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Shielded Reinforcement Learning Under Dynamic Temporal Logic Constraints

Sad{i}k Bera Yuksel, Ali Tevfik Buyukkocak, Derya Aksaray ยท 2026

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown promise in various robotics applications, yet its deployment on real systems is still limited due to safety and operational constraints. The safe RL field has gaiโ€ฆ

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Integral Quadratic Constraints for Repeated ReLU

Sahel Vahedi Noori, Bin Hu, Geir Dullerud, Peter Seiler ยท 2026

This paper presents a new dynamic integral quadratic constraint (IQC) for the repeated Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU). These dynamic IQCs can be used to analyze stability and induced $\ell_2$-gain perfoโ€ฆ

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Neural-NPV Control: Learning Parameter-Dependent Controllers and Lyapunov Functions with Neural Networks

MD Abul Kashem Niloy, Adam Hallmark, Yikun Cheng, Pan Zhao ยท 2026

Nonlinear parameter-varying (NPV) systems are a class of nonlinear systems whose dynamics explicitly depend on time-varying external parameters, making them suitable for modeling real-world systems wiโ€ฆ

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Neural Aided Adaptive Innovation-Based Invariant Kalman Filter

Barak Diker, Itzik Klein ยท 2026

Autonomous platforms require accurate positioning to complete their tasks. To this end, a Kalman filter-based algorithms, such as the extended Kalman filter or invariant Kalman filter, utilizing inertโ€ฆ

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Quality assessment of brain structural MR images: Comparing generalization of deep learning versus hand-crafted feature-based machine learning methods to new sites

Prabhjot Kaur, John S. Thornton, Frederik Barkhof, Tarek A. Yousry, Sjoerd B. Vos, Hui Zhang ยท 2026

Quality assessment of brain structural MR images is critical for large-scale neuroimaging studies, where motion artifacts can significantly bias clinical estimates. While visual rating remains the golโ€ฆ

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SLowRL: Safe Low-Rank Adaptation Reinforcement Learning for Locomotion

Elham Daneshmand, Shafeef Omar, Glen Berseth, Majid Khadiv, Hsiu-Chin Lin ยท 2026

Sim-to-real transfer of locomotion policies often leads to performance degradation due to the inevitable sim-to-real gap. Naively fine-tuning these policies directly on hardware is problematic, as it โ€ฆ

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Shared Representation Learning for Reference-Guided Targeted Sound Detection

Shubham Gupta, Adarsh Arigala, B. R. Dilleswari, Sri Rama Murty Kodukula ยท 2026

Human listeners exhibit the remarkable ability to segregate a desired sound from complex acoustic scenes through selective auditory attention, motivating the study of Targeted Sound Detection (TSD). Tโ€ฆ

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Contingency-Aware Planning via Certified Neural Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability

Kasidit Muenprasitivej, Derya Aksaray ยท 2026

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability provides formal safety guarantees for dynamical systems, but solving high-dimensional HJ partial differential equations limits its use in real-time planning. This papโ€ฆ

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Efficient and Reliable Teleoperation through Real-to-Sim-to-Real Shared Autonomy

Shuo Sha, Yixuan Wang, Binghao Huang, Antonio Loquercio, Yunzhu Li ยท 2026

Fine-grained, contact-rich teleoperation remains slow, error-prone, and unreliable in real-world manipulation tasks, even for experienced operators. Shared autonomy offers a promising way to improve pโ€ฆ

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ManiTwin: Scaling Data-Generation-Ready Digital Object Dataset to 100K

Kaixuan Wang, Tianxing Chen, Jiawei Liu, Honghao Su, Shaolong Zhu, Minxuan Wang, Zixuan Li, Yue Chen, Huan-ang Gao, Yusen Qin, Jiawei Wang, Qixuan Zhang, Lan Xu, Jingyi Yu, Yao Mu, Ping Luo ยท 2026

Learning in simulation provides a useful foundation for scaling robotic manipulation capabilities. However, this paradigm often suffers from a lack of data-generation-ready digital assets, in both scaโ€ฆ

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MolmoB0T: Large-Scale Simulation Enables Zero-Shot Manipulation

Abhay Deshpande, Maya Guru, Rose Hendrix, Snehal Jauhri, Ainaz Eftekhar, Rohun Tripathi, Max Argus, Jordi Salvador, Haoquan Fang, Matthew Wallingford, Wilbert Pumacay, Yejin Kim, Quinn Pfeifer, Ying-Chun Lee, Piper Wolters, Omar Rayyan, Mingtong Zhang, Jiafei Duan, Karen Farley, Winson Han, Eli Vanderbilt, Dieter Fox, Ali Farhadi, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Dhruv Shah, Ranjay Krishna ยท 2026

