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Hierarchical Audio-Visual-Proprioceptive Fusion for Precise Robotic Manipulation

Siyuan Li, Jiani Lu, Yu Song, Xianren Li, Bo An, Peng Liu ยท 2026

Existing robotic manipulation methods primarily rely on visual and proprioceptive observations, which may struggle to infer contact-related interaction states in partially observable real-world enviroโ€ฆ

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TactAlign: Human-to-Robot Policy Transfer via Tactile Alignment

Youngsun Wi, Jessica Yin, Elvis Xiang, Akash Sharma, Jitendra Malik, Mustafa Mukadam, Nima Fazeli, Tess Hellebrekers ยท 2026

Human demonstrations collected by wearable devices (e.g., tactile gloves) provide fast and dexterous supervision for policy learning, and are guided by rich, natural tactile feedback. However, a key cโ€ฆ

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ONRAP: Occupancy-driven Noise-Resilient Autonomous Path Planning

Faizan M. Tariq, Avinash Singh, Vipul Ramtekkar, Jovin D'sa, David Isele, Yosuke Sakamoto, Sangjae Bae ยท 2026

Dynamic path planning must remain reliable in the presence of sensing noise, uncertain localization, and incomplete semantic perception. We propose a practical, implementation-friendly planner that opโ€ฆ

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Inferring Turn-Rate-Limited Engagement Zones with Sacrificial Agents for Safe Trajectory Planning

Grant Stagg, Cameron K. Peterson ยท 2026

This paper presents a learning-based framework for estimating pursuer parameters in turn-rate-limited pursuit-evasion scenarios using sacrificial agents. Each sacrificial agent follows a straight-lineโ€ฆ

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Imitating What Works: Simulation-Filtered Modular Policy Learning from Human Videos

Albert J. Zhai, Kuo-Hao Zeng, Jiasen Lu, Ali Farhadi, Shenlong Wang, Wei-Chiu Ma ยท 2026

The ability to learn manipulation skills by watching videos of humans has the potential to unlock a new source of highly scalable data for robot learning. Here, we tackle prehensile manipulation, in wโ€ฆ

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Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies for Embodied Reasoning and Hierarchical Control

William Chen, Jagdeep Singh Bhatia, Catherine Glossop, Nikhil Mathihalli, Ria Doshi, Andy Tang, Danny Driess, Karl Pertsch, Sergey Levine ยท 2026

Pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) can make semantic and visual inferences across diverse settings, providing valuable common-sense priors for robotic control. However, effectively grounding thiโ€ฆ

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Encoder initialisation methods in the model augmentation setting

J.H. Hoekstra, B. Gyorok, R. Toth, M. Schoukens ยท 2026

Nonlinear system identification (NL-SI) has proven to be effective in obtaining accurate models for highly complex systems. Recent encoder-based methods for artificial neural network state-space (ANN-โ€ฆ

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SENSE-STEP: Learning Sim-to-Real Locomotion for a Sensory-Enabled Soft Quadruped Robot

Storm de Kam, Ebrahim Shahabi, Cosimo Della Santina ยท 2026

Robust closed-loop locomotion remains challenging for soft quadruped robots due to high-dimensional dynamics, actuator hysteresis, and difficult-to-model contact interactions, while conventional proprโ€ฆ

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Efficient Plug-and-Play method for Dynamic Imaging Via Kalman Smoothing

Benjamin Hawkes, Mike Davies, Victor Elvira, Audrey Repetti ยท 2026

State-space models (SSM) are common in signal processing, where Kalman smoothing (KS) methods are state-of-the-art. However, traditional KS techniques lack expressivity as they do not incorporate spatโ€ฆ

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How Swarms Differ: Challenges in Collective Behaviour Comparison

Andre Fialho Jesus, Jonas Kuckling ยท 2026

Collective behaviours often need to be expressed through numerical features, e.g., for classification or imitation learning. This problem is often addressed by proposing an ad-hoc feature set for a paโ€ฆ

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A two-step approach for speech enhancement in low-SNR scenarios using cyclostationary beamforming and DNNs

