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OmniRobotHome: A Multi-Camera Platform for Real-Time Multiadic Human-Robot Interaction

Junyoung Lee, Sookwan Han, Jeonghwan Kim, Inhee Lee, Mingi Choi, Jisoo Kim, Wonjung Woo, Hanbyul Joo · 2026

Human-robot collaboration has been studied primarily in dyadic or sequential settings. However, real homes require multiadic collaboration, where multiple humans and robots share a workspace, acting c…

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LiDAR-based Dynamic Blockage Prediction: A Data-driven Approach for Learning Interactive Bayesian Models

Saleemullah Memon, Ali Krayani, Pamela Zontone, Lucio Marcenaro, David Martin Gomez, Carlo Regazzoni · 2026

Vehicular sensing-based intelligence has made substantial progress in transportation systems, leading to higher levels of safety and sustainability for smart cities and autonomous systems. This paper …

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Fuelling fusion plasmas with pellets: Can neuromorphic control outperform Sigma-Delta modulation?

L.L.T.C. Jansen, E. Petri, M. van Berkel, W.P.M.H. Heemels · 2026

Nuclear fusion is a promising clean energy source in which deuterium and tritium fuse inside a magnetically confined plasma in a tokamak, releasing energy. A key challenge on the route to practical nu…

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Backstepping Observer for the Quasilinear Heat Equation with Linear Design Gains: Beyond Local Stability

Mohamed Camil Belhadjoudja, Kirsten A. Morris · 2026

We consider the one-dimensional quasilinear heat equation with state-dependent heat capacity and thermal conductivity, and design a boundary-output observer based on the backstepping design for a line…

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DiscreteRTC: Discrete Diffusion Policies are Natural Asynchronous Executors

Pengcheng Wang, Kaiwen Hong, Chensheng Peng, Katherine Driggs-Campbell, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Chenfeng Xu, Chen Tang · 2026

Unlike chatbots, physical AI must act while the world keeps evolving. Therefore, the inter-chunk pause of synchronous executors are fatal for dynamic tasks regardless of how fast the inference is. Asy…

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An Individual-Delay-Reflected Generalized Consensus Analysis for Multi-Agent Systems with Heterogeneous Time-Varying Delays

Hye Jin Lee, Ho Sub Lee, PooGyeon Park · 2026

In multi-agent systems, heterogeneous time delays exist for all agents because of the difference in communication environments. Therefore, the consensus analysis of a system considering a homogeneous …

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Modular Sensory Stream for Integrating Physical Feedback in Vision-Language-Action Models

Jimin Lee, Huiwon Jang, Myungkyu Koo, Jungwoo Park, Jinwoo Shin · 2026

Humans understand and interact with the real world by relying on diverse physical feedback beyond visual perception. Motivated by this, recent approaches attempt to incorporate physical sensory signal…

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RedVLA: Physical Red Teaming for Vision-Language-Action Models

Yuhao Zhang, Borong Zhang, Jiaming Fan, Jiachen Shen, Yishuai Cai, Yaodong Yang, Jiaming Ji · 2026

The real-world deployment of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models remains limited by the risk of unpredictable and irreversible physical harm. However, we currently lack effective mechanisms to proacti…

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QDTraj: Exploration of Diverse Trajectory Primitives for Articulated Objects Robotic Manipulation

Mathilde Kappel, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Louis Annabi, Faiz Ben Amar, Stephane Doncieux · 2026

Thanks to the latest advances in learning and robotics, domestic robots are beginning to enter homes, aiming to execute household chores autonomously. However, robots still struggle to perform autonom…

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Topology Optimization for Materially Efficient Reinforced Concrete Design: Development, Fabrication, and Structural Evaluation

Jackson L. Jewett, Josephine V. Carstensen · 2026

The production of concrete generates roughly 8% of anthropogenic CO2 globally, largely because of the massive quantities that are manufactured. New design methods must be developed and deployed to imp…

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Navigating the Clutter: Waypoint-Based Bi-Level Planning for Multi-Robot Systems

