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LOCOMOTION papers(24,313)
Clear ✕Inverse Resistive Force Theory (I-RFT): Learning granular properties through robot-terrain physical interactions
Shipeng Liu, Feng Xue, Yifeng Zhang +2 more
2026
A Robust Antenna Provides Tactile Feedback in a Multi-legged Robot
Zhaochen J. Xu, Juntao He, Delfin Aydan +5 more
2026
Residual Control for Fast Recovery from Dynamics Shifts
Nethmi Jayasinghe, Diana Gontero, Francesco Migliarba +4 more
2026
Exoskeleton Control through Learning to Reduce Biological Joint Moments in Simulations
Zihang You, Xianlian Zhou
2026
GeoLoco: Leveraging 3D Geometric Priors from Visual Foundation Model for Robust RGB-Only Humanoid Locomotion
Yufei Liu, Xieyuanli Chen, Hainan Pan +5 more
2026
SMAT: Staged Multi-Agent Training for Co-Adaptive Exoskeleton Control
Yifei Yuan, Ghaith Androwis, Xianlian Zhou
2026
Model-Based and Neural-Aided Approaches for Dog Dead Reckoning
Gal Versano, Itai Savin, Itzik Klein
2026
Unifying Sidewinding and Rolling: A Wave-Based Framework for Self-Righting in Elongated Limbless and Multi-Legged Robots
Hangjun Liu, Jiarui Geng, Jinxuan Ding +7 more
2026
Perceptive Variable-Timing Footstep Planning for Humanoid Locomotion on Disconnected Footholds
Zhaoyang Xiang, Upama Pant, Ayonga Hereid
2026
Learning From Failures: Efficient Reinforcement Learning Control with Episodic Memory
Chenyang Miao
2026
Failure Mechanisms and Risk Estimation for Legged Robot Locomotion on Granular Slopes
Xingjue Liao, Feifei Qian
2026
SysNav: Multi-Level Systematic Cooperation Enables Real-World, Cross-Embodiment Object Navigation
Haokun Zhu, Zongtai Li, Zihan Liu +8 more
2026
Underactuated multimodal jumping robot for extraterrestrial exploration
Neil R. Wagner, Justin K. Yim
2026
HybridMimic: Hybrid RL-Centroidal Control for Humanoid Motion Mimicking
Ludwig Chee-Ying Tay, I-Chia Chang, Yan Gu
2026
History-Conditioned Spatio-Temporal Visual Token Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language Navigation
Qitong Wang, Yijun Liang, Ming Li +2 more
2026
ODD-SEC: Onboard Drone Detection with a Spinning Event Camera
Kuan Dai, Hongxin Zhang, Sheng Zhong +1 more
2026
KISS-IMU: Self-supervised Inertial Odometry with Motion-balanced Learning and Uncertainty-aware Inference
Jiwon Choi, Hogyun Kim, Geonmo Yang +2 more
2026
DreamToNav: Generalizable Navigation for Robots via Generative Video Planning
Valerii Serpiva, Jeffrin Sam, Chidera Simon +4 more
2026
Moving Through Clutter: Scaling Data Collection and Benchmarking for 3D Scene-Aware Humanoid Locomotion via Virtual Reality
Beichen Wang, Yuanjie Lu, Linji Wang +2 more
2026
Terrain characterization and locomotion adaptation in a small-scale lizard-inspired robot
Duncan Andrews, Landon Zimmerman, Evan Martin +2 more
2026
Task-Level Decisions to Gait Level Control: A Hierarchical Policy Approach for Quadruped Navigation
Sijia Li, Haoyu Wang, Shenghai Yuan +2 more
2026
Safe-SAGE: Social-Semantic Adaptive Guidance for Safe Engagement through Laplace-Modulated Poisson Safety Functions
Lizhi Yang, Ryan M. Bena, Meg Wilkinson +4 more
2026
Accelerating Sampling-Based Control via Learned Linear Koopman Dynamics
Wenjian Hao, Yuxuan Fang, Zehui Lu +1 more
2026
Gait Generation Balancing Joint Load and Mobility for Legged Modular Robots with Easily Detachable Joints
Kennosuke Chihara, Takuya Kiyokawa, Kensuke Harada
2026