A prevailing view in robot learning is that simulation alone is not enough; effective sim-to-real transfer is widely believed to require at least some real-world data collection or task-specific fine-โ€ฆ

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DreamPlan: Efficient Reinforcement Fine-Tuning of Vision-Language Planners via Video World Models

Emily Yue-Ting Jia, Weiduo Yuan, Tianheng Shi, Vitor Guizilini, Jiageng Mao, Yue Wang ยท 2026

Robotic manipulation requires sophisticated commonsense reasoning, a capability naturally possessed by large-scale Vision-Language Models (VLMs). While VLMs show promise as zero-shot planners, their lโ€ฆ

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DexGrasp-Zero: A Morphology-Aligned Policy for Zero-Shot Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Grasping

Yuliang Wu, Yanhan Lin, WengKit Lao, Yuhao Lin, Yi-Lin Wei, Wei-Shi Zheng, Ancong Wu ยท 2026

To meet the demands of increasingly diverse dexterous hand hardware, it is crucial to develop a policy that enables zero-shot cross-embodiment grasping without redundant re-learning. Cross-embodiment โ€ฆ

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Confusion-Aware Spectral Regularizer for Long-Tailed Recognition

Ziquan Zhu, Gaojie Jin, Hanruo Zhu, Si-Yuan Lu, Yunxiao Zhang, Zeyu Fu, Ronghui Mu, Guoqiang Zhang, Zhao Sun, Xia Yuhang, Jiaxing Shang, Xiang Li, Lu Liu, Tianjin Huang ยท 2026

Long-tailed image classification remains a long-standing challenge, as real-world data typically follow highly imbalanced distributions where a few head classes dominate and many tail classes contain โ€ฆ

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Deep Learning Multi-Horizon Irradiance Nowcasting: A Comparative Evaluation of Three Methods for Leveraging Sky Images

Erling W. Eriksen, Magnus M. Nyg{aa}rd, Niklas Erdmann, Heine N. Riise ยท 2026

We investigate three distinct methods of incorporating all-sky imager (ASI) images into deep learning (DL) irradiance nowcasting. The first method relies on a convolutional neural network (CNN) to extโ€ฆ

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vAccSOL: Efficient and Transparent AI Vision Offloading for Mobile Robots

Adam Zahir, Michele Gucciardom Falk Selker, Anastasios Nanos, Kostis Papazafeiropoulos, Carlos J. Bernardos, Nicolas Weber, Roberto Gonzalez ยท 2026

Mobile robots are increasingly deployed for inspection, patrol, and search-and-rescue operations, relying on computer vision for perception, navigation, and autonomous decision-making. However, executโ€ฆ

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Learning Whole-Body Control for a Salamander Robot

Mengze Tian, Qiyuan Fu, Chuanfang Ning, Javier Jia Jie Pey, Auke Ijspeert ยท 2026

Amphibious legged robots inspired by salamanders are promising in applications in complex amphibious environments. However, despite the significant success of training controllers that achieve diverseโ€ฆ

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When Should a Robot Think? Resource-Aware Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning for Embodied Robotic Decision-Making

Jun Liu, Pu Zhao, Zhenglun Kong, Xuan Shen, Peiyan Dong, Fan Yang, Lin Cui, Hao Tang, Geng Yuan, Wei Niu, Wenbin Zhang, Xue Lin, Gaowen Liu, Yanzhi Wang, Dong Huang ยท 2026

Embodied robotic systems increasingly rely on large language model (LLM)-based agents to support high-level reasoning, planning, and decision-making during interactions with the environment. However, โ€ฆ

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Routing and Control for Marine Oil-Spill Cleanup with a Boom-Towing Vessel Fleet

Snir Carmeli, Adir Morgan, Kiril Solovey ยท 2026

Marine oil spills damage ecosystems, contaminate coastlines, and disrupt food webs, while imposing substantial economic losses on fisheries and coastal communities. Prior work has demonstrated the feaโ€ฆ

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Data-driven generalized perimeter control: Z\"urich case study

Alessio Rimoldi, Carlo Cenedese, Alberto Padoan, Florian Dorfler, John Lygeros ยท 2026

Urban traffic congestion is a key challenge for the development of modern cities, requiring advanced control techniques to optimize existing infrastructures usage. Despite the extensive availability oโ€ฆ

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