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Trajectory Evaluation via Rollout-Free World Model for End-to-end Autonomous Driving

Junzhe Wang, Jinqing Zhang, Qingjie LIU

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Decoupled Complementary Fields on 3D Gaussian Maps for Embodied Navigation and Reasoning

Zhao Jiahao, Yaonan Wang, Zijie Wu, Mingtao Feng and 3 more

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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All Roads Lead to Rome: Flow-driven Multi-Anchor Exploration for Open-Environment Active 3D Mapping

Yang Li, Aming WU, Zihao Zhang, Ziju Han and 2 more

Sydney Poster Session 6, Thu, Dec 10, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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FlashPlanner: Real-Time Goal-Conditioned Flow-Matching Planning for Autonomous Driving with Online RL Fine-Tuning

Qifeng Li, Yubing Gao, Xiaosong Jia, Zhiliu Liu and 4 more

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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ProtoVis-Nav: Prototypical Visual Imagination for Visual-Spatial Aligned UAV Navigation

Guangyuan Sui, Yunzhong Hou, Chi Liu

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Compositional Training-Free Diffusion Planning for Long-Horizon Multiple Reach-Avoid Tasks

Yu Chen, Ruijia Liu, Xiao Yu, Xiang Yin

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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STEER: Route-Aware Adaptive Reasoning for Autonomous Driving

yangang Zou, Pei Liu, Nan Song, Bozhou Zhang and 5 more

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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InfoNav: A Unified Value Framework Integrating Semantic Relevance and Information Gain for Zero-Shot Object Goal Navigation

Zhi Yang, Chengpu Yu, Gonzalo Ferrer

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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ReSMap: Recasting Satellite Priors for Robust and Accurate Online HD Map Construction

Kyungmin Kim, Sumin Lee, Sungoh Jeong, DoHyun Lim and 2 more

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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LiteNav: Lightweight Map-free Outdoor Visual Navigation

Mingxu Zhu, Chang Liu, Xiao Zhao, Zheyuan Zhang and 6 more

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Seeing Together, Acting Apart: Shared Environmental Understanding for Multi-Robot Navigation

haihong hao, Lei Chen, Mingfei Han, Dong An and 6 more

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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TopoCurve: Geometry-Aware Topology Reasoning via Bézier Curves in Autonomous Driving

Mihai Bogdan Deaconu, Laura Diosan

Sydney Poster Session 6, Thu, Dec 10, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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DyPSI: Dynamic Physics Sensing via Joint Field and Sensor-Trajectory Generation

Yizhou Zhang, Panqi Chen, Lei Cheng, Ting Zhang and 3 more

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Self-Supervised Doppler-Guided RF Odometry

Kunzhe Song, Jialuo Du, Jingkai Lin, Huacheng Zeng

Atlanta Poster Session 6, Fri, Dec 11, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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STEMFly: Enhancing UAV Vision-Language Navigation via Sensor Grounding, Temporal Diversity and Episodic Memory

Guangdao Zhu, Xu Chen, Shuhong Hou, Weili Guan and 3 more

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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BiLi: Bridging the Last Mile in LiDAR Localization

Minghang Zhu, Junchuan Lan, Zhijing Wang, Haoze Chang and 3 more

Sydney Poster Session 6, Thu, Dec 10, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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TwinFlux: One-Step Discrete-Continuous Flow for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Ziming Zhu, Yu Zhu, Qin Guo, Yujia Zhang and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 6, Thu, Dec 10, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Trajectory Planning without Trajectory Data: A Manifold-Guided Approach

Silong Yong, Anji Liu, Cunxi Dai, Carl Busart and 4 more

Atlanta Poster Session 4, Thu, Dec 10, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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PHIONet: Port Hamiltonian Inertial Odometry Network

Hechuan Shen, Jian Zhang, Yingmin Liang

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Embodied AI Cannot Scale Without Open-Source Distributed Geometric Optimization Backends for Life-Scale Egocentric Data

Senthil Palanisamy, Abhishek Anand, Satpal S Rathore, Pratyush K Patnaik and 1 more

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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PASSAGE: A Real-Terrain Benchmark for Trustworthy Constrained Path Planning

Geoffrey Delhomme, François Trap, Fateh Kaakai

Paris Poster Session 1, Wed, Dec 9, 12:30 PM–2:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Change-Robust Online Topological Memory for Long-Term Relocalization and Semantic Navigation

CROSS introduces a pre-commitment localization layer using continuous SE(3) pose branches and Gaussian-mixture filtering to reject false matches, improving long-term robot relocalization and semantic navigation under severe scene changes.

