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Supporting Family-School Partnerships with Robot-Facilitated Home-Based Activities

Michael F Xu, Qiyao Yang, Heather Kirkorian, Bilge Mutlu · 2026

Family-school partnerships (FSP) are critical to children's development, yet families often face barriers such as time constraints, fragmented communication, and limited opportunities for meaningful e…

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Real-Time Solution-Seeking for Game-Theoretic Autonomous Driving via Time-Distributed Iterations

Shaoqing Liu, Mushuang Liu · 2026

Computational complexity has been a major challenge in game-theoretic model predictive control (GT-MPC), as real-time solutions to a game (e.g., Nash equilibria (NEs)) have to be computed at each samp…

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Joint Activity Detection and Channel Estimation for Massive Random Access Using SBL and SCA

Esa Ollila, Majdoddin Esfandiari, Daniel P. Palomar · 2026

In massive machine-type communication (mMTC) applications, a key challenge is joint device activity detection and channel estimation (JADCE) under grant-free random access, as a massive number of devi…

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A Control-Referenced Tri-Channel OECT Receiver for Hybrid Molecular Communication Toward Brain Organoid Interfaces

Hongbin Ni, Ozgur B. Akan · 2026

Brain organoid interfaces that seek neuromodulator readout benefit from chemical receivers with molecular specificity and tolerance to drift. This paper presents a receiver-centric theoretical study o…

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Resilient and Effort-Optimal Controller Synthesis under Temporal Logic Specifications

Youssef Ait Si, Ratnangshu Das, Negar Monir, Sadegh Soudjani, Pushpak Jagtap, Adnane Saoud · 2026

In this paper, we consider the notions of effort and resilience of a dynamical control system defined by the maximum disturbance the system can withstand while satisfying given finite temporal logic s…

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Accurate and Reliable Uncertainty Estimates for Deterministic Predictions Extensions to Under and Overpredictions

Rileigh Bandy, Enrico Camporeale, Andong Hu, Thomas Berger, Rebecca Morrison · 2026

Computational models support high-stakes decisions across engineering and science, and practitioners increasingly seek probabilistic predictions to quantify uncertainty in such models. Existing approa…

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Towards Considerate Human-Robot Coexistence: A Dual-Space Framework of Robot Design and Human Perception in Healthcare

Yuanchen Bai, Zijian Ding, Ruixiang Han, Niti Parikh, Wendy Ju, Angelique Taylor · 2026

The rapid advancement of robotics, spanning expanded capabilities, more intuitive interaction, and more integration into real-world workflows, is reshaping what it means for humans and robots to coexi…

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A Functional Learning Approach for Team-Optimal Traffic Coordination

Weihao Sun, Gehui Xu, Alessio Moreschini, Thomas Parisini, Andreas A. Malikopoulos · 2026

In this paper, we develop a kernel-based policy iteration functional learning framework for computing team-optimal strategies in traffic coordination problems. We consider a multi-agent discrete-time …

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Optimal Hiding with Partial Information of the Seeker's Route

Prajakta Surve, Shaunak D. Bopardikar, Daigo Shishika, Dipankar Maity, Michael Dorothy · 2026

We consider a hide-and-seek game between a Hider and a Seeker over a finite set of locations. The Hider chooses one location to conceal a stationary treasure, while the Seeker visits the locations seq…

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Investigating a Policy-Based Formulation for Endoscopic Camera Pose Recovery

Jan Emily Mangulabnan, Akshat Chauhan, Laura Fleig, Lalithkumar Seenivasan, Roger D. Soberanis-Mukul, S. Swaroop Vedula, Russell H. Taylor, Masaru Ishii, Gregory D. Hager, Mathias Unberath · 2026

In endoscopic surgery, surgeons continuously locate the endoscopic view relative to the anatomy by interpreting the evolving visual appearance of the intraoperative scene in the context of their prior…

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Introducing M: A Modular, Modifiable Social Robot

Victor Nikhil Antony, Zhili Gong, Yoonjae Kim, Chien-Ming Huang · 2026

We present M, an open-source, low-cost social robot platform designed to reduce platform friction that slows social robotics research by making robots easier to reproduce, modify, and deploy in real-w…

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A Multi-Modal Dataset for Ground Reaction Force Estimation Using Consumer Wearable Sensors

Parvin Ghaffarzadeh, Debarati Chakraborty, Koorosh Aslansefat, Ali Dostan, Yiannis Papadopoulos · 2026

This Data Descriptor presents a fully open, multi-modal dataset for estimating vertical ground reaction force (vGRF) from consumer-grade Apple Watch sensors with laboratory force plate ground truth. T…

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AgentVLN: Towards Agentic Vision-and-Language Navigation

Zihao Xin, Wentong Li, Yixuan Jiang, Ziyuan Huang, Bin Wang, Piji Li, Jianke Zhu, Jie Qin, Shengjun Huang · 2026

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to ground complex natural-language instructions into long-horizon navigation in unseen environments. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs)…

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Kinodynamic Motion Retargeting for Humanoid Locomotion via Multi-Contact Whole-Body Trajectory Optimization

Xiaoyu Zhang, Steven Haener, Varun Madabushi, Maegan Tucker · 2026

We present the KinoDynamic Motion Retargeting (KDMR) framework, a novel approach for humanoid locomotion that models the retargeting process as a multi-contact, whole-body trajectory optimization prob…

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A Policy-Aware Cross-Layer Auditing Service for Tiering and Throttling in Starlink

Houtianfu Wang, Hanlin Cai, Haofan Dong, Ozgur B. Akan · 2026

We present a policy-aware, cross-layer methodology for edge-side auditing of service tiering and quota-based throttling in Starlink. Using a multi-week plan-hopping campaign (232.8 h) on a UK resident…

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Classification of Autistic and Non-Autistic Children's Speech: A Cross-Linguistic Study in Finnish, French, and Slovak

Sofoklis Kakouros, Ida-Lotta Myllyla · 2026

We present a cross-linguistic study of speech in autistic and non-autistic children speaking Finnish, French, and Slovak. We combine supervised classification with within-language and cross-corpus tra…

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Principled Learning-to-Communicate with Quasi-Classical Information Structures

Xiangyu Liu, Haoyi You, Kaiqing Zhang · 2026

Learning-to-communicate (LTC) in partially observable environments has received increasing attention in deep multi-agent reinforcement learning, where the control and communication strategies are join…

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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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Optimal QAM Constellation for Over-the-Air Computation in the Presence of Heavy-Tailed Channel Noise

Saeed Razavikia, Deniz Gunduz, Carlo Fischione · 2026

Over-the-air computation (OAC) enables low-latency aggregation over multiple-access channels (MACs) by exploiting the superposition property of the wireless medium to compute functions efficiently in …

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Extracting Root-Causal Brain Activity Driving Psychopathology from Resting State fMRI

Eric V. Strobl · 2026

Neuroimaging studies of psychiatric disorders often correlate imaging patterns with diagnostic labels or composite symptom scores, yielding diffuse associations that obscure underlying mechanisms. We …

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