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SASI: Leveraging Sub-Action Semantics for Robust Early Action Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction

Yongpeng Cao, Masahiro Hirano, Hyuno Kim, Yuji Yamakawa ยท 2026

Understanding human actions is critical for advancing behavior analysis in human-robot interaction. Particularly in tasks that demand quick and proactive feedback, robots must recognize human actions โ€ฆ

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Safe Navigation using Neural Radiance Fields via Reachable Sets

Omanshu Thapliyal, Malarvizhi Sankaranarayanasamy, Ravigopal Vennelakanti ยท 2026

Safe navigation in cluttered environments is an important challenge for autonomous systems. Robots navigating through obstacle ridden scenarios need to be able to navigate safely in the presence of obโ€ฆ

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Accelerating Sparse Linear Solvers with an Optical Laser Processing Unit

Dan Gluck, Yotam Mimran, Andrey Karenskih, Talya Vaknin, Omri Wolf, Ruti Ben-Shlomi, Johannes Gebert ยท 2026

Solving large, sparse linear systems is a fundamental workload in scientific computing and engineering simulations, often dominating runtime and energy consumption in high-performance computing (HPC) โ€ฆ

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$M^2$-VLA: Boosting Vision-Language Models for Generalizable Manipulation via Layer Mixture and Meta-Skills

Siyao Xiao, Yuhong Zhang, Zhifang Liu, Zihan Gao, Jingye Zhang, Sinwai Choo, Dake Zhong, Mengzhe Wang, Xiao Lin, Xianfeng Zhou, Jia Jia, Haoqian Wang ยท 2026

Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models predominantly rely on end-to-end fine-tuning. While effective, this paradigm compromises the inherent generalization capabilities of Vision-Language Models โ€ฆ

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Probabilistic Hazard Analysis Framework with Stochastic Optimal Control for Deteriorating Civil Infrastructure Systems

Sudhir P. Jodha, Konstantinos G. Papakonstantinou ยท 2026

The safety and resilience of civil infrastructure systems are increasingly threatened by compounded risks from various hazard events and structural deterioration due to environmental stressors. This sโ€ฆ

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GCImOpt: Learning efficient goal-conditioned policies by imitating optimal trajectories

Jon Goikoetxea, Jesus F. Palacian ยท 2026

Imitation learning is a well-established approach for machine-learning-based control. However, its applicability depends on having access to demonstrations, which are often expensive to collect and/orโ€ฆ

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Contact-Aware Planning and Control of Continuum Robots in Highly Constrained Environments

Aedan Mangan, Kehan Long, Ki Myung Brian Lee, Miheer Potdar, Nikolay Atanasov, Tania K. Morimoto ยท 2026

Continuum robots are well suited for navigating confined and fragile environments, such as vascular or endoluminal anatomy, where contact with surrounding structures is often unavoidable. While controโ€ฆ

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One-Shot Cross-Geometry Skill Transfer through Part Decomposition

Skye Thompson, Ondrej Biza, George Konidaris ยท 2026

Given a demonstration, a robot should be able to generalize a skill to any object it encounters-but existing approaches to skill transfer often fail to adapt to objects with unfamiliar shapes. Motivatโ€ฆ

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Few-Shot and Pseudo-Label Guided Speech Quality Evaluation with Large Language Models

Ryandhimas E. Zezario, Dyah A. M. G. Wisnu, Szu-Wei Fu, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Hsin-Min Wang, Yu Tsao ยท 2026

In this paper, we introduce GatherMOS, a novel framework that leverages large language models (LLM) as meta-evaluators to aggregate diverse signals into quality predictions. GatherMOS integrates lightโ€ฆ

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Contextual Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Reef Monitoring

Melvin Laux, Yi-Ling Liu, Rina Alo, Soren Topper, Mariela De Lucas Alvarez, Frank Kirchner, Rebecca Adam ยท 2026

