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Keyframe-Guided Structured Rewards for Reinforcement Learning in Long-Horizon Laboratory Robotics

Yibo Qiu, Shu'ang Sun, Haoliang Ye, Ronald X Xu, Mingzhai Sun ยท 2026

Long-horizon precision manipulation in laboratory automation, such as pipette tip attachment and liquid transfer, requires policies that respect strict procedural logic while operating in continuous, โ€ฆ

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ML-Assisted Bulk Resource Allocation: Custom Outage-Based Loss Function and Reliability Analysis

Amir Masoud Molaei, Nidhi Simmons, David E. Simmons, Okan Yurduseven ยท 2026

Machine learning (ML)-assisted outage-based resource allocation has recently emerged as an effective alternative to conventional scheduling methods in reliability-critical wireless systems. However, eโ€ฆ

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TGM-VLA: Task-Guided Mixup for Sampling-Efficient and Robust Robotic Manipulation

Fanqi Pu, Lei Jiang, Wenming Yang ยท 2026

The performance of robotic imitation learning is fundamentally limited by data quality and training strategies. Prevalent sampling strategies on RLBench suffer from severe keyframe redundancy and imbaโ€ฆ

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AI-IO: An Aerodynamics-Inspired Real-Time Inertial Odometry for Quadrotors

Jiahao Cui, Feng Yu, Linzuo Zhang, Yu Hu, Danping Zou ยท 2026

Inertial Odometry (IO) has gained attention in quadrotor applications due to its sole reliance on inertial measurement units (IMUs), attributed to its lightweight design, low cost, and robust performaโ€ฆ

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LangGap: Diagnosing and Closing the Language Gap in Vision-Language-Action Models

Yuchen Hou, Lin Zhao ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve over 95% success on standard benchmarks. However, through systematic experiments, we find that current state-of-the-art VLA models largely ignore language iโ€ฆ

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A Novel Monte Carlo Gradient Method Based on Meta-learning for Effective Step-size Selection in Active Noise Control

Luyuan Li, Jisheng Bai, Xiruo Su, Xiaoyi Shen, Dongyuan Shi, Woon-seng Gan ยท 2026

Active noise control (ANC) is an effective approach to noise suppression, and the filtered-reference least mean square (FxLMS) algorithm is a widely adopted method in ANC systems, owing to its computaโ€ฆ

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Optimal-Horizon Social Robot Navigation in Heterogeneous Crowds

Jiamin Shi, Haolin Zhang, Yuchen Yan, Shitao Chen, Jingmin Xin, Nanning Zheng ยท 2026

Navigating social robots in dense, dynamic crowds is challenging due to environmental uncertainty and complex human-robot interactions. While Model Predictive Control (MPC) offers strong real-time perโ€ฆ

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HydroShear: Hydroelastic Shear Simulation for Tactile Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning

An Dang, Jayjun Lee, Mustafa Mukadam, X. Alice Wu, Bernadette Bucher, Manikantan Nambi, Nima Fazeli ยท 2026

In this paper, we address the problem of tactile sim-to-real policy transfer for contact-rich tasks. Existing methods primarily focus on vision-based sensors and emphasize image rendering quality whilโ€ฆ

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Acoustic Sensing for Universal Jamming Grippers

Lion Weber, Theodor Wienert, Martin Splettsto{ss}er, Alexander Koenig, Oliver Brock ยท 2026

Universal jamming grippers excel at grasping unknown objects due to their compliant bodies. Traditional tactile sensors can compromise this compliance, reducing grasping performance. We present acoustโ€ฆ

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Layered Safety: Enhancing Autonomous Collision Avoidance via Multistage CBF Safety Filters

Erina Yamaguchi, Ryan M. Bena, Gilbert Bahati, Aaron D. Ames ยท 2026

This paper presents a general end-to-end framework for constructing robust and reliable layered safety filters that can be leveraged to perform dynamic collision avoidance over a broad range of applicโ€ฆ

