arXiv Robotics research summaries for May 17, 2024.

Today's Research Themes (AI-Generated):

• Advancements in autonomous vehicle assessment through complex multi-agent testing scenarios in Singapore traffic.

• Efficient reinforcement learning control framework for artificial muscle-driven robotics with sim-to-real transfer.

• Novel occupancy grid map-based control barrier functions for safe navigation in unknown environments.

• Simultaneous optimization of robot trajectory and continuous occupancy maps with new SLAM approach.

• Establishing safer automated driving with fast collision probability estimation using multi-circular shape approximations.