Jiabao Ji, Yongchao Chen, Yang Zhang, Ramana Rao Kompella, Chuchu Fan, Gaowen Liu, Shiyu Chang · 2026

Multi-robot control in cluttered environments is a challenging problem that involves complex physical constraints, including robot-robot collisions, robot-obstacle collisions, and unreachable motions.…

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ALAS: Adaptive Long-Horizon Action Synthesis via Async-pathway Stream Disentanglement

Yutong Shen, Hangxu Liu, Lei Zhang, Penghui Liu, Yinqi Liu, Liuxiang Yang, Tongtong Feng · 2026

Long-Horizon (LH) tasks in Human-Scene Interaction (HSI) are complex multi-step tasks that require continuous planning, sequential decision-making, and extended execution across domains to achieve the…

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Multi-Objective RIS Deployment Optimization for Physical Layer Security in ISAC Networks

Wenqing Dai, Jan Herbst, Jan Petershans, Christoph Lipps, Hans D. Schotten · 2026

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) have emerged as a key enabler for programmable wireless environments in future Beyond-5G (B5G) and 6G networks. In the meantime, Integrated Sensing and Commun…

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Defining Robust Ultrasound Quality Metrics via an Ultrasound Foundation Model

Ziyang Huang, Bingyan Li, Chen Ma, Tianyi Liu, Yihui Zhai, Hong Xu, Yi Guo, Zeju Li, Yuanyuan Wang · 2026

Clinicians lack a principled framework to quantify diagnostic utility in ultrasound reconstructions. Existing standards like PSNR and VGG-LPIPS are inadequate, failing to account for modality-specific…

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Incremental learning for audio classification with Hebbian Deep Neural Networks

Riccardo Casciotti, Francesco De Santis, Alberto Antonietti, Annamaria Mesaros · 2026

The ability of humans for lifelong learning is an inspiration for deep learning methods and in particular for continual learning. In this work, we apply Hebbian learning, a biologically inspired learn…

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Driving risk emerges from the required two-dimensional joint evasive acceleration

Hao Cheng, Yanbo Jiang, Wenhao Yu, Rui Zhou, Jiang Bian, Keyu Chen, Zhiyuan Liu, Heye Huang, Hailun Zhang, Fang Zhang, Jianqiang Wang, Sifa Zheng · 2026

Most autonomous driving safety benchmarks use time-to-collision (TTC) to assess risk and guide safe behaviour. However, TTC-based methods treat risk as a one-dimensional closing problem, despite the i…

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Robust Resource Allocation in RIS-Assisted Wireless Networks Integrating NOMA and Over-the-Air Federated Learning

Saeid Pakravan, Mohsen Ahmadzadeh, Ming Zeng, Ghosheh Abed Hodtani, Xingwang Li, Ji Wang, Gongpu Wang · 2026

This paper addresses the critical issue of spectrum scarcity and the need to support diverse services, including communication and learning tasks, by presenting a reconfigurable intelligent surface (R…

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Long-Term Memory for VLA-based Agents in Open-World Task Execution

Xu Huang, Weixin Mao, Yinhao Li, Hua Chen, Jiabao Zhao · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated significant potential for embodied decision-making; however, their application in complex chemical laboratory automation remains restricted by lim…

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Trajectory Planning for Safe Dual Control with Active Exploration

Kaleb Ben Naveed, Manveer Singh, Devansh R. Agrawal, Dimitra Panagou · 2026

Planning safe trajectories under model uncertainty is a fundamental challenge. Robust planning ensures safety by considering worst-case realizations, yet ignores uncertainty reduction and leads to ove…

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Trajectory Planning for a Multi-UAV Rigid-Payload Cascaded Transportation System Based on Enhanced Tube-RRT*

Jianqiao Yu, Jia Li, Tianhua Gao · 2026

This paper presents a two-stage trajectory planning framework for a multi-UAV rigid-payload cascaded transportation system, aiming to address planning challenges in densely cluttered environments. In …

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