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Asymptotically Stable Gait Generation and Instantaneous Walkability Determination for Planar Almost Linear Biped with Knees

Fumihiko Asano, Ning Lei, Taiki Sedoguchi · 2026

A class of planar bipedal robots with unique mechanical properties has been proposed, where all links are balanced around the hip joint, preventing natural swinging motion due to gravity. A common pro…

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i-Tac: Inverse Design of 3D-Printed Tactile Elastomers with Scalable and Tunable Optical and Mechanical Properties

Wen Fan, Dandan Zhang · 2026

Elastomers are central to vision-based tactile sensors (VBTSs), where they transduce external contact into observable deformation. Different VBTS architectures, however, require distinct optical and m…

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Natural Gradient Gaussian Approximation Filter with Positive Definiteness Guarantee

Tianyi Zhang, Wenhan Cao, Shengbo Eben Li · 2026

Popular Bayes filters often apply linearization techniques, such as Taylor expansion or stochastic linear regression, to enable the use of the Kalman filter structure, but this can lead to large error…

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Robust Adaptive Backstepping Impedance Control of Robots in Unknown Environments

Reza Nazmara, Alap Kshirsagar, Jan Peters, A. Pedro Aguiar · 2026

This paper presents a Robust Adaptive Backstepping Impedance Control (RABIC) strategy for robots operating in contact-rich and uncertain environments. The proposed control strategy considers the compl…

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Sumo: Dynamic and Generalizable Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation

John Z. Zhang, Maks Sorokin, Jan Brudigam, Brandon Hung, Stephen Phillips, Dmitry Yershov, Farzad Niroui, Tong Zhao, Leonor Fermoselle, Xinghao Zhu, Chao Cao, Duy Ta, Tao Pang, Jiuguang Wang, Preston Culbertson, Zachary Manchester, Simon Le Cleac'h · 2026

This paper presents a sim-to-real approach that enables legged robots to dynamically manipulate large and heavy objects with whole-body dexterity. Our key insight is that by performing test-time steer…

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Nonlinear Model Updating of Aerospace Structures via Taylor-Series Reduced-Order Models

Nikolaos D. Tantaroudas, Jake Hollins, Konstantinos Agathos, Evangelos Papatheou · 2026

Finite element model updating is a mature discipline for linear structures, yet its extension to nonlinear regimes remains an open challenge. This paper presents a methodology that combines nonlinear …

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Task-Guided Prompting for Unified Remote Sensing Image Restoration

Wenli Huang, Yang Wu, Xiaomeng Xin, Zhihong Liu, Jinjun Wang, Ye Deng · 2026

Remote sensing image restoration (RSIR) is essential for recovering high-fidelity imagery from degraded observations, enabling accurate downstream analysis. However, most existing methods focus on sin…

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On the Sensitivity of Active RIS Systems to CSI Errors: Joint Optimization and Performance Trade-off

Mohamed Shalma, Engy Maher, Ahmed El-Mahdy · 2026

In this paper, the problem of maximizing the sum-rate is addressed for a multi-user uplink scenario that is assisted by an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). The maximization is achieved…

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A comparison of Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms for Bayesian inference of constitutive models

Aricia Rinkens, Rodrigo L. S. Silva, Erik Quaeghebeur, Nick Jaensson, Clemens Verhoosel · 2026

Employing Bayesian inference to calibrate constitutive model parameters has grown substantially in recent years. Among the available techniques, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling remains one of…

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Event-Triggered Adaptive Taylor-Lagrange Control for Safety-Critical Systems

Shuo Liu, Wei Xiao, Christos G. Cassandras, Calin A. Belta · 2026

This paper studies safety-critical control for nonlinear systems under sampled-data implementations of the controller. The recently proposed Taylor--Lagrange Control (TLC) method provides rigorous saf…

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Subject-Specific Low-Field MRI Synthesis via a Neural Operator

Ziqi Gao, Nicha Dvornek, Xiaoran Zhang, Gigi Galiana, Hemant Tagare, Todd Constable · 2026

Low-field (LF) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) improves accessibility and reduces costs but generally has lower signal-to-noise ratios and degraded contrast compared to high field (HF) MRI, limiting …

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A Gaussian Process Framework for Outage Analysis in Continuous-Aperture Fluid Antenna Systems

Tuo Wu, Jianchao Zheng · 2026

This paper develops a comprehensive analytical framework for the outage probability of fluid antenna system (FAS)-aided communications by modeling the antenna as a continuous aperture and approximatin…

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StageCraft: Execution Aware Mitigation of Distractor and Obstruction Failures in VLA Models

Kartikay Milind Pangaonkar, Prabin Rath, Omkar Patil, Nakul Gopalan · 2026

Large scale pre-training on text and image data along with diverse robot demonstrations has helped Vision Language Action models (VLAs) to generalize to novel tasks, objects and scenes. However, these…

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Model Reference Adaptive Control For Gust Load Allevation of Nonlinear Aeroelastic

Nikolaos D. Tantaroudas, Guanqun Gai, Ilias Karachalios · 2026

Model Reference Adaptive Control based on Lyapunov stability theory is developed for gust load alleviation of nonlinear aeroelastic systems. The controller operates on a nonlinear reduced-order model …

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Development of Low-Cost and Bidirectional Syringe Pumps for Soft Robotics Applications

Krishamsu Subedi Chhetri, Aryan Mayor, Elise Corbin, Logan Walker, John Rieffel · 2026

Soft robotics leverages deformable materials to develop robots capable of navigating unstructured and dynamic environments. Silicone Voxel-Based Soft Robots (Silibots) are a type of pneumatically actu…

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Optimal Radio Resource Management for ISAC Under Imperfect Information: A Resource Economy-Driven Perspective

Luis F. Abanto-Leon, Setareh Maghsudi · 2026

This work investigates the radio resource management (RRM) design for downlink integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems, jointly optimizing timeslot allocation, beam adaptation, functional…

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Rapid Worst-Case Gust Identification for Very Flexible Aircraft Using Reduced-Order Models

Nikolaos D. Tantaroudas, Ilias Karachalios · 2026

Identification of worst-case gust loads is a critical step in the certification of very flexible aircraft, yet the computational cost of nonlinear full-order simulations renders exhaustive parametric …

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Nonlinear Model Order Reduction for Coupled Aeroelastic-Flight Dynamic Systems

Nikolaos D. Tantaroudas, Ilias Karachalios · 2026

A systematic approach to nonlinear model order reduction (NMOR) of coupled fluid-structureflight dynamics systems of arbitrary fidelity is presented. The technique employs a Taylor series expansion of…

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NLOS-Aided Joint OTA Synchronization and Off-Grid Imaging for Distributed MIMO Systems

Xin Tong, Lechen Zhang, Yu Ge, Dario Tagliaferri, Henk Wymeersch · 2026

Distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) architectures enable large-scale integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) by providing high spatial resolution and robustness through spatial diver…

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Robust Co-design Optimisation for Agile Fixed-Wing UAVs

Adrian Andrei Buda, Xavier Chen, Nicolo Botteghi, Urban Fasel · 2026

Co-design optimisation of autonomous systems has emerged as a powerful alternative to sequential approaches by jointly optimising physical design and control strategies. However, existing frameworks o…

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