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Generalizable Friction Coefficient Estimation via Material Embedding and Proxy Interaction Modeling

Zhendong Wang, Huamin Wang · 2026

Accurately estimating friction coefficients between arbitrary material pairs is critical for robotics, digital fabrication, and physics-based simulation, but exhaustive pairwise testing scales quadrat…

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Topology Optimization for Materially Efficient Reinforced Concrete Design: Development, Fabrication, and Structural Evaluation

Jackson L. Jewett, Josephine V. Carstensen · 2026

The production of concrete generates roughly 8% of anthropogenic CO2 globally, largely because of the massive quantities that are manufactured. New design methods must be developed and deployed to imp…

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Text-To-Speech with Chain-of-Details: modeling temporal dynamics in speech generation

Jianbo Ma, Richard Cartwright · 2026

Recent advances in Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis have seen the popularity of multi-stage approaches that first predict semantic tokens and then generate acoustic tokens. In this paper, we extend the …

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QGas: Interactive Gas Infrastructure Toolkit

Marco Quantschnig, Yannick Werner, Sonja Wogrin, Thomas Klatzer · 2026

Gas infrastructure datasets are essential inputs for energy system planning to support strategic decision-making toward decarbonization. However, relevant data are typically scattered across heterogen…

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Symmetry Is Almost All You Need: Robust Stability with Uncertainty Induced by Symmetric SRG Regions

Ding Zhang, Di Zhao, Philipp Braun, Jianqi Chen · 2026

This paper investigates the robust stability problem of a feedback system in the presence of uncertainties induced by graphical regions in the plane where the scaled relative graphs (SRGs) reside. Our…

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CableTract: A Co-Designed Cable-Driven Field Robot for Low-Compaction, Off-Grid Capable Agriculture

Ozgur Yilmaz · 2026

Conventional field operations spend most of their energy moving the tractor body, not the implement. Yet feasibility studies for novel agricultural vehicles rarely tie mechanics, energy harvest, draft…

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Towards socio-techno-economic power systems with demand-side flexibility

Hanmin Cai, Federica Bellizio, Yi Guo, Gabriele Humbert, Mina Montazeri, Julie Rousseau, Matthias Brandes, Arnab Chatterjee, Andrea Gattiglio, Leandro von Krannichfeldt, Emmanouil Thrampoulidis, Varsha N. Behrunani, Goran Strbac, Philipp Heer · 2026

Harnessing the demand-side flexibility in building and mobility sectors can help to better integrate renewable energy into power systems and reduce global CO2 emissions. Enabling this sector coupling …

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A Process-Aware Demand Response Framework for Hydrogen-Integrated Zero-Carbon Steel Plants Coupled with Methanol Production

Qiang Ji, Lin Cheng, Yue Zhou, Ning Qi, Kaidi Huang, Jianzhong Wu, Ming Cheng · 2026

The integration of the high penetration of intermittent renewable energy sources (RES) and the retirement of thermal units have significantly aggravated the flexibility scarcity and real-time balancin…

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Compact Keyframe-Optimized Multi-Agent Gaussian Splatting SLAM

Monica M.Q. Li, Pierre-Yves Lajoie, Jialiang Liu, Giovanni Beltrame · 2026

Efficient multi-agent 3D mapping is essential for robotic teams operating in unknown environments, but dense representations hinder real-time exchange over constrained communication links. In multi-ag…

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Emission reduction potential of freeway stop-and-go wave smoothing

Junyi Ji, Derek Gloudemans, Gergely Zachar, William Barbour, Jonathan Sprinkle, Benedetto Piccoli, Daniel B. Work · 2026

Real-world potential of stop-and-go wave smoothing at scale remains largely unquantified. Smoothing freeway traffic waves requires creating a gap so the wave can dissipate, but the gap suggested is of…

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Active-power control strategies in grid-forming power converters to improve transient stability in power systems with 100% converter-based generation

Regulo E. Avila-Martinez, Luis Rouco, Javier Renedo, Lukas Sigrist, Aurelio Garcia-Cerrada · 2026

Grid-forming voltage source converters (GFM-VSCs) play a crucial role in the stability of power systems with large amounts of converter-based generation. Transient stability (angle stability under lar…

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NavTrust: Benchmarking Trustworthiness for Embodied Navigation

Huaide Jiang, Yash Chaudhary, Yuping Wang, Zehao Wang, Raghav Sharma, Manan Mehta, Yang Zhou, Lichao Sun, Zhiwen Fan, Zhengzhong Tu, Jiachen Li · 2026

There are two major categories of embodied navigation: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN), where agents navigate by following natural language instructions; and Object-Goal Navigation (OGN), where agent…

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SG-CoT: An Ambiguity-Aware Robotic Planning Framework using Scene Graph Representations

Akshat Rana, Peeyush Agarwal, K.P.S. Rana, Amarjit Malhotra · 2026

Ambiguity poses a major challenge to large language models (LLMs) used as robotic planners. In this letter, we present Scene Graph-Chain-of-Thought (SG-CoT), a two-stage framework where LLMs iterative…

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Distributed Adaptive Control for DC Power Distribution in Hybrid-Electric Aircraft: Design and Experimental Validation

Wasif H. Syed, Juan E. Machado, Hans Wurfel, Ekrem Hanli, Johannes Schiffer · 2026

To reduce CO2 emissions and tackle increasing fuel costs, the aviation industry is swiftly moving towards the electrification of aircraft. From the viewpoint of systems and control, a key challenge br…

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Data-driven generalized perimeter control: Z\"urich case study

Alessio Rimoldi, Carlo Cenedese, Alberto Padoan, Florian Dorfler, John Lygeros · 2026

Urban traffic congestion is a key challenge for the development of modern cities, requiring advanced control techniques to optimize existing infrastructures usage. Despite the extensive availability o…

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Physicochemical-Neural Fusion for Semi-Closed-Circuit Respiratory Autonomy in Extreme Environments

Phillip Kingston, Nicholas Johnston · 2026

This paper introduces Galactic Bioware's Life Support System, a semi-closed-circuit breathing apparatus designed for integration into a positive-pressure firefighting suit and governed by an AI contro…

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The coordination between TSO and DSO in the context of energy transition - A review

Hang Nguyen, Koen Kok, Trung Thai Tran, Phuong H. Nguyen · 2026

Nowadays, energy transition is ongoing in many countries, aiming to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and CO2 emissions. Besides the positive impacts on the environment, this transition brings technic…

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Unified Learning of Temporal Task Structure and Action Timing for Bimanual Robot Manipulation

Christian Dreher, Patrick Dormanns, Andre Meixner, Tamim Asfour · 2026

Temporal task structure is fundamental for bimanual manipulation: a robot must not only know that one action precedes or overlaps another, but also when each action should occur and how long it should…

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Optimum Battery Depth of Discharge of Stand-alone Hybrid System Using the MOPSO Method

Mohamad Izdin Hlal (HIST), Hussien Elharati (UTPB), Ahmed Altaher (GIPSA-DA, GIPSA-SAIGA, systemes d'algorithmes avances et informatique industrielle) · 2026

This paper presents an optimized design of a Standalone Solar PV/Battery (SSPVB) system to address energy reliability and cost efficiency challenges in off-grid environments. The proposed system integ…

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Visual Cooperative Drone Tracking for Open-Path Gas Measurements

Marius Schaab, Alisha Kiefer, Thomas Wiedemann, Patrick Hinsen, Achim J. Lilienthal · 2026

Open-path Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy offers an effective method for measuring, mapping, and monitoring gas concentrations, such as leaking CO2 or methane. Compared to spatial sampling…

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