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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Skill Composition for Legged Robot Reinforcement Learning

It is argued that the composition of independent sub-policies deserves to be treated as a research problem in its own right, rather than as an implementation detail left to whatever mechanism happens to be at hand.

Daniel Gigliotti, Flavio Maiorana, Fabio Patrizi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Task-Specified Active Metrological Inspection with Measurement-Steered VLA Manipulation and Deterministic Evidence Gating

High-mix low-volume (HMLV) manufacturing requires inspection systems to adapt to changing parts, specifications, and work orders without repeated task-specific programming. Existing inspection automation typically assumes predefined sensing sequences, while general purpose robot agents optimize task completion rather t...

Zhiling Chen, Jingzhan Ge, Ruimin Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Open access Sep 2026

Real-Time Synthesis of Robust Controlled Invariant Sets for Monotone Systems

A threshold-function reformulation is introduced in which a lower-closed set on a d-dimensional grid is represented by its column heights along a designated axis and reformulates the greatest-fixed-point iteration as independent one-dimensional binary searches, yielding an embarrassingly parallel iteration with asympto...

Yasin Sonmez, M. Khaled, Majid Zamani et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2026

LPA-CWM: A Learned Physical Adjudicator for Motion Reasoning with Counterfactual World Models

Completeness-aware Motion Correspondence (CMC), a ground-truth-anchored evaluation protocol that jointly measures localization, trajectory completeness, visibility, and continuity, counting missing predictions as failures on visible dynamic points, is introduced.

Kun-Wei Wu, Xiang Liu, Guo-Cai Yao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Rethinking the Implications of Human Feedback for Preference Learning in Human-Robot Collaboration

IMPLIED is an implication modeling method that treats fixed-rule implications as an initial guide while learning to infer and revise accepted and rejected action labels over time, and predicts human implications more accurately than the fixed rule approach and LLM baselines, approaching the performance of a human-label...

Qiping Zhang, Kate Candon, Debasmita Ghose et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

ReWeight: Leveraging Human Data for VLA Post-Training via Demonstration Retrieval and Sample Weighting

ReWeight is introduced, a framework that incorporates human data into VLA post-training through demonstration-level retrieval and sample-level weighting and learns a cross-embodiment visuomotor representation that combines visual observations with future actions to measure behavioral similarity between human and robot...

Chen-Wei Wang, Dian-Ye Huang, Match W. L. Ko et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

LePlanner: An Iterative Amortized Controller For World Models

LePlanner is an amortized iterative controller that learns to construct and refine latent action sequences through a frozen world-model predictor, enabling fast, horizon-aware, nonlinear physical control without online optimization.

Saksham Bansal, Om Naphade, Chayan Aggarwal et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Chance-Constrained Belief-Space Maneuver Planning for Autonomous Collision Avoidance Under Uncertainty

Increasing conjunction frequency in low Earth orbit places growing pressure on spacecraft operators to determine not only whether an encounter requires mitigation, but whether sufficient information is available to commit to a maneuver. This work formulates this information-action tradeoff as a belief-space planning pr...

Grace Ra Kim, Duncan Eddy, M. Kochenderfer · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Bridging Thought and Action: Taming Long-Horizon Instability in Open-Source LLM Agents with a MetaTool-Enhanced ROS Framework

Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled more natural human-robot interaction, but open-source models often exhibit unstable long-horizon reasoning and inefficient action execution when deployed in agentic robotic frameworks. This paper presents an enhanced ROS-Agent based architecture that improves task reliability a...

Kazi Abrar Mahmud, Nilotpaul Kundu Dhurubo, Tamal Kirttonia et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Conflict-Predictive Variable Horizons in Multi-Drone Distributed Model Predictive Control

A conflict-predictive variable horizon that each drone sets locally, leaving the distributed model predictive control itself unchanged, is proposed, and it is proved that recursive feasibility and asymptotic stability are preserved for every horizon the policy can select.

Linda Mümken, Michael Schwung, Stefan Lier et al. · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Sep 23, 2026

Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics

Robots are getting smarter, but how can their hardware match that growth? New Microsoft Research findings show that moving AI inference beyond the robot can improve task success, boost efficiency, and support more advanced physical AI workloads. The post Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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