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FlexiTac: A Low-Cost, Open-Source, Scalable Tactile Sensing Solution for Robotic Systems

Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li ยท 2026

We present FlexiTac, a low-cost, open-source, and scalable piezoresistive tactile sensing solution designed for robotic end-effectors. FlexiTac is a practical "plug-in" module consisting of (i) thin, โ€ฆ

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FreeOcc: Training-Free Embodied Open-Vocabulary Occupancy Prediction

Zeyu Jiang, Changqing Zhou, Xingxing Zuo, Changhao Chen ยท 2026

Existing learning-based occupancy prediction methods rely on large-scale 3D annotations and generalize poorly across environments. We present FreeOcc, a training-free framework for open-vocabulary occโ€ฆ

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Global Sampling-Based Trajectory Optimization for Contact-Rich Manipulation via KernelSOS

Zhongqi Wei, Frederike Dumbgen ยท 2026

Contact-rich manipulation is challenging due to its high dimensionality, the requirement for long time horizons, and the presence of hybrid contact dynamics. Sampling-based methods have become a populโ€ฆ

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A New Location Estimator for Mixed LOS & NLOS scenarios

Gaurav Duggal, Richard M. Buehrer, Harpreet S. Dhillon, Jeffrey H. Reed ยท 2026

Time-of-arrival (TOA)-based localization in mixed line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments is challenging because conventional Euclidean range models do not capture diffraction-doโ€ฆ

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A 21-24 GHz Low-Phase-Noise mmWave VCO with Third-Harmonic Expansion using a Triple-Coupled Transformer based Tank

Narahari N. Moudhgalya ยท 2026

This work presents the design and analysis of a sixth-order triple-coupled transformer-based tank, enabling third-harmonic expansion for mmWave VCOs. Unlike conventional fourth-order tanks, the proposโ€ฆ

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SPG-Codec: Exploring the Role and Boundaries of Semantic Priors in Ultra-Low-Bitrate Neural Speech Coding

Mingyu Zhao, Zijian Lin, Kun Wei, Zhiyong Wu ยท 2026

Conventional neural speech codecs suffer from severe intelligibility degradation at ultra-low bitrates, where the bottleneck transitions from acoustic distortion to semantic loss. To address this issuโ€ฆ

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Toward Low-Altitude Embodied Intelligence: A Sensing-Communication-Computation-Control Closed-Loop Perspective

Jihao Luo, Zesong Fei, Xinyi Wang, Shuntian Tang, Zilong Liu, Yiqing Zhou ยท 2026

The rapid growth of the low-altitude economy drives increasingly autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations, giving rise to low-altitude embodied intelligence (LAEI), in which sensing, communโ€ฆ

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UAV Trajectory and Bandwidth Allocation for Efficient Data Collection in Low-Altitude Intelligent IoT: A Hierarchical DRL Approach

Zhenjia Xu, Xiaoling Zhang, Nan Qi, Xiaojie Li, Luliang Jia ยท 2026

Under the 6G wireless network evolution, the low-altitude Internet of Things (IoT), supported by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) capabilities, providesโ€ฆ

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Breaking Lock-In: Preserving Steerability under Low-Data VLA Post-Training

Suning Huang, Jiaqi Shao, Ke Wang, Qianzhong Chen, Jiankai Sun, Yanjiang Guo, Mac Schwager, Jeannette Bohg ยท 2026

Have you ever post-trained a generalist vision-language-action (VLA) policy on a small demonstration dataset, only to find that it stops responding to new instructions and is limited to behaviors obseโ€ฆ

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Time-Frequency Pilot Sequence Design and LoS Delay-Doppler Estimation

Aadarsh Devanand, Praful D. Mankar ยท 2026

We present a novel framework for line-of-sight (LoS) delay-Doppler (DD) estimation in dense scattering propagation environments. We present two time-frequency (TF) domain pilot sequences inspired by tโ€ฆ

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False Feasibility in Variable Impedance MPC for Legged Locomotion

Vishal Ramesh ยท 2026

Variable impedance model predictive control (MPC) formulations that treat joint stiffness as an instantaneous decision variable operate on a feasible set strictly larger than the physically realizableโ€ฆ

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Multimodal Diffusion to Mutually Enhance Polarized Light and Low Resolution EBSD Data

Harry Dong, Timofey Efimov, Megna Shah, Jeff Simmons, Sean Donegan, Marc De Graef, Yuejie Chi ยท 2026

In spite of the utility of 3-D electron back-scattered diffraction (EBSD) microscopy, the data collection process can be time-consuming with serial-sectioning. Hence, it is natural to look at other moโ€ฆ

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Low-Cost Turntable Designed for RF Phased Array Antenna Active Element Pattern Measurement

Rebekah Edwards, Taylor Martini, Jonathan E. Swindell, David W. Cox, Adam C. Goad, Austin Egbert, Charles Baylis, Robert J. Marks ยท 2026

Accurate antenna array calibrations and measurements of aspects such as active element pattern (AEP) are critical for enabling integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technologies such as directioโ€ฆ

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Model Predictive Communication for Timely Status Updates in Low-Altitude Networks

Bowen Li, Jiping Luo, Themistoklis Charalambous, Nikolaos Pappas ยท 2026

Timely information delivery in low-altitude networks is critical for many time-sensitive applications, such as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation, inspection, and surveillance. The key challengeโ€ฆ

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Designing Active Operation in Low-Voltage Distribution Grids: Requirements, Interfaces and Roadmap

Eric Tonges, Andrea Schoen, Frank Marten, Marco Pau, Denis Mende ยท 2026

This paper outlines a pathway towards active operation of lowvoltage distribution grids. In these grids, the growing deployment of distributed generation, controllable demand and storage, together witโ€ฆ

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Benefits of Low-Cost Bio-Inspiration in the Age of Overparametrization

Kevin Godin-Dubois, Anil Yaman, Anna V. Kononova ยท 2026

While Central Pattern Generators (CPGs) and Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP) are widely used paradigms in robot control, few systematic studies have been performed on the relative merits of large parametโ€ฆ

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Onboard Wind Estimation for Small UAVs Equipped with Low-Cost Sensors: An Aerodynamic Model-Integrated Filtering Approach

Bingchen Cheng, Tielin Ma, Jingcheng Fu, Lulu Tao, Tianhui Guo ยท 2026

To enable autonomous wind estimation for energy-efficient flight in small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), this study proposes a method that estimates flight states and wind using only the low-cost esโ€ฆ

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Lightweight Low-SNR-Robust Semantic Communication System for Autonomous Driving

Ruixing Ren, Minjie Wei, Junhui Zhao ยท 2026

Image transmission for vehicle-to-vehicle collaborative perception in autonomous driving faces challenges including limited on-board terminal resources, time-varying wireless channel fading, and poor โ€ฆ

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Safety-Critical Contextual Control via Online Riemannian Optimization with World Models

Tongxin Li ยท 2026

Modern world models are becoming too complex to admit explicit dynamical descriptions. We study safety-critical contextual control, where a Planner must optimize a task objective using only feasibilitโ€ฆ

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Integrated Sensing and Communications for Low-Altitude Economy with Deterministic Sensing and Gaussian Information Signals

Xianxin Song, Xianghao Yu, Jie Xu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng ยท 2026

Reliable surveillance and communication for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are crucial for enabling and sustaining the accelerated growth of the low-altitude economy. Integrated sensing and communicaโ€ฆ

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