Giovanni Bologni, Nicolas Arrieta Larraza, Richard Heusdens, Richard C. Hendriks ยท 2026

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) often struggle to suppress noise at low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). This paper addresses speech enhancement in scenarios dominated by harmonic noise and proposes a frameโ€ฆ

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Learning Native Continuation for Action Chunking Flow Policies

Yufeng Liu, Hang Yu, Juntu Zhao, Bocheng Li, Di Zhang, Mingzhu Li, Wenxuan Wu, Yingdong Hu, Junyuan Xie, Junliang Guo, Dequan Wang, Yang Gao ยท 2026

Action chunking enables Vision Language Action (VLA) models to run in real time, but naive chunked execution often exhibits discontinuities at chunk boundaries. Real-Time Chunking (RTC) alleviates thiโ€ฆ

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Data Augmentation and Attention for massive MIMO-based Indoor Localization in Changing Environments

Luisa Schuhmacher, Hazem Sallouha, Ihsane Gryech, Sofie Pollin ยท 2026

The demand for high-precision indoor localization has grown significantly with the rise of smart environments, industrial automation, and location-aware applications. While massive Multiple-Input and โ€ฆ

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Dual-Phase Cross-Modal Contrastive Learning for CMR-Guided ECG Representations for Cardiovascular Disease Assessment

Laura Alvarez-Florez, Angel Bujalance-Gomez, Femke Raijmakers, Samuel Ruiperez-Campillo, Maarten Z. H. Kolk, Jesse Wiers, Julia Vogt, Erik J. Bekkers, Ivana Isgum, Fleur V. Y. Tjong ยท 2026

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) offers detailed evaluation of cardiac structure and function, but its limited accessibility restricts use to selected patient populations. In contrast, the eleโ€ฆ

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CLOT: Closed-Loop Global Motion Tracking for Whole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation

Tengjie Zhu, Guanyu Cai, Yang Zhaohui, Guanzhu Ren, Haohui Xie, ZiRui Wang, Junsong Wu, Jingbo Wang, Xiaokang Yang, Yao Mu, Yichao Yan ยท 2026

Long-horizon whole-body humanoid teleoperation remains challenging due to accumulated global pose drift, particularly on full-sized humanoids. Although recent learning-based tracking methods enable agโ€ฆ

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SKYSURF: A Self-learning Framework for Persistent Surveillance using Cooperative Aerial Gliders

Houssem Eddine Mohamadi, Nadjia Kara ยท 2026

The success of surveillance applications involving small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) depends on how long the limited on-board power would persist. To cope with this challenge, alternative renewablโ€ฆ

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3DLAND: 3D Lesion Abdominal Anomaly Localization Dataset

Mehran Advand, Zahra Dehghanian, Navid Faraji, Reza Barati, Seyed Amir Ahmad Safavi-Naini, Hamid R. Rabiee ยท 2026

Existing medical imaging datasets for abdominal CT often lack three-dimensional annotations, multi-organ coverage, or precise lesion-to-organ associations, hindering robust representation learning andโ€ฆ

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SafeFlowMPC: Predictive and Safe Trajectory Planning for Robot Manipulators with Learning-based Policies

Thies Oelerich, Gerald Ebmer, Christian Hartl-Nesic, Andreas Kugi ยท 2026

The emerging integration of robots into everyday life brings several major challenges. Compared to classical industrial applications, more flexibility is needed in combination with real-time reactivitโ€ฆ

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Empirical Validation of a Dual-Defense Mechanism Reshaping Wholesale Electricity Price Dynamics in Singapore

Huang Zhenyu, Yuan Zhao ยท 2026

While ex-ante screening and static price caps are global standards for mitigating price volatility, Singapore's electricity market employs a unique dual-defense mechanism integrating vesting contractsโ€ฆ

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Flexible RISs: Learning-based Array Manifold Estimation and Phase-shift Optimization

Mohamadreza Delbari, Ehsan Mohammadi, Mostafa Darabi, Arash Asadi, Alejandro Jimenez-Saez, Vahid Jamali ยท 2026

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are envisioned as a key enabler for next-generation wireless networks, offering programmable control over propagation environments. While extensive research โ€ฆ

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