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FlexiTac: A Low-Cost, Open-Source, Scalable Tactile Sensing Solution for Robotic Systems

Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li · 2026

We present FlexiTac, a low-cost, open-source, and scalable piezoresistive tactile sensing solution designed for robotic end-effectors. FlexiTac is a practical "plug-in" module consisting of (i) thin, …

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Design and Characteristics of a Thin-Film ThermoMesh for the Efficient Embedded Sensing of a Spatio-Temporally Sparse Heat Source

Sajjad Boorghan Farahan, Ahmed Alajlouni, Jingzhou Zhao · 2026

This work presents ThermoMesh, a passive thin-film thermoelectric mesh sensor designed to detect and characterize spatio-temporally sparse heat sources through conduction-based thermal imaging. The de…

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Sensing-Assisted Channel Estimation for Flexible-Antenna Systems: A Unified Framework

Ruoxiao Cao, Wentao Yu, Zixin Wang, Shenghui Song, Jun Zhang, Yi Gong, Khaled B. Letaief · 2026

Flexible-antenna systems, which use a small number of radio frequency (RF) chains to dynamically access a large set of candidate antenna locations, have emerged as a hardware-efficient architecture fo…

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Representative Spectral Correlation Network for Multi-source Remote Sensing Image Classification

Chuanzheng Gong, Feng Gao, Junyan Lin, Junyu Dong, Qian Du · 2026

Hyperspectral image (HSI) and SAR/LiDAR data offer complementary spectral and structural information for land-cover classification. However, their effective fusion remains challenging due to two major…

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Stochastic Entanglement of Deterministic Origami Tentacles For Universal Robotic Gripping

Alec Boron, Bokun Zheng, Ziyang Zhou, Noel Naughton, Suyi Li · 2026

Origami-inspired robotic grippers have shown promising potential for object manipulation tasks due to their compact volume and mechanical flexibility. However, robust capture of objects with random sh…

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Multi-Modal Fiber Sensing for OffshoreEnvironmental and Infrastructure Monitoring

Konstantinos Alexoudis, Florian Azendorf, Alvaro Doval, Steinar Bj{o}rnstad, Jasper Muller, Vincent Sleiffer, Chigo Okonkwo, Tom Bradley · 2026

Monitoring a 118 km subsea cable using Distributed acoustic, state-of-polarization, and Brillouin sensing captured storm-induced strain up to $\approx 0.003 \mu\epsilon$ (dynamic) and $\approx 180 \mu…

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Optimal-Control Suggestion for Congestion on Freeways using Data Assimilation of Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing

Yoshiyuki Yajima, Hemant Prasad, Daisuke Ikefuji, Takemasa Suzuki, Shin Tominaga, Hitoshi Sakurai, Manabu Otani · 2026

This paper presents the optimal-control suggestion for congestion on freeways using data assimilation (DA) of distributed fiber-optic sensing (DFOS). To simultaneously maximize throughput and avoid/mi…

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Privileged Foresight Distillation: Zero-Cost Future Correction for World Action Models

Pengcheng Fang, Hongli Chen, Xiaohao Cai · 2026

World action models jointly predict future video and action during training, raising an open question about what role the future-prediction branch actually plays. A recent finding shows that this bran…

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Improving Sensing Coverage and Compliance of 3D-Printed Artificial Skins Through Multi-Modal Sensing and Soft Materials

Carson Kohlbrenner, Caleb Escobedo, Sayak Ray, Alexander Dickhans, Anna Soukhovei, Nickolaus Jackoski, Lyle Antieau, Alessandro Roncone · 2026

3D-printed artificial skins are a scalable approach to whole-body tactile and proximity coverage, but prior implementations have been limited to unimodal sensing and rigid materials. To improve the pr…

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Dynamic UGV-UAV Cooperative Path Planning in Uncertain Environments

Ninh Nguyen, Srinivas Akella · 2026

This paper addresses the Dynamic UGV-UAV Cooperative Path Planning (DUCPP) problem involving one unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) assisted by one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating on an u…

