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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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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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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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Scout-Rover cooperation: online terrain strength mapping and traversal risk estimation for planetary-analog explorations

Shipeng Liu, J. Diego Caporale, Yifeng Zhang, Xingjue Liao, William Hoganson, Wilson Hu, Shivangi Misra, Neha Peddinti, Rachel Holladay, Ethan Fulcher, Akshay Ram Panyam, Andrik Puentes, Jordan M. Bretzfelder, Michael Zanetti, Uland Wong, Daniel E. Koditschek, Mark Yim, Douglas Jerolmack, Cynthia Sung, Feifei Qian · 2026

Robot-aided exploration of planetary surfaces is essential for understanding geologic processes, yet many scientifically valuable regions, such as Martian dunes and lunar craters, remain hazardous due…

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U-DAVI: Uncertainty-Aware Diffusion-Prior-Based Amortized Variational Inference for Image Reconstruction

Ayush Varshney, Katherine L. Bouman, Berthy T. Feng · 2026

Ill-posed imaging inverse problems remain challenging due to the ambiguity in mapping degraded observations to clean images. Diffusion-based generative priors have recently shown promise, but typicall…

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Sounding Highlights: Dual-Pathway Audio Encoders for Audio-Visual Video Highlight Detection

Seohyun Joo, Yoori Oh · 2026

Audio-visual video highlight detection aims to automatically identify the most salient moments in videos by leveraging both visual and auditory cues. However, existing models often underutilize the au…

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Synthetic Singers: A Review of Deep-Learning-based Singing Voice Synthesis Approaches

Changhao Pan, Dongyu Yao, Yu Zhang, Wenxiang Guo, Jingyu Lu, Zhiyuan Zhu, Zhou Zhao · 2026

Recent advances in singing voice synthesis (SVS) have attracted substantial attention from both academia and industry. With the advent of large language models and novel generative paradigms, producin…

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Terradynamics and design of tip-extending robotic anchors

Deniz Kerimoglu, Nicholas D. Naclerio, Sean Chu, Andrew Krohn, Vineet Kupunaram, Alexander Schepelmann, Daniel I. Goldman, Elliot W. Hawkes · 2025

Most engineered pilings require substantially more force to be driven into the ground than they can resist during extraction. This requires relatively heavy equipment for insertion, which is problemat…

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Quadrupeds for Planetary Exploration: Field Testing Control Algorithms on an Active Volcano

Shubham Vyas, Franek Stark, Rohit Kumar, Hannah Isermann, Jonas Haack, Mihaela Popescu, Jakob Middelberg, Dennis Mronga, Frank Kirchner · 2025

Missions such as the Ingenuity helicopter have shown the advantages of using novel locomotion modes to increase the scientific return of planetary exploration missions. Legged robots can further expan…

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Hybrid Autonomy Framework for a Future Mars Science Helicopter

Luca Di Pierno, Robert Hewitt, Stephan Weiss, Roland Brockers · 2025

Autonomous aerial vehicles, such as NASA's Ingenuity, enable rapid planetary surface exploration beyond the reach of ground-based robots. Thus, NASA is studying a Mars Science Helicopter (MSH), an adv…

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Geometric Decentralized Stability Certificate for Power Systems Based on Projecting DW Shells

Linbin Huang, Liangxiao Luo, Ruohan Leng, Huanhai Xin, Dan Wang, Florian Dorfler · 2025

The development of decentralized stability conditions has gained considerable attention due to the need to analyze multi-agent network systems, such as heterogeneous multi-converter power systems. A r…

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The Phantom of Davis-Wielandt Shell: A Unified Framework for Graphical Stability Analysis of MIMO LTI Systems

Ding Zhang, Xiaokan Yang, Axel Ringh, Li Qiu · 2025

This paper presents a unified framework based on Davis-Wielandt (DW) shell for graphical stability analysis of multi-input and multi-output linear time-invariant feedback systems. Connections between …

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MASC: Integrated Sensing and Communications for the Martian Internet of Space

Haofan Dong, Ozgur B. Akan · 2025

Mars exploration missions increasingly demand reliable communication systems, yet harsh environmental conditions -- particularly frequent dust storms, extreme Doppler effects, and stringent resource c…

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The Milieu, Science & Logic of Feedback Control

Robert R. Bitmead · 2025

'The cardinal sin in control is to believe that the plant is given' Karl Astrom. Astrom, a towering figure of control theory and practice and awardee of the 1993 IEEE Medal of Honor for his work on ad…

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Biologically Inspired Deep Learning Approaches for Fetal Ultrasound Image Classification

Rinat Prochii, Elizaveta Dakhova, Pavel Birulin, Maxim Sharaev · 2025

Accurate classification of second-trimester fetal ultrasound images remains challenging due to low image quality, high intra-class variability, and significant class imbalance. In this work, we introd…

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Risk-Averse Traversal of Graphs with Stochastic and Correlated Edge Costs for Safe Global Planetary Mobility

Olivier Lamarre, Jonathan Kelly · 2025

In robotic planetary surface exploration, strategic mobility planning is an important task that involves finding candidate long-distance routes on orbital maps and identifying segments with uncertain …

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Learning Wavelet-Sparse FDK for 3D Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction

Yipeng Sun, Linda-Sophie Schneider, Chengze Ye, Mingxuan Gu, Siyuan Mei, Siming Bayer, Andreas Maier · 2025

Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) is essential in medical imaging, and the Feldkamp-Davis-Kress (FDK) algorithm is a popular choice for reconstruction due to its efficiency. However, FDK is suscept…

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Learning Rock Pushability on Rough Planetary Terrain

Tuba Girgin, Emre Girgin, Cagri Kilic · 2025

In the context of mobile navigation in unstructured environments, the predominant approach entails the avoidance of obstacles. The prevailing path planning algorithms are contingent upon deviating fro…

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Optimising Kernel-based Multivariate Statistical Process Control

Zina-Sabrina Duma, Victoria Jorry, Tuomas Sihvonen, Satu-Pia Reinikainen, Lassi Roininen · 2025

Multivariate Statistical Process Control (MSPC) is a framework for monitoring and diagnosing complex processes by analysing the relationships between multiple process variables simultaneously. Kernel …

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NaviDiffusor: Cost-Guided Diffusion Model for Visual Navigation

Yiming Zeng, Hao Ren, Shuhang Wang, Junlong Huang, Hui Cheng · 2025

Visual navigation, a fundamental challenge in mobile robotics, demands versatile policies to handle diverse environments. Classical methods leverage geometric solutions to minimize specific costs, off…

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