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Robotic Manipulation (RM) is central to the advancement of autonomous robots, enabling them to interact with and manipulate objects in real-world environments. This survey focuses on RM methodologies that leverage imitation learning, a…

We propose a Geometry-aware Policy Imitation (GPI) approach that rethinks imitation learning by treating demonstrations as geometric curves rather than collections of state-action samples. From these curves, GPI derives distance fields that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yiming Li , Nael Darwiche , Amirreza Razmjoo , Sichao Liu , Yilun Du , Auke Ijspeert , Sylvain Calinon

Autonomous exploration of unknown environments using a team of mobile robots demands distributed perception and planning strategies to enable efficient and scalable performance. Ideally, each robot should update its map and plan its motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Arash Asgharivaskasi , Fritz Girke , Nikolay Atanasov

Deep learning models have emerged as a powerful tool for various medical applications. However, their success depends on large, high-quality datasets that are challenging to obtain due to privacy concerns and costly annotation. Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Milad Yazdani , Yasamin Medghalchi , Pooria Ashrafian , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dena Shahriari

Nonprehensile manipulation involves long horizon underactuated object interactions and physical contact with different objects that can inherently introduce a high degree of uncertainty. In this work, we introduce a novel Real-to-Sim reward…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Hamid Izadinia , Byron Boots , Steven M. Seitz

Robotic manipulation tasks exhibit varying memory requirements, ranging from Markovian tasks that require no memory to non-Markovian tasks that depend on historical information spanning single or multiple interaction trials. Surprisingly,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yihuai Gao , Jinyun Liu , Shuang Li , Shuran Song

Generative modeling has recently shown remarkable promise for visuomotor policy learning, enabling flexible and expressive control across diverse embodied AI tasks. However, existing generative policies often struggle with data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jianlei Chang , Ruofeng Mei , Wei Ke , Xiangyu Xu

In this work, a novel Dynamic Movement Primitive (DMP) formulation is proposed which supports reversibility, i.e. backwards reproduction of a learned trajectory. Apart from sharing all favourable properties of the original DMP, decoupling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Antonis Sidiropoulos , Zoe Doulgeri

Reinforcement learning has emerged as a promising paradigm for aligning diffusion and flow-matching models with human preferences, yet practitioners face fragmented codebases, model-specific implementations, and engineering complexity. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bowen Ping , Chengyou Jia , Minnan Luo , Hangwei Qian , Ivor Tsang

In order to anticipate dangerous events, like a collision, an agent needs to make long-term predictions. However, those are challenging due to uncertainties in internal and external variables and environment dynamics. A sensorimotor model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-10-04 Arturo Ribes , Jesús Cerquides , Yiannis Demiris , Ramón López de Mántaras

A popular paradigm in robotic learning is to train a policy from scratch for every new robot. This is not only inefficient but also often impractical for complex robots. In this work, we consider the problem of transferring a policy across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Xingyu Liu , Deepak Pathak , Kris M. Kitani

We consider the uncertain multi-robot motion planning (MRMP) problem with cooperative localization (CL-MRMP), under both motion and measurement noise, where each robot can act as a sensor for its nearby teammates. We formalize CL-MRMP as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Anne Theurkauf , Nisar Ahmed , Morteza Lahijanian

Reinforcement learning methods as a promising technique have achieved superior results in the motion planning of free-floating space robots. However, due to the increase in planning dimension and the intensification of system dynamics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yuxue Cao , Shengjie Wang , Xiang Zheng , Wenke Ma , Xinru Xie , Lei Liu

Riemannian geometry is a mathematical field which has been the cornerstone of revolutionary scientific discoveries such as the theory of general relativity. Despite early uses in robot design and recent applications for exploiting data with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Noémie Jaquier , Tamim Asfour

Motion mimicking is a foundational task in physics-based character animation. However, most existing motion mimicking methods are built upon reinforcement learning (RL) and suffer from heavy reward engineering, high variance, and slow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Jiawei Ren , Cunjun Yu , Siwei Chen , Xiao Ma , Liang Pan , Ziwei Liu

Generative models for sequential data often struggle with sparsely sampled and high-dimensional trajectories, typically reducing the learning of dynamics to pairwise transitions. We propose Interpolative Multi-Marginal Flow Matching…

We present RoboArm-NMP, a learning and evaluation environment that allows simple and thorough evaluations of Neural Motion Planning (NMP) algorithms, focused on robotic manipulators. Our Python-based environment provides baseline…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Tom Jurgenson , Matan Sudry , Gal Avineri , Aviv Tamar

Robots that navigate among pedestrians use collision avoidance algorithms to enable safe and efficient operation. Recent works present deep reinforcement learning as a framework to model the complex interactions and cooperation. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Michael Everett , Yu Fan Chen , Jonathan P. How

Flow Matching (FM) is a simulation-free method for learning a continuous and invertible flow to interpolate between two distributions, and in particular to generate data from noise. Inspired by the variational nature of the diffusion…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-14 Chen Xu , Xiuyuan Cheng , Yao Xie

Effective motion representation is crucial for enabling robots to imitate expressive behaviors in real time, yet existing motion controllers often ignore inherent patterns in motion. Previous efforts in representation learning do not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Matthias Heyrman , Chenhao Li , Victor Klemm , Dongho Kang , Stelian Coros , Marco Hutter