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Safety-Critical Centralized Nonlinear MPC for Cooperative Payload Transportation by Two Quadrupedal Robots

Ruturaj S. Sambhus, Yicheng Zeng, Kapi Ketan Mehta, Jeeseop Kim, Kaveh Akbari Hamed ยท 2026

This paper presents a safety-critical centralized nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) framework for cooperative payload transportation by two quadrupedal robots. The interconnected robot-payloadโ€ฆ

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FSUNav: A Cerebrum-Cerebellum Architecture for Fast, Safe, and Universal Zero-Shot Goal-Oriented Navigation

Mingao Tan, Yiyang Li, Shanze Wang, Xinming Zhang, Wei Zhang ยท 2026

Current vision-language navigation methods face substantial bottlenecks regarding heterogeneous robot compatibility, real-time performance, and navigation safety. Furthermore, they struggle to supportโ€ฆ

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Minimal Information Control Invariance via Vector Quantization

Ege Yuceel, Teodor Tchalakov, Sayan Mitra ยท 2026

Safety-critical autonomous systems must satisfy hard state constraints under tight computational and sensing budgets, yet learning-based controllers are often far more complex than safe operation requโ€ฆ

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Distributed Snitch Digital Twin-Based Anomaly Detection for Smart Voltage Source Converter-Enabled Wind Power Systems

Mohammad Ashraf Hossain Sadi, Soham Ghosh, Siby Plathottam, Mohd. Hasan Ali ยท 2026

Existing cyberattack detection methods for smart grids such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) often suffer from limited adaptability, delayed response, and inaโ€ฆ

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On Data-Driven Koopman Representations of Nonlinear Delay Differential Equations

Santosh Mohan Rajkumar, Dibyasri Barman, Kumar Vikram Singh, Debdipta Goswami ยท 2026

This work establishes a rigorous bridge between infinite-dimensional delay dynamics and finite-dimensional Koopman learning, with explicit and interpretable error guarantees. While Koopman analysis isโ€ฆ

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ARM: Advantage Reward Modeling for Long-Horizon Manipulation

Yiming Mao, Zixi Yu, Weixin Mao, Yinhao Li, Qirui Hu, Zihan Lan, Minzhao Zhu, Hua Chen ยท 2026

Long-horizon robotic manipulation remains challenging for reinforcement learning (RL) because sparse rewards provide limited guidance for credit assignment. Practical policy improvement thus relies onโ€ฆ

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Behavior-Constrained Reinforcement Learning with Receding-Horizon Credit Assignment for High-Performance Control

Siwei Ju, Jan Tauberschmidt, Oleg Arenz, Peter van Vliet, Jan Peters ยท 2026

Learning high-performance control policies that remain consistent with expert behavior is a fundamental challenge in robotics. Reinforcement learning can discover high-performing strategies but often โ€ฆ

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A Flow Matching Framework for Soft-Robot Inverse Dynamics

Hang Yang, Fangju Yang, Yangming Zhang, Ibrahim Alsarraj, Yuhao Wang, Zhenye Luo, Zixi Chen, Ke Wu ยท 2026

Learning the inverse dynamics of soft continuum robots remains challenging due to high-dimensional nonlinearities and complex actuation coupling. Conventional feedback-based controllers often suffer fโ€ฆ

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A General Framework for Generative Self-supervised Learning in Non-invasive Estimation of Physiological Parameters Using Photoplethysmography

Zexing Zhang, Huimin Lu, Songzhe Ma, Jianzhong Peng, Chenglin Lin, Niya Li, Bingwang Dong ยท 2026

Aligning physiological parameter labels with large-scale photoplethysmographic (PPG) data for deep learning is challenging and resource-intensive. While self-supervised representation learning (SSRL) โ€ฆ

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Extending deep learning U-Net architecture for predicting unsteady fluid flows in textured microchannels

Ganesh Sahadeo Meshram, Partha Pratim Chakrabarti, Suman Chakraborty ยท 2026

In this study, we have explored an application of deep learning architecture of the U-Net model, originally designed for biomedical image segmentation, in a regression analysis aimed at predicting fluโ€ฆ

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Learning Task-Invariant Properties via Dreamer: Enabling Efficient Policy Transfer for Quadruped Robots

