
GT @ ICRA 2026
The largest and most prestigious event of the year in the Robotics and Automation calendar, 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) will bring together the world's top academics, researchers, and industry representatives. GT will have a large, cross-discipline group of amazing faculty and student researchers presenting at ICRA 2026.
GT @ ICRA Workshops
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Workshop on Robotic Musicianship
Monday June 1st | All Day Workshop

This workshop aims to provide a hands-on introduction to the field and its design practices, while also creating space for discussion and networking throughout the day about current work and future directions.
Frontiers of Optimization for Robotics
Monday June 1st | All Day Workshop
Through several invited talks by creators of widely used open-source software, and a targeted call for contributions highlighting reusable software, this workshop aims to create a platform to showcase and appreciate these important contributions to our community.
GT@ICRA Presentation Schedule
Tuesday, June 2nd
9:00am | Interactive Session I | Hall C
Learning Fast, Tool-Aware Collision Avoidance for Collaborative Robots
Joonho Lee, Yunho Kim, Seok Joon Kim, Va Quan Nguyen, Young Jin Heo
Perception-Driven Estimation of Terrain Motion Resistance for UGVs
Tom Bourbon, Stephanie Aravecchia, Cedric Pradalier
Selecting Spots by Explicitly Predicting Intention from Motion History Improves Performance in Autonomous Parking
Long Kiu Chung, David Isele, Faizan M. Tariq, Sangjae Bae, Shreyas Kousik, Jovin D'sa
A Convex Formulation of Compliant Contact between Filaments and Rigid Bodies
Wei-Chen Li, Glen Chou
SEEC: Stable End-Effector Control with Model-Enhanced Residual Learning for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Jaehwi Jang, Zhuoheng Wang, Ziyi Zhou, Feiyang Wu, Ye Zhao
Opt2Skill: Imitating Dynamically-feasible Whole-Body Trajectories for Versatile Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Fukang Liu, Zhaoyuan Gu, Yilin Cai, Ziyi Zhou, Hyunyoung Jung, Jaehwi Jang, Shijie Zhao, Sehoon Ha, Yue Chen, Danfei Xu, Ye Zhao
Perfectly Undetectable Reflection and Scaling False Data Injection Attacks via Affine Transformation on Mobile Robot Trajectory Tracking Control
Jun Ueda, Hyukbin Kwon
Offline-Trained GAN-Augmented Highly AdaptiveControl With Multi-DoF Fusion for Pneumatic Soft Surgical Robots
Yuxi Lu, Zhongchao Zhou, Dongliang Zheng, Yanmin Zhou, Zhipeng Wang, Shuo Jiang, Wenwei Yu, Bin He
3:00pm | Interactive Session II | Hall C
Mixed-Type Query Selection for Robotic Scientific Data Collection
Ian C. Rankin, Thane Somers, Alivia M. Eng, Geoffrey A. Hollinger
GaussianFormer3D: Multi-Modal Gaussian-based Semantic Occupancy Prediction with 3D Deformable Attention
Lingjun Zhao, Sizhe Wei, James Hays, Lu Gan
Gaussian Process Implicit Surfaces as Control Barrier Functions for Safe Robot Navigation
Mouhyemen Khan, Tatsuya Ibuki, Abhijit Chatterjee
NaviGait: Navigating Dynamically Feasible Gait Libraries using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Neil Janwani, Varun Madabushi, Maegan Tucker
AMPLIFY: Actionless Motion Priors for Robot Learning from Videos
Jeremy A. Collins, Loránd Cheng, Kunal Aneja, Albert Wilcox, Benjamin Joffe, Animesh Garg
Design of Hathaani – A Robotic Violinist for Carnatic Music
Raghavasimhan Sankaranarayanan, Gil Weinberg
Probabilistically-Safe Bipedal Navigation over Uncertain Terrain via Conformal Prediction and Contraction Analysis
Kasidit Muenprasitivej, Ye Zhao, Glen Chou
Wednesday, June 3rd
9:00am | Interactive Session III | Hall C
Good Weights: Proactive, Adaptive Dead Reckoning Fusion for Continuous and Robust Visual SLAM
Yanwei Du, Jing-Chen Peng, Patricio A. Vela
Real-Time Puncture Detection and Recovery for Pneumatic Soft Actuators
Tejonidhi Deshpande, Tingyu Chen, Josiah Hester
A Natural Language Interface for Multi-Constraint Spatiotemporal Planning via LLM-Parameterized Mixed-Integer Scheduling and A*
Sean Ye, Matthew B. Luebbers, Matthew Gombolay
Language Conditioning Improves Accuracy of Aircraft Goal Prediction in Non-Towered Airspace
Sundhar Vinodh Sangeetha, Chih-Yuan Chiu, Sarah H.Q. Li, Shreyas Kousik
Adaptive-Cloud: Dynamic Computation Control for 3D Object Detection From LIDAR Point Clouds
Mir Sayeed Mohammad, Uday Kamal, Saibal Mukhopadhyay
Safety on the Fly: Constructing Robust Safety Filters via Policy Control Barrier Functions at Runtime
