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Split over $n$ resource sharing problem: Are fewer capable agents better than many simpler ones?

Karthik Soma, Mohamed S. Talamali, Genki Miyauchi, Giovanni Beltrame, Heiko Hamann, Roderich Gross ยท 2026

In multi-agent systems, should limited resources be concentrated into a few capable agents or distributed among many simpler ones? This work formulates the split over $n$ resource sharing problem wherโ€ฆ

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Autonomous UAV Pipeline Near-proximity Inspection via Disturbance-Aware Predictive Visual Servoing

Wen Li, Hui Wang, Jinya Su, Cunjia Liu, Wen-Hua Chen, Shihua Li ยท 2026

Reliable pipeline inspection is critical to safe energy transportation, but is constrained by long distances, complex terrain, and risks to human inspectors. Unmanned aerial vehicles provide a flexiblโ€ฆ

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Muscle-inspired magnetic actuators that push, pull, crawl, and grasp

Muhammad Bilal Khan, Florian Hofmann, Kilian Schafer, Matthias Lutzi, Oliver Gutfleisch ยท 2026

Functional magnetic composites capable of large deformation, load bearing, and multifunctional motion are essential for next-generation adaptive soft robots. Here, we present muscle-inspired magnetic โ€ฆ

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Koopman Operator Framework for Modeling and Control of Off-Road Vehicle on Deformable Terrain

Kartik Loya, Phanindra Tallapragada ยท 2026

This work presents a hybrid physics-informed and data-driven modeling framework for predictive control of autonomous off-road vehicles operating on deformable terrain. Traditional high-fidelity terramโ€ฆ

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Budgeted Robust Intervention Design for Financial Networks with Common Asset Exposures

Giuseppe C. Calafiore ยท 2026

In the context of containment of default contagion in financial networks, we here study a regulator that allocates pre-shock capital or liquidity buffers across banks connected by interbank liabilitieโ€ฆ

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Do World Action Models Generalize Better than VLAs? A Robustness Study

Zhanguang Zhang, Zhiyuan Li, Behnam Rahmati, Rui Heng Yang, Yintao Ma, Amir Rasouli, Sajjad Pakdamansavoji, Yangzheng Wu, Lingfeng Zhang, Tongtong Cao, Feng Wen, Xinyu Wang, Xingyue Quan, Yingxue Zhang ยท 2026

Robot action planning in the real world is challenging as it requires not only understanding the current state of the environment but also predicting how it will evolve in response to actions. Vision-โ€ฆ

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Rapid Adaptation of Particle Dynamics for Generalized Deformable Object Mobile Manipulation

Bohan Wu, Roberto Martin-Martin, Li Fei-Fei ยท 2026

We address the challenge of learning to manipulate deformable objects with unknown dynamics. In non-rigid objects, the dynamics parameters define how they react to interactions -- how they stretch, beโ€ฆ

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An Electricity Market with Reactive Power Trading: Incorporating Dynamic Operating Envelopes

Zeinab Salehi, Elizabeth L. Ratnam, Yijun Chen, Ian R. Petersen, Guodong Shi, Duncan S. Callaway ยท 2026

Electricity market design that accounts for grid constraints such as voltage and thermal limits at the distribution level can increase opportunities for the grid integration of Distributed Energy Resoโ€ฆ

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LongAudio-RAG: Event-Grounded Question Answering over Multi-Hour Long Audio

Naveen Vakada, Kartik Hegde, Arvind Krishna Sridhar, Yinyi Guo, Erik Visser ยท 2026

Long-duration audio is increasingly common in industrial and consumer settings, yet reviewing multi-hour recordings is impractical, motivating systems that answer natural-language queries with preciseโ€ฆ

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Smaller is Better: Generative Models Can Power Short Video Preloading

Liming Liu, Jiangkai Wu, Xinggong Zhang ยท 2026

Preloading is widely used in short video platforms to minimize playback stalls by downloading future content in advance. However, existing strategies face a tradeoff. Aggressive preloading reduces staโ€ฆ