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Wave Tank Experiment for Sea State Monitoring with Distributed Acoustic Sensing

Yoshiyuki Yajima, Sakiko Mishima, Noriyuki Tonami, Tomoyuki Hino, Shugo Aibe, Junichiro Saikawa, Koji Mizuguchi · 2026

Monitoring sea states across the offshore wind farm areas is essential to keep their structures safe, efficiently operate the systems, and assess the environmental effects of wind turbines. Convention…

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Monitoring exposure-length variations in submarine power cables using distributed fiber-optic sensing

Sakiko Mishima, Yoshiyuki Yajima, Noriyuki Tonami, Tomoyuki Hino, Shugo Aibe, Junichiro Saikawa, Koji Mizuguchi · 2026

This study proposes an anomaly-detection framework for monitoring exposure-length variations in submarine free-span cables using Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), which is one of the distributed fib…

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Deep Learning-Enabled Dissolved Oxygen Sensing in Biofouling Environments for Ocean Monitoring

Nikolaos Salaris, Adrien Desjardins, Manish K. Tiwari · 2026

The escalating climate crisis and ecosystem degradation demand intelligent, low-cost sensors capable of robust, long-term monitoring in real-world environments. Absolute dissolved oxygen (DO) concentr…

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Toward Low-Altitude Embodied Intelligence: A Sensing-Communication-Computation-Control Closed-Loop Perspective

Jihao Luo, Zesong Fei, Xinyi Wang, Shuntian Tang, Zilong Liu, Yiqing Zhou · 2026

The rapid growth of the low-altitude economy drives increasingly autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations, giving rise to low-altitude embodied intelligence (LAEI), in which sensing, commun…

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Cooperative Informative Sensing for Monitoring Dynamic Indoor Environments via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Kanghoon Lee, Matthew M. Sato, Jinnyeong Yang, Seungro Lee, Sujin Lee, Jiachen Li, Kuk-Jin Yoon, Jinkyoo Park, Kincho H. Law, Yoonjin Yoon · 2026

Monitoring human activity in indoor environments is important for applications such as facility management, safety assessment, and space utilization analysis. While mobile robot teams offer the potent…

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Learning-augmented robotic automation for real-world manufacturing

Yunho Kim, Quan Nguyen, Taewhan Kim, Youngjin Heo, Joonho Lee · 2026

Industrial robots are widely used in manufacturing, yet most manipulation still depends on fixed waypoint scripts that are brittle to environmental changes. Learning-based control offers a more adapti…

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Learn Weightlessness: Imitate Non-Self-Stabilizing Motions on Humanoid Robot

Yucheng Xin, Jiacheng Bao, Haoran Yang, Wenqiang Que, Dong Wang, Junbo Tan, Xueqian Wang, Bin Zhao, Xuelong Li · 2026

The integration of imitation and reinforcement learning has enabled remarkable advances in humanoid whole-body control, facilitating diverse human-like behaviors. However, research on environment-depe…

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FingerEye: Continuous and Unified Vision-Tactile Sensing for Dexterous Manipulation

Zhixuan Xu, Yichen Li, Xuanye Wu, Tianyu Qiu, Lin Shao · 2026

Dexterous robotic manipulation requires comprehensive perception across all phases of interaction: pre-contact, contact initiation, and post-contact. Such continuous feedback allows a robot to adapt i…

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Enhancing the physical layer security with bending beams

Sotiris Droulias, Giorgos Stratidakis, Angeliki Alexiou · 2026

Wavefront engineering for applications in near-field wireless connectivity is gradually becoming common ground. In this landscape, beams that propagate on bent paths are ideal candidates for dynamic b…

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Strain in Sound: Soft Corrugated Tube for Local Strain Sensing with Acoustic Resonance

Michael Chun, Ananya Nukala, Tae Myung Huh · 2026

We present a soft corrugated tube sensor designed to estimate strain in each half segment. When air flows through the tube, the internal corrugated cavities induce pressure oscillations that excite th…

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