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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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Optimal GNSS Time Tracking for Long-term Stable Time Realisation in Synchronised Atomic Clocks

Maitreyee Dutta, Jiayu Chen, Masakazu Koike, Yuichiro Yano, Yuko Hanado, Takayuki Ishizaki · 2026

In this manuscript, we propose a novel optimal Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) time tracking algorithm to collectively steer an ensemble consisting of synchronising miniature atomic clocks t…

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FloorPlan-VLN: A New Paradigm for Floor Plan Guided Vision-Language Navigation

Kehan Chen, Yan Huang, Dong An, Jiawei He, Yifei Su, Jing Liu, Nianfeng Liu, Liang Wang · 2026

Existing Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) task requires agents to follow verbose instructions, ignoring some potentially useful global spatial priors, limiting their capability to reason about spatial…

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See, Plan, Rewind: Progress-Aware Vision-Language-Action Models for Robust Robotic Manipulation

Tingjun Dai, Mingfei Han, Tingwen Du, Zhiheng Liu, Zhihui Li, Salman Khan, Jun Yu, Xiaojun Chang · 2026

Measurement of task progress through explicit, actionable milestones is critical for robust robotic manipulation. This progress awareness enables a model to ground its current task status, anticipate …

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Scale-Plan: Scalable Language-Enabled Task Planning for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Teams

Piyush Gupta, Sangjae Bae, Jiachen Li, David Isele · 2026

Long-horizon task planning for heterogeneous multi-robot systems is essential for deploying collaborative teams in real-world environments; yet, it remains challenging due to the large volume of perce…

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TidyVoice 2026 Challenge Evaluation Plan

Aref Farhadipour, Jan Marquenie, Srikanth Madikeri, Teodora Vukovic, Volker Dellwo, Kathy Reid, Francis M. Tyers, Ingo Siegert, Eleanor Chodroff · 2026

The performance of speaker verification systems degrades significantly under language mismatch, a critical challenge exacerbated by the field's reliance on English-centric data. To address this, we pr…

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Information-Theoretic Detection of Bimanual Interactions for Dual-Arm Robot Plan Generation

Elena Merlo, Marta Lagomarsino, Arash Ajoudani · 2026

Programming by demonstration is a strategy to simplify the robot programming process for non-experts via human demonstrations. However, its adoption for bimanual tasks is an underexplored problem due …

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Quadrupped-Legged Robot Movement Plan Generation using Large Language Model

Muhtadin, Vincentius Gusti Putu A. B. M., Ahmad Zaini, Mauridhi Hery Purnomo, I Ketut Eddy Purnama, Chastine Fatichah · 2025

Traditional control interfaces for quadruped robots often impose a high barrier to entry, requiring specialized technical knowledge for effective operation. To address this, this paper presents a nove…

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POrTAL: Plan-Orchestrated Tree Assembly for Lookahead

Evan Conway, David Porfirio, David Chan, Mark Roberts, Laura M. Hiatt · 2025

When tasking robots in partially observable environments, these robots must efficiently and robustly plan to achieve task goals under uncertainty. Although many probabilistic planning algorithms exist…

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See, Plan, Cut: MPC-Based Autonomous Volumetric Robotic Laser Surgery with OCT Guidance

Ravi Prakash, Vincent Y. Wang, Arpit Mishra, Devi Yuliarti, Pei Zhong, Ryan P. McNabb, Patrick J. Codd, Leila J. Bridgeman · 2025

Robotic laser systems offer the potential for sub-millimeter, non-contact, high-precision tissue resection, yet existing platforms lack volumetric planning and intraoperative feedback. We present RATS…

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Floor Plan-Guided Visual Navigation Incorporating Depth and Directional Cues

Weiqi Huang, Jiaxin Li, Zan Wang, Huijun Di, Wei Liang, Zhu Yang · 2025

Current visual navigation strategies mainly follow an exploration-first and then goal-directed navigation paradigm. This exploratory phase inevitably compromises the overall efficiency of navigation. …

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RepV: Safety-Separable Latent Spaces for Scalable Neurosymbolic Plan Verification

Yunhao Yang, Neel P. Bhatt, Pranay Samineni, Rohan Siva, Zhanyang Wang, Ufuk Topcu · 2025

As AI systems migrate to safety-critical domains, verifying that their actions comply with well-defined rules remains a challenge. Formal methods provide provable guarantees but demand hand-crafted te…

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Multi-Representation Attention Framework for Underwater Bioacoustic Denoising and Recognition

Amine Razig, Youssef Soulaymani, Loubna Benabbou, Pierre Cauchy · 2025

Automated monitoring of marine mammals in the St. Lawrence Estuary faces extreme challenges: calls span low-frequency moans to ultrasonic clicks, often overlap, and are embedded in variable anthropoge…

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Learning to Plan & Schedule with Reinforcement-Learned Bimanual Robot Skills

Weikang Wan, Fabio Ramos, Xuning Yang, Caelan Garrett · 2025

Long-horizon contact-rich bimanual manipulation presents a significant challenge, requiring complex coordination involving a mixture of parallel execution and sequential collaboration between arms. In…

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MDP-based Energy-aware Task Scheduling for Battery-less IoT

Shahab Jahanbazi, Mateen Ashraf, Onel L. A. Lopez · 2025

Realizing high long-term task completion rates represents a fundamental challenge in battery-less Internet of Things (IoT) devices powered by ambient energy harvesting. This difficulty is primarily du…

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Macroscopic EEG Reveals Discriminative Low-Frequency Oscillations in Plan-to-Grasp Visuomotor Tasks

Anna Cetera, Sima Ghafoori, Ali Rabiee, Mohammad Hassan Farhadi, Yalda Shahriari, Reza Abiri · 2025

The vision-based grasping brain network integrates visual perception with cognitive and motor processes for visuomotor tasks. While invasive recordings have successfully decoded localized neural activ…

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Enhanced Breakdown and RF Performance in Field-Plated AlGaN/GaN HEMT for High-Power Applications

Tanjim Rahman, Trupti Ranjan Lenka · 2025

High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMTs) are most suitable for harsh environments as they operate reliably under extreme conditions such as high voltages, high temperatures, radiation exposure and c…

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First Plan Then Evaluate: Use a Vectorized Motion Planner for Grasping

Martin Matak, Mohanraj Devendran Shanthi, Karl Van Wyk, Tucker Hermans · 2025

Autonomous multi-finger grasping is a fundamental capability in robotic manipulation. Optimization-based approaches show strong performance, but tend to be sensitive to initialization and are potentia…

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Long-Horizon Visual Imitation Learning via Plan and Code Reflection

Quan Chen, Chenrui Shi, Qi Chen, Yuwei Wu, Zhi Gao, Xintong Zhang, Rui Gao, Kun Wu, Yunde Jia · 2025

Learning from long-horizon demonstrations with complex action sequences presents significant challenges for visual imitation learning, particularly in understanding temporal relationships of actions a…

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A Pragmatist Robot: Learning to Plan Tasks by Experiencing the Real World

Kaixian Qu, Guowei Lan, Rene Zurbrugg, Changan Chen, Christopher E. Mower, Haitham Bou-Ammar, Marco Hutter · 2025

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as the dominant paradigm for robotic task planning using natural language instructions. However, trained on general internet data, LLMs are not inherently ali…

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