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In recent years, there has been a booming shift in the development of versatile, autonomous robots by introducing means to intuitively teach robots task-oriented behaviour by demonstration. In this paper, a method based on programming by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Jeevan Manavalan , Prabhakar Ray , Matthew Howard

In robotics, Learning from Demonstration (LfD) aims to transfer skills to robots by using multiple demonstrations of the same task. These demonstrations are recorded and processed to extract a consistent skill representation. This process…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Giovanni Braglia , Davide Tebaldi , André Eugenio Lazzaretti , Luigi Biagiotti

Nonlinear tracking control enabling a dynamical system to track a desired trajectory is fundamental to robotics, serving a wide range of civil and defense applications. In control engineering, designing tracking control requires complete…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Zheng-Meng Zhai , Mohammadamin Moradi , Ling-Wei Kong , Bryan Glaz , Mulugeta Haile , Ying-Cheng Lai

Quadruped robots are progressively being integrated into human environments. Despite the growing locomotion capabilities of quadrupedal robots, their interaction with objects in realistic scenes is still limited. While additional robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Zhengmao He , Kun Lei , Yanjie Ze , Koushil Sreenath , Zhongyu Li , Huazhe Xu

Tracking the object 6-DoF pose is crucial for various downstream robot tasks and real-world applications. In this paper, we investigate the real-world robot task of aerial vision guidance for aerial robotics manipulation, utilizing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jingtao Sun , Yaonan Wang , Danwei Wang

Accurate and efficient tracking of surgical instruments is fundamental for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery. Although vision-based robot pose estimation has enabled markerless calibration without tedious physical setups, reliable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Hanyang Hu , Zekai Liang , Florian Richter , Michael C. Yip

This paper studies the kinematic tracking control problem for aerial manipulators. Existing kinematic tracking control methods, which typically employ proportional-derivative feedback or tracking-error-based feedback strategies, may fail to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Huazi Cao , Jiahao Shen , Zhengzhen Li , Qinquan Ren , Shiyu Zhao

Tracking controllers enable robotic systems to accurately follow planned reference trajectories. In particular, reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promise in the synthesis of controllers for systems with complex dynamics and modest…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Jake Welde , Nishanth Rao , Pratik Kunapuli , Dinesh Jayaraman , Vijay Kumar

The intrinsic compliance and high degree of freedom (DoF) of redundant soft manipulators facilitate safe interaction and flexible task execution. However, effective kinematic control remains highly challenging, as it must handle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yinan Meng , Kun Qian , Jiong Yang , Renbo Su , Zhenhong Li , Charlie C. L. Wang

Robot assisted endoluminal intervention is an emerging technique for both benign and malignant luminal lesions. With vision-based navigation, when combined with pre-operative imaging data as priors, it is possible to recover position and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Junyang Wu , Yun Gu , Guang-Zhong Yang

One of the most important challenges of Smart City Applications is to adapt the system to interact with non-expert users. Robot imitation frameworks aim to simplify and reduce times of robot programming by allowing users to program directly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Raul Fernandez-Fernandez , Juan G. Victores , David Estevez , Carlos Balaguer

Planning balanced and collision-free motion for humanoid robots is non-trivial, especially when they are operated in complex environments, such as reaching targets behind obstacles or through narrow passages. We propose a method that allows…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-08-01 Yiming Yang , Vladimir Ivan , Wolfgang Merkt , Sethu Vijayakumar

In this work, we introduce a novel approach for creating controllable dynamics in 3D-generated Gaussians using casually captured reference videos. Our method transfers the motion of objects from reference videos to a variety of generated 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zhoujie Fu , Jiacheng Wei , Wenhao Shen , Chaoyue Song , Xiaofeng Yang , Fayao Liu , Xulei Yang , Guosheng Lin

Model-free reinforcement learning (RL) for legged locomotion commonly relies on a physics simulator that can accurately predict the behaviors of every degree of freedom of the robot. In contrast, approximate reduced-order models are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Zhaoming Xie , Xingye Da , Buck Babich , Animesh Garg , Michiel van de Panne

We present a control framework that enables humanoid robots to perform collaborative transportation tasks with a human partner. The framework supports both translational and rotational motions, which are fundamental to co-transport…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shubham S. Kumbhar , Abhijeet M. Kulkarni , Panagiotis Artemiadis

This paper aims to enhance the efficiency of validation and verification campaigns involving fuel sloshing phenomena. Our first contribution is the development of an open-source, high-fidelity and computationally efficient two-dimensional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 E. Javier Olucha , Valentin Preda , Amritam Das , Roland Tóth

The scalability of robotic learning is fundamentally bottlenecked by the significant cost and labor of real-world data collection. While simulated data offers a scalable alternative, it often fails to generalize to the real world due to…

We present LoTIS, a model for visual navigation that provides robot-agnostic image-space guidance by localizing a reference RGB trajectory in the robot's current view, without requiring camera calibration, poses, or robot-specific training.…

Enabling robots to execute novel manipulation tasks zero-shot is a central goal in robotics. Most existing methods assume in-distribution tasks or rely on fine-tuning with embodiment-matched data, limiting transfer across platforms. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Hongyu Li , Lingfeng Sun , Yafei Hu , Duy Ta , Jennifer Barry , George Konidaris , Jiahui Fu

Dexterous in-hand manipulation in robotics, particularly with multi-fingered robotic hands, poses significant challenges due to the intricate avoidance of collisions among fingers and the object being manipulated. Collision-free paths for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xiao Gao , Kunpeng Yao , Farshad Khadivar , Aude Billard