Junyang Liang, Yuxuan Liu, Yabin Chang, Junfan Lin, Junkai Ji, Hui Li, Changxin Huang, Jianqiang Li ยท 2026

Achieving quadruped robot locomotion across diverse and dynamic terrains presents significant challenges, primarily due to the discrepancies between simulation environments and real-world conditions. โ€ฆ

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Orientation Matters: Learning Radiation Patterns of Multi-Rotor UAVs In-Flight to Enhance Communication Availability Modeling

Martin Zoula, Daniel Bonilla Licea, Jan Faigl, Vaclav Navratil, Martin Saska ยท 2026

The paper presents an approach for learning antenna Radiation Patterns (RPs) of a pair of heterogeneous quadrotor Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) by calibration flight data. RPs are modeled either as โ€ฆ

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Goal-Conditioned Neural ODEs with Guaranteed Safety and Stability for Learning-Based All-Pairs Motion Planning

Dechuan Liu, Ruigang Wang, Ian R. Manchester ยท 2026

This paper presents a learning-based approach for all-pairs motion planning, where the initial and goal states are allowed to be arbitrary points in a safe set. We construct smooth goal-conditioned neโ€ฆ

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Learning Structured Robot Policies from Vision-Language Models via Synthetic Neuro-Symbolic Supervision

Alessandro Adami, Tommaso Tubaldo, Marco Todescato, Ruggero Carli, Pietro Falco ยท 2026

Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently demonstrated strong capabilities in mapping multimodal observations to robot behaviors. However, most current approaches rely on end-to-end visuomotor policโ€ฆ

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QuadAgent: A Responsive Agent System for Vision-Language Guided Quadrotor Agile Flight

Ao Zhuang, Feng Yu, Tianbao Zhang, Linzuo Zhang, Danping Zou ยท 2026

We present QuadAgent, a training-free agent system for agile quadrotor flight guided by vision-language inputs. Unlike prior end-to-end or serial agent approaches, QuadAgent decouples high-level reasoโ€ฆ

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Vision-Based End-to-End Learning for UAV Traversal of Irregular Gaps via Differentiable Simulation

Linzuo Zhang, Yu Hu, Feng Yu, Yang Deng, Wenxian Yu, Danping Zou ยท 2026

-Navigation through narrow and irregular gaps is an essential skill in autonomous drones for applications such as inspection, search-and-rescue, and disaster response. However, traditional planning anโ€ฆ

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Learning Locomotion on Complex Terrain for Quadrupedal Robots with Foot Position Maps and Stability Rewards

Matthew Hwang, Yubin Liu, Ryo Hakoda, Takeshi Oishi ยท 2026

Quadrupedal locomotion over complex terrain has been a long-standing research topic in robotics. While recent reinforcement learning-based locomotion methods improve generalizability and foot-placemenโ€ฆ

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Data-Driven Synthesis of Probabilistic Controlled Invariant Sets for Linear MDPs

Kazumune Hashimoto, Shunki Kimura, Kazunobu Serizawa, Junya Ikemoto, Yulong Gao, Kai Cai ยท 2026

We study data-driven computation of probabilistic controlled invariant sets (PCIS) for safety-critical reinforcement learning under unknown dynamics. Assuming a linear MDP model, we use regularized leโ€ฆ

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Foundation Models Defining A New Era In Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition: A Survey And Outlook

Sizhen Bian, Mengxi Liu, Lala Shakti Swarup Ray, Bo Zhou, Bin Guo, Zhiwen Yu, Thomas Ploetz, Paul Lukowicz, Siyu Yuan, Vitor Fortes Rey ยท 2026

Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) underpins many ubiquitous and wearable computing applications, yet current models remain limited by scarce labels, sensor heterogeneity, and weak generaliโ€ฆ

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A Rapid Instrument Exchange System for Humanoid Robots in Minimally Invasive Surgery

Bingcong Zhang, Yihang Lyv, Lianbo Ma, Yushi He, Pengfei Wei, Xingchi Liu, Jinhua Li, Jianchang Zhao, Lizhi Pan ยท 2026

Humanoid robot technologies have demonstrated immense potential for minimally invasive surgery (MIS). Unlike dedicated multi-arm surgical platforms, the inherent dual-arm configuration of humanoid robโ€ฆ

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