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Robot Planning and Situation Handling with Active Perception

Austine Oloo, Zainab Altaweel, Yohei Hayamizu, Peiqi Liu, Yan Ding, Saeid Amiri, Hao Yang, Andy Kaminski, Chad Esselink, Chris Paxton, Xiaohan Zhang, Shiqi Zhang · 2026

Current robots are capable of computing plans to accomplish complex tasks. However, real-world environments are inherently open and dynamic, and unforeseen situations frequently arise during plan exec…

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Joint Prediction of Human Motions and Actions in Human-Robot Collaboration

Alessandra Bulanti, Alessandro Carfi, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni · 2026

Fluent human--robot collaboration requires robots to continuously estimate human behaviour and anticipate future intentions. This entails reasoning jointly about \emph{continuous movements} and \emph{…

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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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Unified Learning of Temporal Task Structure and Action Timing for Bimanual Robot Manipulation

Christian Dreher, Patrick Dormanns, Andre Meixner, Tamim Asfour · 2026

Temporal task structure is fundamental for bimanual manipulation: a robot must not only know that one action precedes or overlaps another, but also when each action should occur and how long it should…

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RoboCurate: Harnessing Diversity with Action-Verified Neural Trajectory for Robot Learning

Seungku Kim, Suhyeok Jang, Byungjun Yoon, Dongyoung Kim, John Won, Jinwoo Shin · 2026

Synthetic data generated by video generative models has shown promise for robot learning as a scalable pipeline, but it often suffers from inconsistent action quality due to imperfectly generated vide…

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The SLAM Confidence Trap

Sebastian Sansoni, Santiago Ramon Tosetti Sanz · 2026

The SLAM community has fallen into a "Confidence Trap" by prioritizing benchmark scores over principled uncertainty estimation. This yields systems that are geometrically accurate but probabilitistica…

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ALIEN: Analytic Latent Watermarking for Controllable Generation

Liangqi Lei, Keke Gai, Jing Yu, Qi Wu · 2026

Watermarking is a technical alternative to safeguarding intellectual property and reducing misuse. Existing methods focus on optimizing watermarked latent variables to balance watermark robustness and…

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Robust Evacuation for Multi-Drone Failure in Drone Light Shows

Minhyuk Park, Aloysius K. Mok, Tsz-Chiu Au · 2026

Drone light shows have emerged as a popular form of entertainment in recent years. However, several high-profile incidents involving large-scale drone failures -- where multiple drones simultaneously …

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The OCR-PT-CT Project: Semi-Automatic Recognition of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs Based on Metric Learning

David Fuentes-Jimenez, Daniel Pizarro, Alvaro Hernandez, Adin Bartoli, Cesar Guerra Mendez, Laura de Diego-Oton, Sira Palazuelos-Cagigas, Carlos Gracia Zamacona · 2025

Digital humanities are significantly transforming how Egyptologists study ancient Egyptian texts. The OCR-PT-CT project proposes a recognition method for hieroglyphs based on images of Coffin Texts (C…

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PILLTOP: Multi-Material Topology Optimization of Polypills for Prescribed Drug-Release Kinetics

Rahul Kumar Padhy, Aaditya Chandrasekhar, Amir M. Mirzendehdel · 2025

Polypills are single oral dosage forms that combine multiple active pharmaceutical ingredients and excipients, enabling fixed-dose combination therapies, coordinated multi-phase release, and precise c…

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Ein Fenster zur gleichzeitigen Messung der Uebertragungsfunktion eines realen Systems und des Leistungsdichtespektrums des ueberlagerten Rauschens am Systemausgang (Teil 2)

Helmut Repp · 2025

The method described in the first part for frequency-selectively measuring the transfer function and the noise power spectral density of the superimposed noise at the output of a disturbed, real syste…

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Unified Humanoid Fall-Safety Policy from a Few Demonstrations

Zhengjie Xu, Ye Li, Kwan-yee Lin, Stella X. Yu · 2025

Falling is an inherent risk of humanoid mobility. Maintaining stability is thus a primary safety focus in robot control and learning, yet no existing approach fully averts loss of balance. When instab…

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Fitzpatrick Thresholding for Skin Image Segmentation

Duncan Stothers, Sophia Xu, Carlie Reeves, Lia Gracey · 2025

Accurate estimation of the body surface area (BSA) involved by a rash, such as psoriasis, is critical for assessing rash severity, selecting an initial treatment regimen, and following clinical treatm…

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Learnable Kernels for FRI -- Joint Kernel Encoder Optimization and Hardware Validation

Omkar Nitsure, Sampath Kumar Dondapati, Satish Mulleti · 2025

Finite Rate of Innovation (FRI) sampling techniques provide efficient frameworks for reconstructing signals with inherent sparsity at rates below Nyquist. However, traditional FRI reconstruction metho…

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Anatomy-Aware Low-Dose CT Denoising via Pretrained Vision Models and Semantic-Guided Contrastive Learning

Runze Wang, Zeli Chen, Zhiyun Song, Wei Fang, Jiajin Zhang, Danyang Tu, Yuxing Tang, Minfeng Xu, Xianghua Ye, Le Lu, Dakai Jin · 2025

To reduce radiation exposure and improve the diagnostic efficacy of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT), numerous deep learning-based denoising methods have been developed to mitigate noise and artifa…

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Cycles Protocol: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Clearing System

Ethan Buchman, Paolo Dini, Shoaib Ahmed, Andrew Miller, Tomaz Fleischman · 2025

For centuries, financial institutions have responded to liquidity challenges by forming closed, centralized clearing clubs with strict rules and membership that allow them to collaborate on using the …

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Learning coupled Allen-Cahn and Cahn-Hilliard phase-field equations using Physics-informed neural operator(PINO)

Gaijinliu Gangmei, Santu Rana, Bernard Rolfe, Kishalay Mitra, Saswata Bhattacharyya · 2025

Phase-field equations, mostly solved numerically, are known for capturing the mesoscale microstructural evolution of a material. However, such numerical solvers are computationally expensive as it nee…

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Compact Amplified Laser Power Stabilization Using Robust Active Disturbance Rejection Control with Sensor Noise Decoupling

Yanpei Shi, Jingxuan Zhang, Zhuo Shi, Chenyao Zhang, Yuze Guo, Rui Feng · 2025

Laser power instability, encompassing random jitter and slow drift, severely limits the performance of optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) in detecting ultra-weak magnetic fields, especially in larg…

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Learning to Recover: Dynamic Reward Shaping with Wheel-Leg Coordination for Fallen Robots

Boyuan Deng, Luca Rossini, Jin Wang, Weijie Wang, Dimitrios Kanoulas, Nikolaos Tsagarakis · 2025

Adaptive recovery from fall incidents are essential skills for the practical deployment of wheeled-legged robots, which uniquely combine the agility of legs with the speed of wheels for rapid recovery…

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Hierarchical Distributed Architecture for the Least Allan Variance Atomic Timing

Jiayu Chen, Takahiro Kawaguchi, Yuichiro Yano, Yuko Hanado, Takayuki Ishizaki · 2025

In this paper, we propose a hierarchical distributed timing architecture based on an ensemble of miniature atomic clocks. The goal is to ensure synchronized and accurate timing in a normal operating m…

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