Luzia Knoedler, Oswin So, Ji Yin, Mitchell Black, Zachary Serlin, Panagiotis Tsiotras, Javier Alonso-Mora, Chuchu Fan
Importance Sampling Model-Based Diffusion for Trajectory Optimization
Seth Golembeski, Anirban Mazumdar
3:00pm | Interactive Session IV | Hall C
LIDIA: Localizing in the Dark with Illumination-Awareness Toward Perception-Aware Planning
Seth Golembeski, Iason Georgios Velentzas
FiLM-Nav: Efficient and Generalizable Navigation via VLM Fine-tuning
Naoki Yokoyama, Sehoon Ha
Sim2real Image Translation Enables Viewpoint-Robust Policies from Fixed-Camera Datasets
Jeremiah Coholich, Justin Wit, Robert Azarcon, Zsolt Kira
Towards Automated Chicken Deboning via Learning-based Dynamically-Adaptive 6-DoF Multi-Material Cutting
Zhaodong Yang, Ai-Ping Hu, Harish Ravichandar
SoftMimicGen: A Data Generation System for Scalable Robot Learning in Deformable Object Manipulation
Masoud Moghani, Mahdi Azizian, Animesh Garg, Yuke Zhu, Sean Huver, Ajay Mandlekar
Single-View 3D Representations for Reinforcement Learning by Cross-View Neural Radiance Fields
Daesol Cho, Seungyeon Yoo, Dongseok Shim, H. Jin Kim
HCOA*: Hierarchical Class-ordered A* for Navigation in Semantic Environments
Evangelos Psomiadis, Panagiotis Tsiotras
STATE-NAV: Stability-Aware Traversability Estimation for Bipedal Navigation on Rough Terrain
Ziwon Yoon, Lawrence Y. Zhu, Jingxi Lu, Lu Gan, Ye Zhao
5:30pm – 6:00pm | Robot Learning I | Hall A3
EMMA: Scaling Mobile Manipulation via Egocentric Human Data
Lawrence Y. Zhu, Pranav Kuppili, Ryan Punamiya, Patcharapong Aphiwetsa, Dhruv Patel, Simar Kareer, Sehoon Ha, Danfei Xu
Better Than Diverse Demonstrators: Reward Decomposition From Suboptimal and Heterogeneous Demonstrations
Chunyue Xue, Letian Chen, Matthew Gombolay
5:45pm – 6:00pm | Humanoid Robots | Lehar 1-4
Learn to Teach: Sample-Efficient Privileged Learning for Humanoid Locomotion over Diverse Terrains
Feiyang Wu, Xavier Nal, Jaehwi Jang, Wei Zhu, Zhaoyuan Gu, Anqi Wu, Ye Zhao
Thursday, June 4th
9:00am | Interactive Session V | Hall C
MASTD3R-SLAM: Monocular Adaptive Semantic Tracking and Dynamic Reconstruction SLAM
Fengwei Yang, Qingran Lin, Chaolun Zhu
Learning Cooperative Strategies for Drone Swarms Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Christain Llanes, Kyle Williams, Spencer Jensen, Samuel Coogan
A Generalizable Physics-guided Causal Model for Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Driving
Zhenyu Zong, Yuchen Wang, Haohong Lin, Lu Gan, Huajie Shao
Image-Based Closed-Loop Control of a Robotically Steerable Endoscopic Cannula for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery
Nidi Malhotra, Revanth Konda, Jaydev Desai
COMPASS: Cross-embodiment Mobility Policy via Residual RL and Skill Synthesis
Wei Liu, Huihua Zhao, Chenran Li, Yuchen Deng, Joydeep Biswas, Soha Pouya, Yan Chang
COBALT: Crowdsourcing Robot Learning via Cloud-Based Teleoperation with Smartphones
Ayush Agarwal, Ansh Gandhi, Jeremy A. Collins, Omar Rayyan, Aryan Sarswat, Ranjani Koushik, Masoud Moghani, Ajay Mandlekar, Animesh Garg
RL-augmented Adaptive Model Predictive Control for Bipedal Locomotion over Challenging Terrain
Junnosuke Kamohara, Feiyang Wu, Chinmayee Wamorkar, Seth Hutchinson, Ye Zhao
Formal Safety Verification and Refinement for Generative Motion Planners via Certified Local Stabilization
Devesh Nath, Haoran Yin, Glen Chou
PPF: Pre-training and Preservative Fine-tuning of Humanoid Locomotion via Model-Assumption-based Regularization
Hyunyoung Jung, Zhaoyuan Gu, Ye Zhao, Hae-Won Park, Sehoon Ha
3:00pm | Interactive Session VI | Hall C
Temporal Action Representation Learning for Tactical Resource Control and Subsequent Maneuver Generation
Hoseong Jung, Sungil Son, Daesol Cho, Jonghae Park, Changhyun Choi, H. Jin Kim
Flip Stunts on Bicycle Robots using Iterative Motion Imitation
Jeonghwan Kim, Shamel Fahmi, Seungeun Rho, Sehoon Ha, Gabriel Nelson
Robustly Constrained Dynamic Games for Uncertain Nonlinear Dynamics
Shuyu Zhan, Chih-Yuan Chiu, Antoine P. Leeman, Glen Chou
ILCL: Inverse Logic-Constraint Learning from Temporally Constrained Demonstrations
Minwoo Cho, Jaehwi Jang, Daehyung Park
Adaptive Legged Locomotion via Online Learning for Model Predictive Control
Hongyu Zhou, Xiaoyu Zhang, Vasileios Tzoumas
5:30pm – 6:00pm | Applications | Strauss 1-2
Many-to-Many Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery
Ethan Schneider, Jingkai Chen, Tianyi Gu, Kunlei Lian, Seth Hutchinson, Sonia Chernova






