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TouchTherm: Building Multimodal Digital Twins of Objects for Tactile and Thermal Rendering
2026-10-01 16:10:08Yitao Zhang (ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China), Hong Ying (ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China), Haoran Guo (ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China), Xiaoying Zhou (ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China), Guanyu Chen (ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China), Chenxi Xiao (ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China)Abstract
Robotic simulation and virtual reality increasingly require object assets that capture not only visual geometry but also the physical cues underlying tactile and thermal interaction. Existing 3D datasets and reconstruction methods primarily represent object-scale geometry and visual appearance, overlooking microscale surface structure for high-fidelity haptic rendering and transient temperature dynamics for temperature-aware interaction. We present TouchTherm, a framework for constructing simulation-ready visuo-tactile-thermal object assets from real-world objects. For visual and tactile reconstruction, we combine structured-light scanning with multiview normal maps obtained from photometric stereo. The normal maps are registered to the scanned geometry and transformed into tangent space to recover local micro-height fields for optical tactile rendering, while the coarse mesh handles collision detection. For thermal reconstruction, we capture synchronized multiview infrared videos of natural cooling following controlled heating and reconstruct a physics-regularized dynamic thermal field. Experiments on 20 objects show that the reconstructed micro-height fields preserve dominant surface structures and recover higher-frequency details beyond the coarse geometry, while the thermal fields achieve held-out surface-temperature MAEs of 0.465 degrees C and 0.592 degrees C at 30 s and 45 s, respectively. The resulting tactile assets support synthetic-to-real object recognition from tactile observations, while a glove-based VR system demonstrates spatially and temporally varying thermal feedback. These results highlight the potential of TouchTherm for multimodal sensory simulation and temperature-aware virtual interaction.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01943
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Robot Learning on Discrete Surfaces: Theory and Applications
2026-10-01 15:53:39Matteo Dalle Vedove, Fares J. Abu-Dakka, Luigi Palopoli, Daniele Fontanelli, Matteo SaverianoAbstract
All the objects composing our world are enclosed within surfaces. Yet, most robot learning and motion generation frameworks treat surfaces as constraints ignoring their intrinsic geometry. This gap is acute for polyhedral meshes--the standard output of CAD and 3D reconstruction--whose discrete geometric structure remains unexploited. In this paper, we propose a unified discrete Riemannian framework that enables robot learning directly on polyhedral surface meshes. Using discrete differential geometry, we define logarithmic and exponential maps, parallel transport, and ambient-space projections that remain well-defined across faces, edges, and vertices. We instantiate the framework in three learning paradigms: (i) Dynamic Movement Primitives (DMPs), an improved exponential-map computation and a fixed-tangent-cone forcing-term encoding with parallel transport yield better cross-surface generalisation and stability over prior mesh-based approaches. (ii) Gaussian Process (GP), a geodesic-based kernel with practical admissibility control, enables regression at arbitrary mesh locations without smoothness assumptions. (iii) Riemannian Flow Matching (RFM), mesh-native operators improve generative quality over spectral baselines while reducing training time. The framework is validated in simulation against state-of-the-art methods and demonstrated on two real-robot scenarios: generalising user-drawn trajectories across different surfaces and planning polishing motions on RGB-D-reconstructed surfaces.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01910
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Towards Physical Underwater Robotic Assistance for Scuba Diver Movement in Confined Spaces
