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FreeOcc: Training-Free Embodied Open-Vocabulary Occupancy Prediction

Zeyu Jiang, Changqing Zhou, Xingxing Zuo, Changhao Chen ยท 2026

Existing learning-based occupancy prediction methods rely on large-scale 3D annotations and generalize poorly across environments. We present FreeOcc, a training-free framework for open-vocabulary occโ€ฆ

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Walk With Me: Long-Horizon Social Navigation for Human-Centric Outdoor Assistance

Lingfeng Zhang, Xiaoshuai Hao, Xizhou Bu, Yingbo Tang, Hongsheng Li, Jinghui Lu, Xiu-shen Wei, Jiayi Ma, Yu Liu, Jing Zhang, Hangjun Ye, Xiaojun Liang, Long Chen, Wenbo Ding ยท 2026

Assisting humans in open-world outdoor environments requires robots to translate high-level natural-language intentions into safe, long-horizon, and socially compliant navigation behavior. Existing maโ€ฆ

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Validating the Clinical Utility of CineECG 3D Reconstructions through Cross-Modal Feature Attribution

Karol Dobiczek, Maciej Mozolewski, Szymon Bobek, Micha{l} Szafarczyk, Peter van Dam, Grzegorz J. Nalepa ยท 2026

Deep learning models for 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis achieve high diagnostic performance but lack the intuitive interpretability required for clinical integration. Standard feature attribโ€ฆ

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Lights Out: A Nighttime UAV Localization Framework Using Thermal Imagery and Semantic 3D Maps

Ryan Allen, Melissa Greeff ยท 2026

Reliable backup localization for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in GNSS-denied nighttime conditions remains an open challenge due to the severe modality gap between daytime RGB maps and nigโ€ฆ

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Sparse Graph Learning from Sparse Data via Fiedler Number Maximization

Bahar Oveisgharan, Gene Cheung, Andrew Eckford ยท 2026

We aim to learn a sparse and connected graph from sparse data, where the number of observations K can be substantially smaller than the signal dimension N for signals x in R^N, and the underlying distโ€ฆ

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Robustness Evaluation of a Foundation Segmentation Model Under Simulated Domain Shifts in Abdominal CT: Implications for Health Digital Twin Deployment

Sanghati Basu ยท 2026

Foundation segmentation models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) have demonstrated strong generalization across natural images; however, their robustness under clinically realistic medical imagโ€ฆ

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Bridging the Indoor-Outdoor Gap: Cross-Technology Ranging for Seamless Robot Navigation

Paul Schwarzbach ยท 2026

Mobile robots that move between outdoor and indoor environments still struggle with consistent positioning. Satellite-based and terrestrial ranging each work well in their home domains, but combining โ€ฆ

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Optimal UGV-UAV Cooperative Partitioning and Inspection of Shortest Paths

Ninh Nguyen, Srinivas Akella ยท 2026

We study cooperative shortest path planning for an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) assisted by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in environments with unknown road blockages that are only discovered when โ€ฆ

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Dynamic UGV-UAV Cooperative Path Planning in Uncertain Environments

Ninh Nguyen, Srinivas Akella ยท 2026

This paper addresses the Dynamic UGV-UAV Cooperative Path Planning (DUCPP) problem involving one unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) assisted by one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating on an uโ€ฆ

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Dual-Polarized Massive MIMO Based on Precoding for Vehicle-To-Ground Communication in Urban Rail Transit

Zhengyuan Wu, Junhui Zhao, Qingmiao Zhang, Ming Zhang ยท 2026

The development of intelligent and diversified ser vices in urban rail transit (URT) has resulted in an increasing de mand for high-rate communication between vehicles and ground equipment. However, eโ€ฆ

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Behaviour-aware Hybrid Architecture for Trust-driven Transmissions

Dhrumil Bhatt, Anakha Kurup ยท 2026

Reliable and secure communication is essential for mission-critical aerospace and defence operations involving autonomous platforms such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), satellites, and ground contโ€ฆ

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Weak-Fluctuation-Induced Clutter Covariance and Subspace Structure in Single-Snapshot FDA-MIMO GPR

Yisu Yan, Jifeng Guo ยท 2026

Weak constitutive fluctuations in dispersive subsurface media can induce distributed clutter that reshapes the observation structure of ground-penetrating radar (GPR). This paper analyzes this effect โ€ฆ

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asRoBallet: Closing the Sim2Real Gap via Friction-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Underactuated Spherical Dynamics

Fang Wan, Guangyi Huang, Tianyu Wu, Zishang Zhang, Bangchao Huang, Haoran Sun, Mingdong Chen, Chaoyang Song ยท 2026

We introduce asRoBallet, to the best of our knowledge, the first successful deployment of reinforcement learning (RL) on a humanoid ballbot hardware. Historically, ballbots have served as a canonical โ€ฆ

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An analysis of sensor selection for fruit picking with suction-based grippers

Eva Krueger, Marcus Rosette, Joseph R. Davidson ยท 2026

Robotic fruit harvesting often fails to reliably detect whether a fruit has been successfully picked, limiting efficiency and increasing crop damage. This problem is difficult due to compliant fruit aโ€ฆ

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VISION-SLS: Safe Perception-Based Control from Learned Visual Representations via System Level Synthesis

Antoine P. Leeman, Shuyu Zhan, Melanie N. Zeilinger, Glen Chou ยท 2026

We propose VISION-SLS, a method for nonlinear output-feedback control from high-resolution RGB images which provides robust constraint satisfaction guarantees under calibrated uncertainty bounds despiโ€ฆ

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Pushing Radar Odometry Beyond the Pavement: Current Capabilities and Challenges

Shaunak Kolhe, Peng Jiang, Maggie Wigness, Philip Osteen, Timothy Overbye, Chrisitan Ellis, Srikanth Saripalli ยท 2026

Radar offers unique advantages for localization in unstructured environments, including robustness to weather, lighting, and airborne particulates. While most prior work has studied radar odometry in โ€ฆ

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Joint Hybrid Beamforming and Trajectory Design for Multi-UAV-Enabled Cell-Free Multi-Static ISAC

Chen Chaoran, Zhang Yuhao, Pan Zhiwen, Liu Nan ยท 2026

This paper investigates a joint hybrid digital-analog beamforming and trajectory design for a cell-free multi-static integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system supported by multiple unmanned aโ€ฆ

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Sliding Mode Control for Safe Trajectory Tracking with Moving Obstacles Avoidance: Experimental Validation on Planar Robots

Shubham Sawarkar, P Sangeerth, S Saharsh, Pushpak Jagtap ยท 2026

This paper presents a unified control framework for robust trajectory tracking and moving obstacle avoidance applicable to a broad class of mobile robots. By formulating a generalized kinematic transfโ€ฆ

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A Road-Mobile GNSS-Disciplined Oscillator for Accurate Synchronization of Vehicular Microwave Measurements

Maximilian Engelhardt, Carsten Andrich, Daniel Stanko, Alexander Ihlow, Markus Landmann ยท 2026

Precise synchronization is essential in various technical disciplines, being especially challenging in mobile scenarios. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art global navigation satellite system (GNSS) disciโ€ฆ

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Fluid Antenna Enabled Compact Ultra Massive Antenna Array for Satellite Communications

Tianyu Han, Yongxu Zhu, Gan Zheng, Pantelis-Daniel Arapoglou ยท 2026

Satellites provide seamless coverage and are critical for emergency communications during natural disasters. However, their performance is constrained by limited spectrum and high deployment cost. To โ€ฆ

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