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Decentralized Opinion-Integrated Decision making at Unsignalized Intersections via Signed Networks

Bhaskar Varma, Ying Shuai Quan, Karl D. von Ellenrieder, Paolo Falcone ยท 2026

In this letter, we consider the problem of decentralized decision making among connected autonomous vehicles at unsignalized intersections, where existing centralized approaches do not scale gracefullโ€ฆ

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Robust Multi-Agent Target Tracking in Intermittent Communication Environments via Analytical Belief Merging

Mohamed Abdelnaby, Samuel Honor, Kevin Leahy ยท 2026

Autonomous multi-agent target tracking in GPS-denied and communication-restricted environments (e.g., underwater exploration, subterranean search and rescue, and adversarial domains) forces agents to โ€ฆ

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Cooperative Detour Planning for Dual-Task Drone Fleets

Pengbo Zhu, Meng Xu, Andreas A. Malikopoulos, Nikolas Geroliminis ยท 2026

As Urban air mobility scales, commercial drone fleets offer a compelling, yet underexplored opportunity to function as mobile sensor networks for real-time urban traffic monitoring. In this paper, we โ€ฆ

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Compact Keyframe-Optimized Multi-Agent Gaussian Splatting SLAM

Monica M.Q. Li, Pierre-Yves Lajoie, Jialiang Liu, Giovanni Beltrame ยท 2026

Efficient multi-agent 3D mapping is essential for robotic teams operating in unknown environments, but dense representations hinder real-time exchange over constrained communication links. In multi-agโ€ฆ

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Drive My Way: Preference Alignment of Vision-Language-Action Model for Personalized Driving

Zehao Wang, Huaide Jiang, Shuaiwu Dong, Yuping Wang, Hang Qiu, Jiachen Li ยท 2026

Human driving behavior is inherently personal, which is shaped by long-term habits and influenced by short-term intentions. Individuals differ in how they accelerate, brake, merge, yield, and overtakeโ€ฆ

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Markov Potential Game and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving

Huiwen Yan, Mushuang Liu ยท 2026

Autonomous driving (AD) requires safe and reliable decision-making among interacting agents, e.g., vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians. Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) modeled by Markov gameโ€ฆ

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MERGE: Guided Vision-Language Models for Multi-Actor Event Reasoning and Grounding in Human-Robot Interaction

Joerg Deigmoeller, Nakul Agarwal, Stephan Hasler, Daniel Tanneberg, Anna Belardinelli, Reza Ghoddoosian, Chao Wang, Felix Ocker, Fan Zhang, Behzad Dariush, Michael Gienger ยท 2026

We introduce MERGE, a system for situational grounding of actors, objects, and events in dynamic human-robot group interactions. Effective collaboration in such settings requires consistent situationaโ€ฆ

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DepthCache: Depth-Guided Training-Free Visual Token Merging for Vision-Language-Action Model Inference

Yuquan Li, Lianjie Ma, Han Ding, Lijun Zhu ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models enable generalist robotic manipulation but suffer from high inference latency. This bottleneck stems from the massive number of visual tokens processed by large lanโ€ฆ

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RoEL: Robust Event-based 3D Line Reconstruction

Gwangtak Bae, Jaeho Shin, Seunggu Kang, Junho Kim, Ayoung Kim, Young Min Kim ยท 2026

Event cameras in motion tend to detect object boundaries or texture edges, which produce lines of brightness changes, especially in man-made environments. While lines can constitute a robust intermediโ€ฆ

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Markerless Robot Detection and 6D Pose Estimation for Multi-Agent SLAM

Markus Rueggeberg, Maximilian Ulmer, Maximilian Durner, Wout Boerdijk, Marcus Gerhard Mueller, Rudolph Triebel, Riccardo Giubilato ยท 2026

The capability of multi-robot SLAM approaches to merge localization history and maps from different observers is often challenged by the difficulty in establishing data association. Loop closure detecโ€ฆ

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Newton-Direction-Based ReLU-Thresholding Methods for Nonnegative Sparse Signal Recovery

Ning Bian, Zhong-Feng Sun, Yun-Bin Zhao, Jin-Chuan Zhou, Nan Meng ยท 2026

Nonnegative sparse signal recovery has been extensively studied due to its broad applications. Recent work has integrated rectified linear unit (ReLU) techniques to enhance existing recovery algorithmโ€ฆ

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Token Expand-Merge: Training-Free Token Compression for Vision-Language-Action Models

Yifan Ye, Jiaqi Ma, Jun Cen, Zhihe Lu ยท 2025

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models pretrained on large-scale multimodal datasets have emerged as powerful foundations for robotic perception and control. However, their massive scale, often billions โ€ฆ

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CogDrive: Cognition-Driven Multimodal Prediction-Planning Fusion for Safe Autonomy

Heye Huang, Yibin Yang, Mingfeng Fan, Haoran Wang, Xiaocong Zhao, Jianqiang Wang ยท 2025

Safe autonomous driving in mixed traffic requires a unified understanding of multimodal interactions and dynamic planning under uncertainty. Existing learning based approaches struggle to capture rareโ€ฆ

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Z-Merge: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for On-Ramp Merging with Zone-Specific V2X Traffic Information

Yassine Ibork, Myounggyu Won, Lokesh Das ยท 2025

Ramp merging is a critical and challenging task for autonomous vehicles (AVs), particularly in mixed traffic environments with human-driven vehicles (HVs). Existing approaches typically rely on eitherโ€ฆ

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A Cylindrical Nanowire Array-Based Flexure-FET Receiver for Molecular Communication

Dilara Aktas, Ozgur B. Akan ยท 2025

Molecular communication (MC) enables biocompatible and energy-efficient information transfer through chemical signaling, forming a foundational paradigm for emerging applications in the Internet of Naโ€ฆ

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Decentralized Merging Control of Connected and Automated Vehicles to Enhance Safety and Energy Efficiency using Control Barrier Functions

Shreshta Rajakumar Deshpande, Mrdjan Jankovic ยท 2025

This paper presents a decentralized Control Barrier Function (CBF) based approach for highway merging of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs). In this control algorithm, each "host" vehicle negotiaโ€ฆ

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Network-Centric Anomaly Filtering and Spoofer localization for 5G-NR Localization in LAWNs

Zexin Fang, Bin Han, Zhu Han, Yufei Zhao, Yong Liang Guan, Hans D. Schotten ยท 2025

This paper investigates security vulnerabilities and countermeasures for the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Fifth Generation New Radio (5G-NR) Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA)-based unmannโ€ฆ

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AsyncVoice Agent: Real-Time Explanation for LLM Planning and Reasoning

Yueqian Lin, Zhengmian Hu, Jayakumar Subramanian, Qinsi Wang, Nikos Vlassis, Hai "Helen" Li, Yiran Chen ยท 2025

Effective human-AI collaboration on complex reasoning tasks requires that users understand and interact with the model's process, not just receive an output. However, the monolithic text from methods โ€ฆ

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Modeling the Impact of Communication and Human Uncertainties on Runway Capacity in Terminal Airspace

Yutian Pang, Andrew Kendall, John-Paul Clarke ยท 2025

We investigate the potential impact of communication and human performance uncertainties on runway operations. Specifically, we consider these impacts within the context of an arrival scenario with twโ€ฆ

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BaldWhisper: Faster Whisper with Head Shearing and Layer Merging

Yaya Sy, Christophe Cerisara, Irina Illina ยท 2025

Pruning large pre-trained transformers for low-resource languages is challenging, as it often requires massive retraining data to recover performance. For instance, Distill-Whisper prunes Whisper by 4โ€ฆ

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