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Trajectory Planning for an Articulated Commercial Vehicle using Model Predictive Contouring Control

A.J. Aertssen, R.G.M. Huisman, I.J.M. Besselink, J. Elfring, M.J.G. van de Molengraft ยท 2026

This paper presents a trajectory planning method for articulated commercial vehicles, specifically tractor-semitrailers, based on Model Predictive Contouring Control (MPCC). Although MPCC has proven eโ€ฆ

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Vision-Language-Action Safety: Threats, Challenges, Evaluations, and Mechanisms

Qi Li, Bo Yin, Weiqi Huang, Ruhao Liu, Bojun Zou, Runpeng Yu, Jingwen Ye, Weihao Yu, Xinchao Wang ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are emerging as a unified substrate for embodied intelligence. This shift raises a new class of safety challenges, stemming from the embodied nature of VLA systems,โ€ฆ

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Will People Enjoy a Robot Trainer? A Case Study with Snoopie the Pacerbot

Maximilian Du, Jennifer Grannen, Shuran Song, Dorsa Sadigh ยท 2026

The physicality of exercise makes the role of athletic trainers unique. Their physical presence allows them to guide a student through a motion, demonstrate an exercise, and give intuitive feedback. Rโ€ฆ

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Scalable DDPM-Polycube: An Extended Diffusion-Based Method for Hexahedral Mesh and Volumetric Spline Construction

Yuxuan Yu, Jiashuo Liu, Hua Tong, Honghua Lou, Yongjie Jessica Zhang ยท 2026

Polycube structures provide parametric domains for all-hexahedral (all-hex) mesh generation and analysis-suitable volumetric spline construction in isogeometric analysis (IGA). Recent learning-based pโ€ฆ

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Online Reinforcement Learning for Safe Gain Scheduling in Nonlinear Quadrotor Control

Muhammad Junayed Hasan Zahed, Chieh Tsai, Salim Hariri, Hossein Rastgoftar ยท 2026

This paper presents an online reinforcement-learning framework for safe gain scheduling of a nonlinear quadcopter controller. Rather than learning thrust and torque commands directly, the proposed metโ€ฆ

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StarVLA-$\alpha$: Reducing Complexity in Vision-Language-Action Systems

Jinhui Ye, Ning Gao, Senqiao Yang, Jinliang Zheng, Zixuan Wang, Yuxin Chen, Pengguang Chen, Yilun Chen, Shu Liu, Jiaya Jia ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for building general-purpose robotic agents. However, the VLA landscape remains highly fragmented and complex: as exisโ€ฆ

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Optimization Under Uncertainty for Energy Infrastructure Planning: A Synthesis of Methods, Tools, and Open Challenges

Rahman Khorramfar, Aron Brenner, Lara Booth, Ana Rivera, Ruaridh Macdonald, Priya Donti, Saurabh Amin ยท 2026

Energy infrastructure planning under uncertainty has become increasingly complex as electrification, interdependence between energy carriers, decarbonization, and extreme weather events reshape long-tโ€ฆ

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Data-adaptive spline surfaces for non-separable hyperelastic energy functions

Simon Wiesheier, Miguel Angel Moreno-Mateos, Paul Steinmann ยท 2026

Invariant-based models for incompressible isotropic hyperelasticity are typically formulated as functions of the first and second invariants, $W = W(\bar{I}_1, \bar{I}_2)$. A widely used class of modeโ€ฆ

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RoboLab: A High-Fidelity Simulation Benchmark for Analysis of Task Generalist Policies

Xuning Yang, Rishit Dagli, Alex Zook, Hugo Hadfield, Ankit Goyal, Stan Birchfield, Fabio Ramos, Jonathan Tremblay ยท 2026

The pursuit of general-purpose robotics has yielded impressive foundation models, yet simulation-based benchmarking remains a bottleneck due to rapid performance saturation and a lack of true generaliโ€ฆ

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Vision-Language Navigation for Aerial Robots: Towards the Era of Large Language Models

