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Feedback Linearization of Hyperbolic PDEs with Volterra Nonlinearities

Miroslav Krstic ยท 2026

Alberto Isidori's framework of geometric nonlinear control, and particularly of feedback linearization, is the inspiration behind PDE backstepping: apply a transfromation of the state to cast the planโ€ฆ

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Move-Then-Operate: Behavioral Phasing for Human-Like Robotic Manipulation

Haoming Xu, Lei Lei, Jie Gu, Chu Tang, Jingmin Chen, Ruiqi Wang ยท 2026

We present Move-Then-Operate, a Vision language action framework that explicitly decouples robotic manipulation into two distinct behavioral phases: coarse relocation (move) and contact-critical interโ€ฆ

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When AI Meets Terahertz: A Survey on the Symbiosis of Artificial Intelligence and Terahertz Networks

Chong Han, Jingting Jiang, Zhengdong Hu, Meixia Tao, Wenjun Zhang ยท 2026

The Terahertz (THz) band (0.1-10 THz) has emerged as a critical frontier for future communication systems, offering ultra-wide bandwidths that enable Terabits-per-second (Tbps) wireless links and highโ€ฆ

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Effects of Swarm Size Variability on Operator Workload

William Hunt, Aleksandra Landowska, Horia A. Maior, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Mohammad Soorati ยท 2026

Real-world deployments of human--swarm teams depend on balancing operator workload to leverage human strengths without inducing overload. A key challenge is that swarm size is often dynamic: robots maโ€ฆ

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Chain Of Interaction Benchmark (COIN): When Reasoning meets Embodied Interaction

Xianhao Wang, Xiaojian Ma, Haozhe Hu, Rongpeng Su, Yutian Cheng, Zhou Ziheng, Hangxin Liu, Lei Liu, Bin Li, Qing Li ยท 2026

Generalist embodied agents must perform interactive, causally-dependent reasoning, continually interacting with the environment, acquiring information, and updating plans to solve long-horizon tasks bโ€ฆ

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When structure does not imply symmetry

Skyler R. St. Pierre, Thibault Vervenne, Ethan C. Darwin, Ellen Kuhl ยท 2026

Fungal protein materials exhibit inherently anisotropic microstructures formed by networks of hyphae, which suggest a natural pathway to replicate the fibrous texture of animal meat. We probe whether โ€ฆ

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Topology Estimation for Open Multi-Agent Systems

Nana Wang, Pelin Sekercioglu, Dimos V. Dimarogonas ยท 2026

We address the problem of interaction topology identification in open multi-agent systems (OMAS) with dynamic node sets and fast switching interactions. In such systems, new agents join and interactioโ€ฆ

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Exploiting Scheduling Flexibility via State-Based Scheduling When Guaranteeing Worst-Case Services

Yike Xu, Mark S. Andersland ยท 2026

Even when providing long-run, worst-case guarantees to competing flows of unit-sized tasks, a slot-timed, constant-capacity server's scheduler may retain significant, short-run, scheduling flexibilityโ€ฆ

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When Altruism Meets Autonomy: Managing Bottleneck Congestion with Strategic Autonomous Vehicles

Kexin Wang, Haohui He, Ruolin Li ยท 2026

Weaving ramps are critical bottlenecks in highway networks due to conflicting traffic flows and complex interactions among heterogeneous vehicle types. In mixed-autonomy settings, the presence of contโ€ฆ

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Investing Is Compression

Oscar Stiffelman ยท 2026

In 1956 John Kelly wrote a paper at Bell Labs describing the relationship between gambling and Information Theory. What came to be known as the Kelly Criterion is both an objective and a closed-form sโ€ฆ

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What Happens When Institutional Liquidity Enters Prediction Markets: Identification, Measurement, and a Synthetic Proof of Concept

Shaw Dalen ยท 2026

Prediction markets are starting to look less like crowd polls and more like electronic markets. The central question is therefore no longer only whether these markets forecast well, but what happens wโ€ฆ

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When Market Prices Drive the Load: Modeling, Grid-Security Analysis, and Mitigation of Data Center Workload Scheduling

Shijie Pan, Zaint A. Alexakis, Charalambos Konstantinou ยท 2026

Data centers (DCs) are emerging as large, geographically distributed, controllable loads whose participation in electricity markets can significantly affect grid operation, especially when cloud platfโ€ฆ

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When Agent Markets Arrive

Xuan Liu, Haoyang Shang, Haojian Jin ยท 2026

AI agents are increasingly transacting on behalf of users -- delegating tasks, spending budgets, and negotiating with unfamiliar counterparties. From skill marketplaces to agent-only bazaars, the econโ€ฆ

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Learning When to See and When to Feel: Adaptive Vision-Torque Fusion for Contact-Aware Manipulation

Jiuzhou Lei, Chang Liu, Yu She, Xiao Liang, Minghui Zheng ยท 2026

Vision-based policies have achieved a good performance in robotic manipulation due to the accessibility and richness of visual observations. However, purely visual sensing becomes insufficient in contโ€ฆ

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Distributed Predictive Control Barrier Functions: Towards Scalable Safety Certification in Modular Multi-Agent Systems

Jonas Ohnemus, Alexandre Didier, Ahmed Aboudonia, Andrea Carron, Melanie N. Zeilinger ยท 2026

We consider safety-critical multi-agent systems with distributed control architectures and potentially varying network topologies. While learning-based distributed control enables scalability and highโ€ฆ

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Physics-Enforced Neural Ordinary Differential Equation for Chemical Kinetics Optimization in Reaction-Diffusion Systems

Feixue Cai, Hua Zhou, Zhuyin Ren ยท 2026

Calibrating chemical kinetics in a reaction-diffusion system is challenging because of complex dynamics governed by tightly coupled chemistry and transport, while experimental observations are often sโ€ฆ

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Graph-Theoretic Analysis of Residual Generation Under Computational Constraints

Jan {AA}slund ยท 2026

A unified structural framework is presented for model-based fault diagnosis that explicitly incorporates both fault locations and constraints imposed by the residual generation methodology. Building oโ€ฆ

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When Should a Robot Think? Resource-Aware Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning for Embodied Robotic Decision-Making

Jun Liu, Pu Zhao, Zhenglun Kong, Xuan Shen, Peiyan Dong, Fan Yang, Lin Cui, Hao Tang, Geng Yuan, Wei Niu, Wenbin Zhang, Xue Lin, Gaowen Liu, Yanzhi Wang, Dong Huang ยท 2026

Embodied robotic systems increasingly rely on large language model (LLM)-based agents to support high-level reasoning, planning, and decision-making during interactions with the environment. However, โ€ฆ

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When Rolling Gets Weird: A Curved-Link Tensegrity Robot for Non-Intuitive Behavior

Lauren Ervin, Harish Bezawada, Vishesh Vikas ยท 2026

Conventional mobile tensegrity robots constructed with straight links offer mobility at the cost of locomotion speed. While spherical robots provide highly effective rolling behavior, they often lack โ€ฆ

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Autonomous Search for Sparsely Distributed Visual Phenomena through Environmental Context Modeling

Eric Chen, Travis Manderson, Nare Karapetyan, Peter Edmunds, Nicholas Roy, Yogesh Girdhar ยท 2026

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are increasingly used to survey coral reefs, yet efficiently locating specific coral species of interest remains difficult: target species are often sparsely distโ€ฆ

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