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Worcester Polytechnic Institute

#58 of 102 universities and research institutions on the Robotics Center leaderboard, with 38 ICRA and IROS papers in 2023–2025.

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#58 of 102
Score
24.7 / 100
ICRA + IROS papers 2023–2025
38OpenAlex query, Oct 19, 2026
GitHub stars (lab orgs)
601Oct 19, 2026

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Papers

On Robotics Center (61)

Papers with at least one Worcester Polytechnic Institute author that have a summary page here: ICRA and IROS papers, and arXiv preprints since Jan 1, 2026.

  1. SNR-Gated LSTM-Conditioned Diffusion Model for MIMO Channel EstimationarXiv · Oct 6, 2026
  2. Entropy-Gated Belief Coordination for Decentralized Multi-Agent Search Under Intermittent CommunicationarXiv · Oct 5, 2026
  3. DriftTTS: Few-Step Text-to-Speech Without Distillation via Distribution-Matching DriftarXiv · Oct 2, 2026
  4. LOCUS: Landmark-Oriented Container Discrimination Using Spatial GraphsarXiv · Oct 2, 2026
  5. Can Agents Trust Their Skills? Uncovering Unsafe Chains of Trust in Skill-Based LLM AgentsarXiv · Sep 30, 2026
  6. Asymmetric Scout-Worker Reconnaissance for Route Validation in Unknown EnvironmentsarXiv · Sep 29, 2026
  7. Sense and Sensitivity: Benchmarking LLM Clinical Triage Recommendations with Physician ExpertsarXiv · Sep 29, 2026
  8. Multi-Modal Non-Prehensile Estimation of Physical Parameters via Press-and-Pull TippingarXiv · Sep 27, 2026
  9. AsynCodeBench: Benchmarking Collaboration of Asynchronous Multi-Agent Systems in Software EngineeringarXiv · Sep 26, 2026
  10. Resolving the Missing Financial Data Crisis: A Generative AI Pipeline for SEC 10-K ExtractionarXiv · Sep 25, 2026
  11. Asymmetric Classifier-Free Guidance for Target-Speaker ASRarXiv · Sep 24, 2026
  12. Gripper-Aware Automatic Dense Packing of Irregular ObjectsarXiv · Sep 18, 2026
  13. SafeStage: Evaluating Safety Before, During, and After Vision-Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationarXiv · Sep 18, 2026
  14. Machine-Learning Assessment of the Predictive Value of Inflammatory Biomarkers for Cognitive Impairment in an Older Hispanic Adult CohortarXiv · Sep 16, 2026
  15. Smart Insole Human Activity Recognition for Continuous Monitoring in Elderly CarearXiv · Sep 16, 2026
  16. Taming the Agentic RAN: Stability-Guaranteed Arbitration of Autonomous AI Agents in O-RANarXiv · Sep 16, 2026
  17. Adaptive hybrid coupling with operator inference, the overlapping Schwarz alternating method and reinforcement learningarXiv · Sep 15, 2026
  18. Efficient One-to-Many Translation with Joint Multi-Stream DiffusionarXiv · Sep 14, 2026
  19. Tackling Failure Modes of PINNs and PIKANs Using Conflict-Free GradientsarXiv · Sep 13, 2026
  20. Not All Memories Are Equal: Hierarchical Collaborative Memory for Validity-Aware Retrieval in LLM AgentsarXiv · Sep 9, 2026
  21. A Trustworthy Watermarking Framework for LLM-Generated Food Safety ContentarXiv · Sep 6, 2026
  22. LLMscope: Extracting LLM Assets from Edge AI Chips via Optical ProbingarXiv · Aug 26, 2026
  23. Robust Multi-Tier Infant-Centered Audio Understanding with Whisper via Structured Speaker ConditioningarXiv · Aug 12, 2026
  24. Measuring the Wrong Thing: Internal Harmfulness Scores Anti-Rank Successful JailbreaksarXiv · Aug 10, 2026
  25. Control-Diverse Reinforcement Fine-Tuning: Decoupling the Shared Control Bottleneck of RL Post-TrainingarXiv · Aug 8, 2026
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  1. From Passive Mirrors to Active Agents: Holonic Digital Twins for Physical AI over NetworksarXiv · Aug 6, 2026
  2. CogArena: A Multimethod Evaluation of Cognitive Ability Structure in Large Language ModelsarXiv · Jul 27, 2026
  3. CogEEGAgent: Toward Autonomous Cognitive EEG Analysis with Grounded Execution and Selection-Aware VerificationarXiv · Jul 27, 2026
  4. Improved lower bounds for the Shannon capacity of odd cyclesarXiv · Jul 23, 2026
