Topic 17 of 17
Safety & evaluation in robotics
Safety and evaluation asks whether a robot policy fails safely and how anyone would know: formal verification, safety-critical control, failure detection, and the honest-measurement problem of small-sample real-robot experiments.
51papers in 2026-07
4.36%of all cs.RO that month
+0.62ppshare change, last 6 vs prior 12 months
24-month volume
arXiv query: cat:cs.RO AND (abs:"safety-critical" OR abs:"safe control" OR abs:"formal verification" OR abs:"failure detection" OR abs:"control barrier")
Presented at reading clubs
These already have a slide kit, so they are the fastest ones to pick up and present.
2026-07-30
Lizhi Yang, Junheng Li, Aaron D. Ames
2026-02-06
Shenyuan Gao, William Liang, Kaiyuan Zheng +27 · 96 citations
2023-01-10
Danijar Hafner, Jurgis Pasukonis, Jimmy Ba +1 · 1,333 citations
Recent work
2026-09-09
Yuanxin Tian, Zhiyuan Liu, Jinhao Li +3
2026-09-09
Lin Huang, Yujuan Tan, Weisheng Li +3
2026-09-09
Yujie Xiong, Peng Zhai, Taixian Hou +6
2026-09-09
Boning Feng, Haoran Zhang, Xiaowen Bi +2
2026-09-09
Zengjue Chen, Peidong Liu, Jiawei Li +1
2026-09-09
2026-09-09
Zhuoren Li, Ran Yu, Weiqi Zhang +4
2026-09-08
Niranjan Srinivas, Debajyoti Ray, Elias Nakouzi
2026-09-08
Abhinav Sinha, Lohitvel Gopikannan, Shashi Ranjan Kumar
2026-09-08
Yang Wan, Xihang Yue, Zhirui Liu +7
2026-09-08
Brendan Gould, Zhiyuan Zhang, Panagiotis Tsiotras +1
2026-09-08
Yuan Gao, Sebastian Müller, Mattia Piccinini +5
2026-09-08
Benjamin Chang, Michael Amir, Manon Flageat +1
2026-09-08
Tejonidhi R. Deshpande, Tingyu Cheng, Josiah Hester
2026-09-08
Xiao Sizhe, Dong Lijing, Bai Rui +1
2026-09-08
Gabriel Vallat, Maryam Kamgarpour, Stefana Parascho
2026-09-08
Eunseong Jang, YuJin Chung, Sang Jun Lee +2
2026-09-08
Shaocong Wang, Shiliang Shao, Ting Wang +2
2026-09-08
Feiyu Zhao, Yuetong Li, Chenxi Xiao
2026-09-08
Siyuan Li, Taiyan Lang, Aoqi Yan +6
2026-09-08
Davide Malvezzi, Michele Pestarino, Vittoria Cavicchioli +9
2026-09-08
Xilin Wang, Guoxi Zhang, Hongming Xu +3
2026-09-08
Weiwei Gu, Anmol Gupta, Anant Sah +5
2026-09-08
Yuhang Wang, Lingyao Li, Hao Zhou
2026-09-08
Suyog Khanal, Arun Kumar A, Santu Rana
2026-09-08
Igor Pavlovic, Thiemo Wandel, Anton Obukhov +6
2026-09-07
Saurbh Singh Jamwal, Nived Chebrolu
2026-09-07
Danial Arbabi, Korab Hoxha, Angelo Henriques +2
2026-09-07
Yacine El Yamani, Hanna Krasowski, Elena Vanneaux
2026-09-07
Jiaxuan Li, Yinshi Wu, Xiao Zhang +4
2026-09-07
Xinting Gao, Sipu Zhu, Weimin Zhuang
2026-09-07
D3ARC: Time-Critical Distributed Disaster Detection for Asynchronous Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems
Nikolaos Koursioumpas, Lina Magoula, Nancy Alonistioti +1
2026-09-07
Aulon Bajrami, Mohamed Elshamouty, Werner Kraus
2026-09-07
Geonmyeong Lee, Byoung-Tak Zhang
2026-09-07
Merve Atasever, Keyan Azbijari, Cagan Bakirci +5
2026-09-07
Christopher Leet, Paolo Forte, Uwe Köckemann +2
2026-09-07
Sagar Gupta, Don Gideon, Seng W. Loke +2
2026-09-07
Xiaoyuan Fang, Shuo Feng, Yuxuan Wang +3
684 papers in this corpus carry the safety & evaluation tag. How tagging works.