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A Scene Graph Backed Approach to Open Set Semantic Mapping

Martin Gunther, Felix Igelbrink, Oscar Lima, Lennart Niecksch, Marian Renz, Martin Atzmueller ยท 2026

While Open Set Semantic Mapping and 3D Semantic Scene Graphs (3DSSGs) are established paradigms in robotic perception, deploying them effectively to support high-level reasoning in large-scale, real-wโ€ฆ

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Spotlighting Task-Relevant Features: Object-Centric Representations for Better Generalization in Robotic Manipulation

Alexandre Chapin (LIRIS), Bruno Machado (LIRIS), Emmanuel Dellandrea (LIRIS), Liming Chen (LIRIS) ยท 2026

The generalization capabilities of robotic manipulation policies are heavily influenced by the choice of visual representations. Existing approaches typically rely on representations extracted from prโ€ฆ

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Passive Beam Shaping via Binary-Coded Apertures

Mohammed E Eltayeb ยท 2026

This paper presents a coded-aperture reflector for indoor mmWave coverage enhancement in obstructed or blocked LoS settings. We model the reflecting aperture using an equivalent array-factor formulatiโ€ฆ

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A Bezier Curve Based Approach to the Convexification of the AC Optimal Power Flow Problem

Carlos Arturo Saldarriaga-Cortes, Carlos Adrian Correa-Florez, Maximiliano Bueno-Lopez, Maria Victoria Gasca-Segura ยท 2025

The Alternating Current Optimal Power Flow (ACOPF) problem remains one of the most fundamental yet computationally challenging tasks in power systems operation and planning due to its nonconvex, nonliโ€ฆ

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Enhancing Grid Resilience for Giga-Watt Scale Data Centers Using High Voltage Circuit Breaker Operated Braking Resistors

Soham Ghosh, Mohammad Ashraf Hossain Sadi ยท 2025

As hyperscale and co-located data centers scale, the electric grid sees an increase in large, voltage-sensitive IT loads with these data center plant size ranging between 500 MW to 2 GW. A sudden lossโ€ฆ

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A Speculative GLRT-Backed Approach for Adversarial Resilience on Deep Learning-Based Array Processing

Nian-Cin Wang, Rajeev Sahay ยท 2025

Classical array processing methods such as the generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT) provide statistically grounded solutions for signal detection and direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation, but theโ€ฆ

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IoT-based Cost-Effective Fruit Quality Monitoring System using Electronic Nose

Anindya Bhattacharjee, Nittya Ananda Biswas, Khondakar Ashik Shahriar, Kawsain Bin Salim ยท 2025

Post-harvest losses due to subjective quality assessment cause significant damage to the economy and food safety, especially in countries like Bangladesh. To mitigate such damages, objective decision-โ€ฆ

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Advanced Hybrid Automated Insulin Delivery System based on Successive Linearization Model Predictive Control: The UniBE System

Vihangkumar V. Naik, Eleonora Manzoni, Clara Escorihuela-Altaba, Jose Garcia-Tirado ยท 2025

Background and objective: Hybrid automated insulin delivery (hAID) systems represent the most advanced therapy for type 1 diabetes (T1D). Current systems rely on linear or linearized models of glucoseโ€ฆ

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Hybrid modeling approach for better identification of building thermal network model and improved prediction

Sang woo Ham, Donghun Kim ยท 2025

The gray-box modeling approach, which uses a semi-physical thermal network model, has been widely used in building prediction applications, such as model predictive control (MPC). However, unmeasured โ€ฆ

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Stronger is not better: Better Augmentations in Contrastive Learning for Medical Image Segmentation

Azeez Idris, Abdurahman Ali Mohammed, Samuel Fanijo ยท 2025

Self-supervised contrastive learning is among the recent representation learning methods that have shown performance gains in several downstream tasks including semantic segmentation. This paper evaluโ€ฆ

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