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RopeDreamer: A Kinematic Recurrent State Space Model for Dynamics of Flexible Deformable Linear Objects

Tim Missal, Lucas Domingues, Berk Guler, Simon Manschitz, Jan Peters, Paula Dornhofer Paro Costa · 2026

The robotic manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects (DLOs) is a fundamental challenge due to the high-dimensional, non-linear dynamics of flexible structures and the complexity of maintaining topolo…

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FreeOcc: Training-Free Embodied Open-Vocabulary Occupancy Prediction

Zeyu Jiang, Changqing Zhou, Xingxing Zuo, Changhao Chen · 2026

Existing learning-based occupancy prediction methods rely on large-scale 3D annotations and generalize poorly across environments. We present FreeOcc, a training-free framework for open-vocabulary occ…

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Unified 4D World Action Modeling from Video Priors with Asynchronous Denoising

Jun Guo, Qiwei Li, Peiyan Li, Zilong Chen, Nan Sun, Yifei Su, Heyun Wang, Yuan Zhang, Xinghang Li, Huaping Liu · 2026

We propose X-WAM, a Unified 4D World Model that unifies real-time robotic action execution and high-fidelity 4D world synthesis (video + 3D reconstruction) in a single framework, addressing the critic…

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Atomic-Probe Governance for Skill Updates in Compositional Robot Policies

Xue Qin, Simin Luan, John See, Cong Yang, Zhijun Li · 2026

Skill libraries in deployed robotic systems are continually updated through fine-tuning, fresh demonstrations, or domain adaptation, yet existing typed-composition methods (BLADE, SymSkill, Generative…

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2D and 3D Grasp Planners for the GET Asymmetrical Gripper

Andrew Goldberg, Ethan Ransing, Anton Kourakin, Cael Magner, Edward H. Adelson, Ken Goldberg · 2026

In this paper, we introduce GET-2D-1.0, a fast grasp planner for the GET asymmetrical gripper that operates from a single-view RGB-D image, using the Ferrari-Canny metric and a novel sampling strategy…

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Robust Graph Matching through Semantic Relationship Generation for SLAM

David Perez-Saura, Jose Andres Millan-Romera, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Holger Voos, Pascual Campoy, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez · 2026

Graph-based representations such as Scene Graphs enable localization in structured indoor environments by matching a locally observed graph, constructed from sensor data, to a prior map. This process …

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DiscreteRTC: Discrete Diffusion Policies are Natural Asynchronous Executors

Pengcheng Wang, Kaiwen Hong, Chensheng Peng, Katherine Driggs-Campbell, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Chenfeng Xu, Chen Tang · 2026

Unlike chatbots, physical AI must act while the world keeps evolving. Therefore, the inter-chunk pause of synchronous executors are fatal for dynamic tasks regardless of how fast the inference is. Asy…

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An analysis of sensor selection for fruit picking with suction-based grippers

Eva Krueger, Marcus Rosette, Joseph R. Davidson · 2026

Robotic fruit harvesting often fails to reliably detect whether a fruit has been successfully picked, limiting efficiency and increasing crop damage. This problem is difficult due to compliant fruit a…

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Passage-Aware Structural Mapping for RGB-D Visual SLAM

Ali Tourani, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Saad Ejaz, David Perez Saura, Asier Bikandi-Noya, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez, Holger Voos · 2026

Doorways and passages are critical structural elements for indoor robot navigation, yet they remain underexplored in modern Visual SLAM (VSLAM) frameworks. This paper presents a passage-aware structur…

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Betting for Sim-to-Real Performance Evaluation

Zaid Mahboob, Yujia Chen, Bowen Weng · 2026

This paper studies the problem of robot performance evaluation, focusing on how to obtain accurate and efficient estimates of real-world behavior under severe constraints on physical experimentation. …

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Predictive Directional Selective Fixed-Filter Active Noise Control for Moving Sources via a Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network

Boxiang Wang, Zhengding Luo, Dongyuan Shi, Junwei Ji, Xiruo Su, Woon-Seng Gan · 2026

Directional Selective Fixed-Filter Active Noise Control (D-SFANC) can effectively attenuate noise from different directions by selecting the suitable pre-trained control filter based on the Direction-…

