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See, Learn, Assist: Safe and Self-Paced Robotic Rehabilitation via Video-Based Learning from Demonstration

Ali Alabbas, Camillo Murgia, Joanne Regan, Philip Long ยท 2026

In this paper, we propose a novel framework that allows therapists to teach robot-assisted rehabilitation exercises remotely via RGB-D video. Our system encodes demonstrations as 6-DoF body-centric trโ€ฆ

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TransCurriculum: Multi-Dimensional Curriculum Learning for Fast & Stable Locomotion

Prakhar Mishra, Amir Hossain Raj, Xuesu Xiao, Dinesh Manocha ยท 2026

High-speed legged locomotion struggles with stability and transfer losses at higher command velocities during deployment. One reason is that most curricula vary difficulty along single axis, for exampโ€ฆ

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Amortizing Trajectory Diffusion with Keyed Drift Fields

Gokul Puthumanaillam, Melkior Ornik ยท 2026

Diffusion-based trajectory planners can synthesize rich, multimodal action sequences for offline reinforcement learning, but their iterative denoising incurs substantial inference-time cost, making clโ€ฆ

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LLM-Guided Safe Reinforcement Learning for Energy System Topology Reconfiguration

Zongyan Zhang, Chao Shen, Xu Wan, Jie Song, Mingyang Sun ยท 2026

The increasing penetration of renewable generation and the growing variability of electrified demand introduce substantial operational uncertainty to modern power systems. Topology reconfiguration is โ€ฆ

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A Multi-Objective Learning Approach for Adaptive Waveform Selection in Integrated Sensing and Communications Systems

Ahmet Yazar, Yusuf Islam Demir, Ahmed Naeem, Seyit Karatepe ยท 2026

Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) has emerged as a key enabler for sixth generation (6G) wireless systems by jointly supporting data transmission and environmental awareness within a unifieโ€ฆ

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The Taxonomies, Training, and Applications of Event Stream Modelling for Electronic Health Records

Mingcheng Zhu, Yu Liu, Zhiyao Luo, Tingting Zhu ยท 2026

The widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) enables the acquisition of heterogeneous clinical data, spanning lab tests, vital signs, medications, and procedures, which offer transformaโ€ฆ

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ToMPC: Task-oriented Model Predictive Control via ADMM for Safe Robotic Manipulation

Xinyu Jia, Wenxin Wang, Jun Yang, Yongping Pan, Haoyong Yu ยท 2026

This paper proposes a task-oriented model predictive control (ToMPC) framework for safe and efficient robotic manipulation in open workspaces. The framework unifies collision-free motion and robot-envโ€ฆ

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SmoothVLA: Aligning Vision-Language-Action Models with Physical Constraints via Intrinsic Smoothness Optimization

Jiashun Li, Xiaoyu Shi, Hong Xie, Mingsheng Shang, Yun Lu ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for robotic manipulation. However, existing post-training methods face a dilemma between stability and exploration: Supervised Fโ€ฆ

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Data-Driven Autoregressive Power Prediction for GTernal Robots in the Robotarium

Yassin Abdelmeguid, Ammar Hasan ยท 2026

Energy-aware algorithms for multi-robot systems require accurate power consumption models, yet existing approaches rely on kinematic approximations that fail to capture the complex dynamics of real haโ€ฆ

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LineMaster Pro: A Low-Cost Intelligent Line Following Robot with PID Control and Ultrasonic Obstacle Avoidance for Educational Robotics

Jeni Shahi, Abhishek Shah, A. S. M. Ahsanul Sarkar Akib ยท 2026

Line following robots are fundamental platforms in robotics education, yet commercially available solutions remain prohibitively expensive ($150-300$) while lacking integrated obstacle detection capabโ€ฆ

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Path-conditioned Reinforcement Learning-based Local Planning for Long-Range Navigation

Mateo Haro, Julia Richter, Fan Yang, Cesar Cadena, Marco Hutter ยท 2026

Long-range navigation is commonly addressed through hierarchical pipelines in which a global planner generates a path, decomposed into waypoints, and followed sequentially by a local planner. These syโ€ฆ

