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LOCOMOTION papers(24,313)
Clear ✕Swimming Under Constraints: A Safe Reinforcement Learning Framework for Quadrupedal Bio-Inspired Propulsion
Xinyu Cui, Fei Han, Hang Xu +9 more
2026
Self-adapting Robotic Agents through Online Continual Reinforcement Learning with World Model Feedback
Fabian Domberg, Georg Schildbach
2026
Characterization and Correlation of Robotic Snake Scale Friction and Locomotion Speed
Umit Sen, Andri Mahegan, Gina Olson
2026
X-Loco: Towards Generalist Humanoid Locomotion Control via Synergetic Policy Distillation
Dewei Wang, Xinmiao Wang, Chenyun Zhang +4 more
2026
Efficient Autonomous Navigation of a Quadruped Robot in Underground Mines on Edge Hardware
Yixiang Gao, Kwame Awuah-Offei
2026
Look Forward to Walk Backward: Efficient Terrain Memory for Backward Locomotion with Forward Vision
Shixin Luo, Songbo Li, Yuan Hao +4 more
2026
CMoE: Contrastive Mixture of Experts for Motion Control and Terrain Adaptation of Humanoid Robots
Shihao Ma, Hongjin Chen, Zijun Xu +6 more
2026
CASSR: Continuous A-Star Search through Reachability for real time footstep planning
Jiayi Wang, Steve Tonneau
2026
DreamFlow: Local Navigation Beyond Observation via Conditional Flow Matching in the Latent Space
Jiwon Park, Dongkyu Lee, I Made Aswin Nahrendra +2 more
2026
Design, Modeling and Direction Control of a Wire-Driven Robotic Fish Based on a 2-DoF Crank-Slider Mechanism
Yita Wang, Chen Chen, Yicheng Chen +5 more
2026
Watch Your Step: Learning Semantically-Guided Locomotion in Cluttered Environment
Denan Liang, Yuan Zhu, Ruimeng Liu +3 more
2026
Wukong-Omni: Design, Modeling and Control of a Multi-mode Robot for Air, Land, and Underwater Exploration with All-in-One Propulsion Unit
Yufan Liu, Rixi Yu, Junjie Li +7 more
2026
Learning Therapist Policy from Therapist-Exoskeleton-Patient Interaction
Grayson Snyder, Lorenzo Vianello, Levi Hargrove +2 more
2026
CHOP: Counterfactual Human Preference Labels Improve Obstacle Avoidance in Visuomotor Navigation Policies
Gershom Seneviratne, Jianyu An, Vaibhav Shende +6 more
2026
Learning Thermal-Aware Locomotion Policies for an Electrically-Actuated Quadruped Robot
Letian Qian, Yuhang Wan, Shuhan Wang +1 more
2026
SFCo-Nav: Efficient Zero-Shot Visual Language Navigation via Collaboration of Slow LLM and Fast Attributed Graph Alignment
Chaoran Xiong, Litao Wei, Xinhao Hu +5 more
2026
A Deployable Bio-inspired Compliant Leg Design for Enhanced Leaping in Quadruped Robots
Yiyang Chen, Yuxin Liu, Jinzheng Zhou +4 more
2026
TMR-VLA:Vision-Language-Action Model for Magnetic Motion Control of Tri-leg Silicone-based Soft Robot
Ruijie Tang, Chi Kit Ng, Kaixuan Wu +5 more
2026
Layered Safety: Enhancing Autonomous Collision Avoidance via Multistage CBF Safety Filters
Erina Yamaguchi, Ryan M. Bena, Gilbert Bahati +1 more
2026
Enhancing Cellular-enabled Collaborative Robots Planning through GNSS data for SAR Scenarios
Arnau Romero, Carmen Delgado, Jana Baguer +2 more
2026
Biomechanical Comparisons Reveal Divergence of Human and Humanoid Gaits
Luying Feng, Yaochu Jin, Hanze Hu +1 more
2026
Jumping Control for a Quadrupedal Wheeled-Legged Robot via NMPC and DE Optimization
Xuanqi Zeng, Lingwei Zhang, Linzhu Yue +4 more
2026
Event-Driven On-Sensor Locomotion Mode Recognition Using a Shank-Mounted IMU with Embedded Machine Learning for Exoskeleton Control
Mohammadsaleh Razmi, Iman Shojaei
2026
Autonomous Sea Turtle Robot for Marine Fieldwork
Zach J. Patterson, Emily Sologuren, Levi Cai +4 more
2026