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Tensegrity Robot Endcap-Ground Contact Estimation with Symmetry-aware Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network

Wenzhe Tong, Yicheng Jiang, Chi Zhang, Maani Ghaffari, Xiaonan Huang · 2026

Tensegrity robots possess lightweight and resilient structures but present significant challenges for state estimation due to compliant and distributed ground contacts. This paper introduces a symmetr…

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Driving is a Game: Combining Planning and Prediction with Bayesian Iterative Best Response

Aron Distelzweig, Yiwei Wang, Faris Janjos, Marcel Hallgarten, Mihai Dobre, Alexander Langmann, Joschka Boedecker, Johannes Betz · 2025

Autonomous driving planning systems perform nearly perfectly in routine scenarios using lightweight, rule-based methods but still struggle in dense urban traffic, where lane changes and merges require…

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SPI-BoTER: Error Compensation for Industrial Robots via Sparse Attention Masking and Hybrid Loss with Spatial-Physical Information

Xuao Hou, Yongquan Jia, Shijin Zhang, Yuqiang Wu · 2025

The widespread application of industrial robots in fields such as cutting and welding has imposed increasingly stringent requirements on the trajectory accuracy of end-effectors. However, current erro…

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Probing Multimodal LLMs as World Models for Driving

Shiva Sreeram, Tsun-Hsuan Wang, Alaa Maalouf, Guy Rosman, Sertac Karaman, Daniela Rus · 2024

We provide a sober look at the application of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in autonomous driving, challenging common assumptions about their ability to interpret dynamic driving scenarios.…

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Unwieldy Object Delivery with Nonholonomic Mobile Base: A Stable Pushing Approach

Yujie Tang, Hai Zhu, Susan Potters, Martijn Wisse, Wei Pan · 2023

This paper addresses the problem of pushing manipulation with nonholonomic mobile robots. Pushing is a fundamental skill that enables robots to move unwieldy objects that cannot be grasped. We propose…

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Drone Launched Short Range Rockets

Mikhail Shubov · 2021

A concept of drone launched short range rockets (DLSRR) is presented. A drone or an aircraft rises DLSRR to a release altitude of up to 20 $km$. At the release altitude, the drone or an aircraft is mo…

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Agile Robot Navigation through Hallucinated Learning and Sober Deployment

Xuesu Xiao, Bo Liu, Peter Stone · 2020

Learning from Hallucination (LfH) is a recent machine learning paradigm for autonomous navigation, which uses training data collected in completely safe environments and adds numerous imaginary obstac…

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Recognition of Pyralidae Insects Using Intelligent Monitoring Autonomous Robot Vehicle in Natural Farm Scene

Boyi Liu, Zhuhua Hu, Yaochi Zhao, Yong Bai, Yu Wang · 2019

The Pyralidae pests, such as corn borer and rice leaf roller, are main pests in economic crops. The timely detection and identification of Pyralidae pests is a critical task for agriculturists and far…

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Functional criticality in the human brain: Physiological, behavioral and neurodevelopmental correlates.

 · 1970

Understanding the critical features of the human brain at multiple time scales is vital for both normal development and disease research. A recently proposed method, the vertex-wise Index of Functiona…

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