  5. Depth-Dependent Hidden-State Collapse in Dynamical System Autoencoders for LiDAR Point-Cloud ClassificationarXiv · Jul 16, 2026
  6. When Agents Go Rogue: Activation-Based Detection of Malicious Behaviors in Multi-Agent SystemsarXiv · Jul 7, 2026
  7. A Lifecycle and Application-Stack Survey of Large Language Model Vulnerabilities: Attacks, Risks, Defenses, and Open ProblemsarXiv · Jun 30, 2026
  8. Robustness-Based Synthesis for Time Window Temporal Logic Specifications via Mixed-Integer Linear ProgrammingarXiv · Jun 29, 2026
  9. Understanding Domain-Aware Distribution Alignment in Budgeted Entity MatchingarXiv · Jun 25, 2026
  10. Divide-and-Conquer Modeling for the CTF-4-Science Lorenz BenchmarkarXiv · Jun 8, 2026
  11. DiscourseFlip: An Oblique Discourse-Level Opinion Manipulation Attack against Black-box Retrieval-Augmented GenerationarXiv · May 31, 2026
  12. Learning to Translate from Soft to Hard LLM PromptsarXiv · May 26, 2026
  13. Advanced AI Service Provisioning in O-RAN through LLM Engine IntegrationarXiv · May 22, 2026
  14. VBT-MPC: Vision-Based Tactile MPC for Contour FollowingarXiv · May 19, 2026
  15. VBT-MPC: Vision-Based Tactile MPC for Contour FollowingarXiv · May 19, 2026
  16. VAMP-Diff: VampPrior Latent Diffusion for Photoplethysmography ModelingarXiv · May 17, 2026
  17. CAPS: Cascaded Adaptive Pairwise Selection for Efficient Parallel ReasoningarXiv · May 15, 2026
  18. Not All Symbols Are Equal: Importance-Aware Constellation Design for Semantic CommunicationarXiv · May 14, 2026
  19. Hybrid-LoRA: Bridging Full Fine-Tuning and Low-Rank Adaptation for Post-TrainingarXiv · May 12, 2026
  20. Towards a Virtual Neuroscientist: Autonomous Neuroimaging Analysis via Multi-Agent CollaborationarXiv · May 10, 2026
  21. Beyond Local vs. External: A Game-Theoretic Framework for Trustworthy Knowledge AcquisitionarXiv · Apr 25, 2026
  22. Beyond Local vs. External: A Game-Theoretic Framework for Trustworthy Knowledge AcquisitionarXiv · Apr 25, 2026
  23. Infection-Reasoner: A Compact Vision-Language Model for Wound Infection Classification with Evidence-Grounded Clinical ReasoningarXiv · Apr 21, 2026
  24. "Excuse me, may I say something..." CoLabScience, A Proactive AI Assistant for Biomedical Discovery and LLM-Expert CollaborationsarXiv · Apr 16, 2026
  25. "Excuse me, may I say something..." CoLabScience, A Proactive AI Assistant for Biomedical Discovery and LLM-Expert CollaborationsarXiv · Apr 16, 2026
  26. Mathematics Teachers Interactions with a Multi-Agent System for Personalized Problem GenerationarXiv · Apr 13, 2026
  27. Mathematics Teachers Interactions with a Multi-Agent System for Personalized Problem GenerationarXiv · Apr 13, 2026
  28. Toward World Models for EpidemiologyarXiv · Apr 10, 2026
  29. Can We Trust a Black-box LLM? LLM Untrustworthy Boundary Detection via Bias-Diffusion and Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningarXiv · Apr 7, 2026
  30. Mitigating Data Scarcity in Spaceflight Applications for Offline Reinforcement Learning Using Physics-Informed Deep Generative ModelsarXiv · Apr 2, 2026
  31. Bridging the Awareness Gap: Socially Mediated State Externalization for Transparent Distributed Home RobotsarXiv · Mar 12, 2026
  32. A Micro-Macro Model of Encounter-Driven Information Diffusion in Robot SwarmsarXiv · Feb 24, 2026
  33. A Micro-Macro Model of Encounter-Driven Information Diffusion in Robot SwarmsarXiv · Feb 24, 2026
  34. Robust Taylor-Lagrange Control for Safety-Critical SystemsarXiv · Feb 23, 2026
  35. Human-in-the-Loop Failure Recovery with Adaptive Task AllocationarXiv · Feb 3, 2026
  36. Analytic Conditions for Differentiable Collision Detection in Trajectory OptimizationIROS · Oct 19, 2025

ICRA + IROS 2023–2025 (38)

Every paper OpenAlex lists for Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the ICRA proceedings and at IROS, most recent first, as of Oct 19, 2026. Titles open our paper page when we have one, otherwise the publisher's DOI page.

