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Probabilistic Hazard Analysis Framework with Stochastic Optimal Control for Deteriorating Civil Infrastructure Systems

Sudhir P. Jodha, Konstantinos G. Papakonstantinou · 2026

The safety and resilience of civil infrastructure systems are increasingly threatened by compounded risks from various hazard events and structural deterioration due to environmental stressors. This s…

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Mask World Model: Predicting What Matters for Robust Robot Policy Learning

Yunfan Lou, Xiaowei Chi, Xiaojie Zhang, Zezhong Qian, Chengxuan Li, Rongyu Zhang, Yaoxu Lyu, Guoyu Song, Chuyao Fu, Haoxuan Xu, Pengwei Wang, Shanghang Zhang · 2026

World models derived from large-scale video generative pre-training have emerged as a promising paradigm for generalist robot policy learning. However, standard approaches often focus on high-fidelity…

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PROMETHEE-based Modeling of Endogenous Behavioral Uncertainty of EV Owners

Dipayan Sarkar, Qifeng Li · 2026

The electric vehicle (EV) charging demands (CD) are jointly determined by the EV owners' behavior (i.e., human factor) and the electricity prices (i.e., decisions of distribution system operators (DSO…

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On-Line Policy Iteration with Trajectory-Driven Policy Generation

Yuchao Li, Fei Chen, Yingke Li, Chuchu Fan, Dimitri Bertsekas · 2026

We consider deterministic finite-horizon optimal control problems with a fixed initial state. We introduce an on-line policy iteration method, which starting from a given policy, however obtained, gen…

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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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Olfactory pursuit: catching a moving odor source in complex flows

Maurizio Carbone, Lorenzo Piro, Robin A. Heinonen, Luca Biferale, Massimo Cencini, Antonio Celani · 2026

Locating and intercepting a moving target from possibly delayed, intermittent sensory signals is a paradigmatic problem in decision-making under uncertainty, and a fundamental challenge for, e.g., ani…

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Structural Regularities of Cinema SDR-to-HDR Mapping in a Controlled Mastering Workflow: A Pixel-wise Case Study on ASC StEM2

Xin Zhang, Xiaoyi Chen · 2026

We present an empirical case study of cinema SDR-to-HDR mapping using ASC StEM2, a rare common-source dataset containing EXR scene-referred images and matched SDR/HDR cinema release masters from the s…

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Sampling Matters: The Effect of ECG Frequency on Deep Learning-Based Atrial Fibrillation Detection

Arjan Mahmuod, Adrian Rod Hammerstad, Muzaffar Yousef, Yngve Sebastian Heill, Jonas L. Isaksen, J{o}rgen K. Kanters, Pal Halvorsen, Vajira Thambawita · 2026

Deep learning models for atrial fibrillation (AF) detection are increasingly trained on heterogeneous electrocardiogram (ECG) datasets with varying sampling frequencies, yet the specific consequences …

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Orientation Matters: Learning Radiation Patterns of Multi-Rotor UAVs In-Flight to Enhance Communication Availability Modeling

Martin Zoula, Daniel Bonilla Licea, Jan Faigl, Vaclav Navratil, Martin Saska · 2026

The paper presents an approach for learning antenna Radiation Patterns (RPs) of a pair of heterogeneous quadrotor Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) by calibration flight data. RPs are modeled either as …

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Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Cooperative Tactical Deconfliction of Small Unmanned Aerial Systems

Iman Sharifi, Alex Zongo, Peng Wei · 2026

The growing deployment of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUASs) in low-altitude airspaces has increased the need for reliable tactical deconfliction under safety-critical constraints. Tactical deconfl…

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Uncertainty Matters: Structured Probabilistic Online Mapping for Motion Prediction in Autonomous Driving

Pritom Gogoi, Faris Janjos, Bin Yang, Andreas Look · 2026

Online map generation and trajectory prediction are critical components of the autonomous driving perception-prediction-planning pipeline. While modern vectorized mapping models achieve high geometric…

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Why Cognitive Robotics Matters: Lessons from OntoAgent and LLM Deployment in HARMONIC for Safety-Critical Robot Teaming

Sanjay Oruganti, Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane, Jesse English, Michael Roberts, Christian Arndt, Ramviyas Parasuraman, Luis Sentis · 2026

Deploying embodied AI agents in the physical world demands cognitive capabilities for long-horizon planning that execute reliably, deterministically, and transparently. We present HARMONIC, a cognitiv…

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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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What Matters for Scalable and Robust Learning in End-to-End Driving Planners?

David Holtz, Niklas Hanselmann, Simon Doll, Marius Cordts, Bernt Schiele · 2026

End-to-end autonomous driving has gained significant attention for its potential to learn robust behavior in interactive scenarios and scale with data. Popular architectures often build on separate mo…

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R2F: Repurposing Ray Frontiers for LLM-free Object Navigation

Francesco Argenziano, John Mark Alexis Marcelo, Michele Brienza, Abdel Hakim Drid, Emanuele Musumeci, Daniele Nardi, Domenico D. Bloisi, Vincenzo Suriani · 2026

Zero-shot open-vocabulary object navigation has progressed rapidly with the emergence of large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs), now widely used as high-level decision-ma…

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POIROT: Investigating Direct Tangible vs. Digitally Mediated Interaction and Attitude Moderation in Multi-party Murder Mystery Games

Wen Chen, Rongxi Chen, Shankai Chen, Huiyang Gong, Minghui Guo, Yingri Xu, Xintong Wu, Xinyi Fu · 2026

As social robots take on increasingly complex roles like game masters (GMs) in multi-party games, the expectation that physicality universally enhances user experience remains debated. This study chal…

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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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X-Loco: Towards Generalist Humanoid Locomotion Control via Synergetic Policy Distillation

Dewei Wang, Xinmiao Wang, Chenyun Zhang, Jiyuan Shi, Yingnan Zhao, Chenjia Bai, Xuelong Li · 2026

While recent advances have demonstrated strong performance in individual humanoid skills such as upright locomotion, fall recovery and whole-body coordination, learning a single policy that masters al…

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Self-supervised Domain Adaptation for Visual 3D Pose Estimation of Nano-drone Racing Gates by Enforcing Geometric Consistency

Nicholas Carlotti, Michele Antonazzi, Elia Cereda, Mirko Nava, Nicola Basilico, Daniele Palossi, Alessandro Giusti · 2026

We consider the task of visually estimating the relative pose of a drone racing gate in front of a nano-quadrotor, using a convolutional neural network pre-trained on simulated data to regress the gat…

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Rhythm: Learning Interactive Whole-Body Control for Dual Humanoids

Hongjin Chen, Wei Zhang, Pengfei Li, Shihao Ma, Ke Ma, Yujie Jin, Zijun Xu, Xiaohui Wang, Yupeng Zheng, Zining Wang, Jieru Zhao, Yilun Chen, Wenchao Ding · 2026

Realizing interactive whole-body control for multi-humanoid systems is critical for unlocking complex collaborative capabilities in shared environments. Although recent advancements have significantly…

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