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Scuba divers are taught to control their depth to avoid rapid ascents and descents, which could result in serious injuries such as gas embolisms and barotrauma. However, many underwater tasks necessitate lateral control, maintaining distance between subsea structures such as coral reefs, submerged drilling instrumentation, or unexploded ordnance. In this work, we discuss a first-of-its-kind wearable robotic solution providing thruster-actuated directional guidance to a diver, as distinct from prior propulsive-assistance exoskeletons. We introduce ``Robotic Assisted Diver Movement in Confined Spaces'' (RADMCS), a wearable robot that assists divers in maintaining a fixed distance from subsea structures by leveraging perception techniques in monocular depth estimation and force-feedback from submersible thrusters to provide haptic feedback. Its small and compact form factor creates a foundational platform that could be expanded to include more sophisticated control and navigation behaviors. We present results from Institutional Review Board (IRB) in-water studies with eight human scuba diver participants on threshold sensitivity tests in both a closed-water swimming facility and ocean environments; distance-maintaining experiments in a closed-water facility; and form, fit, and function testing in the ocean. We demonstrate that relatively low thrust values (10 percent of maximum) allow robotic direction of a human's movement using the physical sensation of the robot's guidance.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01906
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ChunkVLA-AM: Parallel Action Chunking for Vision-Language-Action Robot Control in Additive Manufacturing
2026-10-01 15:21:05Zhugang Liu, Kaichuang Zhang, Jinman Zhang, Pu Sun, Martha Asare, Jose Hernandez, Maxim Ermolinsky, Efren Saenz, Qi Lu, Jinghao YangAbstract
Vision-language-action (VLA) models unify visual perception, language understanding, and action generation, offering new opportunities for automation in additive manufacturing (AM). However, deployment in AM remains challenging because adapting these models to unseen robot embodiments is costly, and performance can degrade under environment changes. In this work, we present a framework for deploying OpenVLA-OFT on a FAIRINO FR3 robot in a fixed AM workcell. A data pipeline converts monocular real-world demonstrations into OpenVLA-compatible TFDS/RLDS datasets to support adaptation to the FR3 embodiment. At runtime, each inference request predicts an eight-step chunk of 7-D actions. The FR3 executes each chunk open loop before capturing a new observation, providing closed-loop feedback between chunks. The system uses a cloud-edge architecture in which the FR3 client streams observations to a remote inference server through a FastAPI interface. In 42 physical A-to-B object-transfer trials, evenly split between red and blue targets, the system succeeded in 39 (92.9%). All three failures occurred during final placement, when insufficient release-height control caused the object to topple. An illumination sweep identified a low-error luminance range of 85-125 on a 0-255 scale, with the lowest mean spatial error at 95.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01856
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FlashDexRetarget: Accelerating Dexterous Manipulation Data Generation through Multi-Motion Retargeting
2026-10-01 15:15:42Kyungmin Lee, Sibeen Kim, Dongyoon Hwang, Yoonsang Oh, Donghu Kim, Youngdo Lee, I Made Aswin Nahrendra, Jaegul Choo, Hojoon LeeAbstract
Human hand-object demonstrations offer a reusable source of dexterous robot manipulation data, but transferring them across embodiments requires physically feasible retargeting. Existing physics-based approaches face limitations in retargeting success, motion-specific training efficiency, or both. To address these limitations, we introduce FlashDexRetarget, an RL-based framework for high-success, efficient dexterous motion retargeting. To make the demonstrated interaction easier to learn, we combine object point-cloud observations, hand-object distance features, and future trajectory encodings with complementary rewards that supervise object motion and reference hand-object relationships. To further accelerate learning, we employ separate left- and right-hand actor critic networks and adapt the off-policy algorithm, FlashSAC to dexterous motion tracking. On a benchmark of 50 motions spanning single-object and two-object interactions, FlashDexRetarget achieves a 90% success rate, approximately 2.5x that of the evaluated sampling-based baselines, while requiring up to 100x less training compute than the evaluated RL-based baselines. Evaluations on both XHand and Sharpa Wave Hand show consistent gains, and component-wise ablations examine the contributions of our design choices. Beyond the 50-motion benchmark, experiments with 200, 500, and 1,000 motions demonstrate that our method remains stable at larger scales and produces successful retargeted motions more efficiently as the training set grows. Qualitative replay results using real-world-captured demonstrations further illustrate the applicability of our framework to recorded human manipulation. Videos and code are available at this https URL
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01849
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Finite-Data Safety Informativity Under Dynamic Asymmetric Actuation
2026-10-01 14:54:54Abhinav Sinha, Praveen Kumar Ranjan, Yongcan CaoAbstract
