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QDTraj: Exploration of Diverse Trajectory Primitives for Articulated Objects Robotic Manipulation

Mathilde Kappel, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Louis Annabi, Faiz Ben Amar, Stephane Doncieux ยท 2026

Thanks to the latest advances in learning and robotics, domestic robots are beginning to enter homes, aiming to execute household chores autonomously. However, robots still struggle to perform autonomโ€ฆ

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How VLAs (Really) Work In Open-World Environments

Amir Rasouli, Yangzheng Wu, Zhiyuan Li, Rui Heng Yang, Xuan Zhao, Charles Eret, Sajjad Pakdamansavoji ยท 2026

Vision-language-action models (VLAs) have been extensively used in robotics applications, achieving great success in various manipulation problems. More recently, VLAs have been used in long-horizon tโ€ฆ

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Cortex 2.0: Grounding World Models in Real-World Industrial Deployment

Adriana Aida, Walid Amer, Katarina Bankovic, Dhruv Behl, Fabian Busch, Annie Bhalla, Minh Duong, Florian Gienger, Rohan Godse, Denis Grachev, Ralf Gulde, Elisa Hagensieker, Junpeng Hu, Shivam Joshi, Tobias Knobloch, Likith Kumar, Damien LaRocque, Keerthana Lokesh, Omar Moured, Khiem Nguyen, Christian Preyss, Ranjith Sriganesan, Vikram Singh, Carsten Sponner, Anh Tong, Dominik Tuscher, Marc Tuscher, Pavan Upputuri ยท 2026

Industrial robotic manipulation demands reliable long-horizon execution across embodiments, tasks, and changing object distributions. While Vision-Language-Action models have demonstrated strong generโ€ฆ

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Mass Matrix Assembly on Tensor Cores for Implicit Particle-In-Cell Methods

Luca Pennati, Stefano Markidis ยท 2026

Matrix-multiply-accumulate (MMA) units, or tensor cores, are now widespread across modern computing architectures. Yet, their use for particle-grid operators remains limited. In implicit particle methโ€ฆ

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Generalizable Dense Reward for Long-Horizon Robotic Tasks

Silong Yong, Stephen Sheng, Carl Qi, Xiaojie Wang, Evan Sheehan, Anurag Shivaprasad, Yaqi Xie, Katia Sycara, Yesh Dattatreya ยท 2026

Existing robotic foundation policies are trained primarily via large-scale imitation learning. While such models demonstrate strong capabilities, they often struggle with long-horizon tasks due to disโ€ฆ

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Cortical Policy: A Dual-Stream View Transformer for Robotic Manipulation

Xuening Zhang, Qi Lv, Xiang Deng, Miao Zhang, Xingbo Liu, Liqiang Nie ยท 2026

View transformers process multi-view observations to predict actions and have shown impressive performance in robotic manipulation. Existing methods typically extract static visual representations in โ€ฆ

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Lightweight Model Predictive Control for Spacecraft Rendezvous Attitude Synchronization

Peter Stadler, Alexander Meinert, Niklas Baldauf, Alen Turnwald ยท 2026

This work introduces two lightweight model predictive control (MPC) approaches for attitude tracking with reaction wheels during spacecraft rendezvous synchronization. Both approaches are based on a nโ€ฆ

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Machine Learning-Based Analysis of Critical Process Parameters Influencing Product Quality Defects: A Real-World Case Study in Manufacturing

Sukumaran Rajasekaran, Ebru Turanoglu Bekar, Kanika Gandhi, Sabino Francesco Roselli, Mohan Rajashekarappa ยท 2026

Quality control is an essential operation in manufacturing, ensuring products meet the necessary standards of quality, safety, and reliability. Traditional methods, such as visual inspections, measureโ€ฆ

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To Move or Not to Move: Constraint-based Planning Enables Zero-Shot Generalization for Interactive Navigation

Apoorva Vashisth, Manav Kulshrestha, Pranav Bakshi, Damon Conover, Guillaume Sartoretti, Aniket Bera ยท 2026

Visual navigation typically assumes the existence of at least one obstacle-free path between start and goal, which must be discovered/planned by the robot. However, in real-world scenarios, such as hoโ€ฆ