Jiaming Wang, Liu Diwen, Chen Jizhuo, Atharva A Ghotavadekar and 3 more

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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GeoWind2Plan: Mission-Time 3D Urban Wind Prediction for Energy-Efficient UAV Planning

GeoWind2Plan predicts mission-time 3D urban wind via neural operators to enable energy-efficient UAV planning in seconds, reducing energy by up to 12.7% versus wind-agnostic paths.

Shaoxiang Qin, Xiongye Xiao, Yucheng Zhao, Fuyuan Lyu and 5 more

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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SRL-MPC: Shape-Aware Reinforcement Learned Model Predictive Control

SRL-MPC integrates reinforcement-learned parameter updates with shape-aware model predictive control via geometric separation features to navigate dense heterogeneous robot crowds safely and adaptively.

Ruihua Han, Rui Gao, Zhe Liu, Xinyi WANG and 5 more

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 1 on Hugging Face

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Simulation-Informed Diffusion for Decentralized Multi-robot Motion Planning

Simulation-Informed Diffusion predicts neighboring robots' future trajectories to plan safer decentralized multi-robot motion with minimal communication, scaling to 108 robots amid 160 obstacles.

JINHAO LIANG, Sven Koenig, Ferdinando Fioretto

Atlanta Poster Session 1, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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Differentiable Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

Differentiable nonlinear MPC computes parametric NLP sensitivities via IFT and smoothed IPM conditions within SQP, achieving over 3x speedups versus prior solvers.

Jonathan Frey, Katrin Baumgärtner, Gianluca Frison, Dirk Reinhardt and 5 more

Paris Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 11:30 AM–1:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Ergodic Trajectory Design by Learned Pushforward Maps: Provable Coverage via Conditional Flow Matching

A learned pushforward framework uses conditional flow matching to transport analytically ergodic latent trajectories onto target densities, yielding certified O(1/sqrt(K)) convergence with multi-agent reuse and constraint penalties.

Ehsan Aghazadeh, Masoud Malekzadeh, Ahmad Ghasemi, Hossein Pishro-Nik

Atlanta Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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Mechanisms of Misgeneralization in Physical Sequence Modeling

Standard generative sequence models suffer physical misgeneralization, where local trajectory errors propagate through physical measurements to shift aggregate distributions; a data deviation kernel predicts these shifts and guides mitigation.

Kento Nishi, Raphael Tang, Karun Kumar, Core Francisco Park and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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SOAR: Regression-based LiDAR Relocalization for UAVs

SOAR proposes regression-based LiDAR relocalization for UAVs using locality-preserving sliding-window attention and coordinate-independent initialization, achieving state-of-the-art accuracy on UAVLoc with a 40% higher success rate and over 10 meters lower mean error.

Hengyu Mu, Jianshi Wu, Yuxin Guo, XianLian Lin and 4 more

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Neuro-Inspired Inverse Learning for Planning and Control

Inverse Learning trains forward/inverse models and hierarchical stacks for planning and control, matching offline RL and diffusion baselines on D4RL with far less compute while yielding smoother, near-optimal trajectories.

Maryna Kapitonova, Tonio Ball

Paris Poster Session 6, Fri, Dec 11, 2:30 PM–4:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Language-Conditioned World Modeling for Visual Navigation

LCVN introduces a language-conditioned navigation benchmark and compares diffusion-based latent imagination against unified autoregressive prediction for embodied agents. Latent imagination yields more temporally coherent rollouts, while unified prediction generalizes better to unseen environments.

Yifei Dong, Fengyi Wu, Yilong Dai, Lingdong Kong and 7 more

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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