When the system model is not fully known, measurement error and limited excitation can leave several models consistent with the same finite data. A command judged safe for one model may fail for another, while limited control authority can prevent the corrective action needed to preserve safety. To ensure safety under model uncertainty and asymmetric input limits, we develop a finite-data certificate that determines whether a command can enforce a prescribed safety inequality. For a linearly parameterized safety channel with exactly known regressors and bounded aggregate residual error, we derive a support formula for the worst-case safety contribution of all data-consistent models. The formula identifies the regressor directions that admit a finite bound, allowing rank-deficient records to contribute to safety certification. Using certified componentwise bounds on actuator tracking error yields an affine inequality with a necessary and sufficient test for pointwise command feasibility. The affine inequality reduces computation of the closest certified command to a scalar root-finding problem. It also yields a closed-form gate that selects the largest certified fraction of a prescribed command segment. The proposed certificate guarantees output safety within its operating domain, provided the feedback is locally Lipschitz and the uncertainty bounds remain valid. Domain retention and full-state continuation extend this guarantee to all time. A vehicle study demonstrates that output safety can be certified from finite measurements in a safety-critical setting with model and actuator uncertainty.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01820
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Query-Conditioned Articulation Estimation from a Single Image
2026-10-01 14:01:19Abdelrhman Werby, Fabio Scaparro, Kai O. ArraAbstract
Enabling robots to estimate the kinematic parameters of articulated objects unlocks a wide range of capabilities for interaction and manipulation. The estimation has to happen from the information the robot currently observes, often just a single RGB image of an object it has never seen before. Current single-image approaches couple articulation part segmentation with articulation estimation, making their predictions vulnerable to missed detections and incorrect part associations, and they regress metric 3D geometry that a single view fixes only up to scale. We present QueryArt, a model that estimates articulation parameters from a single RGB image, a 2D query point, and camera intrinsics. QueryArt is trained to estimate the 3D articulation geometry relative to the queried point and in units of its depth, which keeps its target identifiable from the image alone. A single depth measurement at the query point then supplies the scale and recovers the metric parameters. We train QueryArt on a curated mixture of synthetic and real-world articulation datasets. We evaluate QueryArt on several benchmarks and compare it against recent baselines. QueryArt outperforms recent baselines on most articulation metrics, including on out-of-distribution data. To demonstrate the model's capabilities in real-world settings, we evaluate QueryArt on a mobile manipulator across 57 manipulation trials spanning 16 object parts and five viewpoint classes, achieving a 70.2% success rate. We provide code and videos at: this https URL
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01726
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ActiveWAM: Evidence-Aware Active Vision for World-Action Models
2026-10-01 13:48:29Renjun Wu, Luzhou Ge, Xuesong LiAbstract
Active vision manipulation requires a policy to control both its camera and its end-effectors, yet camera motion determines which evidence remains visible within finite observation windows. Acquiring a new view can displace task-critical cues, while retaining a view forgoes potentially useful observations. We formulate this as an evidence-aware retain--acquire problem and present ActiveWAM, a unified world--action model that learns observation and manipulation jointly. To this end, we propose training-time inversion which constrains a frozen video prior by task-bearing source evidence and visible temporal changes, eliminating the need for test-time inversion or candidate ranking. At deployment, the policy generates bimanual and pan/tilt actions-including stay and reacquisition behaviors-from view-aware history, and updates context from newly measured RGB observations. Future-video prediction serves as a co-training signal, while action generation requires neither future-video decoding nor optimal viewpoint annotations. We introduce RoboTwin-AV, a 50-task benchmark with executable pan/tilt control and automatically generated demonstrations. ActiveWAM improves TAVIS out-of-distribution success by up to 17.0 percentage points over the strongest baselines, achieves 20.0 additional points over Fast-WAM on RoboTwin-AV, and outperforms it by 26.7 points on real-world physical kitchen tasks.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01698
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Learning a Resolution-Consistent Jacobian Field for Bio-Inspired Rigid-Soft Finger
2026-10-01 13:29:03Tianyou Liang, Haisen Zeng, Shanjun Chen, YiMing Zhu, Zhongyue Lu, Zirong LuoAbstract