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Evaluating Pretrained General-Purpose Audio Representations for Music Genre Classification

Kashish Rai, Mrinmoy Bhattacharjee ยท 2026

This study investigates the use of self-supervised learning embeddings, particularly BYOL-A, in conjunction with a deep neural network classifier for Music Genre Classification. Our experiments demonsโ€ฆ

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Airy Beam Engineering in Near-field Communications: A Tractable Closed-Form Analysis in the Terahertz Band

Wenqi Zhao, Chong Han, Emil Bjornson ยท 2026

Terahertz (THz) communication can offer terabit-per-second rates in future wireless systems, thanks to the ultra-wide bandwidths, but require large antenna arrays. As antenna apertures expand and we eโ€ฆ

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Fine-tuning is Not Enough: A Parallel Framework for Collaborative Imitation and Reinforcement Learning in End-to-end Autonomous Driving

Zhexi Lian, Haoran Wang, Xuerun Yan, Weimeng Lin, Xianhong Zhang, Yongyu Chen, Jia Hu ยท 2026

End-to-end autonomous driving is typically built upon imitation learning (IL), yet its performance is constrained by the quality of human demonstrations. To overcome this limitation, recent methods inโ€ฆ

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ST-VLA: Enabling 4D-Aware Spatiotemporal Understanding for General Robot Manipulation

You Wu, Zixuan Chen, Cunxu Ou, Wenxuan Wang, Wenbo Huang, Lin Cao, Yangtao Chen, Weichao Qiu, Xingyue Quan, Jieqi Shi, Jing Huo, Yang Gao ยท 2026

Robotic manipulation in open-world environments requires reasoning across semantics, geometry, and long-horizon action dynamics. Existing hierarchical Vision-Language-Action (VLA) frameworks typicallyโ€ฆ

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Robust Sim-to-Real Cloth Untangling through Reduced-Resolution Observations via Adaptive Force-Difference Quantization

Yoshihisa Tsurumine, Yuki Kadokawa, Kohei Hayashi, Christian Diehm, Takamitsu Matsubara ยท 2026

Robotic cloth untangling requires progressively disentangling fabric by adapting pulling actions to changing contact and tension conditions. Because large-scale real-world training is impractical due โ€ฆ

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Your Vision-Language-Action Model Already Has Attention Heads For Path Deviation Detection

Jaehwan Jeong, Evelyn Zhu, Jinying Lin, Emmanuel Jaimes, Tuan-Anh Vu, Jungseock Joo, Sangpil Kim, M. Khalid Jawed ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong potential for predicting semantic actions in navigation tasks, demonstrating the ability to reason over complex linguistic instructions andโ€ฆ

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Exploration-assisted Bottleneck Transition Toward Robust and Data-efficient Deformable Object Manipulation

Yujiro Onishi, Ryo Takizawa, Yoshiyuki Ohmura, Yasuo Kuniyoshi ยท 2026

Imitation learning has demonstrated impressive results in robotic manipulation but fails under out-of-distribution (OOD) states. This limitation is particularly critical in Deformable Object Manipulatโ€ฆ

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Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Real-time Generative Model Predictive Control

Grayson Lee, Minh Bui, Shuzi Zhou, Yankai Li, Mo Chen, Ke Li ยท 2026

Diffusion-based models have recently shown strong performance in trajectory planning, as they are capable of capturing diverse, multimodal distributions of complex behaviors. A key limitation of theseโ€ฆ

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REFINE-DP: Diffusion Policy Fine-tuning for Humanoid Loco-manipulation via Reinforcement Learning

Zhaoyuan Gu, Yipu Chen, Zimeng Chai, Alfred Cueva, Thong Nguyen, Yifan Wu, Huishu Xue, Minji Kim, Isaac Legene, Fukang Liu, Matthew Kim, Ayan Barula, Yongxin Chen, Ye Zhao ยท 2026

Humanoid loco-manipulation requires coordinated high-level motion plans with stable, low-level whole-body execution under complex robot-environment dynamics and long-horizon tasks. While diffusion polโ€ฆ

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