Day of the Workshop: September 27th
Tentative Schedule

Welcome Remarks

TBD

Georgia Chalvatzaki

New Wines in Old Bottles: Classical Approaches as Scaffolding for Frugal Robot Learning

Harish Ravichandar

The data-control sandwich: towards pretty-good robots that work all the time

Michael Posa

Accepted Papers Spotlight Talks (10 x 2 min)

• EmbodiSteer: Steering Embodiment-Agnostic Visuomotor Policies with Joint-Space Guidance for Zero-Shot Cross-Embodiment Deployment
  by Shihefeng Wang, Kangchen Lv, Mingrui Yu, Xiang Li

• Higher-Order Morphology Priors for Quadruped Reinforcement Learning Under Actuator Degradation
  by Derek You, Zafir Shamsi, Keqin Wang, Christine Allen-Blanchette

• Jointly Learning Predicates and Actions Enables Zero-Shot Skill Composition
  by Benedict Quartey, Sebastian Castro, Eric Rosen, Wil Thomason, George Konidaris, Stefanie Tellex

• A Reachability-based Safety Certificate for Dynamical System Motion Policies
  by Aditya Vats, Tianyi Xia, Nadia Figueroa

• Denoising-Corrected Gradient Guidance for Feasible Diffusion Planning: A Constrained-Optimization Perspective
  by Runyu Zhang, Jiawei Zhang, Gioele Zardini, Saurabh Amin, Asuman E. Ozdaglar

• Differentiable Weights-Varying Nonlinear MPC via Gradient-based Policy Learning: An Autonomous Vehicle Guidance Example
  by Felix Jahncke, Baha Zarrouki, Mattia Piccinini, Jovin D'sa, David Isele, Sangjae Bae, Johannes Betz

• OCC4M: Object-Centric 4D Memory for Long-Horizon Mobile Manipulation
  by Jack B. Jedlicki, Tanguy Dieudonné, Heng Yang

• FADA: Few-Shot Domain Adaptation via Dynamics Alignment for Humanoid Control
  by Angchen Xie, Nikhil Sobanbabu, Ishayu Shikhare, Alan Wang, Max Simchowitz, Guanya Shi

• From Neural Control to Self-Consistent Extension: Learning Trajectories for Implicit Physical Systems
  by Hengyi Zhou, Haobo Fang, Xiaonan Huang, Dezhong Tong, M. Khalid Jawed

• Deliberate Practice: Learning Robot Skills under a Budget
  by Shivam Vats, Sudarshan Sunil Harithas, Mete Tuluhan Akbulut, Arvind Raghunathan, George Konidaris

Coffee + Poster Session

TBD

Nadia Figueroa

Exploiting Gradients in Sampling-based Motion Planning

Heng Yang

Controlling a 100,000 lb Robot for Safe and Productive Autonomy

Rushil Goradia

Closing Remarks

Best Poster Award
Winner: Learning Contact-Conditioned Partitions for Uncertainty Calibration in Model-Based Planning

by Luís Marques, Kristian Popov, Dmitry Berenson

Summary, Key Takeaways, and Concluding Thoughts