Bio-inspired tendon-driven rigid-soft coupled dexterous fingers exhibit strong nonlinearity and configuration-dependent sensitivity, making accurate modeling challenging. In discrete-time control, Jacobian-based kinematic algorithms typically rely on point-wise local linear approximations, which makes their performance sensitive to sensor sampling frequency and controller update frequency. To address this issue, we propose Jacobian Flow Matching (JFM), a structured learning framework based on Conditional Flow Matching (CFM), to learn a resolution-consistent Jacobian field that models actuation-to-motion transitions as a dynamical flow. The proposed framework supports both single-step prediction and continuous rollout via ODE integration, enabling consistent inference across temporal resolutions. Experiments on a tendon-driven rigid-soft finger show that the proposed method suppresses outlier errors and improves single-step prediction accuracy, reducing the global average RMSE by over 53% compared with a baseline discrete Jacobian learning approach. For long-horizon prediction, trajectories recovered via ODE integration achieve higher fidelity under sparse sampling (Stride = 8), reducing the RMSE median by 14.43% and the error variance by 24.87%. These results demonstrate that the learned flow-based Jacobian field provides an effective local model for offline multi-step trajectory optimization in rigid-soft coupled nonlinear systems.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01668
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SonarVoxNet: Diver Detection in 3D Bounding Box using 3D Sonar
2026-10-01 13:08:34Eugene Park, Jiwon Lee, Seyoung Kan, Trung Dong, Xiaomin Lin, Jane ShinAbstract
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) assisting human divers must continuously track not only the diver's 3D position but also their full-body orientation. However, vision-based perception is unreliable underwater, and forward-looking sonar -- despite being widely used -- discards the elevation information needed for orientation estimation, posing a fundamental limitation. Recently commercialized 3D sonar preserves elevation but produces sparse, noisy returns, and existing detectors are built for dense LiDAR data and for targets that remain upright and rotate only about the yaw axis (e.g., vehicles, pedestrians), making them unable to represent a freely pitching and rolling diver. To address this gap, we present two contributions. First, SonarVoxNet adapts a voxel-based encoder and an anchor-free center-based detection head to 3D sonar data, replacing the conventional yaw-only rotation representation with a continuous 6D rotation parameterization to predict full 9-DoF oriented bounding boxes -- to our knowledge, the first 3D sonar diver detector to do so. Second, Diver3D is the first public 3D sonar dataset with full 3D orientation labels for divers in diverse, non-upright poses, collected at a natural cave-diving site. Through controlled ablations over the backbone and detection head, we show that the dominant factor behind accurate 3D sonar-based diver detection is the transition from yaw-only rotation to full-SO(3) rotation. This transition substantially improves detection accuracy and reduces orientation error. These results demonstrate that full-body diver orientation is recoverable from 3D sonar alone, laying the groundwork for future work on diver pose estimation and diver-robot interaction.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01644
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ReCo: Response-Consistent Locomotion with Policy-Aware MPC for Legged Manipulation
2026-10-01 12:51:34Kuankuan Sima, Yichao Gao, Chenxi Gu, Kefan Zhao, Lin ZhaoAbstract
Continuous legged manipulation requires accurate end-effector tracking while the base keeps walking. Combining reinforcement learning (RL) with model predictive control (MPC) suits this task: the learned policy provides robust locomotion, while MPC coordinates the base and arm to compensate for tracking errors. However, MPC can compensate only for base motion that it can predict, and a learned policy's command response varies with gait phase, contact, and payload. We present ReCo, a framework that couples response-consistent locomotion with policy-aware MPC for legged manipulation. Response shaping trains the policy to respond to commands consistently and repeatably across randomized dynamics. An identified closed-loop response model then lets MPC jointly plan locomotion commands and arm motion. On the simulation benchmark, ReCo reduces position and orientation root-mean-square error (RMSE) by 28.7% and 27.4% relative to the best baseline for each metric. Real-world experiments demonstrate onboard continuous legged manipulation with coordinated base and arm motion.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01612
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LiDARFlow: Real-Time Panel-Based MAV Guidance in Unknown Environments