Although autonomous underwater vehicles promise the capability of marine ecosystem monitoring, their deployment is fundamentally limited by the difficulty of controlling vehicles under highly uncertaiโ€ฆ

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Machine Learning-Based Real-Time Detection of Compensatory Trunk Movements Using Trunk-Wrist Inertial Measurement Units

Jannis Gabler, Clement Lhoste, Max Quast, Laura Mayrhuber, Andrea Ronco, Olivier Lambercy, Paulius Viskaitis, Dane Donegan ยท 2026

Compensatory trunk movements (CTMs) are commonly observed after stroke and can lead to maladaptive movement patterns, limiting targeted training of affected structures. Objective, continuous detectionโ€ฆ

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Designing for Error Recovery in Human-Robot Interaction

Christopher D. Wallbridge, Erwin Jose Lopez Pulgarin ยท 2026

This position paper looks briefly at the way we attempt to program robotic AI systems. Many AI systems are based on the idea of trying to improve the performance of one individual system to beyond so-โ€ฆ

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Network-Assisted Full-Duplex Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems Under Infeasible Circumstances

Trinh Van Chien, Bui Trong Duc, Mohammadali Mohammadi, Hien Quoc Ngo, Michail Matthaiou ยท 2026

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output is a potential candidate for future networks with pervasive connectivity by utilizing coherent joint transmission and distributed antenna arrays. This โ€ฆ

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Sensor-Based Natural Frequency Testing

Nicholas Suits, Masudul Imtiaz ยท 2026

Everything that exists has a natural frequency; this material characteristic is something that must be known and fully understood. If we fail to predict, measure, and address potential natural frequenโ€ฆ

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Musculoskeletal Motion Imitation for Learning Personalized Exoskeleton Control Policy in Impaired Gait

Itak Choi, Ilseung Park, Eni Halilaj, Inseung Kang ยท 2026

Designing generalizable control policies for lower-limb exoskeletons remains fundamentally constrained by exhaustive data collection or iterative optimization procedures, which limit accessibility to โ€ฆ

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Exploring Temporal Representation in Neural Processes for Multimodal Action Prediction

Marco Gabriele Fedozzi, Yukie Nagai, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti ยท 2026

Inspired by the human ability to understand and predict others, we study the applicability of Conditional Neural Processes (CNP) to the task of self-supervised multimodal action prediction in roboticsโ€ฆ

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Decision-focused Conservation Voltage Reduction to Consider the Cascading Impact of Forecast Errors

Qintao Du, Ran Li, Weiyi Lv, Huan Zhou, Moduo Yu, Jianzhe Liu ยท 2026

Conservation Voltage Reduction (CVR) relies on the effective coordination of slow-acting devices, such as OLTCs and CBs, and fast-acting devices, such as SVGs and PV inverters, typically implemented tโ€ฆ

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Stochastic Adaptive Control for Systems with Nonlinear Parameterization: Almost Sure Stability and Tracking

Lantian Zhang, Bo Wahlberg, Silun Zhang ยท 2026

This paper concerns the adaptive control problem for a class of nonlinear stochastic systems in which the state update is given by a nonlinear function of linear dynamics plus additive stochastic noisโ€ฆ

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Dynamic Control Allocation for Dual-Tilt UAV Platforms

Marcello Sorge, Federico Ciresola, Giulia Michieletto, Angelo Cenedese ยท 2026

This paper focuses on dynamic control allocation for a hexarotor UAV platform, considering a trajectory tracking task as as case study. It is assumed that the platform is dual-tilting, meaning that itโ€ฆ

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Uncovering Linguistic Fragility in Vision-Language-Action Models via Diversity-Aware Red Teaming

Baoshun Tong, Haoran He, Ling Pan, Yang Liu, Liang Lin ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved remarkable success in robotic manipulation. However, their robustness to linguistic nuances remains a critical, under-explored safety concern, posing โ€ฆ

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