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Can Tabular Foundation Models Guide Exploration in Robot Policy Learning?

Buqing Ou, Frederike Dumbgen ยท 2026

Policy optimization in high-dimensional continuous control for robotics remains a challenging problem. Predominant methods are inherently local and often require extensive tuning and carefully chosen โ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 โ€ฆ

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Rule-based High-Level Coaching for Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning in Search-and-Rescue UAV Missions Under Limited-Simulation Training

Mahya Ramezani, Holger Voos ยท 2026

This paper presents a hierarchical decision-making framework for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) missions motivated by search-and-rescue (SAR) scenarios under limited simulation training. The framework โ€ฆ

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GEGLU-Transformer for IMU-to-EMG Estimation with Few-Shot Adaptation

Miroljub Mihailovic, Luca Tonin, Stefano Tortora, Emanuele Menegatti ยท 2026

Reliable estimation of neuromuscular activation is a key enabler for adaptive and personalized control in wearable robotics. However, surface electromyography (EMG) remains difficult to deploy robustlโ€ฆ

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DiscreteRTC: Discrete Diffusion Policies are Natural Asynchronous Executors

Pengcheng Wang, Kaiwen Hong, Chensheng Peng, Katherine Driggs-Campbell, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Chenfeng Xu, Chen Tang ยท 2026

Unlike chatbots, physical AI must act while the world keeps evolving. Therefore, the inter-chunk pause of synchronous executors are fatal for dynamic tasks regardless of how fast the inference is. Asyโ€ฆ

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VEHRON: A Configuration-Driven BEV Simulation Framework for Subsystem-Level Studies

Subramanyam Natarajan ยท 2026

In practical early-stage battery-electric vehicle studies, analysis workflows may become fragmented across spreadsheets, notebooks, and project-specific scripts, making reuse, audit, and extension harโ€ฆ

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Modular Sensory Stream for Integrating Physical Feedback in Vision-Language-Action Models

Jimin Lee, Huiwon Jang, Myungkyu Koo, Jungwoo Park, Jinwoo Shin ยท 2026

Humans understand and interact with the real world by relying on diverse physical feedback beyond visual perception. Motivated by this, recent approaches attempt to incorporate physical sensory signalโ€ฆ

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Cooperative Informative Sensing for Monitoring Dynamic Indoor Environments via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Kanghoon Lee, Matthew M. Sato, Jinnyeong Yang, Seungro Lee, Sujin Lee, Jiachen Li, Kuk-Jin Yoon, Jinkyoo Park, Kincho H. Law, Yoonjin Yoon ยท 2026

Monitoring human activity in indoor environments is important for applications such as facility management, safety assessment, and space utilization analysis. While mobile robot teams offer the potentโ€ฆ

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PHOTON: Non-Invasive Optical Tracking of Key-Lever Motion in Historical Keyboard Instruments

Noah Jaffe, John Ashley Burgoyne ยท 2026

This paper introduces PHOTON (PHysical Optical Tracking of Notes), a non-invasive optical sensing system for measuring key-lever motion in historical keyboard instruments. PHOTON tracks the vertical dโ€ฆ

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Scaling of Gaussian Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks

Amir Noorizadegan, Sifan Wang ยท 2026

The Gaussian scale parameter \(\epsilon\) is central to the behavior of Gaussian Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks (KANs), yet its role in deep edge-based architectures has not been studied systematically. โ€ฆ

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A Kinematic Framework for Evaluating Pinch Configurations in Robotic Hand Design without Object or Contact Models

HyoJae Kang, Joonho Lee, Hyunmok Jung, Dong Il Park ยท 2026

Evaluating the pinch capability of a robotic hand is important for understanding its functional dexterity. However, many existing grasp evaluation methods rely on object geometry or contact force modeโ€ฆ

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Design Space Exploration for ReRAM-based Architectures to Address Scaling Non-idealities

Ching-Yi Lin, Sahil Shah ยท 2026

ReRAM-based in-memory computing (IMC) architectures are promising candidates for energy-efficient matrix-vector multiplication. While scaling the size of ReRAM arrays allows for the amortization of poโ€ฆ

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An Implicit Compact-Kernel Material Point Method for Computational Solid Mechanics

Qirui Fu, Yupeng Jiang, Minchen Li ยท 2026

The numerical performance of the material point method (MPM) is strongly governed by the particle-grid kernel, which controls the trade-off among smoothness, locality, numerical diffusion, contact accโ€ฆ

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Refinement of Accelerated Demonstrations via Incremental Iterative Reference Learning Control for Fast Contact-Rich Imitation Learning

Koki Yamane, Cristian C. Beltran-Hernandez, Steven Oh, Masashi Hamaya, Sho Sakaino ยท 2026

Fast execution of contact-rich manipulation is critical for practical deployment, yet providing fast demonstrations for imitation learning (IL) remains challenging: humans cannot demonstrate at high sโ€ฆ

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VADF: Vision-Adaptive Diffusion Policy Framework for Efficient Robotic Manipulation

Xinglei Yu, Zhenyang Liu, Shufeng Nan, Simo Wu, Yanwei Fu ยท 2026

Diffusion policies are becoming mainstream in robotic manipulation but suffer from hard negative class imbalance due to uniform sampling and lack of sample difficulty awareness, leading to slow trainiโ€ฆ

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Foundation Models in Robotics: A Comprehensive Review of Methods, Models, Datasets, Challenges and Future Research Directions

Aggelos Psiris, Vasileios Argyriou, Evangelos K. Markakis, Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, Efstratios Gavves, Kostas Bekris, Arash Ajoudani adn Georgios Th. Papadopoulos ยท 2026

Over the recent years, the field of robotics has been undergoing a transformative paradigm shift from fixed, single-task, domain-specific solutions towards adaptive, multi-function, general-purpose agโ€ฆ

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Temporal Cross-Modal Knowledge-Distillation-Based Transfer-Learning for Gas Turbine Vibration Fault Detection

Ali Bagheri Nejad, Mahdi Aliyari-Shoorehdeli, Abolfazl Hasanzadeh ยท 2026

Preventing machine failure is inherently superior to reactive remediation, particularly for critical assets like gas turbines, where early fault detection (FD) is a cornerstone of industrial sustainabโ€ฆ

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On-Orbit Space AI: Federated, Multi-Agent, and Collaborative Algorithms for Satellite Constellations

Ziyang Wang ยท 2026

Satellite constellations are transforming space systems from isolated spacecraft into networked, software-defined platforms capable of on-orbit perception, decision making, and adaptation. Yet much ofโ€ฆ

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Early Exiting U-Net for Efficient Processing on UAVs: A Case Study in Environmental Monitoring

Luca Sartori Boni, Mohamed Moursi, Norbert Wehn, Bilal Hammoud ยท 2026

Oil spills represent a severe threat, making early-stage thickness estimation crucial for guiding remediation efforts. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an attractive platform for environmental moniโ€ฆ

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Vision-and-Language Navigation for UAVs: Progress, Challenges, and a Research Roadmap

Hanxuan Chen, Jie Zheng, Siqi Yang, Tianle Zeng, Siwei Feng, Songsheng Cheng, Ruilong Ren, Hanzhong Guo, Shuai Yuan, Xiangyue Wang, Kangli Wang, Ji Pei ยท 2026

Vision-and-Language Navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV-VLN) represents a pivotal challenge in embodied artificial intelligence, focused on enabling UAVs to interpret high-level human commandโ€ฆ

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