  1. Analytic Conditions for Differentiable Collision Detection in Trajectory OptimizationIROS · Oct 19, 2025Paper page on Robotics Center
  2. Vibration-induced Friction Modulation to Enable Controlled Sliding for In-hand Manipulation IROS · Oct 19, 2025
  3. Anti-Sensing: Defense Against Unauthorized Radar-Based Human Vital Sign Sensing with Physically Realizable Wearable Oscillators ICRA · May 19, 2025
  4. Human-Robot Collaboration for the Remote Control of Mobile Humanoid Robots With Torso-Arm Coordination ICRA · May 19, 2025
  5. Match Policy: A Simple Pipeline from Point Cloud Registration to Manipulation Policies ICRA · May 19, 2025
  6. SurgPose: a Dataset for Articulated Robotic Surgical Tool Pose Estimation and Tracking ICRA · May 19, 2025
  7. VizFlyt: Perception-centric Pedagogical Framework For Autonomous Aerial Robots ICRA · May 19, 2025
  8. A Hybrid Model and Learning-Based Force Estimation Framework for Surgical Robots IROS · Oct 14, 2024
  9. A Tetherless Soft Robotic Wearable Haptic Human Machine Interface for Robot Teleoperation IROS · Oct 14, 2024
  10. Continuum Robot Shape Estimation Using Magnetic Ball Chains IROS · Oct 14, 2024
  11. Expansion-GRR: Efficient Generation of Smooth Global Redundancy Resolution Roadmaps IROS · Oct 14, 2024
  12. Grow-to-Shape Control of Variable Length Continuum Robots via Adaptive Visual Servoing IROS · Oct 14, 2024
  13. Integrated Electronic Circuitry for Soft Robots using Multi-Material FDM Printing IROS · Oct 14, 2024
  14. Loss Distillation via Gradient Matching for Point Cloud Completion with Weighted Chamfer Distance IROS · Oct 14, 2024
  15. PAAMP: Polytopic Action-Set And Motion Planning for Long Horizon Dynamic Motion Planning via Mixed Integer Linear Programming IROS · Oct 14, 2024
  16. Thermal Ablation Therapy Control with Tissue Necrosis-driven Temperature Feedback Enabled by Neural State Space Model with Extended Kalman Filter IROS · Oct 14, 2024
  17. A Novel, Efficient and Accurate Method for Lidar Camera Calibration ICRA · May 13, 2024
  18. Design and Testing of a Multi-Module, Tetherless, Soft Robotic Eel ICRA · May 13, 2024
  19. Human-Robot Complementary Collaboration for Flexible and Precision Assembly ICRA · May 13, 2024
  20. Realistic Data Generation for 6D Pose Estimation of Surgical Instruments ICRA · May 13, 2024
  21. Stereo Image-based Visual Servoing Towards Feature-based Grasping ICRA · May 13, 2024
  22. Untethered Underwater Soft Robot with Thrust Vectoring ICRA · May 13, 2024
  23. Utilizing Inpainting for Training Keypoint Detection Algorithms Towards Markerless Visual Servoing ICRA · May 13, 2024
  24. A Shared Autonomous Nursing Robot Assistant with Dynamic Workspace for Versatile Mobile Manipulation IROS · Oct 1, 2023
  25. Decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Global State Prediction IROS · Oct 1, 2023
Show all 38 papers
  1. Design and Evaluation of Bidirectional Continuous Rotation and Variable Curvature Needle Steering Algorithm IROS · Oct 1, 2023
  2. Detecting Olives with Synthetic or Real Data? Olive the Above IROS · Oct 1, 2023
  3. Heterogeneous Coalition Formation and Scheduling with Multi-Skilled Robots IROS · Oct 1, 2023
  4. Human Preferred Augmented Reality Visual Cues for Remote Robot Manipulation Assistance: from Direct to Supervisory Control IROS · Oct 1, 2023
  5. Keypoints-Based Adaptive Visual Servoing for Control of Robotic Manipulators in Configuration Space IROS · Oct 1, 2023
  6. Minimalistic Collective Perception with Imperfect Sensors IROS · Oct 1, 2023
  7. Motor Unit Action Potential Based Classification of Hand and Arm Motions IROS · Oct 1, 2023
  8. Shape Control of Variable Length Continuum Robots Using Clothoid-Based Visual Servoing IROS · Oct 1, 2023
  9. Vision-Based Oxy-Fuel Torch Control for Robotic Metal Cutting IROS · Oct 1, 2023
  10. Design and Control of a Tunable-Stiffness Coiled-Spring Actuator ICRA · May 29, 2023
  11. OysterNet: Enhanced Oyster Detection Using Simulation ICRA · May 29, 2023
  12. TTCDist: Fast Distance Estimation From an Active Monocular Camera Using Time-to-Contact ICRA · May 29, 2023
  13. WorldGen: A Large Scale Generative Simulator ICRA · May 29, 2023

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