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OpenPodcar2: a robust, ROS2 vehicle for self-driving research

Rakshit Soni, Chris Waltham, Md Umar Ibrahim, Mark Crampton, Charles Fox ยท 2026

OpenPodcar2 is a robust, ROS2-interfaced, low-cost, open source hardware and software, autonomous vehicle platform based on an off-the-shelf, hard-canopy, mobility scooter donor vehicle. It is a modifโ€ฆ

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Will People Enjoy a Robot Trainer? A Case Study with Snoopie the Pacerbot

Maximilian Du, Jennifer Grannen, Shuran Song, Dorsa Sadigh ยท 2026

The physicality of exercise makes the role of athletic trainers unique. Their physical presence allows them to guide a student through a motion, demonstrate an exercise, and give intuitive feedback. Rโ€ฆ

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Improved GNSS Positioning in Urban Environments Using a Logistic Error Model

Zhengdao Li, Penggao Yan, Baoshan Song, Li-Ta Hsu ยท 2026

A Gaussian error assumption is commonly adopted in the pseudorange measurement model for global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning, which leads to the conventional least squares (LS) estimโ€ฆ

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GRAND: Guidance, Rebalancing, and Assignment for Networked Dispatch in Multi-Agent Path Finding

Johannes Gaber, Meshal Alharbi, Daniele Gammelli, Gioele Zardini ยท 2025

Large robot fleets are now common in warehouses and other logistics settings, where small control gains translate into large operational impacts. In this article, we address task scheduling for lifeloโ€ฆ

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Exploring Urban Air Mobility Adoption Potential in San Francisco Bay Area Region: A Systems of Systems Level Case Study on Passenger Waiting Times and Travel Efficiency

Winfrey Paul Sagayam Dennis ยท 2025

Urban Air mobility has gained momentum with recent advancements in the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles, offering faster point-to-point air taxi services that could help relieveโ€ฆ

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Kleinkram: Open Robotic Data Management

Cyrill Puntener, Johann Schwabe, Dominique Garmier, Jonas Frey, Marco Hutter ยท 2025

We introduce Kleinkram, a free and open-source system designed to solve the challenge of managing massive, unstructured robotic datasets. Designed as a modular, on-premises cloud solution, Kleinkram eโ€ฆ

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Perturbation-mitigated USV Navigation with Distributionally Robust Reinforcement Learning

Zhaofan Zhang, Minghao Yang, Sihong Xie, Hui Xiong ยท 2025

The robustness of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) is crucial when facing unknown and complex marine environments, especially when heteroscedastic observational noise poses significant challenges to seโ€ฆ

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GOPLA: Generalizable Object Placement Learning via Synthetic Augmentation of Human Arrangement

Yao Zhong, Hanzhi Chen, Simon Schaefer, Anran Zhang, Stefan Leutenegger ยท 2025

Robots are expected to serve as intelligent assistants, helping humans with everyday household organization. A central challenge in this setting is the task of object placement, which requires reasoniโ€ฆ

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StrikeWatch: Wrist-worn Gait Recognition with Compact Time-series Models on Low-power FPGAs

Tianheng Ling, Chao Qian, Peter Zdankin, Torben Weis, Gregor Schiele ยท 2025

Running offers substantial health benefits, but improper gait patterns can lead to injuries, particularly without expert feedback. While prior gait analysis systems based on cameras, insoles, or body-โ€ฆ

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OpenScout v1.1 mobile robot: a case study on open hardware continuation

Bartosz Krawczyk, Ahmed Elbary, Robbie Cato, Jagdish Patil, Kaung Myat, Anyeh Ndi-Tah, Nivetha Sakthivel, Mark Crampton, Gautham Das, Charles Fox ยท 2025

OpenScout is an Open Source Hardware (OSH) mobile robot for research and industry. It is extended to v1.1 which includes simplified, cheaper and more powerful onboard compute hardware; a simulated ROSโ€ฆ

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Benchmarking Massively Parallelized Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning for Robotics Tasks

