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Generalizable Friction Coefficient Estimation via Material Embedding and Proxy Interaction Modeling

Zhendong Wang, Huamin Wang ยท 2026

Accurately estimating friction coefficients between arbitrary material pairs is critical for robotics, digital fabrication, and physics-based simulation, but exhaustive pairwise testing scales quadratโ€ฆ

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Vision-Language-Action in Robotics: A Survey of Datasets, Benchmarks, and Data Engines

Ziyao Wang, Bingying Wang, Hanrong Zhang, Tingting Du, Tianyang Chen, Guoheng Sun, Yexiao He, Zheyu Shen, Wanghao Ye, Ang Li ยท 2026

Despite remarkable progress in Vision--Language--Action (VLA) models, a central bottleneck remains underexamined: the data infrastructure that underlies embodied learning. In this survey, we argue thaโ€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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Sample entropy for graph signals: An approach to nonlinear analysis of graph signals

Mei-San Maggie Lei, John Stewart Fabila Carrasco, Javier Escudero ยท 2026

We introduce a graph-signal generalisation of Sample Entropy, denoted SampEn$_{G}$, to quantify irregularity of graph signals on a continuous state space, complementing existing methods on symbolic dyโ€ฆ

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Algebraic Diversity: Principles of a Group-Theoretic Approach to Signal Processing

Mitchell A. Thornton ยท 2026

We present principles of algebraic diversity (AD), a group-theoretic approach to signal processing exploiting signal symmetry to extract more information per observation, complementing classical methoโ€ฆ

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Muscle-inspired magnetic actuators that push, pull, crawl, and grasp

Muhammad Bilal Khan, Florian Hofmann, Kilian Schafer, Matthias Lutzi, Oliver Gutfleisch ยท 2026

Functional magnetic composites capable of large deformation, load bearing, and multifunctional motion are essential for next-generation adaptive soft robots. Here, we present muscle-inspired magnetic โ€ฆ

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A Reconfigurable Pneumatic Joint Enabling Localized Selective Stiffening and Shape Locking in Vine-Inspired Robots

Ayodele James Oyejide, Ustaz A. Yaqub, Samir Erturk, Eray A. Baran, Fabio Stroppa ยท 2026

Vine-inspired robots achieve large workspace coverage through tip eversion, enabling safe navigation in confined and cluttered environments. However, their deployment in free space is fundamentally liโ€ฆ

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Stable Long-Horizon Neural ODE Reduced-Order Models via Learned Feedback for Biological Growth and Remodeling

Joel Laudo, Adrian Buganza Tepole ยท 2026

Reduced-order models (ROMs) are essential for rapid simulation of complex biomechanical systems and for bridging the gap between high fidelity models and clinical application. However, ROMs for tissueโ€ฆ

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Robotic Manipulation is Vision-to-Geometry Mapping ($f(v) \rightarrow G$): Vision-Geometry Backbones over Language and Video Models

Zijian Song, Qichang Li, Jiawei Zhou, Zhenlong Yuan, Tianshui Chen, Liang Lin, Guangrun Wang ยท 2026

At its core, robotic manipulation is a problem of vision-to-geometry mapping ($f(v) \rightarrow G$). Physical actions are fundamentally defined by geometric properties like 3D positions and spatial reโ€ฆ

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An AI-Ready Pipeline for Impedance-Resolved QCM Biosensor: Interpretable Line-Shape Features, Redundancy Control, and Robust Regression

Ceyhun Kirimli, Elcim Elgun, Yagmur Tugtag ยท 2026

Accurate inference from quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) measurements in liquids is often limited by reducing resonance behavior to two scalar endpoints (frequency and dissipation shifts, $\Delta f$ โ€ฆ

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Secrecy Performance Analysis of Pinching-Antenna Systems Under Pinching-Position Uncertainty

Saeid Pakravan, Imene Trigui, Wessam Ajib, Wei-Ping Zhu ยท 2026

This paper investigates the secrecy performance of pinching-antenna systems (PAS) under practical pinching-position activation uncertainty. By dynamically selecting the radiation point along a dielectโ€ฆ

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Responsive Distribution of G-normal Random Variables

Ziting Pei, Shige Peng, Xingye Yue, Xiaotao Zheng ยท 2026

A $G$-normal random variable $X\sim \mathcal{N}(0,[\underline{\sigma}^2,\overline{\sigma}^2])$ does not admit a unique probability law due to volatility uncertainty. For a given test function $\phi$, โ€ฆ

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ViVa: A Video-Generative Value Model for Robot Reinforcement Learning

Jindi Lv, Hao Li, Jie Li, Yifei Nie, Fankun Kong, Yang Wang, Xiaofeng Wang, Zheng Zhu, Chaojun Ni, Qiuping Deng, Hengtao Li, Jiancheng Lv, Guan Huang ยท 2026

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have advanced robot manipulation through large-scale pretraining, but real-world deployment remains challenging due to partial observability and delayed feedback. Rโ€ฆ

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G-AMC: A Green Automatic Modulation Classification Method

Chee-An Yu, Young-Kai Chen, C.-C. Jay Kuo ยท 2026

In this work, we propose an efficient and transparent green learning pipeline to address the automatic modulation classification (AMC) problem. This pipeline aims to enable receivers to blindly identiโ€ฆ

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G-EDF-Loc: 3D Continuous Gaussian Distance Field for Robust Gradient-Based 6DoF Localization

Jose E. Maese, Lucia Coto-Elena, Luis Merino, Fernando Caballero ยท 2026

This paper presents a robust 6-DoF localization framework based on a direct, CPU-based scan-to-map registration pipeline. The system leverages G-EDF, a novel continuous and memory-efficient 3D distancโ€ฆ

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MC-GenRef: Annotation-free mammography microcalcification segmentation with generative posterior refinement

Hyunwoo Cho, Yeeun Kwon, Min Jung Kim, Yangmo Yoo ยท 2026

Microcalcification (MC) analysis is clinically important in screening mammography because clustered puncta can be an early sign of malignancy, yet dense MC segmentation remains challenging: targets arโ€ฆ

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Foundation Models Defining A New Era In Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition: A Survey And Outlook

Sizhen Bian, Mengxi Liu, Lala Shakti Swarup Ray, Bo Zhou, Bin Guo, Zhiwen Yu, Thomas Ploetz, Paul Lukowicz, Siyu Yuan, Vitor Fortes Rey ยท 2026

Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) underpins many ubiquitous and wearable computing applications, yet current models remain limited by scarce labels, sensor heterogeneity, and weak generaliโ€ฆ

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ECG Foundation Models and Medical LLMs for Agentic Cardiovascular Intelligence at the Edge: A Review and Outlook

Mudassir Hasan Khan, Ahmad Nayfeh, Mudassir Masood, Ali Ahmad Al-Shaikhi, Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri ยท 2026

Electrocardiogram (ECG) foundation models represent a paradigm shift from task-specific pipelines to generalizable architectures pre-trained on large-scale unlabeled waveform data. This survey presentโ€ฆ

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A soft and lightweight fabric-based pneumatic interface for multimodal fingertip tactile feedback

Rui Chen, Daniele Leonardis, Antonio Frisoli ยท 2026

Wearable fingertip haptic devices are critical for realistic interaction in virtual reality, augmented reality, and teleoperation, yet existing approaches struggle to simultaneously achieve adequate tโ€ฆ

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