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Multimodal Diffusion to Mutually Enhance Polarized Light and Low Resolution EBSD Data

Harry Dong, Timofey Efimov, Megna Shah, Jeff Simmons, Sean Donegan, Marc De Graef, Yuejie Chi · 2026

In spite of the utility of 3-D electron back-scattered diffraction (EBSD) microscopy, the data collection process can be time-consuming with serial-sectioning. Hence, it is natural to look at other mo…

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Online Long-Term Voltage Stability Margin Estimation for IBR/DER Dominated Power System with Integrated VSM-Aware TSO-DSO Framework

Ahmed Alkhonain, Kiran Kumar Challa, Amarsagar Reddy Ramapuram Matavalam, Alok Kumar Bharati, Venkataramana Ajjarapu · 2026

The rapid growth of inverter-based resources (IBRs) and distributed energy resources (DERs) has fundamentally altered the long-term voltage stability characteristics of modern power systems. This arti…

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Accurate Frequency Response Modeling in Integrated T&D Co-Simulation via EWMA-RTTA-Based Quadratic Extrapolation

Jong Ha Woo, Qi Xiao, Yu Ma, Zishuo Yang, Victor Daldegan Paduani, Ning Lu · 2026

The large-scale integration of inverter-based resources (IBRs), particularly distributed photovoltaics (DPVs), into distribution networks increases the need for integrated transmission and distributio…

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Cortex 2.0: Grounding World Models in Real-World Industrial Deployment

Adriana Aida, Walid Amer, Katarina Bankovic, Dhruv Behl, Fabian Busch, Annie Bhalla, Minh Duong, Florian Gienger, Rohan Godse, Denis Grachev, Ralf Gulde, Elisa Hagensieker, Junpeng Hu, Shivam Joshi, Tobias Knobloch, Likith Kumar, Damien LaRocque, Keerthana Lokesh, Omar Moured, Khiem Nguyen, Christian Preyss, Ranjith Sriganesan, Vikram Singh, Carsten Sponner, Anh Tong, Dominik Tuscher, Marc Tuscher, Pavan Upputuri · 2026

Industrial robotic manipulation demands reliable long-horizon execution across embodiments, tasks, and changing object distributions. While Vision-Language-Action models have demonstrated strong gener…

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LLM-Guided Safety Agent for Edge Robotics with an ISO-Compliant Perception-Compute-Control Architecture

Xu Huang, Ruofan Zhang, Lu Cheng, Yuefeng Song, Xu Huang, Huayu Zhang, Sheng Yin, Anyang Liang, Chen Qian, Yin Zhou, Xiaoyun Yuan, Yuan Cheng · 2026

Ensuring functional safety in human-robot interaction is challenging because AI perception is inherently probabilistic, whereas industrial standards require deterministic behavior. We present an LLM-g…

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Coherent Direct Multipath SLAM

Benjamin J. B. Deutschmann, Klaus Witrisal, Erik Leitinger · 2026

Challenging indoor and urban environments with severe multipath propagation and obstructed LoS (OLoS) degrade classical radio frequency (RF) positioning. Multipath-based simultaneous localization and …

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Wrench-Aware Admittance Control for Unknown-Payload Manipulation

Hossein Gholampour, Logan E. Beaver · 2026

Unknown payloads can strongly affect compliant robotic manipulation, especially when the payload center of mass is not aligned with the tool center point. In this case, the payload generates an offset…

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DUSG-Tomo-Net: A Deep Unfolded Neural Network for Super-Resolving Gridless Spaceborne SAR Tomography via Learned Toeplitz-Structured Covariance Representation

Kun Qian, Zhuge Xia, Qian Ma, Qi Zhang, Weijian Liu, Xiufeng He · 2026

Synthetic aperture radar tomography (TomoSAR) enables 3-D imaging by exploiting multibaseline acquisitions and has become an important tool for urban mapping. To achieve super-resolution inversion, sp…

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RoomRecon: High-Quality Textured Room Layout Reconstruction on Mobile Devices

Seok Joon Kim, Dinh Duc Cao, Federica Spinola, Se Jin Lee, Kyu Sung Cho · 2026

Widespread RGB-Depth (RGB-D) sensors and advanced 3D reconstruction technologies facilitate the capture of indoor spaces, improving the fields of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and exte…

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