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sumoITScontrol: Traffic Controller Collection for SUMO Traffic Simulations

Kevin Riehl, Anastasios Kouvelas, Michail A. Makridis · 2026

Reliable benchmarking is essential for progress in intelligent traffic control research. While microscopic traffic simulators such as SUMO enable detailed modelling of individual vehicle interactions,…

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\texttt{DR-DAQP}: An Hybrid Operator Splitting and Active-Set Solver for Affine Variational Inequalities

Daniel Arnstrom, Emilio Benenati, Giuseppe Belgioioso · 2026

We present \texttt{DR-DAQP}, an open-source solver for strongly monotone affine variational inequaliries that combines Douglas-Rachford operator splitting with an active-set acceleration strategy. The…

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Which Reconstruction Model Should a Robot Use? Routing Image-to-3D Models for Cost-Aware Robotic Manipulation

Akash Anand, Aditya Agarwal, Leslie Pack Kaelbling · 2026

Robotic manipulation tasks require 3D mesh reconstructions of varying quality: dexterous manipulation demands fine-grained surface detail, while collision-free planning tolerates coarser representatio…

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Early-Terminable Energy-Safe Iterative Coupling for Parallel Simulation of Port-Hamiltonian Systems

Qi Wei, Jianfeng Tao, Hongyu Nie, Wangtao Tan · 2026

Parallel simulation and control of large-scale robotic systems often rely on partitioned time stepping, yet finite-iteration coupling can inject spurious energy by violating power consistency--even wh…

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Residual Control for Fast Recovery from Dynamics Shifts

Nethmi Jayasinghe, Diana Gontero, Francesco Migliarba, Spencer T. Brown, Vinod K. Sangwan, Mark C. Hersam, Amit Ranjan Trivedi · 2026

Robotic systems operating in real-world environments inevitably encounter unobserved dynamics shifts during continuous execution, including changes in actuation, mass distribution, or contact conditio…

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Relational Semantic Reasoning on 3D Scene Graphs for Open World Interactive Object Search

Imen Mahdi, Matteo Cassinelli, Fabien Despinoy, Tim Welschehold, Abhinav Valada · 2026

Open-world interactive object search in household environments requires understanding semantic relationships between objects and their surrounding context to guide exploration efficiently. Prior metho…

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RoboPocket: Improve Robot Policies Instantly with Your Phone

Junjie Fang, Wendi Chen, Han Xue, Fangyuan Zhou, Tian Le, Yi Wang, Yuting Zhang, Jun Lv, Chuan Wen, Cewu Lu · 2026

Scaling imitation learning is fundamentally constrained by the efficiency of data collection. While handheld interfaces have emerged as a scalable solution for in-the-wild data acquisition, they predo…

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cuNRTO: GPU-Accelerated Nonlinear Robust Trajectory Optimization

Jiawei Wang, Arshiya Taj Abdul, Evangelos A. Theodorou · 2026

Robust trajectory optimization enables autonomous systems to operate safely under uncertainty by computing control policies that satisfy the constraints for all bounded disturbances. However, these pr…

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Digital Twin-Based Cooling System Optimization for Data Center

Shrenik Jadhav, Zheng Liu · 2026

Data center cooling systems consume significant auxiliary energy, yet optimization studies rarely quantify the gap between theoretically optimal and operationally deployable control strategies. This p…

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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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End-to-End Secure Connection Probability in MultiLayer Networks with Heterogeneous Rician Fading

Hyeonsu Lyu, Yumin Kim, Hyun Jong Yang · 2026

Ensuring physical-layer security in non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) is challenging due to their global coverage and multi-hop relaying across heterogeneous network layers, where the locations and chan…

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UnifSrv: AP Selection for Achieving Uniformly Good Performance of CF-MIMO in Realistic Urban Networks

Yunlu Xiao, Marina Petrova, Ljiljana Simic · 2026

Under the ideal assumption of uniform propagation, cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) provides uniformly high throughput over the network by effectively surrounding each user with its serving access po…

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Learning to accelerate Krasnosel'skii-Mann fixed-point iterations with guarantees

Andrea Martin, Giuseppe Belgioioso · 2026

We introduce a principled learning to optimize (L2O) framework for solving fixed-point problems involving general nonexpansive mappings. Our idea is to deliberately inject summable perturbations into …

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Noise Suppression for Time Difference of Arrival: Performance Evaluation of a Generalized Cross-Correlation Method Using Mean Signal and Inverse Filter

Hirotaka Obo, Yuki Fujita, Masahisa Ishii, Hideki Moriyama, Ryota Tsuchiya, Yuta Ohashi, Kotaro Seki · 2025

This paper proposes a novel generalized cross-correlation (GCC) method, termed GCC-MSIF, to improve time difference of arrival (TDOA) estimation accuracy in noisy environments. Conventional GCC method…

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ARCAS: An Augmented Reality Collision Avoidance System with SLAM-Based Tracking for Enhancing VRU Safety

Ahmad Yehia, Jiseop Byeon, Tianyi Wang, Huihai Wang, Yiming Xu, Junfeng Jiao, Christian Claudel · 2025

Vulnerable road users (VRUs) face high collision risks in mixed traffic, yet most existing safety systems prioritize driver or vehicle assistance over direct VRU support. This paper presents ARCAS, a …

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Offset-free Data-Driven Predictive Control for Grid-Connected Power Converters in Weak Grid Faults

Ivo Kraayeveld, Thomas de Jong, Mircea Lazar · 2025

Grid-connected power converters encounter significant stability challenges during weak grid faults, when conventional PI-based controllers exhibit an oscillatory response and poor fault-ride-through p…

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SCOUT: A Lightweight Framework for Scenario Coverage Assessment in Autonomous Driving

Anil Yildiz, Sarah M. Thornton, Carl Hildebrandt, Sreeja Roy-Singh, Mykel J. Kochenderfer · 2025

Assessing scenario coverage is crucial for evaluating the robustness of autonomous agents, yet existing methods rely on expensive human annotations or computationally intensive Large Vision-Language M…

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Adaptive Cost-Map-based Path Planning in Partially Unknown Environments with Movable Obstacles

Liviu-Mihai Stan, Ranulfo Bezerra, Shotaro Kojima, Tsige Tadesse Alemayoh, Satoshi Tadokoro, Masashi Konyo, Kazunori Ohno · 2025

Reliable navigation in disaster-response and other unstructured indoor settings requires robots not only to avoid obstacles but also to recognise when those obstacles can be pushed aside. We present a…

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Event-Based Visual Teach-and-Repeat via Fast Fourier-Domain Cross-Correlation

Gokul B. Nair, Alejandro Fontan, Michael Milford, Tobias Fischer · 2025

Visual teach-and-repeat (VT&R) navigation enables robots to autonomously traverse previously demonstrated paths using visual feedback. We present a novel event-camera-based VT\&R system. Our system fo…

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DVDP: An End-to-End Policy for Mobile Robot Visual Docking with RGB-D Perception

Haohan Min, Zhoujian Li, Yu Yang, Jinyu Chen, Shenghai Yuan · 2025

Automatic docking has long been a significant challenge in the field of mobile robotics. Compared to other automatic docking methods, visual docking methods offer higher precision and lower deployment…

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