2026-10-01 12:33:47Jo\~ao Machado (ENAC-LAB), Zeynep Bilgin (ENAC-LAB), Matthieu Verdoucq (ENAC-LAB), Murat Bronz (ENAC)Abstract
This paper presents a guidance algorithm for micro aerial vehicles operating in unknown, cluttered environments using only onboard sensing. The method is based on a panel formulation originally derived from aerodynamic potential-flow theory and generates smooth, collision-free guidance vectors from locally perceived obstacles. The approach is extended to unknown environments by constructing and updating the obstacle representation online from onboard LiDAR measurements. The resulting obstacle-avoidance field is integrated with a nominal guiding vector field to produce the final control input. The system is experimentally validated in indoor flight tests under two scenarios: waypoint navigation and directional guidance. In both cases, the vehicle successfully completes its task while avoiding all obstacles in real time using only onboard perception. The results demonstrate that the method is computationally lightweight and suitable for onboard implementation, with pointcloud processing identified as the main practical limitation. These results support the feasibility of lightweight onboard guidance in unknown environments.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01573
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OpenSpace Lab Solution to the IROS 2026 Indoor Exploration Competition
2026-10-01 11:43:27Yuxuan Zhang, Dong Li, Zezhou Sun, Yuxuan Xu, Siyu Teng, Yuchen Li, Jianjian Yang, Long ChenAbstract
This report presents the \textbf{OpenSpace Lab}'s solution to the Competition on Intelligent Information Gathering for Single and Multi-Robot Systems Workshops, organized as part of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2026. Our team reached 1st place in the Single-Robot Public Track and 3rd place in both the Single- and Multi-Robot Private Tracks. The single-robot framework utilizes pre-trained map completion predictions for global planning to prioritize unexplored areas. To reconcile map coverage with limited operation time, we introduce a remaining-time-based exploration strategy that integrates homing constraints into the decision-making process. For multi-robot exploration, we utilize a utility-driven target selection strategy that balances observation gains, movement costs, and budget constraints, leveraging shared map and intent data to eliminate redundant search and maximize coordination efficiency. Our solution reached a 61.04\% coverage rate in the Single-Robot Public Track, while reaching 39.53\% and 39.91\% coverage in the Single- and Multi-Robot Private Tracks, respectively. An extended full-length paper based on this report is currently being prepared for submission, and the source code will be released upon acceptance of the full manuscript at this https URL.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01505
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Continue, Abort, or Fall: Viability-Aware Policy Selection for Safe Humanoid Acrobatics
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Dynamic humanoid motions such as flips risk hardware damage due to suboptimal policies, disturbances or sim-to-real gaps. A motion tracking policy offers no way out once the maneuver leaves its reference, and a backup policy needs to take over to protect the hardware for a minimum-damage landing. Which backup to use matters as much as when to switch. We present Viability-Aware Policy Selection (VAPS), which treats safety as a policy-conditioned, receding-horizon decision. Besides a protective fall policy, we also train an abort policy which can abort the motion at any time, landing on its feet. At every control step, learned predictors estimate whether the nominal tracking policy and the abort policy remain viable over a short horizon, and a least-sacrificial hierarchy keeps the most task-ambitious behavior that remains viable. In simulation with randomized disturbances, VAPS sharply reduces head contact and hand contact, which are the dominant sources of hardware damage, with both a Unitree G1 and a LimX Oli; on the LimX Oli, we validate the viability predictors and the full VAPS controller for side-flip motions. VAPS Pareto-dominates the strongest single-network alternatives we could train, including an end-to-end safe-tracking policy and students distilled from VAPS's own oracle-routed decisions, in both task success and head impact. We also show that VAPS is a powerful framework to supervise undertrained policies and protect the hardware.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01397
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Is Success All You Need? Investigating the Impact of Input Perturbations on VLA Behaviour in Tabletop Manipulation Tasks
2026-10-01 09:20:57Sophie Higham, Riccardo Andrea Izzo, Matteo Matteucci, Alessandro SugliaAbstract
