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LOCOMOTION papers(24,313)
Clear ✕Articulated-Body Dynamics Network: Dynamics-Grounded Prior for Robot Learning
Sangwoo Shin, Kunzhao Ren, Xiaobin Xiong +1 more
2026
PRIOR: Perceptive Learning for Humanoid Locomotion with Reference Gait Priors
Chenxi Han, Shilu He, Yi Cheng +2 more
2026
Efficient and Versatile Quadrupedal Skating: Optimal Co-design via Reinforcement Learning and Bayesian Optimization
Hanwen Wang, Zhenlong Fang, Josiah Hanna +1 more
2026
Proprioceptive-only State Estimation for Legged Robots with Set-Coverage Measurements of Learned Dynamics
Abhijeet M. Kulkarni, Ioannis Poulakakis, Guoquan Huang
2026
RoboForge: Physically Optimized Text-guided Whole-Body Locomotion for Humanoids
Xichen Yuan, Zhe Li, Bofan Lyu +4 more
2026
REAL: Robust Extreme Agility via Spatio-Temporal Policy Learning and Physics-Guided Filtering
Jialong Liu, Dehan Shen, Yanbo Wen +2 more
2026
Uncovering Latent Phase Structures and Branching Logic in Locomotion Policies: A Case Study on HalfCheetah
Daisuke Yasui, Toshitaka Matsuki, Hiroshi Sato
2026
SLowRL: Safe Low-Rank Adaptation Reinforcement Learning for Locomotion
Elham Daneshmand, Shafeef Omar, Glen Berseth +2 more
2026
vAccSOL: Efficient and Transparent AI Vision Offloading for Mobile Robots
Adam Zahir, Michele Gucciardom Falk Selker, Anastasios Nanos +4 more
2026
Learning Whole-Body Control for a Salamander Robot
Mengze Tian, Qiyuan Fu, Chuanfang Ning +2 more
2026
Segmentation-Based Attention Entropy: Detecting and Mitigating Object Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models
Jiale Song, Jiaxin Luo, Xue-song Tang +2 more
2026
When Rolling Gets Weird: A Curved-Link Tensegrity Robot for Non-Intuitive Behavior
Lauren Ervin, Harish Bezawada, Vishesh Vikas
2026
ADAPT: Adaptive Dual-projection Architecture for Perceptive Traversal
Shuo Shao, Tianchen Huang, Wei Gao +1 more
2026
Task-Specified Compliance Bounds for Humanoids via Lipschitz-Constrained Policies
Zewen He, Yoshihiko Nakamura
2026
KiRAS: Keyframe Guided Self-Imitation for Robust and Adaptive Skill Learning in Quadruped Robots
Xiaoyi Wei, Peng Zhai, Jiaxin Tu +5 more
2026
MorFiC: Fixing Value Miscalibration for Zero-Shot Quadruped Transfer
Prakhar Mishra, Amir Hossain Raj, Xuesu Xiao +1 more
2026
WestWorld: A Knowledge-Encoded Scalable Trajectory World Model for Diverse Robotic Systems
Yuchen Wang, Jiangtao Kong, Sizhe Wei +6 more
2026
VIP-Loco: A Visually Guided Infinite Horizon Planning Framework for Legged Locomotion
Aditya Shirwatkar, Satyam Gupta, Shishir Kolathaya
2026
Data-Driven Physics Embedded Dynamics with Predictive Control and Reinforcement Learning for Quadrupeds
Prakrut Kotecha, Aditya Shirwatkar, Shishir Kolathaya
2026
TransCurriculum: Multi-Dimensional Curriculum Learning for Fast & Stable Locomotion
Prakhar Mishra, Amir Hossain Raj, Xuesu Xiao +1 more
2026
Panoramic Multimodal Semantic Occupancy Prediction for Quadruped Robots
Guoqiang Zhao, Zhe Yang, Sheng Wu +5 more
2026
Beyond Imitation: Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning for Adaptive Diffusion Navigation Policies
Junhe Sheng, Ruofei Bai, Kuan Xu +5 more
2026
SmoothTurn: Learning to Turn Smoothly for Agile Navigation with Quadrupedal Robots
Zunzhi You, Haolan Guo, Yunke Wang +1 more
2026
FLUX: Accelerating Cross-Embodiment Generative Navigation Policies via Rectified Flow and Static-to-Dynamic Learning
Zeying Gong, Yangyi Zhong, Yiyi Ding +6 more
2026