Xingyu Xia, Lekai Zhou, Yujie Tang, Xiaozhou Zhu, Hai Zhu, Wen Yao ยท 2026

Aerial vision-and-language navigation (Aerial VLN) aims to enable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to interpret natural language instructions and autonomously navigate complex three-dimensional environโ€ฆ

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KITE: Keyframe-Indexed Tokenized Evidence for VLM-Based Robot Failure Analysis

Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, King Hang Wong, Feras Dayoub ยท 2026

We present KITE, a training-free, keyframe-anchored, layout-grounded front-end that converts long robot-execution videos into compact, interpretable tokenized evidence for vision-language models (VLMsโ€ฆ

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RoboPlayground: Democratizing Robotic Evaluation through Structured Physical Domains

Yi Ru Wang, Carter Ung, Evan Gubarev, Christopher Tan, Siddhartha Srinivasa, Dieter Fox ยท 2026

Evaluation of robotic manipulation systems has largely relied on fixed benchmarks authored by a small number of experts, where task instances, constraints, and success criteria are predefined and diffโ€ฆ

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Foundation Models Defining A New Era In Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition: A Survey And Outlook

Sizhen Bian, Mengxi Liu, Lala Shakti Swarup Ray, Bo Zhou, Bin Guo, Zhiwen Yu, Thomas Ploetz, Paul Lukowicz, Siyu Yuan, Vitor Fortes Rey ยท 2026

Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) underpins many ubiquitous and wearable computing applications, yet current models remain limited by scarce labels, sensor heterogeneity, and weak generaliโ€ฆ

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3D User Localization for Planar Arrays in LoS Near- and Far-Fields via Summed Phase Differences

Sergey Isaev, Nikola Zlatanov ยท 2026

This paper presents a phase-difference-based scheme for three-dimensional (3D) line-of-sight (LoS) user localization using a uniform planar array (UPA), applicable to both near-field and far-field regโ€ฆ

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ARC: Alignment-based RPM Estimation with Curvature-adaptive Tracking

Weiheng Hua, Changyu Hao ยท 2026

Tacho-less rotational speed estimation is critical for vibration-based prognostics and health management (PHM) of rotating machinery, yet traditional methods--such as time-domain periodicity, cepstrumโ€ฆ

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Joint Time-Phase Synchronization for Distributed Sensing Networks via Feature-Level Hyper-Plane Regression

Kailun Tian, Kaili Jiang, Dechang Wang, Yuxin Zhao, Yuxin Shang, Hancong Feng, Bin Tang ยท 2026

Achieving coherent integration in distributed Internet of Things (IoT) sensing networks requires precise synchronization to jointly compensate clock offsets and radio-frequency (RF) phase errors. Convโ€ฆ

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Copilot-Assisted Second-Thought Framework for Brain-to-Robot Hand Motion Decoding

Yizhe Li, Shixiao Wang, Jian K. Liu ยท 2026

Motor kinematics prediction (MKP) from electroencephalography (EEG) is an important research area for developing movement-related brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). While traditional methods often relyโ€ฆ

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Sparse Autoencoders as a Steering Basis for Phase Synchronization in Graph-Based CFD Surrogates

Yeping Hu, Ruben Glatt, Shusen Liu ยท 2026

Graph-based surrogate models provide fast alternatives to high-fidelity CFD solvers, but their opaque latent spaces and limited controllability restrict use in safety-critical settings. A key failure โ€ฆ

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AutoSiMP: Autonomous Topology Optimization from Natural Language via LLM-Driven Problem Configuration and Adaptive Solver Control

Shaoliang Yang, Jun Wang, Yunsheng Wang ยท 2026

We present AutoSiMP, an autonomous pipeline that transforms a natural-language structural problem description into a validated, binary topology without manual configuration. The pipeline comprises fivโ€ฆ

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Accelerated Spline-Based Time-Optimal Motion Planning with Continuous Safety Guarantees for Non-Differentially Flat Systems

Dries Dirckx, Jan Swevers, Wilm Decre ยท 2026

Generating time-optimal, collision-free trajectories for autonomous mobile robots involves a fundamental trade-off between guaranteeing safety and managing computational complexity. State-of-the-art aโ€ฆ

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