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AURA: Multimodal Shared Autonomy for Real-World Urban Navigation

Yukai Ma, Honglin He, Selina Song, Wayne Wu, Bolei Zhou ยท 2026

Long-horizon navigation in complex urban environments relies heavily on continuous human operation, which leads to fatigue, reduced efficiency, and safety concerns. Shared autonomy, where a Vision-Lanโ€ฆ

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Solar Daylighting to Offset LED Lighting in Vertical Farming: A Techno-Economic Study of Light Pipes

Francesco Ceccanti, Aldo Bischi, Marco Antonelli, Andrea Baccioli ยท 2026

Vertical farming is a controlled-environment agriculture (CEA) approach in which crops are grown in stacked layers under regulated climate and lighting, enabling predictable production but requiring hโ€ฆ

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Robotic Fruits with Tunable Stiffness and Sensing: Towards a Methodology for Developing Realistic Physical Twins of Fruits

Saitarun Nadipineni, Keshav Pandiyan, Kaspar Althoefer, Shinichi Hirai, Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne ยท 2026

The global agri-food sector faces increasing challenges from labour shortages, high consumer demand, and supply-chain disruptions, resulting in substantial losses of unharvested produce. Robotic harveโ€ฆ

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Discovering the mechanics of ultra-low density elastomeric foams in elite-level racing shoes

Jeremy A. McCulloch, Scott L. Delp, Ellen Kuhl ยท 2026

Ultra-low-density elastomeric foams enable lightweight systems that combine high compliance with efficient energy return. In high-performance racing shoes, these foams are critical for low weight, higโ€ฆ

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From Hallucination to Articulation: Language Model-Driven Losses for Ultra Low-Bitrate Neural Speech Coding

Jayeon Yi, Minje Kim ยท 2026

``Phoneme Hallucinations (PH)'' commonly occur in low-bitrate DNN-based codecs. It is the generative decoder's attempt to synthesize plausible outputs from excessively compressed tokens missing some sโ€ฆ

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Actors, Frames and Arguments: A Multi-Decade Computational Analysis of Climate Discourse in Financial News using Large Language Models

Ruiran Su, Janet B. Pierrehumbert, Markus Leippold ยท 2026

Financial news media shapes trillion-dollar climate investment decisions, yet discourse in this elite domain remains underexplored. We analyze two decades of climate-related articles (2000-2023) from โ€ฆ

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Verified Design of Robotic Autonomous Systems using Probabilistic Model Checking

Atef Azaiez, David Alireza Anisi ยท 2025

Safety and reliability play a crucial role when designing Robotic Autonomous Systems (RAS). Early consideration of hazards, risks and mitigation actions -- already in the concept study phase -- are imโ€ฆ

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State Transition Block Diagram of the Generalized Maxwell Slip Friction Model

Kirk Roffi ยท 2025

Dynamic friction models (DFMs) encode essential information for the simulation and control of systems with friction. Traditionally, DFMs have been published with conceptual block diagrams, promoting cโ€ฆ

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Painted Heart Beats

Angshu Adhya, Cindy Yang, Emily Wu, Rishad Hasan, Abhishek Narula, Patricia Alves-Oliveira ยท 2025

In this work we present AURA, a framework for synergistic human-artist painting. We developed a robot arm that collaboratively paints with a human artist. The robot has an awareness of the artist's heโ€ฆ

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A Collaborative Reasoning Framework for Anomaly Diagnostics in Underwater Robotics

Markus Buchholz, Ignacio Carlucho, Yvan R. Petillot ยท 2025

The safe deployment of autonomous systems in safety-critical settings requires a paradigm that combines human expertise with AI-driven analysis, especially when anomalies are unforeseen. We introduce โ€ฆ

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Adaptive Compressed Integrate-and-Fire Time Encoding Machine

Vered Karp, Aseel Omar, Alejandro Cohen ยท 2025

Integrate-and-Fire Time Encoding Machine (IF-TEM) is a power-efficient asynchronous sampler that converts analog signals into non-uniform time-domain samples. Adaptive IF-TEM (AIF-TEM) improves this mโ€ฆ

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6D Movable Metasurface (6DMM) in Downlink NOMA Transmissions

Li-Hsiang Shen ยท 2025

This letter proposes a novel six-dimensional movable metasurface (6DMM)-assisted downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system, in which a conventional base station (BS) equipped with fixed anโ€ฆ

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AURA Score: A Metric For Holistic Audio Question Answering Evaluation

Satvik Dixit, Soham Deshmukh, Bhiksha Raj ยท 2025

Audio Question Answering (AQA) is a key task for evaluating Audio-Language Models (ALMs), yet assessing open-ended responses remains challenging. Existing metrics used for AQA such as BLEU, METEOR andโ€ฆ

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Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS)-Enabled UAV Delivery

Suyu Lv, Meng Li, Qi Li, Yuanwei Liu ยท 2025

A pinching-antenna systems (PASS)-enabled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivery framework is proposed, which exploits the capability of PASS to establish a strong line-of-sight link and reduce free-sโ€ฆ

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Enhanced Fingerprint-based Positioning With Practical Imperfections: Deep learning-based approaches

Shugong Xu, Jun Jiang, Wenjun Yu, Yilin Gao, Guangjin Pan, Shiyi Mu, Zhiqi Ai, Yuan Gao, Peigang Jiang, Cheng-Xiang Wang ยท 2025

High-precision positioning is vital for cellular networks to support innovative applications such as extended reality, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and industrial Internet of Things (IoT) systems.โ€ฆ

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AgriChrono: A Multi-modal Dataset Capturing Crop Growth and Lighting Variability with a Field Robot

Jaehwan Jeong, Tuan-Anh Vu, Mohammad Jony, Shahab Ahmad, Md. Mukhlesur Rahman, Sangpil Kim, M. Khalid Jawed ยท 2025

Advances in AI and Robotics have accelerated significant initiatives in agriculture, particularly in the areas of robot navigation and 3D digital twin creation. A significant bottleneck impeding this โ€ฆ

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AZRA: Extending the Affective Capabilities of Zoomorphic Robots using Augmented Reality

Shaun Macdonald, Salma ElSayed, Mark McGill ยท 2025

Zoomorphic robots could serve as accessible and practical alternatives for users unable or unwilling to keep pets. However, their affective interactions are often simplistic and short-lived, limiting โ€ฆ

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Bridging Farm Economics and Landscape Ecology for Global Sustainability through Hierarchical and Bayesian Optimization

Kevin Bradley Dsouza, Graham Alexander Watt, Yuri Leonenko, Juan Moreno-Cruz ยท 2025

Agricultural landscapes face the dual challenge of sustaining food production while reversing biodiversity loss. Agri-environmental policies often fall short of delivering ecological functions such asโ€ฆ

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A multi-strategy improved snake optimizer for three-dimensional UAV path planning and engineering problems

Genliang Li, Yaxin Cui, Jinyu Su ยท 2025

Metaheuristic algorithms have gained widespread application across various fields owing to their ability to generate diverse solutions. One such algorithm is the Snake Optimizer (SO), a progressive opโ€ฆ

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AURA-CVC: Autonomous Ultrasound-guided Robotic Assistance for Central Venous Catheterization

Deepak Raina, Lidia Al-Zogbi, Brian Teixeira, Vivek Singh, Ankur Kapoor, Thorsten Fleiter, Muyinatu A. Lediju Bell, Vinciya Pandian, Axel Krieger ยท 2025

Purpose: Central venous catheterization (CVC) is a critical medical procedure for vascular access, hemodynamic monitoring, and life-saving interventions. Its success remains challenging due to the neeโ€ฆ

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