Accepted Papers
Papers accepted to the XPlore Workshop at ICRA 2026.
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CACTO-BIC: Scalable Actor-Critic Learning via Biased Sampling and GPU-Accelerated Trajectory Optimization
Elisa Alboni, Pietro Noah Crestaz, Elias Fontanari, Andrea Del Prete -
Beyond Reactive Adaptation: Long-Horizon Memory for Autonomous Racing via State Space Models
Grzegorz Czechmanowski, Jan Węgrzynowski, Piotr Kicki, Krzysztof Walas -
Mobile robots exploration strategies and requirements: A systematic mapping study
Davide Brugali, Luca Muratore -
IFG: Internet-Scale Guidance for Functional Grasping Generation
Muxin Liu, Mingxuan Li, Kenneth Shaw, Deepak Pathak -
LLM-Guided Future Hypotheses for Horizon-Aware Exploration in Multi-Step Robot Manipulation
Mohammad Khoshnazar, Andrew Melnik, Michael Beetz -
MineXplore: An Open-Source Reinforcement Learning Exploration Benchmark for GNSS-Denied Underground Environment
Badrikanath Praharaj, Sreeram M.V, ABHISHEK S -
Towards Semantic-Aware Active Gas Distribution Mapping in Unknown Cluttered Environments
Mal Fazliu, Cunjia Liu -
Stability-Guided Exploration for Diverse Motion Generation
Eckart Cobo-Briesewitz, Tilman Burghoff, Denis Shcherba, Armand Jordana, Marc Toussaint -
Representation-Driven Exploration for Long-Horizon Manipulation
Andrea Protopapa, Davide Buoso, Francesca Pistilli, Giuseppe Averta -
From Exploration to Reuse: An Embodied Agent Framework for Manipulation Skill Learning
Mohamed Roshdi, Alexander Zorn, Jörg Kindermann, Hermann Blum -
Multi-Robot Frontier-Based Exploration under Uncertainty with SLAM and Temporal Map Fusion
Nandhini Sriram, Shubhankit Tewari, Narayani Adane, Sudharsan, Ajan Muthuraj, Atriya Biswas -
Variable-Resolution Virtual Map Guided Informed Tree Search for Autonomous USV Exploration
Ye Li, Mal Fazliu, Yewei Huang, Alberto Quattrini Li, Brendan Englot, Cunjia Liu, Yuanchang Liu -
Efficient Rare-Event Sampling in Diffusion Policies for Motion Discovery
Dian Yu, Sebastian Sanokowski, Majid Khadiv -
BEACON: Belief-Aware Replanning for Safe Online Motion Planning
Ishita Banerjee, Maggie Yufei Bai, Soptorshi Ghosh, Rhea Senan, Ayushi Mehrotra -
Coupling-Aware Planner Exploration for Shared-Workspace Multi-Manipulator Motion Planning
Rahul Vimalkanth -
Truncated Gaussian Policy for Debiased Exploration in Continuous Control
Ganghun Lee, Minji Kim, Minsu Lee, Byoung-Tak Zhang -
GPS-Denied Rover Motion Regulation as a Physically Grounded POMDP for Recurrent Reinforcement Learning
Saki Omi, Miguel Olivares-Mendez -
Graph-Structured Reinforcement Learning for Controlling a Transformable-Wheel Robot
Haoqi Tang, James Clinton, Anthony J. Clark, Neil Chulani -
CRAFT: Coaching Reinforcement Learning Autonomously using Foundation Models for Multi-Robot Coordination Tasks
Seoyeon Choi, Kanghyun Ryu, Jonghoon Ock, Negar Mehr -
Learning Temporally and State-Abstracted World Models for Long-Horizon Exploration
William Huang, Benjamin Freed -
Variable-Resolution Virtual Maps for Autonomous Exploration with Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs)
Ye Li, Yewei Huang, Wenlong Gaozhang, Alberto Quattrini Li, Brendan Englot, Yuanchang Liu -
From Simulation to Contact: A Modular Wrench-Space Deployment Stack for Multi-Task Robot Manipulation
Aditya Narendra, Abdalla Swikir -
Exploration-Exploitation Prompting: A Dual-Process Framework for Complex Mathematical Problem Solving
Aniket Deroy -
Feasibility-Constrained Diffusion-MPC for Discrete Combinatorial Planning: A Case Study on Tetris
Haochuan Wang -
Mixture of Autoencoder Experts Guidance using Unlabeled and Incomplete Data for Exploration in Reinforcement Learning
Elias Malomgré, Pieter Simoens -
Bayesian Optimization for Learning Nonlinear MPC in Autonomous Agent Navigation
Lorenzo Ortolani, Gabriel Voss, Gabriele Beltrami, Francesco Dorati, Tommaso Felice Banfi