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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 · 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 e…

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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 · 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,…

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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 · 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. R…

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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 · 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 p…

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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 · 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 met…

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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 · 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 exis…

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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 · 2026

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

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

Simon Wiesheier, Miguel Angel Moreno-Mateos, Paul Steinmann · 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 mode…

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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 · 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 generali…

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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 · 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 environ…

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

Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, King Hang Wong, Feras Dayoub · 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 (VLMs…

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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 · 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 diff…

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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 · 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 generali…

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

Sergey Isaev, Nikola Zlatanov · 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 reg…

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

Weiheng Hua, Changyu Hao · 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, cepstrum…

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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 · 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. Conv…

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

Yizhe Li, Shixiao Wang, Jian K. Liu · 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 rely…

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

Yeping Hu, Ruben Glatt, Shusen Liu · 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 …

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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 · 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 fiv…

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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 · 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 a…

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