Viraj Joshi, Zifan Xu, Bo Liu, Peter Stone, Amy Zhang ยท 2025

Multi-task Reinforcement Learning (MTRL) has emerged as a critical training paradigm for applying reinforcement learning (RL) to a set of complex real-world robotic tasks, which demands a generalizablโ€ฆ

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Second Order State Hallucinations for Adversarial Attack Mitigation in Formation Control of Multi-Agent Systems

Laksh Patel, Akhilesh Raj ยท 2025

The increasing deployment of multi-agent systems (MAS) in critical infrastructures such as autonomous transportation, disaster relief, and smart cities demands robust formation control mechanisms resiโ€ฆ

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A combined Machine Learning and Finite Element Modelling tool for the surgical planning of craniosynostosis correction

Itxasne Antunez Saenz, Ane Alberdi Aramendi, David Dunaway, Juling Ong, Lara Deliege, Amparo Saenz, Anita Ahmadi Birjandi, Noor UI Owase Jeelani, Silvia Schievano, Alessandro Borghi ยท 2025

Craniosynostosis is a medical condition that affects the growth of babies' heads, caused by an early fusion of cranial sutures. In recent decades, surgical treatments for craniosynostosis have signifiโ€ฆ

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Multifractal Analysis of Physiological Signals: A Novel Approach to Optimizing Pacing Strategy in a Pilot Study

Veronique Billat (LAMA), Wejdene Nasr Ben Hadj Amor (LAMA), Guillaume Saes (LAMA), Stephane Jaffard (LAMA), Florent Palacin (ULB) ยท 2025

Marathons are one of the ultimate challenges of human endeavor. In this paper, we apply recently introduced multifractal techniques which yield a new classification parameter in the processing of physโ€ฆ

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Culsans: An Efficient Snoop-based Coherency Unit for the CVA6 Open Source RISC-V application processor

Riccardo Tedeschi, Luca Valente, Gianmarco Ottavi, Enrico Zelioli, Nils Wistoff, Massimiliano Giacometti, Abdul Basit Sajjad, Luca Benini, Davide Rossi ยท 2024

Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) based on cache coherency is crucial for high-end embedded systems like automotive applications. RISC-V is gaining traction, and open-source hardware (OSH) platforms ofโ€ฆ

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No-brainer: Morphological Computation driven Adaptive Behavior in Soft Robots

Alican Mertan, Nick Cheney ยท 2024

It is prevalent in contemporary AI and robotics to separately postulate a brain modeled by neural networks and employ it to learn intelligent and adaptive behavior. While this method has worked very wโ€ฆ

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MemWarp: Discontinuity-Preserving Cardiac Registration with Memorized Anatomical Filters

Hang Zhang, Xiang Chen, Renjiu Hu, Dongdong Liu, Gaolei Li, Rongguang Wang ยท 2024

Many existing learning-based deformable image registration methods impose constraints on deformation fields to ensure they are globally smooth and continuous. However, this assumption does not hold inโ€ฆ

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Factual Serialization Enhancement: A Key Innovation for Chest X-ray Report Generation

Kang Liu, Zhuoqi Ma, Mengmeng Liu, Zhicheng Jiao, Xiaolu Kang, Qiguang Miao, Kun Xie ยท 2024

A radiology report comprises presentation-style vocabulary, which ensures clarity and organization, and factual vocabulary, which provides accurate and objective descriptions based on observable findiโ€ฆ

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Report on the AAPM Grand Challenge on deep generative modeling for learning medical image statistics

Rucha Deshpande, Varun A. Kelkar, Dimitrios Gotsis, Prabhat Kc, Rongping Zeng, Kyle J. Myers, Frank J. Brooks, Mark A. Anastasio ยท 2024

The findings of the 2023 AAPM Grand Challenge on Deep Generative Modeling for Learning Medical Image Statistics are reported in this Special Report. The goal of this challenge was to promote the develโ€ฆ

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R4: rapid reproducible robotics research open hardware control system

Chris Waltham, Andy Perrett, Rakshit Soni, Charles Fox ยท 2024

A key component of any robot is the interface between robotics middleware software and physical motors. New robots often use arbitrary, messy mixtures of closed and open motor drivers and error-prone โ€ฆ

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