
MEVIUS2: Practical Open-Source Quadruped Robot with Sheet Metal Welding and Multimodal Perception
Kento Kawaharazuka, Keita Yoneda, Shintaro Inoue +3 more
2026
Sim-to-Real of Humanoid Locomotion Policies via Joint Torque Space Perturbation Injection
Junhyeok Rui Cha, Woohyun Cha, Jaeyong Shin +2 more
2026
Evaluating Factor-Wise Auxiliary Dynamics Supervision for Latent Structure and Robustness in Simulated Humanoid Locomotion
Chayanin Chamachot
2026
Not an Obstacle for Dog, but a Hazard for Human: A Co-Ego Navigation System for Guide Dog Robots
Ruiping Liu, Jingqi Zhang, Junwei Zheng +8 more
2026
Morphology-Consistent Humanoid Interaction through Robot-Centric Video Synthesis
Weisheng Xu, Jian Li, Yi Gu +12 more
2026
ContractionPPO: Certified Reinforcement Learning via Differentiable Contraction Layers
Vrushabh Zinage, Narek Harutyunyan, Eric Verheyden +2 more
2026