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Continual learning in robotics seeks systems that can constantly adapt to changing environments and tasks, mirroring human adaptability. A key challenge is refining dynamics models, essential for planning and control, while addressing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Alejandro Murillo-Gonzalez , Lantao Liu

Precise object placement remains underexplored in aerial manipulation, where most systems rely on predefined target coordinates and focus primarily on grasping and control. Specifying exact placement poses, however, is cumbersome in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Sarthak Mishra , Rishabh Dev Yadav , Naveen Nair , Wei Pan , Spandan Roy

Generative manipulation policies can fail catastrophically under deployment-time distribution shift, yet many failures are near-misses: the robot reaches almost-correct poses and would succeed with a small corrective motion. We propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Edgar Welte , Yitian Shi , Rosa Wolf , Maximillian Gilles , Rania Rayyes

6D object pose estimation is crucial for robotic perception and precise manipulation. Occlusion and incomplete object visibility are common challenges in this task, but existing pose refinement methods often struggle to handle these issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Xin Liu , Shibei Xue , Dezong Zhao , Shan Ma , Min Jiang

The development of generalist robot manipulation policies has seen significant progress, driven by large-scale demonstration data across diverse environments. However, the high cost and inefficiency of collecting real-world demonstrations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Tao Tang , Likui Zhang , Youpeng Wen , Kaidong Zhang , Jia-Wang Bian , xia zhou , Tianyi Yan , Kun Zhan , Peng Jia , Hefeng Wu , Liang Lin , Xiaodan Liang

Understanding the motion states of the surrounding environment is critical for safe autonomous driving. These motion states can be accurately derived from scene flow, which captures the three-dimensional motion field of points. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Jaeyeul Kim , Jungwan Woo , Ukcheol Shin , Jean Oh , Sunghoon Im

Learning robust and generalizable world models is crucial for enabling efficient and scalable robotic control in real-world environments. In this work, we introduce a novel framework for learning world models that accurately capture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Chenhao Li , Andreas Krause , Marco Hutter

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) drives progress in numerous scientific and engineering fields, yet high-fidelity simulations remain computationally prohibitive. While machine learning approaches offer computing acceleration, they…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-12 Rui Zhang , Qi Meng , Han Wan , Yang Liu , Zhi-Ming Ma , Hao Sun

Recent advances in hierarchical robot systems leverage a high-level planner to propose task plans and a low-level policy to generate robot actions. This design allows training the planner on action-free or even non-robot data sources (e.g.,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yitian Zheng , Zhangchen Ye , Weijun Dong , Shengjie Wang , Yuyang Liu , Chongjie Zhang , Chuan Wen , Yang Gao

Robotic instruction following tasks require seamless integration of visual perception, task planning, target localization, and motion execution. However, existing task planning methods for instruction following are either data-driven or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zijun Lin , Chao Tang , Hanjing Ye , Hong Zhang

Understanding and predicting dynamics of the physical world can enhance a robot's ability to plan and interact effectively in complex environments. While recent video generation models have shown strong potential in modeling dynamic scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zeyi Liu , Shuang Li , Eric Cousineau , Siyuan Feng , Benjamin Burchfiel , Shuran Song

Imitation learning has emerged as an effective approach for bootstrapping sequential decision-making in robotics, achieving strong performance even in high-dimensional dexterous manipulation tasks. Recent behavior cloning methods further…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Entong Su , Tyler Westenbroek , Anusha Nagabandi , Abhishek Gupta

Optical flow estimation is a crucial subfield of computer vision, serving as a foundation for video tasks. However, the real-world robustness is limited by animated synthetic datasets for training. This introduces domain gaps when applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yingping Liang , Ying Fu , Yutao Hu , Wenqi Shao , Jiaming Liu , Debing Zhang

We present ReFlow, a unified framework for monocular dynamic scene reconstruction that learns 3D motion in a novel self-correction manner from raw video. Existing methods often suffer from incomplete scene initialization for dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yanzhe Liang , Ruijie Zhu , Hanzhi Chang , Zhuoyuan Li , Jiahao Lu , Tianzhu Zhang

The one-to-one mapping of control inputs to actuator outputs results in elaborate routing architectures that limit how complex fluidic soft robot behaviours can currently become. Embodied intelligence can be used as a tool to counteract…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Maks Gepner , Jonah Mack , Francesco Giorgio-Serchi , Adam A. Stokes

Vision-language-action (VLA) models show potential for general robotic tasks, but remain challenging in spatiotemporally coherent manipulation, which requires fine-grained representations. Typically, existing methods embed 3D positions into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Hanyu Zhou , Chuanhao Ma , Gim Hee Lee

We study the problem of self-supervised 3D scene flow estimation from real large-scale raw point cloud sequences, which is crucial to various tasks like trajectory prediction or instance segmentation. In the absence of ground truth scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Patrik Vacek , David Hurych , Tomáš Svoboda , Karel Zimmermann

The ability to learn multi-modal action distributions is indispensable for robotic manipulation policies to perform precise and robust control. Flow-based generative models have recently emerged as a promising solution to learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Guowei Zou , Haitao Wang , Hejun Wu , Yukun Qian , Yuhang Wang , Weibing Li

Despite rapid progress in autonomous robotics, executing complex or long-horizon tasks remains a fundamental challenge. Most current approaches follow an open-loop paradigm with limited reasoning and no feedback, resulting in poor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Xinyi Liu , Mohammadreza Fani Sani , Zewei Zhou , Julius Wirbel , Bahram Zarrin , Roberto Galeazzi

Effective robotic manipulation requires policies that can anticipate physical outcomes and adapt to real-world environments. Effective robotic manipulation requires policies that can anticipate physical outcomes and adapt to real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Ge Yuan , Qiyuan Qiao , Jing Zhang , Dong Xu