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LOCOMOTION papers(24,292)
Clear ✕Koopman DCM: Unstable Eigenfunctions as Data-driven Representations for Legged Balancing
Stéphane Caron
2026
DASH Robot: Minimalistic Design and Optimal Aerial-Terrestrial Locomotion via Contact-Implicit Control
Ryan Gomes Paiva, Conrad Ho, Jiarong Kang +3 more
2026
The Open Ant: A Robot Platform for Reinforcement Learning Research
Elena Sorina Lupu, Patrick Spieler, Khurram Javed +4 more
2026
Learning Adaptive Safety Margins for Visual Navigation
Junyi Hu, Shuaihang Yuan, Geeta Chandra Raju Bethala +2 more
2026
Towards Torque-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Quadruped Locomotion
Jordan Dowdy, Jean Chagas Vaz
2026
Isaac Sim-to-Real: Reinforcement Learning based Locomotion for Quadrupeds
Jordan Dowdy, Jean Chagas Vaz
2026
Technical Design Review of Duke Robotics Club's Oogway & Crush: AUVs for RoboSub 2026
Patrick Zheng, Saagar Arya, Hung Le +16 more
2026
FARO: Feasibility-Aware Robot Motion Optimization
Michal Ciebielski, Shafeef Omar, Aaron Johnson +1 more
2026
Distilling Global Traversability Priors for Image-based Affordance Prediction in Off-road Environments
Matthew Sivaprakasam, Samuel Triest, Micah Nye +5 more
2026
VLN-AVP: Zero-Shot Vision-Language Navigation with Hybrid Long-Short-Term Memory for Autonomous Valet Parking
Yijian Li, Xiangru Mu, Changze Li +7 more
2026
Configuration-Induced Passive Self-Rotation for Perception-Enhanced Autonomous Flight
Xurui Liu, Miao Wang, Tianyu He +2 more
2026
Predictive Training with Latent Imagination for Visual Quadruped Navigation
Yancheng Zhu, Wanli Ma, Chen Han +3 more
2026
Finite-Time Curvature-Constrained Vector Field for Saturation-Free Motion Planning of Nonholonomic Robots
Zhouru Xiao, Sha Luo, Yang Lu +5 more
2026
Disturbance-Aware Flight for Aerial Robots in Narrow Space
Lei Qiang, Tianyu He, Chenyang Sun +3 more
2026
Natural sit-to-stand control for biomimetic musculoskeletal robots with synergy-based deep reinforcement learning and bio-inspired reward shaping.
Chen Y, Zhan L, Wang Y +3 more
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine · 2026
Stability analysis of the zero moment point-center of pressure algorithm for biped robots in unstructured environments.
Zhang C, Li J, Zhang H
Scientific reports · 2026
G2-Nav: Grounded and Guarded Vision-Language Costmaps for Robot Social Navigation
Yuwen Liao, Yihang Lan, Yizhuo Yang +4 more
2026
An Indoor Navigation System for the Visually Impaired based on UWB Positioning and D* Lite Path Planning Algorithm
Thanh C. Vo, Dong LT. Tran, Huy HM. Le +4 more
2026
Dynamic stability is tied to gait assistance when walking with a hip exoskeleton.
Mohammadzadeh Gonabadi A, Fallahtafti F, Myers SA +1 more
Scientific reports · 2026
Differentiable Reinforcement Learning for Path Tracking by an Agile Fish-Like Robot
Prashanth Chivkula, Kartik Loya, Venkata Ravindhra Reddy Varikuti +1 more
2026
A Morphing-Designed Hexarotor Prototype combining Practical Resilience and Efficiency
Murat Bronz, Mahmoud Hamandi, Elgiz Baskaya +2 more
2026
SkillNav: Score-Level Skill Intervention for Zero-Shot Object Goal Navigation
Ruijie Sang, Yiqun Duan, Pinhan Fu +3 more
2026
RAVEN: Reinforcement-Adaptive Visibility-Graph Planning for Robust Humanoid Navigation with Collision-Free MPC
Ruochen Hou, Shiqi Wang, Beom Jun Kim +3 more
2026
Environment-adaptive track mechanism with continuously transformable grousers.
Kim H, Kwon Y, Seo H +4 more
Scientific reports · 2026