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Achieving rapid and effective active collision avoidance in dynamic interactive traffic remains a core challenge for autonomous driving. This paper proposes REACT (Runtime-Enabled Active Collision-avoidance Technique), a closed-loop…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Heye Huang , Hao Cheng , Zhiyuan Zhou , Zijin Wang , Qichao Liu , Xiaopeng Li

Current robotic hand manipulation narrowly operates with objects in predictable positions in limited environments. Thus, when the location of the target object deviates severely from the expected location, a robot sometimes responds in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Hyunseo Kim , Hye Jung Yoon , Minji Kim , Dong-Sig Han , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Vision-based robot learning often relies on dense image or point-cloud inputs, which are computationally heavy and entangle irrelevant background features. Existing keypoint-based approaches can focus on manipulation-centric features and be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Anukriti Singh , Kasra Torshizi , Khuzema Habib , Kelin Yu , Ruohan Gao , Pratap Tokekar

End-to-end learning directly maps sensory inputs to actions, creating highly integrated and efficient policies for complex robotics tasks. However, such models often struggle to generalize beyond their training scenarios, limiting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Makram Chahine , Alex Quach , Alaa Maalouf , Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Daniela Rus

Learning robot policies using imitation learning requires collecting large amounts of costly action-labeled expert demonstrations, which fundamentally limits the scale of training data. A promising approach to address this bottleneck is to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Anthony Liang , Pavel Czempin , Matthew Hong , Yutai Zhou , Erdem Biyik , Stephen Tu

The task object tracking is vital in numerous applications such as autonomous driving, intelligent surveillance, robotics, etc. This task entails the assigning of a bounding box to an object in a video stream, given only the bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Vladislav Belyaev , Aleksandra Malysheva , Aleksei Shpilman

What if you could piece together your own custom biometrics and AI analysis system, a bit like LEGO blocks? We aim to bring that technology to field operators in the field who require flexible, high-performance edge AI system that can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Joel Brogan , Matthew Yohe , David Cornett

In reinforcement learning (RL) for robotic manipulation, the Decision Transformer (DT) has emerged as an effective framework for addressing long-horizon tasks. However, DT's performance depends heavily on the coverage of collected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Kaiyan Zhao , Borong Zhang , Yiming Wang , Xingyu Liu , Xuetao Li , Yuyang Chen , Xiaoguang Niu

Modern robotics is gravitating toward increasingly collaborative human robot interaction. Tools such as acceleration policies can naturally support the realization of reactive, adaptive, and compliant robots. These tools require us to model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Daniel Kappler , Franziska Meier , Nathan Ratliff , Stefan Schaal

This paper presents a novel attention-based algorithm for achieving adaptive computation called DACT, which, unlike existing ones, is end-to-end differentiable. Our method can be used in conjunction with many networks; in particular, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Cristobal Eyzaguirre , Alvaro Soto

In recent years, the transformer architecture has become the de facto standard for machine learning algorithms applied to natural language processing and computer vision. Despite notable evidence of successful deployment of this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Carmelo Sferrazza , Dun-Ming Huang , Fangchen Liu , Jongmin Lee , Pieter Abbeel

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) is crucial to autonomous vehicle perception. End-to-end transformer-based algorithms, which detect and track objects simultaneously, show great potential for the MOT task. However, most existing methods focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Ce Zhang , Chengjie Zhang , Yiluan Guo , Lingji Chen , Michael Happold

Recent advancements in teleoperation systems have enabled high-quality data collection for robotic manipulators, showing impressive results in learning manipulation at scale. This progress suggests that extending these capabilities to…

Transformer models have revolutionized AI tasks, but their large size hinders real-world deployment on resource-constrained and latency-critical edge devices. While binarized Transformers offer a promising solution by significantly reducing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yuhao Ji , Chao Fang , Shaobo Ma , Haikuo Shao , Zhongfeng Wang

Scalable and reliable evaluation is increasingly critical in the end-to-end era of autonomous driving, where vision--language--action (VLA) policies directly map raw sensor streams to driving actions. Yet, current evaluation pipelines still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Chaoda Zheng , Sean Li , Jinhao Deng , Zhennan Wang , Shijia Chen , Liqiang Xiao , Ziheng Chi , Hongbin Lin , Kangjie Chen , Boyang Wang , Yu Zhang , Xianming Liu

Deep neural networks based purely on attention have been successful across several domains, relying on minimal architectural priors from the designer. In Human Action Recognition (HAR), attention mechanisms have been primarily adopted on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Vittorio Mazzia , Simone Angarano , Francesco Salvetti , Federico Angelini , Marcello Chiaberge

Autonomous robots require efficient on-device learning to adapt to new environments without cloud dependency. For this edge training, Microscaling (MX) data types offer a promising solution by combining integer and floating-point…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Stef Cuyckens , Xiaoling Yi , Nitish Satya Murthy , Chao Fang , Marian Verhelst

Imitation learning has been actively studied in recent years. In particular, skill acquisition by a robot with a fixed body, whose root link position and posture and camera angle of view do not change, has been realized in many cases. On…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yutaro Matsuura , Kento Kawaharazuka , Naoki Hiraoka , Kunio Kojima , Kei Okada , Masayuki Inaba

We seek to enable classic processing of continuous ultra-sparse spatiotemporal data generated by event-based sensors with dense machine learning models. We propose a novel hybrid pipeline composed of asynchronous sensing and synchronous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Carmen Martin-Turrero , Maxence Bouvier , Manuel Breitenstein , Pietro Zanuttigh , Vincent Parret

Existing extremum-seeking control (ESC) approaches typically rely on applying repeated perturbations to input parameters and performing measurements of the corresponding performance output. The required separation between the different…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Wouter Weekers , Alessandro Saccon , Nathan van de Wouw