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A Knowledge-Driven Approach to Target Speech Extraction in the Presence of Background Sound Effects for Cinematic Audio Source Separation (CASS)

Chun-wei Ho, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Kai Li, Chin-Hui Lee · 2026

We propose a knowledge-driven approach to speech target extraction in the presence of background sound effects already recorded in cinematic audio. The specific knowledge sources studied are manners o…

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HiPAN: Hierarchical Posture-Adaptive Navigation for Quadruped Robots in Unstructured 3D Environments

Jeil Jeong, Minsung Yoon, Seokryun Choi, Heechan Shin, Taegeun Yang, Sung-eui Yoon · 2026

Navigating quadruped robots in unstructured 3D environments poses significant challenges, requiring goal-directed motion, effective exploration to escape from local minima, and posture adaptation to t…

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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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ProDrive: Proactive Planning for Autonomous Driving via Ego-Environment Co-Evolution

Chuyao Fu, Shengzhe Gan, Zhuoli Ouyang, Yuhan Rui, Xiaowei Chi, Sirui Han, Jiankun Wang, Hong Zhang · 2026

End-to-end autonomous driving planners typically generate trajectories from current observations alone. However, real-world driving is highly dynamic, and such reactive planning cannot anticipate futu…

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Integrated Lander-Propulsion-GNC Framework for Autonomous Lunar Powered Descent

Emre Aklan, Fatih Seker, Bekir Gencalioglu, Mehmet Batuhan Kaya, Yigit Serceoglu, Furkan Yavuz, Omer Burak Iskender, Burak Yaglioglu · 2026

This paper presents an integrated lander-propulsion-GNC framework for autonomous lunar powered descent. The BUG VTVL test vehicle serves as the reference platform, with the YUNT V0 throttleable biprop…

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CodeGraphVLP: Code-as-Planner Meets Semantic-Graph State for Non-Markovian Vision-Language-Action Models

Khoa Vo, Sieu Tran, Taisei Hanyu, Yuki Ikebe, Duy Nguyen, Bui Duy Quoc Nghi, Minh Vu, Anthony Gunderman, Chase Rainwater, Anh Nguyen, Ngan Le · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models promise generalist robot manipulation, but are typically trained and deployed as short-horizon policies that assume the latest observation is sufficient for action …

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Energy-Efficient Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning of Non-Convex Regions of Interests

Sourav Raxit, Jose Fuentes, Paulo Padrao, Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz, Md Tamjidul Hoque, Mark Kulp, Leonardo Bobadilla · 2026

This letter presents an energy-efficient multi-robot coverage path planning (MRCPP) framework for large, nonconvex Regions of Interest (ROI) containing obstacles and no-fly zones (NFZ). Existing minim…

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Task-Driven Co-Design of Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems

Maximilian Stralz, Meshal Alharbi, Yujun Huang, Gioele Zardini · 2026

Designing multi-agent robotic systems requires reasoning across tightly coupled decisions spanning heterogeneous domains, including robot design, fleet composition, and planning. Much effort has been …

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MISTY: High-Throughput Motion Planning via Mixer-based Single-step Drifting

Yining Xing, Zehong Ke, Yiqian Tu, Zhiyuan Liu, Wenhao Yu, Jianqiang Wang · 2026

Multi-modal trajectory generation is essential for safe autonomous driving, yet existing diffusion-based planners suffer from high inference latency due to iterative neural function evaluations. This …

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Harmonizing MR Images Across 100+ Scanners: Multi-site Validation with Traveling Subjects and Real-world Protocols

Savannah P. Hays, Lianrui Zuo, Muhammad Faizyab Ali Chaudhary, Kathleen M. Bartz, Samuel W. Remedios, Jinwei Zhang, Jiachen Zhuo, Murat Bilgel, Shiv Saidha, Ellen M. Mowry, Scott D. Newsome, Jerry L. Prince, Blake E. Dewey, Aaron Carass · 2026

Reliable harmonization of heterogeneous magnetic resonance~(MR) image datasets, especially those acquired in pragmatic clinical trials, is critical to advance multi-center neuroimaging studies and tra…

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Learning a Non-linear Surrogate Model for Multistage Stochastic Transmission Planning

Victor Schmitt, Farzaneh Pourahmadi, Angela Flores-Quiroz, Pablo Apablaza, Pierluigi Mancarella · 2026

Transmission expansion planning (TEP) plays a critical role in ensuring power system reliability and facilitating the integration of renewable energy resources. However, this process requires planners…

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Scale-Invariant Sampling in Multi-Arm Bandit Motion Planning for Object Extraction

Servet B. Bayraktar, Andreas Orthey, Marc Toussaint · 2026

Object extraction tasks often occur in disassembly problems, where bolts, screws, or pins have to be removed from tight, narrow spaces. In such problems, the distance to the environment is often on th…

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Mosaic: An Extensible Framework for Composing Rule-Based and Learned Motion Planners

Nick Le Large, Marlon Steiner, Lingguang Wang, Willi Poh, Jan-Hendrik Pauls, Omer Sahin Tas, Christoph Stiller · 2026

Safe and explainable motion planning remains a central challenge in autonomous driving. While rule-based planners offer predictable and explainable behavior, they often fail to grasp the complexity an…

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Homotopy-Guided Potential Games for Congestion-Aware Navigation

Mohammed Irshadh Ismaaeel Sathyamangalam Imran, Lasse Peters, Michael Khayyat, Stefano Arrigoni, Francesco Braghin, Laura Ferranti · 2026

We address the multi-agent motion planning problem where interactions, collisions, and congestion co-exist. Conventional game-theoretic planners capture interactions among agents but often converge to…

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Empirical Prediction of Pedestrian Comfort in Mobile Robot Pedestrian Encounters

Alireza Jafari, Hong-Son Nguyen, Yen-Chen Liu · 2026

Mobile robots joining public spaces like sidewalks must care for pedestrian comfort. Many studies consider pedestrians' objective safety, for example, by developing collision avoidance algorithms, but…

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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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FeaXDrive: Feasibility-aware Trajectory-Centric Diffusion Planning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Baoyun Wang, Zhuoren Li, Ran Yu, Yu Che, Xinrui Zhang, Ming Liu, Jia Hu, Chen Lv, Bo Leng · 2026

End-to-end diffusion planning has shown strong potential for autonomous driving, but the physical feasibility of generated trajectories remains insufficiently addressed. In particular, generated traje…

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From Kinematics to Dynamics: Learning to Refine Hybrid Plans for Physically Feasible Execution

Lidor Erez, Shahaf S. Shperberg, Ayal Taitler · 2026

In many robotic tasks, agents must traverse a sequence of spatial regions to complete a mission. Such problems are inherently mixed discrete-continuous: a high-level action sequence and a physically f…

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Scalable Optimization for Mobility-Aware Coordinated Electric Vehicle Charging in Distribution Power Networks

Yi Ju, Lunlong Li, Jingchun Wang, Scott Moura · 2026

Rapid growth in electric-vehicle (EV) charging demand is placing increasing stress on distribution power networks (DPNs), whose hosting capacity is often limited and spatially uneven. Beyond demonstra…

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Multi-ORFT: Stable Online Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Multi-Agent Diffusion Planning in Cooperative Driving

Haojie Bai, Aimin Li, Ruoyu Yao, Xiongwei Zhao, Tingting Zhang, Xing Zhang, Lin Gao, and Jun Ma · 2026

Closed-loop cooperative driving requires planners that generate realistic multimodal multi-agent trajectories while improving safety and traffic efficiency. Existing diffusion planners can model multi…

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