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LOCOMOTION papers(24,313)
Clear ✕From Woofs to Words: Towards Intelligent Robotic Guide Dogs with Verbal Communication
Yohei Hayamizu, David DeFazio, Hrudayangam Mehta +7 more
2026
Robots that redesign themselves through kinematic self-destruction
Chen Yu, Sam Kriegman
2026
Beyond Motion Imitation: Is Human Motion Data Alone Sufficient to Explain Gait Control and Biomechanics?
Xinyi Liu, Jangwhan Ahn, Edgar Lobaton +2 more
2026
Energy Prediction on Sloping Ground for Quadruped Robots
Mohamed Ounally, Cyrille Pierre, Johann Laconte
2026
MiNI-Q: A Miniature, Wire-Free Quadruped with Unbounded, Independently Actuated Leg Joints
Daniel Koh, Suraj Shah, Yufeng Wu +1 more
2026
RL-Augmented MPC for Non-Gaited Legged and Hybrid Locomotion
Andrea Patrizi, Carlo Rizzardo, Arturo Laurenzi +3 more
2026
Dynamic Modeling and Attitude Control of a Reaction-Wheel-Based Low-Gravity Bipedal Hopper
Shriram Hari, M Venkata Sai Nikhil, R Prasanth Kumar
2026
Muscle Synergy Priors Enhance Biomechanical Fidelity in Predictive Musculoskeletal Locomotion Simulation
Ilseung Park, Eunsik Choi, Jangwhan Ahn +1 more
2026
SteadyTray: Learning Object Balancing Tasks in Humanoid Tray Transport via Residual Reinforcement Learning
Anlun Huang, Zhenyu Wu, Soofiyan Atar +2 more
2026
Kinodynamic Motion Retargeting for Humanoid Locomotion via Multi-Contact Whole-Body Trajectory Optimization
Xiaoyu Zhang, Steven Haener, Varun Madabushi +1 more
2026
Caterpillar-Inspired Spring-Based Compressive Continuum Robot for Bristle-based Exploration
Zhixian Hu, Yu She, Juan Wachs
2026
Towards Terrain-Aware Safe Locomotion for Quadrupedal Robots Using Proprioceptive Sensing
Peiyu Yang, Jiatao Ding, Wei Pan +2 more
2026
SCDP: Learning Humanoid Locomotion from Partial Observations via Mixed-Observation Distillation
Milo Carroll, Tianhu Peng, Lingfan Bao +2 more
2026
SEA-Nav: Efficient Policy Learning for Safe and Agile Quadruped Navigation in Cluttered Environments
Shiyi Chen, Mingye Yang, Haiyan Mao +6 more
2026
MO-Playground: Massively Parallelized Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Robotics
Neil Janwani, Ellen Novoseller, Vernon J. Lawhern +1 more
2026
Walking on Rough Terrain with Any Number of Legs
Zhuoyang Chen, Xinyuan Wang, Shai Revzen
2026
Fly, Track, Land: Infrastructure-less Magnetic Localization for Heterogeneous UAV-UGV Teaming
Valerio Brunacci, Davide Plozza, Alessio De Angelis +2 more
2026
Proprioceptive Safe Active Navigation and Exploration for Planetary Environments
Matthew Y. Jiang, Feifei Qian, Shipeng Liu
2026
Predictive Control with Indirect Adaptive Laws for Payload Transportation by Quadrupedal Robots
Leila Amanzadeh, Taizoon Chunawala, Randall T. Fawcett +2 more
2026
Spherical-GOF: Geometry-Aware Panoramic Gaussian Opacity Fields for 3D Scene Reconstruction
Zhe Yang, Guoqiang Zhao, Sheng Wu +2 more
2026
STRIDE: Structured Lagrangian and Stochastic Residual Dynamics via Flow Matching
Prakrut Kotecha, Ganga Nair B, Shishir Kolathaya
2026
Vector Field Augmented Differentiable Policy Learning for Vision-Based Drone Racing
Yang Su, Feng Yu, Yu Hu +4 more
2026
Dual-Horizon Hybrid Internal Model for Low-Gravity Quadrupedal Jumping with Hardware-in-the-Loop Validation
Haozhe Xu, Yifei Zhao, Wenhao Feng +6 more
2026
Omnidirectional Humanoid Locomotion on Stairs via Unsafe Stepping Penalty and Sparse LiDAR Elevation Mapping
Yuzhi Jiang, Yujun Liang, Junhao Li +2 more
2026