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Wiggle and Go! System Identification for Zero-Shot Dynamic Rope Manipulation

Arthur Jakobsson, Abhinav Mahajan, Karthik Pullalarevu, Krishna Suresh, Yunchao Yao, Yuemin Mao, Bardienus Duisterhof, Shahram Najam Syed, Jeffrey Ichnowski ยท 2026

Many robotic tasks are unforgiving; a single mistake in a dynamic throw can lead to unacceptable delays or unrecoverable failure. To mitigate this, we present a novel approach that leverages learned sโ€ฆ

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Empirical Assessment of Time-Series Foundation Models For Power System Forecasting Applications

Muhy Eddin Za'ter, Bri-Mathias Hodge ยท 2026

Accurate forecasting of electric load and renewable generation is essential for reliable and cost effective power system operations. Recent advances in transformer based and foundation machine learninโ€ฆ

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Topology Optimization for Materially Efficient Reinforced Concrete Design: Development, Fabrication, and Structural Evaluation

Jackson L. Jewett, Josephine V. Carstensen ยท 2026

The production of concrete generates roughly 8% of anthropogenic CO2 globally, largely because of the massive quantities that are manufactured. New design methods must be developed and deployed to impโ€ฆ

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SNGR: Selective Non-Gaussian Refinement for Ambiguous SLAM Factor Graphs

Anushka Kulkarni, Sarthak Dubey ยท 2026

We present Selective Non-Gaussian Refinement (SNGR), a SLAM framework that augments iSAM2 with targeted nested sampling on windows where Gaussian approximations are likely to fail. We detect such regiโ€ฆ

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Virtualizing the Senses: Enabling High-Precision ISAC on Commercial Cellular Infrastructure

Henglin Pu, Husheng Li ยท 2026

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is poised to be a defining feature of 6G networks, promising to transform cellular base stations (BSs) into ubiquitous radar sensors. However, a significantโ€ฆ

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Robust Localization for Autonomous Vehicles in Highway Scenes

Daqian Cheng, Xuchu Ding, Yujia Wu, Xiang Zhang, Lei Wang ยท 2026

Localization for autonomous vehicles on highways remains under-explored compared to urban roads, and state-of-the-art methods for urban scenes degrade when directly applied to highways. We identify keโ€ฆ

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Long-Horizon Manipulation via Trace-Conditioned VLA Planning

Isabella Liu, An-Chieh Cheng, Rui Yan, Geng Chen, Ri-Zhao Qiu, Xueyan Zou, Sha Yi, Hongxu Yin, Xiaolong Wang, Sifei Liu ยท 2026

Long-horizon manipulation remains challenging for vision-language-action (VLA) policies: real tasks are multi-step, progress-dependent, and brittle to compounding execution errors. We present LoHo-Manโ€ฆ

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VistaBot: View-Robust Robot Manipulation via Spatiotemporal-Aware View Synthesis

Songen Gu, Yuhang Zheng, Weize Li, Yupeng Zheng, Yating Feng, Xiang Li, Yilun Chen, Pengfei Li, Wenchao Ding ยท 2026

Recently, end-to-end robotic manipulation models have gained significant attention for their generalizability and scalability. However, they often suffer from limited robustness to camera viewpoint chโ€ฆ

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Task-Driven Co-Design of Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems

Maximilian Stralz, Meshal Alharbi, Yujun Huang, Gioele Zardini ยท 2026

Designing multi-agent robotic systems requires reasoning across tightly coupled decisions spanning heterogeneous domains, including robot design, fleet composition, and planning. Much effort has been โ€ฆ

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A Multi-Stage Warm-Start Deep Learning Framework for Unit Commitment

Muhy Eddin Za'ter, Anna Van Boven, Bri-Mathias Hodge, Kyri Baker ยท 2026

Maintaining instantaneous balance between electricity supply and demand is critical for reliability and grid instability. System operators achieve this through solving the task of Unit Commitment (UC)โ€ฆ

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A Hidden Markov Framework for Physically Interpretable Arc Stability Dynamics in Welding Systems

Hidir Selcuk Nogay ยท 2026

Electric arc welding (EAW) exhibits strongly non stationary and temporally evolving behavior, making reliable assessment of arc stability difficult using conventional frame based approaches. In this sโ€ฆ

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Hi-WM: Human-in-the-World-Model for Scalable Robot Post-Training

Yaxuan Li, Zhongyi Zhou, Yefei Chen, Yanjiang Guo, Jiaming Liu, Shanghang Zhang, Jianyu Chen, Yichen Zhu ยท 2026

Post-training is essential for turning pretrained generalist robot policies into reliable task-specific controllers, but existing human-in-the-loop pipelines remain tied to physical execution: each coโ€ฆ

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A Case Study in Recovery of Drones using Discrete-Event Systems

Liam P. Burns, Dayse M. Cavalcanti, Felipe G. Cabral, Max H. de Queiroz, Melissa Greeff, Publio M. M. Lima, Karen Rudie ยท 2026

Discrete-event systems and supervisory control theory provide a rigorous framework for specifying correct-by-construction behavior. However, their practical application to swarm robotics remains largeโ€ฆ

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A Compact Peristaltic Pump Based on Magneto-Elastic Hysteresis with Single Pneumatic Control

Minjo Park, Metin Sitti ยท 2026

Pumping fluids is fundamental to a wide range of industrial, environmental, and biomedical applications. Among various pumping mechanisms, peristaltic pumps enable efficient and safe fluid transport bโ€ฆ

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Effects of Swarm Size Variability on Operator Workload

William Hunt, Aleksandra Landowska, Horia A. Maior, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Mohammad Soorati ยท 2026

Real-world deployments of human--swarm teams depend on balancing operator workload to leverage human strengths without inducing overload. A key challenge is that swarm size is often dynamic: robots maโ€ฆ

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Conditional Diffusion Posterior Alignment for Sparse-View CT Reconstruction

Luis Barba, Johannes Kirschner, Benjamin Bejar ยท 2026

Computed Tomography (CT) is a widely used imaging modality in medical and industrial applications. To limit radiation exposure and measurement time, there is a growing interest in sparse-view CT, wherโ€ฆ

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SLAM as a Stochastic Control Problem with Partial Information: Optimal Solutions and Rigorous Approximations

Ilir Gusija, Fady Alajaji, Serdar Yuksel ยท 2026

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a foundational state estimation problem in robotics in which a robot accurately constructs a map of its environment while also localizing itself within โ€ฆ

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Resilience Revisited: A Multidimensional Framework Derived from Realistic Attack Scenarios

Isaac Ortega Romero, Ioannis Zografopoulos ยท 2026

Power systems are increasingly vulnerable to high-impact, low-probability (HILP) events, including coordinated cyberattacks targeting inverter-based resources. Existing resilience frameworks rely on sโ€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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An Adaptive Kalman Filter that Learns the Coloring Dynamics of the Process Noise

Mohammad Almuhaihi, Dennis Bernstein ยท 2026

In many applications of state estimation, the process noise is colored; this case is addressed by applying the standard Kalman filter (KF) to dynamics that are augmented with the coloring dynamics. Thโ€ฆ

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