Intercepting the Future: Latent-Space Predictive World Model for Dynamic VLA Manipulation Shahram Najam Syed, Arthur Jakobsson*, Haoran Hao*, Jeffrey Ichnowski* equal contribution arXiv preprint · 2026 arXiv
Wiggle and Go! System Identification for Zero-Shot Dynamic Rope Manipulation Arthur Jakobsson, Abhinav Mahajan, Karthik Pullalarevu, Krishna Suresh, Yunchao Yao, Yuemin Mao, Bardienus Duisterhof, Shahram Najam Syed, Jeffrey Ichnowski arXiv preprint · 2026 arXiv Project
Adversarial Game-Theoretic Algorithm for Dexterous Grasp Synthesis Yu Chen, Botao He, Yuemin Mao, Arthur Jakobsson, Jeffrey Ke, Yiannis Aloimonos, Guanya Shi, Howie Choset, Jiayuan Mao, Jeffrey Ichnowski IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) · 2026 PDF Project
ExpReS-VLA: Specializing Vision-Language-Action Models Through Experience Replay and Retrieval Shahram Najam Syed*, Yatharth Ahuja*, Arthur Jakobsson, Jeffrey Ichnowski* equal contribution IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) · 2026 PDF
Work Smarter Not Harder: Simple Imitation Learning with CS-PIBT Outperforms Large-Scale Imitation Learning for MAPF Arthur Jakobsson*, Rishi Veerapaneni*, Kevin Ren, Samuel Kim, Jiaoyang Li, Maxim Likhachev* equal contribution IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) · 2025 PDF Project
Improving Learnt Local MAPF Policies with Heuristic Search Arthur Jakobsson*, Rishi Veerapaneni*, Qian Wang*, Kevin Ren*, Jiaoyang Li, Maxim Likhachev* equal contribution International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) · 2024 PDF