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OmniRobotHome: A Multi-Camera Platform for Real-Time Multiadic Human-Robot Interaction

Junyoung Lee, Sookwan Han, Jeonghwan Kim, Inhee Lee, Mingi Choi, Jisoo Kim, Wonjung Woo, Hanbyul Joo · 2026

Human-robot collaboration has been studied primarily in dyadic or sequential settings. However, real homes require multiadic collaboration, where multiple humans and robots share a workspace, acting c…

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SASI: Leveraging Sub-Action Semantics for Robust Early Action Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction

Yongpeng Cao, Masahiro Hirano, Hyuno Kim, Yuji Yamakawa · 2026

Understanding human actions is critical for advancing behavior analysis in human-robot interaction. Particularly in tasks that demand quick and proactive feedback, robots must recognize human actions …

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Safe Navigation using Neural Radiance Fields via Reachable Sets

Omanshu Thapliyal, Malarvizhi Sankaranarayanasamy, Ravigopal Vennelakanti · 2026

Safe navigation in cluttered environments is an important challenge for autonomous systems. Robots navigating through obstacle ridden scenarios need to be able to navigate safely in the presence of ob…

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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 · 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 ma…

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Estimation of Unknown Parameters in Presence of Perturbations and Noises with Application to GPEBO Design

Anton Glushchenko, Konstantin Lastochkin · 2026

A problem of online estimation of unknown parameters is considered for a linear regression equation, which is affected by an additive perturbation that can be caused by measurement noise (that corrupt…

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Full-Body Dynamic Safety for Robot Manipulators: 3D Poisson Safety Functions for CBF-Based Safety Filters

Meg Wilkinson, Gilbert Bahati, Ryan M. Bena, Emily Fourney, Joel W. Burdick, Aaron D. Ames · 2026

Collision avoidance for robotic manipulators requires enforcing full-body safety constraints in high-dimensional configuration spaces. Control Barrier Function (CBF) based safety filters have proven e…

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A Vision-Language-Action Model for Adaptive Ultrasound-Guided Needle Insertion and Needle Tracking

Yuelin Zhang, Qingpeng Ding, Longxiang Tang, Chengyu Fang, Shing Shin Cheng · 2026

Ultrasound (US)-guided needle insertion is a critical yet challenging procedure due to dynamic imaging conditions and difficulties in needle visualization. Many methods have been proposed for automate…

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User Mobility Demands Near-Field Communications in Terahertz Band Wireless Networks Beyond 6G

Peng Zhang, Vitaly Petrov, Arjun Singh, Emil Bjornson, Josep Miquel Jornet · 2026

Near-field propagation is often unavoidable at terahertz (THz) frequencies due to the large apertures needed for sufficient array gain, yet near-field operation complicates practical system design, es…

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Uncertainty-based perturb and observe for data-driven optimization

Leontine Aarnoudse, Mark Haring, Nathan van de Wouw, Alexey Pavlov · 2026

Data-based adaptive optimization methods hold great promise for the performance optimization of uncertain, time-varying processes. However, current methods are often based on continuous perturbation w…

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Integrated Investment and Policy Planning for Power Systems via Differentiable Scenario Generation

Robert Mieth · 2026

We formulate a method to co-optimize power system capacity planning decisions and policy investments that shape electricity load patterns. To this end, we leverage a gradient-based solution technique …

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A transformable slender microrobot inspired by nematode parasites for interventional endovascular surgery

Xin Yang, Dongliang Fan, Yunteng Ma, Yuxuan Liao, Diancheng Li, U Kei Cheang, Bo Peng, Hongqiang Wang · 2026

Cardiovascular diseases account for around 17.9 million deaths per year globally, the treatment of which is challenging considering the confined space and complex topology of the vascular network and …

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Classical Machine Learning Baselines for Deepfake Audio Detection on the Fake-or-Real Dataset

Faheem Ahmad, Ajan Ahmed, Masudul Imtiaz · 2026

Deep learning has enabled highly realistic synthetic speech, raising concerns about fraud, impersonation, and disinformation. Despite rapid progress in neural detectors, transparent baselines are need…

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Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation using Offline Reinforcement Learning on Sub-optimal Controllers

Snehal Jauhri, Vignesh Prasad, Georgia Chalvatzaki · 2026

Mobile Manipulation (MoMa) of articulated objects, such as opening doors, drawers, and cupboards, demands simultaneous, whole-body coordination between a robot's base and arms. Classical whole-body co…

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ReefMapGS: Enabling Large-Scale Underwater Reconstruction by Closing the Loop Between Multimodal SLAM and Gaussian Splatting

Daniel Yang, Jungseok Hong, John J. Leonard, Yogesh Girdhar · 2026

3D Gaussian Splatting is a powerful visual representation, providing high-quality and efficient 3D scene reconstruction, but it is crucially dependent on accurate camera poses typically obtained from …

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Dyadic Partnership(DP): A Missing Link Towards Full Autonomy in Medical Robotics

Nassir Navab, Zhongliang Jiang · 2026

For the past decades medical robotic solutions were mostly based on the concept of tele-manipulation. While their design was extremely intelligent, allowing for better access, improved dexterity, redu…

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BridgeSim: Unveiling the OL-CL Gap in End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Seth Z. Zhao, Luobin Wang, Hongwei Ruan, Yuxin Bao, Yilan Chen, Ziyang Leng, Abhijit Ravichandran, Honglin He, Zewei Zhou, Xu Han, Abhishek Peri, Zhiyu Huang, Pranav Desai, Henrik Christensen, Jiaqi Ma, Bolei Zhou · 2026

Open-loop (OL) to closed-loop (CL) gap (OL-CL gap) exists when OL-pretrained policies scoring high in OL evaluations fail to transfer effectively in closed-loop (CL) deployment. In this paper, we unve…

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Memory-efficient optimization of implicit neural representations for CT reconstruction

Mahrokh Najaf, Gregory Ongie · 2026

Implicit neural representations (INRs) provide a parameter-efficient and fully differentiable image model for CT reconstruction. However, optimizing INRs for CT reconstruction using standard auto-diff…

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Discrete-Time Model of a Two-Speed PowerShift suitable for Real-Time Control and Simulation

Riccardo Morselli, Davide Tebaldi, Roberto Zanasi · 2026

In this paper, a new discrete-time approach to model the clutches engagement/disengagement in a two-speed powershift is proposed. The core idea is the development of a model for the computation of the…

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A Game-Theoretic Decentralized Real-Time Control of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations - Part I: Incentive Design

Riccardo Ramaschi, Mario Paolone, Sonia Leva · 2026

Large-scale Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Station (CS) may be too large to be dispatched in real-time via a centralized approach. While a decentralized approach may be a viable solution, the lack of …

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Improved Implementation of Approximate Full Mass Matrix Inverse Methods into Material Point Method Simulations

John A. Nairn · 2026

Approximate full mass matrix methods for the material point method, known as FMPM(k) of order k, can improve the calculation of grid velocities from grid momentum. It can be implemented in any MPM cod…

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