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved high task success rates on robot manipulation task benchmarks. More recently, there has been an emphasis on evaluating the robustness of VLA models to perturbations. However, this robustness is still predominantly measured through Task Success Rate (TSR). In this work, we propose a benchmark-agnostic evaluation framework to measure the behavioural robustness of models by characterising how successful trajectories are executed under perturbation. We implement this methodology by extending the widely-used LIBERO and LIBERO-Plus benchmarks. Across three state-of-the-art VLA models, four LIBERO task suites and seven perturbation conditions, we evaluate changes in both typical successful behaviour and its variability, including metrics of motion smoothness, efficiency and gripper behaviour. We find that perturbations can alter the behaviour of successful trajectories, a phenomenon which cannot necessarily be inferred from TSR alone. Across LIBERO suites, we identify cases where state-of-the-art VLA models achieve comparable TSR under the same perturbation condition, yet behaviour on successful trajectories diverges substantially. Therefore, to have a more robust assessment of task performance, we argue that suitable measures of robustness should capture not only whether a task is completed, but also how the robot behaves while completing it. When evaluating the robustness of VLA models, TSR may be complemented by behavioural evaluation metrics that characterise the nature and variability of successful task execution by robots.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01351
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Cross-entropy optimization with prioritized constraints
2026-10-01 08:48:12Francisco Roldan Sanchez, Pau de las Heras Molins, David Fridovich-Keil, Georgios BakirtzisAbstract
When constraints conflict, an optimizer must determine which requirements to preserve and which to relax. On the one hand, a priority ordering specifies which requirements take precedence. On the other hand, penalty-based formulations encode their relative importance through numerical weights. Depending on these weights, a solution can improve its weighted score while violating intended priorities. We introduce TierCEM, a variant of the cross-entropy method that incorporates strict constraint priorities directly into elite selection without requiring per-constraint importance weights. TierCEM works by sequentially filtering sampled candidates, from highest- to lowest-priority constraint. If and when a constraint eliminates all remaining candidates, TierCEM returns to the last nonempty set and selects elites with the smallest violations of that blocking constraint, recursively preserving satisfaction of all higher-priority constraints. We evaluate TierCEM on 2D navigation and contact-rich pushing tasks in proprioceptive and learned world-model settings. Experiments show that reversing the constraint ordering changes which constraints are violated under conflict. Prioritizing progress toward the task objective also enables TierCEM to relax lower-priority constraints when they would otherwise prevent further progress.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01319
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Ex vivo breach detection using electrical conductivity during robotic pedicle drilling in the spine
2026-10-01 08:42:23Jorge Andr\'es P\'erez Vel\'asquez, Fran\c{c}ois Teyssere, Thibault Chandanson, Quentin Grimal, Brahim TamadazteAbstract
Purpose: Pedicle screw placement is technically demanding in scoliosis treatment. High precision is required due to limited visibility, anatomical variability, and the risk of complications. Although robotic systems assist CT-based planning and execution, they still rely on ionizing intraoperative imaging and complex registration. This study proposes robotic pedicle drilling with real-time preventive breach detection using electrical bioimpedance sensing. Methods: We developed a robotic approach combined with a pedicle-drilling tool equipped with a proprioceptive electrical bioimpedance sensor developed by SpineGuard. A real-time detection algorithm was designed to analyze the electrical bioimpedance signal during drilling and identify abrupt changes in conductivity associated with potential breaches towards the spinal canal. The method operates without external devices or sensors. Results: The ex vivo experiments showed that the proposed method prevented breaches in 100 of the 51 drilling cases. These findings demonstrate the system's ability to detect potentially hazardous events during drilling and to stop the procedure before. The ex vivo experiments demonstrated that the proposed method prevented breaches in all 51 drilling cases. Conclusions: This work demonstrates the feasibility of robotic pedicle drilling with electrical bioimpedance sensing for real-time breach prevention. Using only the tool signal, the method eliminates the need for external sensing systems and supports safer pedicle screw placement.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01310
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Awomo-SimDataEngine: Agentic Simulation-ReadyWorld Generation