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FaultXformer: A Transformer-Encoder Based Fault Classification and Location Identification model in PMU-Integrated Active Electrical Distribution System

Kriti Thakur, Alivelu Manga Parimi, Mayukha Pal ยท 2026

Accurate fault detection and localization in electrical distribution systems is crucial, especially with the increasing integration of distributed energy resources (DERs), which inject greater variabiโ€ฆ

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SafeGen-LLM: Enhancing Safety Generalization in Task Planning for Robotic Systems

Jialiang Fan, Weizhe Xu, Mengyu Liu, Oleg Sokolsky, Insup Lee, Fanxin Kong ยท 2026

Safety-critical task planning in robotic systems remains challenging: classical planners suffer from poor scalability, Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based methods generalize poorly, and base Large Languโ€ฆ

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Planning from Observation and Interaction

Tyler Han, Siyang Shen, Rohan Baijal, Harine Ravichandiran, Bat Nemekhbold, Kevin Huang, Sanghun Jung, Byron Boots ยท 2026

Observational learning requires an agent to learn to perform a task by referencing only observations of the performed task. This work investigates the equivalent setting in real-world robot learning wโ€ฆ

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Curriculum Reinforcement Learning for Quadrotor Racing with Random Obstacles

Fangyu Sun, Fanxing Li, Yu Hu, Linzuo Zhang, Yueqian Liu, Wenxian Yu, Danping Zou ยท 2026

Autonomous drone racing has attracted increasing interest as a research topic for exploring the limits of agile flight. However, existing studies primarily focus on obstacle-free racetracks, while theโ€ฆ

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Formation Control for CRLB-Optimal Cooperative Sensing in Low-Altitude Wireless Networks

Jun Wu, Haijia Jin, Nanchi Su, Jinna Li, Haoyuan Pan, Tse-Tin Chan ยท 2026

Cooperative sensing with uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a key enabler for low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs), where sensing accuracy critically depends on the spatial configuration of the UAV โ€ฆ

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From Signals to Causes: A Causal Signal Processing Framework for Robust and Interpretable Clinical Risk Prediction

Surajit Das, Maxine Tan ยท 2026

Learning-based signal processing systems increasingly support high-stakes medical decisions using heterogeneous biomedical signals, including medical images, physiological time series, and clinical reโ€ฆ

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Learning Robust Control Policies for Inverted Pose on Miniature Blimp Robots

Yuanlin Yang, Lin Hong, Fumin Zhang ยท 2026

The ability to achieve and maintain inverted poses is essential for unlocking the full agility of miniature blimp robots (MBRs). However, developing reliable inverted control strategies for MBRs remaiโ€ฆ

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Clinically-aligned ischemic stroke segmentation and ASPECTS scoring on NCCT imaging using a slice-gated loss on foundation representations

Hiba Azeem, Behraj Khan, Tahir Qasim Syed ยท 2026

Rapid infarct assessment on non-contrast CT (NCCT) is essential for acute ischemic stroke management. Most deep learning methods perform pixel-wise segmentation without modeling the structured anatomiโ€ฆ

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Learning to Build: Autonomous Robotic Assembly of Stable Structures Without Predefined Plans

Jingwen Wang, Johannes Kirschner, Paul Rolland, Luis Salamanca, Stefana Parascho ยท 2026

This paper presents a novel autonomous robotic assembly framework for constructing stable structures without relying on predefined architectural blueprints. Instead of following fixed plans, constructโ€ฆ

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Teleoperated Omni-directional Dual Arm Mobile Manipulation Robotic System with Shared Control for Retail Store

Rolif Lima, Somdeb Saha, Nijil George, Vismay Vakharia, Shubham Parab, Sahil Gaonkar, Vighnesh Vatsal, Kaushik Das ยท 2026

The swiftly expanding retail sector is increasingly adopting autonomous mobile robots empowered by artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to gain an edge in the competitive market. Hoโ€ฆ

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