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Shepherding UAV Swarm with Action Prediction Based on Movement Constraints

Yusuke Tsunoda, Yusuke Goto, Takao Sato ยท 2026

In this study, we propose a new sheepdog-inspired control method for a swarm of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which predicts the swarm behavior while explicitly accounting for the motion consโ€ฆ

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When Rolling Gets Weird: A Curved-Link Tensegrity Robot for Non-Intuitive Behavior

Lauren Ervin, Harish Bezawada, Vishesh Vikas ยท 2026

Conventional mobile tensegrity robots constructed with straight links offer mobility at the cost of locomotion speed. While spherical robots provide highly effective rolling behavior, they often lack โ€ฆ

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DeReCo: Decoupling Representation and Coordination Learning for Object-Adaptive Decentralized Multi-Robot Cooperative Transport

Kazuki Shibata, Ryosuke Sota, Shandil Dhiresh Bosch, Yuki Kadokawa, Tsurumine Yoshihisa, Takamitsu Matsubara ยท 2026

Generalizing decentralized multi-robot cooperative transport across objects with diverse shapes and physical properties remains a fundamental challenge. Under decentralized execution, two key challengโ€ฆ

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CASSR: Continuous A-Star Search through Reachability for real time footstep planning

Jiayi Wang, Steve Tonneau ยท 2026

Footstep planning involves a challenging combinatorial search. Traditional A* approaches require discretising reachability constraints, while Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP) supports continuous formulโ€ฆ

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SKYSURF: A Self-learning Framework for Persistent Surveillance using Cooperative Aerial Gliders

Houssem Eddine Mohamadi, Nadjia Kara ยท 2026

The success of surveillance applications involving small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) depends on how long the limited on-board power would persist. To cope with this challenge, alternative renewablโ€ฆ

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Self-supervised Physics-Informed Manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects with Non-negligible Dynamics

Youyuan Long, Gokhan Solak, Sara Zeynalpour, Heng Zhang, Arash Ajoudani ยท 2026

We address dynamic manipulation of deformable linear objects by presenting SPiD, a physics-informed self-supervised learning framework that couples an accurate deformable object model with an augmenteโ€ฆ

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Research on Mechanical Properties and Deformation-Fracture Energy Consumption Characteristics of Plateau Frozen Rocks

Hongbing Yu, Jiyu Wang, Xiaojun Zhang, Mingsheng Zhao ยท 2026

The exploitation of mineral resources in plateau regions is confronted with critical challenges including low blasting efficiency, excessive energy consumption,and compromised operational safety when โ€ฆ

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PRISM: Protocol Refinement through Intelligent Simulation Modeling

Brian Hsu, Priyanka V Setty, Rory M Butler, Ryan Lewis, Casey Stone, Rebecca Weinberg, Thomas Brettin, Rick Stevens, Ian Foster, Arvind Ramanathan ยท 2026

Automating experimental protocol design and execution remains as a fundamental bottleneck in realizing self-driving laboratories. We introduce PRISM (Protocol Refinement through Intelligent Simulationโ€ฆ

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Real-Time Quasi-Static Modeling of UAV Tether Aerodynamics

Max Beffert, Andreas Zell ยท 2025

One of the main limitations of multirotor UAVs is their short flight time due to battery constraints. A practical solution for continuous operation is to power the drone from the ground via a tether. โ€ฆ

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Learning Visually Interpretable Oscillator Networks for Soft Continuum Robots from Video

Henrik Krauss, Johann Licher, Naoya Takeishi, Annika Raatz, Takehisa Yairi ยท 2025

Learning soft continuum robot (SCR) dynamics from video offers flexibility but existing methods lack interpretability or rely on prior assumptions. Model-based approaches require prior knowledge and mโ€ฆ

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Eye-Tracking as a Tool to Quantify the Effects of CAD Display on Radiologists' Interpretation of Chest Radiographs

Daisuke Matsumoto, Tomohiro Kikuchi, Yusuke Takagi, Soichiro Kojima, Ryoma Kobayashi, Daiju Ueda, Kohei Yamamoto, Sho Kawabe, Harushi Mori ยท 2025

