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Robustness Evaluation of a Foundation Segmentation Model Under Simulated Domain Shifts in Abdominal CT: Implications for Health Digital Twin Deployment

Sanghati Basu · 2026

Foundation segmentation models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) have demonstrated strong generalization across natural images; however, their robustness under clinically realistic medical imag…

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Vi-TacMan: Articulated Object Manipulation via Vision and Touch

Leiyao Cui, Zihang Zhao, Sirui Xie, Wenhuan Zhang, Zhi Han, Yixin Zhu · 2025

Autonomous manipulation of articulated objects remains a fundamental challenge for robots in human environments. Vision-based methods can infer hidden kinematics but can yield imprecise estimates on u…

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Data-driven Smile Design: Personalized Dental Aesthetics Outcomes Using Deep Learning

Marcus Lin, Jennifer Lai · 2025

A healthy smile plays a significant role in functional as well as esthetic considerations, improving confidence. It is difficult for dental professionals to strike a balance between esthetic requireme…

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TacMan-Turbo: Proactive Tactile Control for Robust and Efficient Articulated Object Manipulation

Zihang Zhao, Zhenghao Qi, Yuyang Li, Leiyao Cui, Zhi Han, Lecheng Ruan, Yixin Zhu · 2025

Adept manipulation of articulated objects is essential for robots to operate successfully in human environments. Such manipulation requires both effectiveness--reliable operation despite uncertain obj…

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Distributed Multiple Testing with False Discovery Rate Control in the Presence of Byzantines

Daofu Zhang, Mehrdad Pournaderi, Yu Xiang, Pramod Varshney · 2025

This work studies distributed multiple testing with false discovery rate (FDR) control in the presence of Byzantine attacks, where an adversary captures a fraction of the nodes and corrupts their repo…

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Coverage Path Planning For Minimizing Expected Time to Search For an Object With Continuous Sensing

Linh Nguyen · 2024

In this paper, we present several results of both theoretical as well as practical interests. First, we propose the quota lawn mowing problem, an extension of the classic lawn mowing problem in comput…

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HACMan++: Spatially-Grounded Motion Primitives for Manipulation

Bowen Jiang, Yilin Wu, Wenxuan Zhou, Chris Paxton, David Held · 2024

Although end-to-end robot learning has shown some success for robot manipulation, the learned policies are often not sufficiently robust to variations in object pose or geometry. To improve the policy…

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Minimizing Turns in Watchman Robot Navigation: Strategies and Solutions

Hamid Hoorfar, Sara Moshtaghi Largani, Reza Rahimi, Alireza Bagheri · 2023

The Orthogonal Watchman Route Problem (OWRP) entails the search for the shortest path, known as the watchman route, that a robot must follow within a polygonal environment. The primary objective is to…

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Dual Radar SAR Controller

Josiah Smith · 2023

The following is a user guide for the Dual Radar SAR Controller graphical user interface (GUI) to operate the dual radar synthetic aperture radar (SAR) scanner. The scanner was designed in the Spring …

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HACMan: Learning Hybrid Actor-Critic Maps for 6D Non-Prehensile Manipulation

Wenxuan Zhou, Bowen Jiang, Fan Yang, Chris Paxton, David Held · 2023

Manipulating objects without grasping them is an essential component of human dexterity, referred to as non-prehensile manipulation. Non-prehensile manipulation may enable more complex interactions wi…

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PACMAN: a framework for pulse oximeter digit detection and reading in a low-resource setting

Chiraphat Boonnag, Wanumaidah Saengmolee, Narongrid Seesawad, Amrest Chinkamol, Saendee Rattanasomrerk, Kanyakorn Veerakanjana, Kamonwan Thanontip, Warissara Limpornchitwilai, Piyalitt Ittichaiwong, Theerawit Wilaiprasitporn · 2022

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, patients were required to manually input their daily oxygen saturation (SpO2) and pulse rate (PR) values into a health monitoring system-unfortunately, such a proces…

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Sample-and-Forward: Communication-Efficient Control of the False Discovery Rate in Networks

Mehrdad Pournaderi, Yu Xiang · 2022

This work concerns controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) in networks under communication constraints. We present sample-and-forward, a flexible and communication-efficient version of the Benjamin…

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K-sample Multiple Hypothesis Testing for Signal Detection

Uriel Shiterburd, Tamir Bendory, Amichai Painsky · 2022

This paper studies the classical problem of estimating the locations of signal occurrences in a noisy measurement. Based on a multiple hypothesis testing scheme, we design a K-sample statistical test …

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An Integrated Approach to Goal Selection in Mobile Robot Exploration

Miroslav Kulich, Jiri Kubalik, Libor Preucil · 2020

This paper deals with the problem of autonomous navigation of a mobile robot in an unknown 2D environment to fully explore the environment as efficiently as possible. We assume a terrestrial mobile ro…

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Tree Search Techniques for Minimizing Detectability and Maximizing Visibility

Zhongshun Zhang, Yoonchang Sung, Lifeng Zhou, Jonathon M. Smereka, Joseph Lee, Pratap Tokekar · 2018

We introduce and study the problem of planning a trajectory for an agent to carry out a scouting mission while avoiding being detected by an adversarial guard. This introduces an adversarial version o…

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Algorithms for Visibility-Based Monitoring with Robot Teams

Pratap Tokekar, Ashish Kumar Budhiraja, Vijay Kumar · 2016

We study the problem of planning paths for a team of robots for visually monitoring an environment. Our work is motivated by surveillance and persistent monitoring applications. We are given a set of …

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