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Strain in Sound: Soft Corrugated Tube for Local Strain Sensing with Acoustic Resonance

Michael Chun, Ananya Nukala, Tae Myung Huh ยท 2026

We present a soft corrugated tube sensor designed to estimate strain in each half segment. When air flows through the tube, the internal corrugated cavities induce pressure oscillations that excite thโ€ฆ

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Efficient Reinforcement Learning using Linear Koopman Dynamics for Nonlinear Robotic Systems

Wenjian Hao, Yuxuan Fang, Zehui Lu, Shaoshuai Mou ยท 2026

This paper presents a model-based reinforcement learning (RL) framework for optimal closed-loop control of nonlinear robotic systems. The proposed approach learns linear lifted dynamics through Koopmaโ€ฆ

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UniT: Toward a Unified Physical Language for Human-to-Humanoid Policy Learning and World Modeling

Boyu Chen, Yi Chen, Lu Qiu, Jerry Bai, Yuying Ge, Yixiao Ge ยท 2026

Scaling humanoid foundation models is bottlenecked by the scarcity of robotic data. While massive egocentric human data offers a scalable alternative, bridging the cross-embodiment chasm remains a funโ€ฆ

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Mask World Model: Predicting What Matters for Robust Robot Policy Learning

Yunfan Lou, Xiaowei Chi, Xiaojie Zhang, Zezhong Qian, Chengxuan Li, Rongyu Zhang, Yaoxu Lyu, Guoyu Song, Chuyao Fu, Haoxuan Xu, Pengwei Wang, Shanghang Zhang ยท 2026

World models derived from large-scale video generative pre-training have emerged as a promising paradigm for generalist robot policy learning. However, standard approaches often focus on high-fidelityโ€ฆ

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Learning Hybrid-Control Policies for High-Precision In-Contact Manipulation Under Uncertainty

Hunter L. Brown, Geoffrey Hollinger, Stefan Lee ยท 2026

Reinforcement learning-based control policies have been frequently demonstrated to be more effective than analytical techniques for many manipulation tasks. Commonly, these methods learn neural controโ€ฆ

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Multi-Cycle Spatio-Temporal Adaptation in Human-Robot Teaming

Alex Cuellar, Michael Hagenow, Julie Shah ยท 2026

Effective human-robot teaming is crucial for the practical deployment of robots in human workspaces. However, optimizing joint human-robot plans remains a challenge due to the difficulty of modeling iโ€ฆ

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A Gesture-Based Visual Learning Model for Acoustophoretic Interactions using a Swarm of AcoustoBots

Alex Lin, Lei Gao, Narsimlu Kemsaram, Sriram Subramanian ยท 2026

AcoustoBots are mobile acoustophoretic robots capable of delivering mid-air haptics, directional audio, and acoustic levitation, but existing implementations rely on scripted commands and lack an intuโ€ฆ

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Harmonizing MR Images Across 100+ Scanners: Multi-site Validation with Traveling Subjects and Real-world Protocols

Savannah P. Hays, Lianrui Zuo, Muhammad Faizyab Ali Chaudhary, Kathleen M. Bartz, Samuel W. Remedios, Jinwei Zhang, Jiachen Zhuo, Murat Bilgel, Shiv Saidha, Ellen M. Mowry, Scott D. Newsome, Jerry L. Prince, Blake E. Dewey, Aaron Carass ยท 2026

Reliable harmonization of heterogeneous magnetic resonance~(MR) image datasets, especially those acquired in pragmatic clinical trials, is critical to advance multi-center neuroimaging studies and traโ€ฆ

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State Forecasting in an Estimation Framework with Surrogate Sensor Modeling

Sriram Narayanan, Mohamed Naveed Gul Mohamed, Ishan Paranjape, Indranil Nayak, Suman Chakravorty, Mrinal Kumar ยท 2026

In recent years, computational power and data availability breakthroughs have revolutionized our ability to analyze complex physical systems through the inverse problem approach. Data-driven techniqueโ€ฆ

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M$^{2}$GRPO: Mamba-based Multi-Agent Group Relative Policy Optimization for Biomimetic Underwater Robots Pursuit

