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Language-Guided Terrain-Adaptive Neural MPC for Autonomous Traversal of Articulated Tracked Robots

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 11, 2026 · UTC

In urban search and rescue, articulated tracked robots (ATRs) must traverse structured but contact-rich environments such as stairwells and cluttered building interiors. Reliable autonomy remains challenging because robot-terrain interaction (RTI) is hybrid and discontinuous, and effective flipper-track coordination is difficult to model analytically. We present ASTRIL-MPC, a language-guided neural kinematics model predictive control (MPC) framework for autonomous traversal. A learned kinematics model predicts short-horizon task-state increments from a height sequence and recent trajectories;

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