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Learning-Based Hierarchical Scene Graph Matching for Robot Localization Leveraging Prior Maps

Nimrod Millenium Ndulue, Jose Andres Millan-Romera, Matteo Giorgi, Holger Voos, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez ยท 2026

Accurate localization is a fundamental requirement for autonomous robots operating in indoor environments. Scene graphs encode the spatial structure of an environment as a hierarchy of semantic entitiโ€ฆ

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A Two Stage Pipeline for Left Atrial Wall Constrained Scar Segmentation and Localization from LGE-MR Images

Bipasha Kundu, Cristian Linte ยท 2026

Accurate segmentation and localization of left atrial (LA) ablation scars from Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE)-MRI is essential for assessing the lesion completeness and guiding ablation therapy. Inโ€ฆ

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Walk With Me: Long-Horizon Social Navigation for Human-Centric Outdoor Assistance

Lingfeng Zhang, Xiaoshuai Hao, Xizhou Bu, Yingbo Tang, Hongsheng Li, Jinghui Lu, Xiu-shen Wei, Jiayi Ma, Yu Liu, Jing Zhang, Hangjun Ye, Xiaojun Liang, Long Chen, Wenbo Ding ยท 2026

Assisting humans in open-world outdoor environments requires robots to translate high-level natural-language intentions into safe, long-horizon, and socially compliant navigation behavior. Existing maโ€ฆ

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A Matrix-Free Galerkin Multigrid Solver and Failure-Mode Screen for Single-GPU 3D SIMP Linear Systems

Shaoliang Yang, Jun Wang, Yunsheng Wang ยท 2026

Large 3D SIMP studies require repeated elasticity solves for density-dependent operators whose finest matrices are expensive to assemble and whose conditioning degrades under high contrast. We study tโ€ฆ

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Variational Neural Belief Parameterizations for Robust Dexterous Grasping under Multimodal Uncertainty

Clinton Enwerem, Shreya Kalyanaraman, John S. Baras, Calin Belta ยท 2026

Contact variability, sensing uncertainty, and external disturbances make grasp execution stochastic. Expected-quality objectives ignore tail outcomes and often select grasps that fail under adverse coโ€ฆ

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Robust Graph Matching through Semantic Relationship Generation for SLAM

David Perez-Saura, Jose Andres Millan-Romera, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Holger Voos, Pascual Campoy, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez ยท 2026

Graph-based representations such as Scene Graphs enable localization in structured indoor environments by matching a locally observed graph, constructed from sensor data, to a prior map. This process โ€ฆ

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Passage-Aware Structural Mapping for RGB-D Visual SLAM

Ali Tourani, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Saad Ejaz, David Perez Saura, Asier Bikandi-Noya, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez, Holger Voos ยท 2026

Doorways and passages are critical structural elements for indoor robot navigation, yet they remain underexplored in modern Visual SLAM (VSLAM) frameworks. This paper presents a passage-aware structurโ€ฆ

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RecoverFormer: End-to-End Contact-Aware Recovery for Humanoid Robots

Zihui Liu ยท 2026

Humanoid robots operating in unstructured environments must recover from unexpected disturbances-a capability that remains challenging for end-to-end control policies. We present RECOVERFORMER, a fullโ€ฆ

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Sample entropy for graph signals: An approach to nonlinear analysis of graph signals

Mei-San Maggie Lei, John Stewart Fabila Carrasco, Javier Escudero ยท 2026

We introduce a graph-signal generalisation of Sample Entropy, denoted SampEn$_{G}$, to quantify irregularity of graph signals on a continuous state space, complementing existing methods on symbolic dyโ€ฆ

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LiveVLN: Breaking the Stop-and-Go Loop in Vision-Language Navigation

Xiangchen Wang, Weiye Zhu, Teng Wang, TianTian Geng, Zekai Zhang, Zhiyuan Qi, Jinyu Yang, Feng Zheng ยท 2026

Recent navigation systems achieve strong benchmark results, yet real-world deployment often remains visibly stop-and-go. This bottleneck arises because the sense-inference-execution loop is still blocโ€ฆ

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Matrix-Free 3D SIMP Topology Optimization with Fused Gather-GEMM-Scatter Kernels

Shaoliang Yang, Jun Wang, Yunsheng Wang ยท 2026

The matrix-free gather-batched-GEMM-scatter pattern eliminates global stiffness assembly for three-dimensional SIMP topology optimization, but the conventional three-stage implementation forces avoidaโ€ฆ

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HCFD: A Benchmark for Audio Deepfake Detection in Healthcare

Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar, Girish, Muskaan Singh ยท 2026

In this study, we present Healthcare Codec-Fake Detection (HCFD), a new task for detecting codec-fakes under pathological speech conditions. We intentionally focus on codec based synthetic speech in tโ€ฆ

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Think before Go: Hierarchical Reasoning for Image-goal Navigation

Pengna Li, Kangyi Wu, Shaoqing Xu, Fang Li, Lin Zhao, Long Chen, Zhi-Xin Yang, Nanning Zheng ยท 2026

Image-goal navigation steers an agent to a target location specified by an image in unseen environments. Existing methods primarily handle this task by learning an end-to-end navigation policy, which โ€ฆ

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ORCA -- Online Regime Correlation Analyzer

Boris Kriuk, Fedor Kriuk ยท 2026

Standard risk models reduce the rich dependence structure of financial markets to scalar volatility estimates, discarding the topological information encoded in cross-asset correlation networks. We prโ€ฆ

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CART: Context-Aware Terrain Adaptation using Temporal Sequence Selection for Legged Robots

Kartikeya Singh, Youngjin Kim, Yash Turkar, Karthik Dantu ยท 2026

Animals in nature combine multiple modalities, such as sight and feel, to perceive terrain and develop an understanding of how to walk on uneven terrain in a stable manner. Similarly, legged robots neโ€ฆ

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Boundary Sampling to Learn Predictive Safety Filters via Pontryagin's Maximum Principle

James Dallas, Thomas Lew, John Talbot, Jonathan DeCastro, Somil Bansal, John Subosits ยท 2026

Safety filters provide a practical approach for enforcing safety constraints in autonomous systems. While learning-based tools scale to high-dimensional systems, their performance depends on informatiโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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. Ourโ€ฆ

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Evolving the Complete Muscle: Efficient Morphology-Control Co-design for Musculoskeletal Locomotion

Lidong Sun, Wentao Zhao, Ye Wang, Huaping Liu, Fuchun Sun ยท 2026

Musculoskeletal robots offer intrinsic compliance and flexibility, providing a promising paradigm for versatile locomotion. However, existing research typically relies on models with fixed muscle physโ€ฆ

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Divergence-Guided Particle Swarm Optimization

Kleyton da Costa, Bernardo Modenesi, Ivan F.M. Menezes, Helio Lopes ยท 2026

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is susceptible to premature convergence when the swarm collapses around the global best, particularly on multimodal landscapes in higher dimensions. We propose Divergโ€ฆ

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Bipedal-Walking-Dynamics Model on Granular Terrains

Xunjie Chen, Xinyan Huang, Peter Shan, Jingang Yi, Tao Liu ยท 2026

Bipeds have demonstrated high agility and mobility in unstructured environments such as sand. The yielding of such granular media brings significant sinkage and slip of the bipedal feet, leading to unโ€ฆ

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