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Inverse design aims to find design parameters $x$ achieving target performance $y^*$. Generative approaches learn bidirectional mappings between designs and labels, enabling diverse solution sampling. However, standard conditional flow…

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Unwanted vibrations stemming from the energy-optimized design of Delta robots pose a challenge in their operation, especially with respect to precise reference tracking. To improve tracking accuracy, this paper proposes an adaptive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-13 Mingkun Wu , Alisa Rupenyan , Burkhard Corves

Ensuring safe navigation in complex environments requires accurate real-time traversability assessment and understanding of environmental interactions relative to the robot`s capabilities. Traditional methods, which assume simplified…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Pascal Roth , Jonas Frey , Cesar Cadena , Marco Hutter

Modeling the transport dynamics of natural processes from population-level observations is a ubiquitous problem in the natural sciences. Such models rely on key assumptions about the underlying process in order to enable faithful learning…

Bird-sized flapping-wing robots offer significant potential for agile flight in complex environments, but achieving agile and robust trajectory tracking remains a challenge due to the complex aerodynamics and highly nonlinear dynamics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Jiaze Cai , Vishnu Sangli , Mintae Kim , Koushil Sreenath

Flow Matching (FM) has recently emerged as a leading approach for high-fidelity visual generation, offering a robust continuous-time alternative to ordinary differential equation (ODE) based models. However, despite their success, FM models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Dayu Wang , Jiaye Yang , Weikang Li , Jiahui Liang , Yang Li

Reinforcement learning (RL) has made significant strides in legged robot control, enabling locomotion across diverse terrains and complex loco-manipulation capabilities. However, the commonly used position or velocity tracking-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Botian Xu , Haoyang Weng , Qingzhou Lu , Yang Gao , Huazhe Xu

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) provides a compelling paradigm for training autonomous systems without the risks of online exploration, particularly in safety-critical domains. However, jointly achieving strong safety and performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Manan Tayal , Mumuksh Tayal

Accurate and high-resolution precipitation nowcasting from radar echo sequences is crucial for disaster mitigation and economic planning, yet it remains a significant challenge. Key difficulties include modeling complex multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Wenjie Luo , Chuanhu Deng , Chaorong Li , Rongyao Deng , Qiang Yang

Reconstructing PDE solutions from sparse observations is a core challenge in scientific computing. We present FM4PDE, a flow-matching generative framework that learns the joint distribution of PDE coefficients (or initial states) and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-26 Xifeng Zhang , Jin Zhao

Replicating the remarkable athleticism seen in animals has long been a challenge in robotics control. Although Reinforcement Learning (RL) has demonstrated significant progress in dynamic legged locomotion control, the substantial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Neil Guan , Shangqun Yu , Shifan Zhu , Donghyun Kim

Robotic manipulation in high-precision tasks is essential for numerous industrial and real-world applications where accuracy and speed are required. Yet current diffusion-based policy learning methods generally suffer from low computational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Sen Wang , Le Wang , Sanping Zhou , Jingyi Tian , Jiayi Li , Haowen Sun , Wei Tang

In this paper, we introduce a novel conceptual model for a robot's behavioral adaptation in its long-term interaction with humans, integrating dynamic robot role adaptation with principles of flow experience from psychology. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Huili Chen , Sharifa Alghowinem , Cynthia Breazeal , Hae Won Park

Due to their compliant structure, industrial robots without precision-enhancing measures are only to a limited extent suitable for machining applications. Apart from structural, thermal and bearing deformations, the main cause for compliant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Jonas Weigand , Nigora Gafur , Martin Ruskowski

Model-free deep reinforcement learning (DRL) methods suffer from poor sample efficiency. To overcome this limitation, this work introduces an adaptive reduced-order-model (ROM)-based reinforcement learning framework for active flow control.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zesheng Yao , Zhen-Hua Wan , Canjun Yang , Qingchao Xia , Mengqi Zhang

For decades, people have been seeking for fishlike flapping motions that can realize underwater propulsion with low energy cost. Complexity of the nonstationary flow field around the flapping body makes this problem very difficult. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Jin Zhang , Lei Zhou , Bochao Cao

Soft robots show compliance and have infinite degrees of freedom. Thanks to these properties, such robots can be leveraged for surgery, rehabilitation, biomimetics, unstructured environment exploring, and industrial grippers. In this case,…

Autonomous navigation of mobile robots is an essential aspect in use cases such as delivery, assistance or logistics. Although traditional planning methods are well integrated into existing navigation systems, they struggle in highly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Linh Kästner , Johannes Cox , Teham Buiyan , Jens Lambrecht

Recently, the rectified flow (RF) has emerged as the new state-of-the-art among flow-based diffusion models due to its high efficiency advantage in straight path sampling, especially with the amazing images generated by a series of RF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Zhiyuan Ma , Ruixun Liu , Sixian Liu , Jianjun Li , Bowen Zhou

This paper proposes a framework for adaptively learning a feedback linearization-based tracking controller for an unknown system using discrete-time model-free policy-gradient parameter update rules. The primary advantage of the scheme over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Tyler Westenbroek , Eric Mazumdar , David Fridovich-Keil , Valmik Prabhu , Claire J. Tomlin , S. Shankar Sastry