2026-10-01 08:38:29PhysicalRSI Team, Danjiao Ma, Enhui Ma, Haohan Liu, Heng Jia, Hui Shan, Jianhua Xu, Jiahuan Zhang, Jiangdi Xu, Kaiwen Guo, Kaicheng Yu, Linwei Zhang, Liyang Jin, Maochun Luo, Pengyao Niu, Shiwen Li, Shuangyu Feng, Tong Zhang, Tianheng Wang, Xin Wang, Xiangru Huang, Yongqiang Huang, Zhaozhi Wang, Zijian MaAbstract
Generating useful robot-training data requires more than visually plausiblescenes: objects must support interaction, placements must remain physicallyvalid, and tasks must admit repeatable execution. We present\textbf{Awomo-SimDataEngine}, an agentic system that connects asset and scenegeneration to robot demonstration synthesis. Shared asset services providerigid and articulated objects, including structure-grounded part and jointgeneration with ISArt. Scene generation supports two complementary routes:Unravel reconstructs editable scenes from images, while SimForge buildssingle-room and multi-room environments from text. A graph-native harnesscoordinates construction, validation, andbounded repair, routing failures to the responsible module while retainingunaffected scene state. PolicyForge binds validated worlds to tasks and robotembodiments to produce replayable demonstrations. Evaluations cover assetgeometry, scene quality, and downstream policy learning. On MuJoCo-basedLIBERO-Plus, co-training with Isaac Sim demonstrations improves the overallsuccess rate of a World-Action Model (WAM) from $77.17\%$ to $89.43\%$. Goal and spatialsuccess improve by $31.66$ and $6.25$ percentage points, this http URL results support the utility of the generated data for cross-simulatorpolicy training, with more limited gains on long-horizon tasks.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02274
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Continual Learning for 6-DoF Grasp Synthesis via Experience and Demonstrations
2026-10-01 08:36:06Giulio Schiavi, Andrei Cramariuc, Michael Pantic, Roland SiegwartAbstract
Most current grasp synthesis systems are trained offline and remain fixed during deployment. While this works well when deployment conditions resemble the training data, performance can degrade when robots encounter conditions they have not seen before, such as unfamiliar objects. In this work, we present a continual-learning framework for single-view 6-DoF grasp synthesis for a parallel-jaw gripper in cluttered scenes. Rather than finetuning a large parametric model, our method adapts through memory in a learned embedding space: grasp outcomes update future grasp scores, while optional user demonstrations are recalled and transferred to new scenes as additional candidate grasps. We evaluate our method in simulation and in extensive real-world experiments comprising over 1500 grasp trials. We show that our method matches the performance of existing 6-DoF grasping baselines even before adaptation, improves online on unseen objects from categories absent or underrepresented during training, and supports long-horizon continual learning with limited forgetting. In real-world experiments, our method reaches over 90\% success rates on several challenging object categories after only 50 online grasp attempts. Videos and code at this https URL.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01301
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Interaction-Stiffness-Guided Basis Allocation in Dynamic Movement Primitives for Efficient Skill Transfer
2026-10-01 08:26:09Chan Xu, Silu Chen, Dehao Wang, Xiyu Chen, Dexin Jiang, Chi Zhang, Guilin Yang, Chenguang Yang, Zaojun FangAbstract
Dynamic Movement Primitives (DMPs) provide a compact and stable formulation for trajectory representation and generalization in robot skill learning. However, their predefined basis layout limits the allocation of approximation capacity according to stage-dependent precision requirements. To address this issue, this article proposes Stage-Criticality-Guided Dynamic Movement Primitives (SC-DMPs) with adaptive basis allocation for precision-critical skill learning. Operator-robot interaction stiffness and a trajectory-consistency cue derived from cross-demonstration task-space variability are integrated to construct a stage-criticality index. Guided by this index, basis centers are redistributed in normalized time through inverse cumulative criticality and mapped to the canonical phase domain, while their bandwidths are refined to adjust local approximation support. This enables denser and more flexible representation at high-criticality stages while retaining sparser allocation elsewhere. Experiments on handwriting trajectories and three real-robot tasks show that the inferred criticality is concentrated in geometrically demanding and task-constrained regions. Comparisons with DMPs, ProMPs, ProDMP, GP-MP, and KMP demonstrate improved trajectory reproduction, endpoint generalization, and task-critical accuracy while retaining a compact model and the stable structure of classical DMPs.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01288
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