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Dreaming Across Towns: Semantic Rollout and Town-Adversarial Regularization for Zero-Shot Held-Out-Town Fixed-Route Driving in CARLA

Feeza Khan Khanzada, Jaerock Kwon · 2026

Learned driving agents often degrade when deployed in unseen environments. This paper studies a deliberately bounded instance of that problem in the CARLA simulator: zero-shot transfer of a closed-loo…

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Function-based Parametric Co-Design Optimization of Dexterous Hands

Mohammad Amin Mirzaee, Harsh Gupta, Wenzhen Yuan · 2026

Despite advances in dexterous hand manipulation, robotic hand design is still largely decoupled from task-driven evaluation and control, limiting systematic optimization. Existing robotic hand co-desi…

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Learning Tactile-Aware Quadrupedal Loco-Manipulation Policies

Pokuang Zhou, Yuhao Zhou, Quan Luu, Seungho Han, Heng Zhang, Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li, Arash Ajoudani, Zhengtong Xu, Yu She · 2026

Quadrupedal loco-manipulation is commonly built on visual perception and proprioception. Yet reliable contact-rich manipulation remains difficult: vision and proprioception alone cannot resolve uncert…

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Global Sampling-Based Trajectory Optimization for Contact-Rich Manipulation via KernelSOS

Zhongqi Wei, Frederike Dumbgen · 2026

Contact-rich manipulation is challenging due to its high dimensionality, the requirement for long time horizons, and the presence of hybrid contact dynamics. Sampling-based methods have become a popul…

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A 21-24 GHz Low-Phase-Noise mmWave VCO with Third-Harmonic Expansion using a Triple-Coupled Transformer based Tank

Narahari N. Moudhgalya · 2026

This work presents the design and analysis of a sixth-order triple-coupled transformer-based tank, enabling third-harmonic expansion for mmWave VCOs. Unlike conventional fourth-order tanks, the propos…

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Similarity Choice and Negative Scaling in Supervised Contrastive Learning for Deepfake Audio Detection

Jaskirat Sudan, Hashim Ali, Surya Subramani, Hafiz Malik · 2026

Supervised contrastive learning (SupCon) is widely used to shape representations, but has seen limited targeted study for audio deepfake detection. Existing work typically combines contrastive terms w…

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Variational Neural Belief Parameterizations for Robust Dexterous Grasping under Multimodal Uncertainty

Clinton Enwerem, Shreya Kalyanaraman, John S. Baras, Calin Belta · 2026

Contact variability, sensing uncertainty, and external disturbances make grasp execution stochastic. Expected-quality objectives ignore tail outcomes and often select grasps that fail under adverse co…

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KinDER: A Physical Reasoning Benchmark for Robot Learning and Planning

Yixuan Huang, Bowen Li, Vaibhav Saxena, Yichao Liang, Utkarsh Aashu Mishra, Liang Ji, Lihan Zha, Jimmy Wu, Nishanth Kumar, Sebastian Scherer, Danfei Xu, Tom Silver · 2026

Robotic systems that interact with the physical world must reason about kinematic and dynamic constraints imposed by their own embodiment, their environment, and the task at hand. We introduce KinDER,…

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HANDFUL: Sequential Grasp-Conditioned Dexterous Manipulation with Resource Awareness

Ethan Foong, Yunshuang Li, Hao Jiang, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Daniel Seita · 2026

Dexterous robot hands offer rich opportunities for multifunctional manipulation, where a robot must execute multiple skills in sequence while maintaining control over previously grasped objects. Most …

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Learning Human-Intention Priors from Large-Scale Human Demonstrations for Robotic Manipulation

Yifan Xie, YuAn Wang, Guangyu Chen, Jinkun Liu, Yu Sun, Wenbo Ding · 2026

Human videos contain rich manipulation priors, but using them for robot learning remains difficult because raw observations entangle scene understanding, human motion, and embodiment-specific action. …

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Shared-kernel Wavelet Neural Networks for Poisson Image Reconstruction

Yuanhao Gong, Tan Tang, Qianyan Liu · 2026

The Laplacian operator transforms the image into its Laplacian field, which usually is sparse and satisfies a stable distribution. On the other hand, an image can be uniquely reconstructed from its La…

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QuietWalk: Physics-Informed Reinforcement Learning for Ground Reaction Force-Aware Humanoid Locomotion Under Diverse Footwear

Hanze Hu, Luying Feng, Silu Chen, Tianjiang Zheng, Dexin Jiang, Wei Chen, Chi Zhang, Guilin Yang, Yaochu Jin · 2026

Humanoid robots operating in human-centered environments (e.g., homes, hospitals, and offices) must mitigate foot--ground impact transients, as impact-induced vibration and noise degrade user experien…

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EgoLive: A Large-Scale Egocentric Dataset from Real-World Human Tasks

Yihang Li, Xuelong Wei, Jingzhou Luo, Yingjing Xiao, Yibo Bai, Guangyuan Zhou, Teng Zou, Chenguang Gui, Jiajun Wen, He Zhang, Kangliang Chen, Xing Pan, Shuaiyan Liu, Daming Wang, Tao An, Jiayi Li, Shibo Jin, Wanwan Zhang, Tianyu Wang, Boren Wei, Zhixuan Huang, Fangsheng Liu, Ruodai Li, Hui Zhang, Anson Li, Yicheng Gong, Peng Cao, Jiaming Liang, Liang Lin · 2026

The advancement of robot learning is currently hindered by the scarcity of large-scale, high-quality datasets. While established data collection methods such as teleoperation and universal manipulatio…

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GPU-Native Multi-Area State Estimation via SIMD Abstraction and Boundary Condensation

Yifei Xu, Yuzhang Lin · 2026

Power system state estimation (SE) is foundational for grid monitoring, yet conventional centralized solvers face increasing computational pressure as the system scale and real-time requirements grow.…

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Learning to Trust AI and Data-driven models in Data Assimilation through a Multifidelity Ensemble Gaussian Mixture Filter Framework

Andrey A. Popov · 2026

AI and data-driven models have large potential for data assimilation applications by creating fast and accurate forecasts. Their tendency to produce spurious inaccurate, nonphysical results -- halluci…

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RecoverFormer: End-to-End Contact-Aware Recovery for Humanoid Robots

Zihui Liu · 2026

Humanoid robots operating in unstructured environments must recover from unexpected disturbances-a capability that remains challenging for end-to-end control policies. We present RECOVERFORMER, a full…

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Adaptive vs. Static Robot-to-Human Handover: A Study on Orientation and Approach Direction

Federico Biagi, Dario Onfiani, Simone Silenzi, Cristina Iani, Luigi Biagiotti · 2026

Robot-to-human handovers often rely on static, open-loop strategies (or, at best, approaches that adapt only the position), which generally do not consider how the object will be grasped by the human,…

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A Kinematic Analysis of Palm Degrees of Freedom for Enhancing Thumb Opposability in Robotic Hands

HyoJae Kang, Yeong Jae Park, Hyunmok Jung, Joonho Lee, Dong Il Park · 2026

This study investigates the kinematic role of palm degrees of freedom (DoF) in enhancing thumb opposability in a five-finger robotic hand. A hand model consisting of a five DoF thumb and four fingers …

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Advancing automatic speech recognition using feature fusion with self-supervised learning features: A case study on Fearless Steps Apollo corpus

Szu-Jui Chen, John H.L. Hansen · 2026

Using self-supervised learning (SSL) models has significantly improved performance for downstream speech tasks, surpassing the capabilities of traditional hand-crafted features. This study investigate…

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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 · 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-Man…

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