arXiv Robotics research summaries for April 23, 2024.

Today's Research Themes (AI-Generated):

• Rank2Reward advances robot learning from videos by inferring reward functions that guide reinforcement learning through temporal ranking of frames.

• A self-supervised framework utilizing neural volume rendering improves bathymetric surveying with imaging sonar, outperforming current methods.

• New metrics assess difficulty in dynamic environments, refining benchmarking for autonomous systems' obstacle avoidance capabilities.

• CenterArt showcases a unified approach for 3D shape reconstruction and 6-DoF grasp estimation of articulated objects using RGB-D images.

• TOP-Nav integrates path planning with terrain awareness, obstacle avoidance, and proprioception for robust legged robot navigation in complex environments.