Neo-FREE: Policy Composition Through Thousand Brains And Free Energy Optimization

Authors: Francesca Rossi, Émiland Garrabé, Giovanni Russo

pre-print -> arxiv.org/abs/2412.06636

code -> github.com/GIOVRUSSO/Co...

#robotics #control #optimal_control #movement_primitives

Novel Magnetic Actuation Strategies for Precise Ferrofluid Marble Manipulation in Magnetic Digital Microfluidics: Position Control and Applications

Authors: M. H. Sarkhosh, H. N. Pishkenari et al.

pre-print -> arxiv.org/abs/2412.02859

#robotics #control #manipulation #microfluidics

Point-GN: A Non-Parametric Network Using Gaussian Positional Encoding for Point Cloud Classification

Authors: Marzieh Mohammadi, Amir Salarpour

pre-print -> arxiv.org/abs/2412.03056
code (to come) -> github.com/asalarpour/P...

#point_cloud #classification #positional_embedding #non_parametric

Robot Learning with Super-Linear Scaling

Authors: M. Torne, A. Jain, J. Yuan, V. Macha, L. Ankile, A. Simeonov, P. Agrawal, A. Gupta

pre-print -> arxiv.org/abs/2412.017...
website -> casher-robot-learning.github.io/CASHER/

#robotics #rl #reinforcement_learning #data_generation #real2sim2real

GAPartManip: A Large-scale Part-centric Dataset for Material-Agnostic Articulated Object Manipulation

Authors: W. Cui, C. Zhao, S. Wei, J. Zhang, H. Geng, Y. Chen, H. Wang

pre-print -> arxiv.org/abs/2411.18276

#robotics #articulated_objects #manipulation #dataset #synthetic_data #data_generation

MotionWavelet: Human Motion Prediction via Wavelet Manifold Learning

Authors: Y.Feng, Z. Dou, L. Liu et al.

pre-print -> arxiv.org/abs/2411.16964
website -> frank-zy-dou.github.io/projects/Mot...

#motion_prediction #wavelets #diffusion

Inference-Time Policy Steering through Human Interactions

Authors: Y. Wang, J. Shah et al.

pre-print -> arxiv.org/abs/2411.16627
website -> yanweiw.github.io/itps/

#robotics #diffusion #policy_steering

Enhancing Exploration with Diffusion Policies in Hybrid Off-Policy RL: Application to Non-Prehensile Manipulation

Authors: Huy Le et al.

pre-print -> arxiv.org/abs/2411.14913
website -> leh2rng.github.io/hydo

#robotics #rl #reinforcement_learning #nonprehensile #manipulation #diffusion #entropy

Evaluating Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Texturing Synthetic Data

Authors: Thomas Lips, Francis wyffels

pre-print -> arxiv.org/abs/2411.10164
code -> github.com/tlpss/diffus...

#robotics #diffusion #sim2real #data_generation

Moving Horizon Estimation for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Robust Estimation Error Bounds

Authors: Jelena Trisovic, Alexandre Didier, Simon Muntwiler and Melanie N. Zeilinger @ethzurich.bsky.social

pre-print -> arxiv.org/abs/2411.13310

#robotics #slam #moving_horizon #mhe

ManiSkill-ViTac 2025: Challenge on Manipulation Skill Learning With Vision and Tactile Sensing

Authors: Chuanyu Li, Renjun Dang et al.

pre-print -> arxiv.org/abs/2411.125...

#robotics #challenge #tactile_sensing #visual_sensing #manipulation #contact_rich

RoboGSim: A Real2Sim2Real Robotic Gaussian Splatting Simulator
Authors: Xinhai Li, Jialin Li et al.
pre-print -> arxiv.org/abs/2411.11839
website -> robogsim.github.io

#robotics #data_generation #sim2real #real2sim #real2sim2real

BMP: Bridging the Gap between B-Spline and Movement Primitives

Authors: Weiran Liao, Ge Li, Hongyi Zhou, Rudolf Lioutikov, Gerhard Neumann

pre-print -> arxiv.org/abs/2411.10336

#robotics #movement_primitives #mp #bsplines #planning #robot_learning