Agile Collision Avoidance for Deformable-Tethered Multi-Robot Systems Via Zone-Aware Hierarchical Learning and VLM-Guided Control
Navigating Linked Multi-Component Robotic Systems (L-MCRS)---robot pairs tethered by passive flexible hoses---through dynamic pedestrian environments is fundamentally harder than rigid multi-robot coordination, as the uncontrollable hose creates a variable-geometry collision footprint spanning 118 p…