ArXiv Robotics research for Tuesday, June 11, 2024.

00:19: GPU-Accelerated Optimization-Based Collision Avoidance

01:14: Optimal Gait Design for a Soft Quadruped Robot via Multi-fidelity Bayesian Optimization

02:27: Optimal Gait Control for a Tendon-driven Soft Quadruped Robot by Model-based Reinforcement Learning

03:45: A Neck Orthosis with Multi-Directional Variable Stiffness for Persons with Dropped Head Syndrome

04:59: 3D Voxel Maps to 2D Occupancy Maps for Efficient Path Planning for Aerial and Ground Robots

06:31: OTO Planner: An Efficient Only Travelling Once Exploration Planner for Complex and Unknown Environments

07:51: Instruct Large Language Models to Drive like Humans

09:20: Realistic Data Generation for 6D Pose Estimation of Surgical Instruments

11:07: iMESA: Incremental Distributed Optimization for Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

12:05: Improving the realism of robotic surgery simulation through injection of learning-based estimated errors

13:33: BAKU: An Efficient Transformer for Multi-Task Policy Learning

14:51: A3VLM: Actionable Articulation-Aware Vision Language Model