Yukai Feng, Zhiheng Wu, Zhengxing Wu, Junwen Gu, Junzhi Yu ยท 2026

Traditional policy learning methods in cooperative pursuit face fundamental challenges in biomimetic underwater robots, where long-horizon decision making, partial observability, and inter-robot coordโ€ฆ

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Quadruped Parkour Learning: Sparsely Gated Mixture of Experts with Visual Input

Michael Ziegltrum, Jianhao Jiao, Tianhu Peng, Chengxu Zhou, Dimitrios Kanoulas ยท 2026

Robotic parkour provides a compelling benchmark for advancing locomotion over highly challenging terrain, including large discontinuities such as elevated steps. Recent approaches have demonstrated imโ€ฆ

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Multimodal embodiment-aware navigation transformer

Louis Dezons, Quentin Picard, Remi Marsal, Francois Goulette, David Filliat ยท 2026

Goal-conditioned navigation models for ground robots trained using supervised learning show promising zero-shot transfer, but their collision-avoidance capability nevertheless degrades under distributโ€ฆ

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Reinforcement Learning Enabled Adaptive Multi-Task Control for Bipedal Soccer Robots

Yulai Zhang, Yinrong Zhang, Ting Wu, Linqi Ye ยท 2026

Developing bipedal football robots in dynamiccombat environments presents challenges related to motionstability and deep coupling of multiple tasks, as well ascontrol switching issues between differenโ€ฆ

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Multi-Gait Learning for Humanoid Robots Using Reinforcement Learning with Selective Adversarial Motion Prior

Yuanye Wu, Keyi Wang, Linqi Ye, Boyang Xing ยท 2026

Learning diverse locomotion skills for humanoid robots in a unified reinforcement learning framework remains challenging due to the conflicting requirements of stability and dynamic expressiveness acrโ€ฆ

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RoboWM-Bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating World Models in Robotic Manipulation

Feng Jiang, Yang Chen, Kyle Xu, Yuchen Liu, Haifeng Wang, Zhenhao Shen, Jasper Lu, Shengze Huang, Yuanfei Wang, Chen Xie, Ruihai Wu ยท 2026

Recent advances in large-scale video world models have enabled increasingly realistic future prediction, raising the prospect of leveraging imagined videos for robot learning. However, visual realism โ€ฆ

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Integrated Sensing and Communications for Low-Altitude Economy with Deterministic Sensing and Gaussian Information Signals

Xianxin Song, Xianghao Yu, Jie Xu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng ยท 2026

Reliable surveillance and communication for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are crucial for enabling and sustaining the accelerated growth of the low-altitude economy. Integrated sensing and communicaโ€ฆ

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AI-Enabled Image-Based Hybrid Vision/Force Control of Tendon-Driven Aerial Continuum Manipulators

Shayan Sepahvand, Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi, Farhad Aghili ยท 2026

This paper presents an AI-enabled cascaded hybrid vision/force control framework for tendon-driven aerial continuum manipulators based on constant-strain modeling in $SE(3)$ as a coupled system. The pโ€ฆ

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HALO: Hybrid Auto-encoded Locomotion with Learned Latent Dynamics, Poincar\'e Maps, and Regions of Attraction

Blake Werner, Sergio A. Esteban, Massimiliano De Sa, Max H. Cohen, Aaron D. Ames ยท 2026

Reduced-order models are powerful for analyzing and controlling high-dimensional dynamical systems. Yet constructing these models for complex hybrid systems such as legged robots remains challenging. โ€ฆ

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Safe Control using Learned Safety Filters and Adaptive Conformal Inference

Sacha Huriot, Ihab Tabbara, Hussein Sibai ยท 2026

Safety filters have been shown to be effective tools to ensure the safety of control systems with unsafe nominal policies. To address scalability challenges in traditional synthesis methods, learning-โ€ฆ

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Incremental learning for audio classification with Hebbian Deep Neural Networks

Riccardo Casciotti, Francesco De Santis, Alberto Antonietti, Annamaria Mesaros ยท 2026

The ability of humans for lifelong learning is an inspiration for deep learning methods and in particular for continual learning. In this work, we apply Hebbian learning, a biologically inspired learnโ€ฆ

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