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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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Walking Through Uncertainty: An Empirical Study of Uncertainty Estimation for Audio-Aware Large Language Models

Chun-Yi Kuan, Wei-Ping Huang, Hung-yi Lee · 2026

Recent audio-aware large language models (ALLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities across diverse audio understanding and reasoning tasks, but they still frequently produce hallucinated or overly …

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RPG: Robust Policy Gating for Smooth Multi-Skill Transitions in Humanoid Fighting

Yucheng Xin, Jiacheng Bao, Yubo Dong, Xueqian Wang, Bin Zhao, Xuelong Li, Junbo Tan, Dong Wang · 2026

Humanoid robots have demonstrated impressive motor skills in a wide range of tasks, yet whole-body control for humanlike long-time, dynamic fighting remains particularly challenging due to the stringe…

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Reinforcement Learning Enabled Adaptive Multi-Task Control for Bipedal Soccer Robots

Yulai Zhang, Yinrong Zhang, Ting Wu, Linqi Ye · 2026

Developing bipedal football robots in dynamiccombat environments presents challenges related to motionstability and deep coupling of multiple tasks, as well ascontrol switching issues between differen…

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Multi-Gait Learning for Humanoid Robots Using Reinforcement Learning with Selective Adversarial Motion Prior

Yuanye Wu, Keyi Wang, Linqi Ye, Boyang Xing · 2026

Learning diverse locomotion skills for humanoid robots in a unified reinforcement learning framework remains challenging due to the conflicting requirements of stability and dynamic expressiveness acr…

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Path Integral Control for Partially Observed Systems with Controlled Sensing

Goutam Das, Takashi Tanaka · 2026

Path integral control in Gaussian belief space requires a structural matching condition between the observation-driven diffusion of the belief mean and the actuation authority, which a fixed observati…

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Safe Control using Learned Safety Filters and Adaptive Conformal Inference

Sacha Huriot, Ihab Tabbara, Hussein Sibai · 2026

Safety filters have been shown to be effective tools to ensure the safety of control systems with unsafe nominal policies. To address scalability challenges in traditional synthesis methods, learning-…

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A Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability-Guided Search Framework for Efficient and Safe Indoor Planar Robot Navigation

Hanyang Hu, Cameron Siu, Mo Chen · 2026

Autonomous navigation requires planning to reach a goal safely and efficiently in complex and potentially dynamic environments. Graph search-based algorithms are widely adopted due to their generality…

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Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Exploits Passive Body Dynamics for High-Performance Biped Robot Locomotion

Tomoya Kamimura, Haruka Washiyama, Akihito Sano · 2026

Embodiment is a significant keyword in recent machine learning fields. This study focused on the passive nature of the body of a biped robot to generate walking and running locomotion using model-base…

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Hybrid Architecture Gets Fluid: A New Paradigm for Direction-of-arrival Estimation in 6G Networks

Ye Tian, Jiaji Ren, Tuo Wu, Wei Liu, Maged Elkashlan, Matthew C. Valenti, Naofal Al-Dhahir, Hing Cheung So · 2026

High-precision direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation, as a key sensing capability for 6G-enabled applications such as autonomous driving and extended reality, is increasingly dependent on the effectiv…

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Stability Principle Underlying Passive Dynamic Walking of Rimless Wheel

Fumihiko Asano · 2026

Rimless wheels are known as the simplest model for passive dynamic walking. It is known that the passive gait generated only by gravity effect always becomes asymptotically stable and 1-period because…

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Boundary Sampling to Learn Predictive Safety Filters via Pontryagin's Maximum Principle

James Dallas, Thomas Lew, John Talbot, Jonathan DeCastro, Somil Bansal, John Subosits · 2026

Safety filters provide a practical approach for enforcing safety constraints in autonomous systems. While learning-based tools scale to high-dimensional systems, their performance depends on informati…

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Path Integral Control in Gaussian Belief Space for Partially Observed Systems

Goutam Das, Takashi Tanaka · 2026

This paper extends path integral control (PIC) to partially observed systems by formulating the problem in Gaussian belief space. PIC relies on the diffusion being proportional to the control channel …

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A Foot Resistive Force Model for Legged Locomotion on Muddy Terrains

Xunjie Chen, Liuyin Wang, Xinyan Huang, Jerry Shan, Yantao Shen, Jingang Yi · 2026

Legged robots face significant challenges in moving and navigating on deformable and highly yielding terrain such as mud. We present a resistive force model for legged foot-mud interactions. The model…

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Bipedal-Walking-Dynamics Model on Granular Terrains

Xunjie Chen, Xinyan Huang, Peter Shan, Jingang Yi, Tao Liu · 2026

Bipeds have demonstrated high agility and mobility in unstructured environments such as sand. The yielding of such granular media brings significant sinkage and slip of the bipedal feet, leading to un…

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Modeling, Analysis and Activation of Planar Viscoelastically-combined Rimless Wheels

Fumihiko Asano, Yuxuan Xiang, Yanqiu Zheng, Cong Yan · 2026

This paper proposes novel passive-dynamic walkers formed by two cross-shaped frames and eight viscoelastic elements. Since it is a combination of two four-legged rimless wheels via viscoelastic elemen…

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Simulator Adaptation for Sim-to-Real Learning of Legged Locomotion via Proprioceptive Distribution Matching

Jeremy Dao, Alan Fern · 2026

Simulation trained legged locomotion policies often exhibit performance loss on hardware due to dynamics discrepancies between the simulator and the real world, highlighting the need for approaches th…

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Musculoskeletal Motion Imitation for Learning Personalized Exoskeleton Control Policy in Impaired Gait

Itak Choi, Ilseung Park, Eni Halilaj, Inseung Kang · 2026

Designing generalizable control policies for lower-limb exoskeletons remains fundamentally constrained by exhaustive data collection or iterative optimization procedures, which limit accessibility to …

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Robust Quadruped Locomotion via Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning

Brian McAteer, Karl Mason · 2026

Deep reinforcement learning has recently achieved strong results in quadrupedal locomotion, yet policies trained in simulation often fail to transfer when the environment changes. Evolutionary reinfor…

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ZipFold: Modular Actuators for Scaleable Adaptive Robots

Niklas Hagemann, Daniela Rus · 2026

There is a growing need for robots that can change their shape, size and mechanical properties to adapt to evolving tasks and environments. However, current shape-changing systems generally utilize be…

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