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FlexiTac: A Low-Cost, Open-Source, Scalable Tactile Sensing Solution for Robotic Systems

Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li · 2026

We present FlexiTac, a low-cost, open-source, and scalable piezoresistive tactile sensing solution designed for robotic end-effectors. FlexiTac is a practical "plug-in" module consisting of (i) thin, …

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Design and Characteristics of a Thin-Film ThermoMesh for the Efficient Embedded Sensing of a Spatio-Temporally Sparse Heat Source

Sajjad Boorghan Farahan, Ahmed Alajlouni, Jingzhou Zhao · 2026

This work presents ThermoMesh, a passive thin-film thermoelectric mesh sensor designed to detect and characterize spatio-temporally sparse heat sources through conduction-based thermal imaging. The de…

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FreeOcc: Training-Free Embodied Open-Vocabulary Occupancy Prediction

Zeyu Jiang, Changqing Zhou, Xingxing Zuo, Changhao Chen · 2026

Existing learning-based occupancy prediction methods rely on large-scale 3D annotations and generalize poorly across environments. We present FreeOcc, a training-free framework for open-vocabulary occ…

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Bitwise Over-Parameterized Neural Polar Decoding: A Theoretical Performance Analysis

Hongzhi Zhu, Wei Xu, Xiaohu You · 2026

This paper proposes a bitwise over-parameterized neural network (ONN) decoder for polar-coded transmission and develops a tractable theoretical performance analysis framework. By modeling each synthes…

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Semantics-Aware Hierarchical Token Communication: Clustering, Bit Mapping, and Power Allocation

Jihoon Lee, Seungeun Oh, Jihong Park, Seong-Lyun Kim, Seung-Woo Ko · 2026

Despite the rise of token communication (TokCom) as a new paradigm beyond traditional bit communication, existing approaches have primarily adopted artificial intelligence (AI)-centric designs that re…

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Joint Secrecy and Covert Communication (JSACC): An Enhanced Physical Layer Security Approach

Yanyu Cheng, Haitao Du, Liqin Hu, Wei Yang Bryan Lim, Pan Li · 2026

In this paper, we propose an enhanced physical layer security approach, named joint secrecy and covert communication (JSACC), which aims to improve the performance of physical layer security (PLS). Th…

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ATLAS: An Annotation Tool for Long-horizon Robotic Action Segmentation

Sergej Stanovcic, Daniel Sliwowski, Dongheui Lee · 2026

Annotating long-horizon robotic demonstrations with precise temporal action boundaries is crucial for training and evaluating action segmentation and manipulation policy learning methods. Existing ann…

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A Matrix-Free Galerkin Multigrid Solver and Failure-Mode Screen for Single-GPU 3D SIMP Linear Systems

Shaoliang Yang, Jun Wang, Yunsheng Wang · 2026

Large 3D SIMP studies require repeated elasticity solves for density-dependent operators whose finest matrices are expensive to assemble and whose conditioning degrades under high contrast. We study t…

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Optimizing Tracking Accuracy in Energy-Constrained Multimodal ISAC via Lyapunov-Driven Heterogeneous Mixture-of-Experts

Wenqi Fan, Ning Wei, Ahmad Bazzi, Rongyan Xi, Zhixian Song, You Li, Zhihan Zeng, Yue Xiu, Chadi Assi · 2026

The integration of multimodal sensing and millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications is a key enabler for highly mobile vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) networks. However, continuous high-resolution visua…

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Risk Assessments for Evasive Emergency Maneuvers in Autonomous Vehicles

Aliasghar Arab, Milad Khaleghi, Koorosh Aslansefat · 2026

This paper presents a systematic verification and validation (V\&V) framework for the Evasive Minimum Risk Maneuver (EMRM) feature in autonomous vehicles, addressing a critical gap in existing safety …

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Multi-layer barrier adaptation of the discrete-time super-twisting controller

Antoine Thibault Vie, Leonid Fridman, Roberto Galeazzi, Dimitrios Papageorgiou · 2026

In digital sliding mode control implementations, discretization-induced chattering and inter-sample blindness can severely degrade the closed-loop performance, especially in case of fast perturbations…

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ANCHOR: A Physically Grounded Closed-Loop Framework for Robust Home-Service Mobile Manipulation

Jinhao Jiang, Shengyu Fang, Sibo Zuo, Yujie Tang, Yirui Li · 2026

Recent advances in open-vocabulary mobile manipulation have brought robots into real domestic environments. In such settings, reliable long-horizon execution under open-set object references and frequ…

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Rethinking Wireless Communications through Formal Mathematical AI Reasoning

Changyuan Zhao, Jiacheng Wang, Dusit Niyato, Zan Li, Abbas Jamalipour, Shiwen Mao, Xianbin Wang, Dong In Kim · 2026

Mathematical analysis has long underpinned wireless communication theory, yet the growing complexity of next-generation systems demands increasingly sophisticated reasoning from domain experts. Recent…

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Energy Efficiency Maximization for Discrete Activation based NOMA-assisted Pinching-Antenna Systems

Yishi Zhang, Aditya Powari, Kaidi Wang, Yaru Fu, Daniel K. C. So · 2026

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) have recently attracted significant attention as a promising architecture for flexible and reconfigurable wireless communications. Despite notable advancements, researc…

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TEACar: An Open-Source Autonomous Driving Platform

Zhongzheng Zhang, Maxwell Ruyle, Andrew Kappes, Tyler Ruble, William Shaoul, Dana Moreno, Jack Penn, Ivan Ruchkin · 2026

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) increasingly rely on vision-based perception and learning-based control, necessitating experimental platforms that support realistic hardware-in-the-loop valid…

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Beam Scheduling for Cross-Layer ISAC: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

Xiyu Wang, Gilberto Berardinelli, Hei Victor Cheng, Petar Popovski, Ramoni Adeogun · 2026

Resource allocation in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems needs to be optimized to balance the requirements of the communication and sensing modules considering complicated cross-laye…

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Two-Layer Microwave Linear Analog Computer (MiLAC)-aided Multi-user MISO Networks

Xiaohua Zhou, Tianyu Fang, Yijie Mao, Bruno Clerckx · 2026

Microwave linear analog computer (MiLAC)-aided transmit beamforming, which processes transmitted symbols entirely in the analog domain, has recently emerged as a promising alternative to fully digital…

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$M^2$-VLA: Boosting Vision-Language Models for Generalizable Manipulation via Layer Mixture and Meta-Skills

Siyao Xiao, Yuhong Zhang, Zhifang Liu, Zihan Gao, Jingye Zhang, Sinwai Choo, Dake Zhong, Mengzhe Wang, Xiao Lin, Xianfeng Zhou, Jia Jia, Haoqian Wang · 2026

Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models predominantly rely on end-to-end fine-tuning. While effective, this paradigm compromises the inherent generalization capabilities of Vision-Language Models …

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Extracting Exact Lie Derivatives Without Backpropagation: A Dual Compiler for Neural Control Barrier Functions

Mohammadreza Kamaldar · 2026

Deploying neural-network control barrier functions (CBFs) on embedded hardware requires evaluating the barrier value and its Lie derivatives along the system vector fields at every control cycle. The …

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VLM-VPI: A Vision-Language Reasoning Framework for Improving Automated Vehicle-Pedestrian Interactions

Qingwen Pu, Kun Xie, Yuxiang Liu · 2026

Autonomous driving systems often infer pedestrian yielding behavior from geometric and kinematic cues alone, limiting their ability to reason about visual scene context and age-dependent behavioral va…

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