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Effects of Swarm Size Variability on Operator Workload

William Hunt, Aleksandra Landowska, Horia A. Maior, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Mohammad Soorati · 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 ma…

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Topology Estimation for Open Multi-Agent Systems

Nana Wang, Pelin Sekercioglu, Dimos V. Dimarogonas · 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 interactio…

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Tree Learning: A Multi-Skill Continual Learning Framework for Humanoid Robots

Yifei Yan, Linqi Ye · 2026

As reinforcement learning for humanoid robots evolves from single-task to multi-skill paradigms, efficiently expanding new skills while avoiding catastrophic forgetting has become a key challenge in e…

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PAINT: Partner-Agnostic Intent-Aware Cooperative Transport with Legged Robots

Zhihao Cao, Tianxu An, Chenhao Li, Stelian Coros, Marco Hutter · 2026

Collaborative transport requires robots to infer partner intent through physical interaction while maintaining stable loco-manipulation. This becomes particularly challenging in complex environments, …

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Investing Is Compression

Oscar Stiffelman · 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 s…

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Beyond the Flat-Spike: Adaptive Sparse CCA for Decaying and Unbalanced Signals

Mengchu Xu, Jian Wang, Yonina C. Eldar · 2026

Sparse Canonical Correlation Analysis (SCCA) is a fundamental statistical tool for identifying linear relationships in high-dimensional, multi-view data. While minimax theory establishes an optimal sa…

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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 · 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 high…

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Graph-Theoretic Analysis of Residual Generation Under Computational Constraints

Jan {AA}slund · 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 o…

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"You've got a friend in me": Co-Designing a Peer Social Robot for Young Newcomers' Language and Cultural Learning

Neil Fernandes, Cheng Tang, Tehniyat Shahbaz, Alex Hauschildt, Emily Davies-Robinson, Yue Hu, Kerstin Dautenhahn · 2026

Community literacy programs supporting young newcomer children in Canada face limited staffing and scarce one-to-one time, which constrains personalized English and cultural learning support. This pap…

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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 · 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 dist…

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Cognition to Control - Multi-Agent Learning for Human-Humanoid Collaborative Transport

Hao Zhang, Ding Zhao, H. Eric Tseng · 2026

Effective human-robot collaboration (HRC) requires translating high-level intent into contact-stable whole-body motion while continuously adapting to a human partner. Many vision-language-action (VLA)…

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Stability of Open Multi-agent Systems over Dynamic Signed Digraphs

Pelin Sekercioglu, Angela Fontan, Dimos V. Dimarogonas · 2026

We address the synchronization problem in open multi-agent systems (OMAS) containing both cooperative and antagonistic interactions. In these systems, agents can join or leave the network over time, a…

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A Human-in-the-Loop Confidence-Aware Failure Recovery Framework for Modular Robot Policies

Rohan Banerjee, Krishna Palempalli, Bohan Yang, Jiaying Fang, Alif Abdullah, Tom Silver, Sarah Dean, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee · 2026

Robots operating in unstructured human environments inevitably encounter failures, especially in robot caregiving scenarios. While humans can often help robots recover, excessive or poorly targeted qu…

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A multitask framework for automated interpretation of multi-frame right upper quadrant ultrasound in clinical decision support

Haiman Guo, Cheng-Yi Li, Yuli Wang, Robin Wang, Yuwei Dai, Qinghai Peng, Danming Cao, Zhusi Zhong, Thao Vu, Linmei Zhao, Chengzhang Zhu, Christopher Tan, Jacob Schick, Stephen Kwak, Farzad Sedaghat, Javad Azadi, James Facciola, Jonathan Feng, Dilek Oncel, Ulrike Hamper, Alex Zhu, Tej Mehta, Melissa Leimkuehler, Cheng Ting Lin, Zhicheng Jiao, Ihab Kamel, Jing Wu, Li Yang, Harrison Bai · 2026

Ultrasound is a cornerstone of emergency and hepatobiliary imaging, yet its interpretation remains highly operator-dependent and time-sensitive. Here, we present a multitask vision-language agent (VLM…

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Study of Class-Incremental Radio Frequency Fingerprint Recognition Without Storing Exemplars

Rundong Jiang, Jun Hu, Yunqi Song, Zhiyuan Xie, Shiyou Xu · 2026

The rapid proliferation of wireless devices makes robust identity authentication essential. Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) exploits device-specific, hard-to-forge physical-layer impairments for …

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LEO-RobotAgent: A General-purpose Robotic Agent for Language-driven Embodied Operator

Lihuang Chen, Xiangyu Luo, Jun Meng · 2025

We propose LEO-RobotAgent, a general-purpose language-driven intelligent agent framework for robots. Under this framework, LLMs can operate different types of robots to complete unpredictable complex …

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Push Smarter, Not Harder: Hierarchical RL-Diffusion Policy for Efficient Nonprehensile Manipulation

Steven Caro, Stephen L. Smith · 2025

Nonprehensile manipulation, such as pushing objects across cluttered environments, presents a challenging control problem due to complex contact dynamics and long-horizon planning requirements. In thi…

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IPPO Learns the Game, Not the Team: A Study on Generalization in Heterogeneous Agent Teams

Ryan LeRoy, Jack Kolb · 2025

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is commonly deployed in settings where agents are trained via self-play with homogeneous teammates, often using parameter sharing and a single policy architec…

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Efficient and Compliant Control Framework for Versatile Human-Humanoid Collaborative Transportation

Shubham S. Kumbhar, Abhijeet M. Kulkarni, Panagiotis Artemiadis · 2025

We present a control framework that enables humanoid robots to perform collaborative transportation tasks with a human partner. The framework supports both translational and rotational motions, which …

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How Robot Kinematics Influence Human Performance in Virtual Robot-to-Human Handover Tasks

Roisin Keenan, Joost C. Dessing · 2025

Recent advancements in robotics have increased the possibilities for integrating robotic systems into human-involved workplaces, highlighting the need to examine and optimize human-robot coordination …

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