Accepted Papers

Papers accepted to the XPlore Workshop at ICRA 2026.

  1. CACTO-BIC: Scalable Actor-Critic Learning via Biased Sampling and GPU-Accelerated Trajectory Optimization
    Elisa Alboni, Pietro Noah Crestaz, Elias Fontanari, Andrea Del Prete
  2. Beyond Reactive Adaptation: Long-Horizon Memory for Autonomous Racing via State Space Models
    Grzegorz Czechmanowski, Jan Węgrzynowski, Piotr Kicki, Krzysztof Walas
  3. Mobile robots exploration strategies and requirements: A systematic mapping study
    Davide Brugali, Luca Muratore
  4. IFG: Internet-Scale Guidance for Functional Grasping Generation
    Muxin Liu, Mingxuan Li, Kenneth Shaw, Deepak Pathak
  5. LLM-Guided Future Hypotheses for Horizon-Aware Exploration in Multi-Step Robot Manipulation
    Mohammad Khoshnazar, Andrew Melnik, Michael Beetz
  6. MineXplore: An Open-Source Reinforcement Learning Exploration Benchmark for GNSS-Denied Underground Environment
    Badrikanath Praharaj, Sreeram M.V, ABHISHEK S
  7. Towards Semantic-Aware Active Gas Distribution Mapping in Unknown Cluttered Environments
    Mal Fazliu, Cunjia Liu
  8. Stability-Guided Exploration for Diverse Motion Generation
    Eckart Cobo-Briesewitz, Tilman Burghoff, Denis Shcherba, Armand Jordana, Marc Toussaint
  9. Representation-Driven Exploration for Long-Horizon Manipulation
    Andrea Protopapa, Davide Buoso, Francesca Pistilli, Giuseppe Averta
  10. From Exploration to Reuse: An Embodied Agent Framework for Manipulation Skill Learning
    Mohamed Roshdi, Alexander Zorn, Jörg Kindermann, Hermann Blum
  11. Multi-Robot Frontier-Based Exploration under Uncertainty with SLAM and Temporal Map Fusion
    Nandhini Sriram, Shubhankit Tewari, Narayani Adane, Sudharsan, Ajan Muthuraj, Atriya Biswas
  12. 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
  13. Efficient Rare-Event Sampling in Diffusion Policies for Motion Discovery
    Dian Yu, Sebastian Sanokowski, Majid Khadiv
  14. BEACON: Belief-Aware Replanning for Safe Online Motion Planning
    Ishita Banerjee, Maggie Yufei Bai, Soptorshi Ghosh, Rhea Senan, Ayushi Mehrotra
  15. Coupling-Aware Planner Exploration for Shared-Workspace Multi-Manipulator Motion Planning
    Rahul Vimalkanth
  16. Truncated Gaussian Policy for Debiased Exploration in Continuous Control
    Ganghun Lee, Minji Kim, Minsu Lee, Byoung-Tak Zhang
  17. GPS-Denied Rover Motion Regulation as a Physically Grounded POMDP for Recurrent Reinforcement Learning
    Saki Omi, Miguel Olivares-Mendez
  18. Graph-Structured Reinforcement Learning for Controlling a Transformable-Wheel Robot
    Haoqi Tang, James Clinton, Anthony J. Clark, Neil Chulani
  19. CRAFT: Coaching Reinforcement Learning Autonomously using Foundation Models for Multi-Robot Coordination Tasks
    Seoyeon Choi, Kanghyun Ryu, Jonghoon Ock, Negar Mehr
  20. Learning Temporally and State-Abstracted World Models for Long-Horizon Exploration
    William Huang, Benjamin Freed
  21. 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
  22. From Simulation to Contact: A Modular Wrench-Space Deployment Stack for Multi-Task Robot Manipulation
    Aditya Narendra, Abdalla Swikir
  23. Exploration-Exploitation Prompting: A Dual-Process Framework for Complex Mathematical Problem Solving
    Aniket Deroy
  24. Feasibility-Constrained Diffusion-MPC for Discrete Combinatorial Planning: A Case Study on Tetris
    Haochuan Wang
  25. Mixture of Autoencoder Experts Guidance using Unlabeled and Incomplete Data for Exploration in Reinforcement Learning
    Elias Malomgré, Pieter Simoens
  26. Bayesian Optimization for Learning Nonlinear MPC in Autonomous Agent Navigation
    Lorenzo Ortolani, Gabriel Voss, Gabriele Beltrami, Francesco Dorati, Tommaso Felice Banfi