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Neurosim: A Fast Simulator for Neuromorphic Robot Perception

Richeek Das, Pratik Chaudhari ยท 2026

Neurosim is a fast, real-time, high-performance library for simulating sensors such as dynamic vision sensors, RGB cameras, depth sensors, and inertial sensors. It can also simulate agile dynamics of โ€ฆ

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An Autonomous, End-to-End, Convex-Based Framework for Close-Range Rendezvous Trajectory Design and Guidance with Hardware Testbed Validation

Minduli C. Wijayatunga, Julian Guinane, Nathan D. Wallace, Xiaofeng Wu ยท 2026

Autonomous satellite servicing missions must execute close-range rendezvous under stringent safety and operational constraints while remaining computationally tractable for onboard use and robust to uโ€ฆ

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Vec-QMDP: Vectorized POMDP Planning on CPUs for Real-Time Autonomous Driving

Xuanjin Jin, Yanxin Dong, Bin Sun, Huan Xu, Zhihui Hao, XianPeng Lang, Panpan Cai ยท 2026

Planning under uncertainty for real-world robotics tasks, such as autonomous driving, requires reasoning in enormous high-dimensional belief spaces, rendering the problem computationally intensive. Whโ€ฆ

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Toward Fully Autonomous Driving: AI, Challenges, Opportunities, and Needs

Lars Ullrich, Michael Buchholz, Klaus Dietmayer, Knut Graichen ยท 2026

Automated driving (AD) is promising, but the transition to fully autonomous driving is, among other things, subject to the real, ever-changing open world and the resulting challenges. However, researcโ€ฆ

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A Brain-inspired Embodied Intelligence for Fluid and Fast Reflexive Robotics Control

Weiyu Guo, He Zhang, Pengteng Li, Tiefu Cai, Ziyang Chen, Yandong Guo, Xiao He, Yongkui Yang, Ying Sun, Hui Xiong ยท 2026

Recent advances in embodied intelligence have leveraged massive scaling of data and model parameters to master natural-language command following and multi-task control. In contrast, biological systemโ€ฆ

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GOUHFI 2.0: A Next-Generation Toolbox for Brain Segmentation and Cortex Parcellation at Ultra-High Field MRI

Marc-Antoine Fortin, Anne Louise Kristoffersen, Paal Erik Goa ยท 2026

Ultra-High Field MRI (UHF-MRI) is increasingly used in large-scale neuroimaging studies, yet automatic brain segmentation and cortical parcellation remain challenging due to signal inhomogeneities, heโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 โ€ฆ

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Online Estimation and Manipulation of Articulated Objects

Russell Buchanan, Adrian Rofer, Joao Moura, Abhinav Valada, Sethu Vijayakumar ยท 2026

From refrigerators to kitchen drawers, humans interact with articulated objects effortlessly every day while completing household chores. For automating these tasks, service robots must be capable of โ€ฆ

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Control of Microrobots with Reinforcement Learning under On-Device Compute Constraints

Yichen Liu, Kesava Viswanadha, Zhongyu Li, Nelson Lojo, Kristofer S. J. Pister ยท 2025

An important function of autonomous microrobots is the ability to perform robust movement over terrain. This paper explores an edge ML approach to microrobot locomotion, allowing for on-device, lower โ€ฆ

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Optimizing the 4G--5G Migration: A Simulation-Driven Roadmap for Emerging Markets

Desire Guel, Justin Pegd-Winde Kouraogo, Kouka Kouakou Nakoulma ยท 2025

Deploying fifth-generation (5G) networks in emerging markets demands a balance between performance targets and constraints in budget, spectrum, and infrastructure. We use MATLAB simulations to quantifโ€ฆ

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A Neural Network-Based Real-time Casing Collar Recognition System for Downhole Instruments

Si-Yu Xiao, Xin-Di Zhao, Xiang-Zhan Wang, Tian-Hao Mao, Ying-Kai Liao, Xing-Yu Liao, Yu-Qiao Chen, Jun-Jie Wang, Shuang Liu, Tu-Pei Chen, Yang Liu ยท 2025

Casing collar locator (CCL) measurements are widely used as reliable depth markers for positioning downhole instruments in cased-hole operations, enabling accurate depth control for operations such asโ€ฆ

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