Rationale and Objectives: Computer-aided detection systems for chest radiographs are widely used, and concurrent reader displays, such as bounding-box (BB) highlights, may influence the reading procesโ€ฆ

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FSAR-Cap: A Fine-Grained Two-Stage Annotated Dataset for SAR Image Captioning

Jinqi Zhang, Lamei Zhang, Bin Zou ยท 2025

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image captioning enables scene-level semantic understanding and plays a crucial role in applications such as military intelligence and urban planning, but its developmenโ€ฆ

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Multi-Quadruped Cooperative Object Transport: Learning Decentralized Pinch-Lift-Move

Bikram Pandit, Aayam Kumar Shrestha, Alan Fern ยท 2025

We study decentralized cooperative transport using teams of N-quadruped robots with arm that must pinch, lift, and move ungraspable objects through physical contact alone. Unlike prior work that relieโ€ฆ

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Acetrans: An Autonomous Corridor-Based and Efficient UAV Suspended Transport System

Weiyan Lu, Huizhe Li, Yuhao Fang, Zhexuan Zhou, Junda Wu, Yude Li, Youmin Gong, Jie Mei ยท 2025

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with suspended payloads offer significant advantages for aerial transportation in complex and cluttered environments. However, existing systems face critical limitationโ€ฆ

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A Disease-Centric Vision-Language Foundation Model for Precision Oncology in Kidney Cancer

Yuhui Tao, Zhongwei Zhao, Zilong Wang, Xufang Luo, Feng Chen, Kang Wang, Chuanfu Wu, Xue Zhang, Shaoting Zhang, Jiaxi Yao, Xingwei Jin, Xinyang Jiang, Yifan Yang, Dongsheng Li, Lili Qiu, Zhiqiang Shao, Jianming Guo, Nengwang Yu, Shuo Wang, Ying Xiong ยท 2025

The non-invasive assessment of increasingly incidentally discovered renal masses is a critical challenge in urologic oncology, where diagnostic uncertainty frequently leads to the overtreatment of benโ€ฆ

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EcBot: Data-Driven Energy Consumption Open-Source MATLAB Library for Manipulators

Juan Heredia, Christian Schlette, Mikkel Baun Kj{ae}rgaard ยท 2025

Existing literature proposes models for estimating the electrical power of manipulators, yet two primary limitations prevail. First, most models are predominantly tested using traditional industrial rโ€ฆ

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Periodic robust robotic rock chop via virtual model control

Yi Zhang, Fumiya Iida, Fulvio Forni ยท 2025

Robotic cutting is a challenging contact-rich manipulation task where the robot must simultaneously negotiate unknown object mechanics, large contact forces, and precise motion requirements. We introdโ€ฆ

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Reframing SAR Target Recognition as Visual Reasoning: A Chain-of-Thought Dataset with Multimodal LLMs

Chaoran Li, Xingguo Xu, Siyuan Mu ยท 2025

In the context of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image recognition, traditional methods often struggle with the intrinsic limitations of SAR data, such as weak texture, high noise, and ambiguous objecโ€ฆ

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IMA-Catcher: An IMpact-Aware Nonprehensile Catching Framework based on Combined Optimization and Learning

Francesco Tassi, Jianzhuang Zhao, Gustavo J. G. Lahr, Luna Gava, Marco Monforte, Arren Glover, Chiara Bartolozzi, Arash Ajoudani ยท 2025

Robotic catching of flying objects typically generates high impact forces that might lead to task failure and potential hardware damages. This is accentuated when the object mass to robot payload ratiโ€ฆ

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The MOTIF Hand: A Robotic Hand for Multimodal Observations with Thermal, Inertial, and Force Sensors

Hanyang Zhou, Haozhe Lou, Wenhao Liu, Enyu Zhao, Yue Wang, Daniel Seita ยท 2025

Advancing dexterous manipulation with multi-fingered robotic hands requires rich sensory capabilities, while existing designs lack onboard thermal and torque sensing. In this work, we propose the MOTIโ€ฆ

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