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Hybrid A*-Based Reverse Path-Planning of a Vehicle with Trailer System

Xincheng Cao, Haochong Chen, Bilin Aksun-Guvenc, Levent Guvenc, Brian Link, Peter J Richmond, Dokyung Yim, Shihong Fan, John Harber · 2026

Reverse parking maneuvering of a vehicle with trailer system is a difficult task to complete for human drivers due to the multi-body nature of the system and the unintuitive controls required to orien…

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Multi-task Just Recognizable Difference for Video Coding for Machines: Database, Model, and Coding Application

Junqi Liu, Yun Zhang, Xiaoxia Huang, Long Xu, Weisi Lin · 2026

Just Recognizable Difference (JRD) boosts coding efficiency for machine vision through visibility threshold modeling, but is currently limited to a single-task scenario. To address this issue, we prop…

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SIM1: Physics-Aligned Simulator as Zero-Shot Data Scaler in Deformable Worlds

Yunsong Zhou, Hangxu Liu, Xuekun Jiang, Xing Shen, Yuanzhen Zhou, Hui Wang, Baole Fang, Yang Tian, Mulin Yu, Qiaojun Yu, Li Ma, Hengjie Li, Hanqing Wang, Jia Zeng, Jiangmiao Pang · 2026

Robotic manipulation with deformable objects represents a data-intensive regime in embodied learning, where shape, contact, and topology co-evolve in ways that far exceed the variability of rigids. Al…

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Agentic AI and Occupational Displacement: A Multi-Regional Task Exposure Analysis of Emerging Labor Market Disruption

Ravish Gupta, Saket Kumar · 2026

This paper extends the Acemoglu-Restrepo task exposure framework to address the labor market effects of agentic artificial intelligence systems: autonomous AI agents capable of completing entire occup…

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Towards Equitable Robotic Furnishing Agents for Aging-in-Place: ADL-Grounded Design Exploration

Hansoo Lee, Changhee Seo, Subin Park, Sonya S. Kwak · 2026

In aging-in-place contexts, small difficulties in Activities of Daily Living (ADL) can accumulate, affecting well-being through fatigue, anxiety, reduced autonomy, and safety risks. This position pape…

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RelA-Diffusion: Relativistic Adversarial Diffusion for Multi-Tracer PET Synthesis from Multi-Sequence MRI

Minhui Yu, Yongheng Sun, David S. Lalush, Jason P Mihalik, Pew-Thian Yap, Mingxia Liu · 2026

Multi-tracer positron emission tomography (PET) provides critical insights into diverse neuropathological processes such as tau accumulation, neuroinflammation, and $\beta$-amyloid deposition in the b…

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Is there a relationship between Mean Opinion Score (MOS) and Just Noticeable Difference (JND)?

Jingwen Zhu, Hadi Amirpour, Wei Zhou, Patrick Le Callet · 2026

Evaluating perceived video quality is essential for ensuring high Quality of Experience (QoE) in modern streaming applications. While existing subjective datasets and Video Quality Metrics (VQMs) cove…

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Sub Specie Aeternitatis: Fourier Transforms from the Theory of Heat to Musical Signals

Victor Lazzarini · 2026

J. B. Fourier in his \emph{Th\'{e}orie Analytique de la Chaleur} of 1822 introduced, amongst other things, two ideas that have made a fundamental impact in fields as diverse as Mathematical Physics, E…

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Mimic Intent, Not Just Trajectories

Renming Huang, Chendong Zeng, Wenjing Tang, Jintian Cai, Cewu Lu, Panpan Cai · 2026

While imitation learning (IL) has achieved impressive success in dexterous manipulation through generative modeling and pretraining, state-of-the-art approaches like Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model…

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Regional Transportation Modeling for Equitable Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Design

Ismaeel Babur, Jane Macfarlane · 2026

The widespread adoption of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) holds promise for mitigating emission-related health impacts, particularly for low-income communities disproportionately affected by exposur…

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TRACER: Texture-Robust Affordance Chain-of-Thought for Deformable-Object Refinement

Wanjun Jia, Kang Li, Fan Yang, Mengfei Duan, Wenrui Chen, Yiming Jiang, Hui Zhang, Kailun Yang, Zhiyong Li, Yaonan Wang · 2026

The central challenge in robotic manipulation of deformable objects lies in aligning high-level semantic instructions with physical interaction points under complex appearance and texture variations. …

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Just in time Informed Trees: Manipulability-Aware Asymptotically Optimized Motion Planning

Kuanqi Cai, Liding Zhang, Xinwen Su, Kejia Chen, Chaoqun Wang, Sami Haddadin, Alois Knoll, Arash Ajoudani, Luis Figueredo · 2026

In high-dimensional robotic path planning, traditional sampling-based methods often struggle to efficiently identify both feasible and optimal paths in complex, multi-obstacle environments. This chall…

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Adaptive Input Shaper Design for Unknown Second-Order Systems with Real-Time Parameter Estimation

Nyi Nyi Aung, Bradley Wight, Adrian Stein · 2026

We propose a feedforward input-shaping framework with online parameter estimation for unknown second-order systems. The proposed approach eliminates the need for prior knowledge of system parameters w…

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Polynomial Chaos-based Input Shaper Design under Time-Varying Uncertainty

Johannes Guttler, Karan Baker, Premjit Saha, James Warner, Adrian Stein · 2026

The work presented here investigates the application of polynomial chaos expansion toward input shaper design in order to maintain robustness in dynamical systems subject to uncertainty. Furthermore, …

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Instantaneous Frequency in Power Systems using the Teager-Kaiser Energy Operator

A. Vaca, J. Gutierrez Florensa, F. Milano · 2026

This paper develops an instantaneous-frequency (IF) local estimator calculated with the complex Teager-Kaiser energy operator (CTKEO) and the dynamic-signal identity. The contribution is a novel IF ex…

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PRISM: Protocol Refinement through Intelligent Simulation Modeling

Brian Hsu, Priyanka V Setty, Rory M Butler, Ryan Lewis, Casey Stone, Rebecca Weinberg, Thomas Brettin, Rick Stevens, Ian Foster, Arvind Ramanathan · 2026

Automating experimental protocol design and execution remains as a fundamental bottleneck in realizing self-driving laboratories. We introduce PRISM (Protocol Refinement through Intelligent Simulation…

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Gradient-based Optimisation of Modulation Effects

Alistair Carson, Alec Wright, Stefan Bilbao · 2026

Modulation effects such as phasers, flangers and chorus effects are heavily used in conjunction with the electric guitar. Machine learning based emulation of analog modulation units has been investiga…

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Equivariant Filter Cascade for Relative Attitude, Target's Angular Velocity, and Gyroscope Bias Estimation

Gil Serrano, Pedro Lourenco, Bruno J. Guerreiro, Rita Cunha · 2025

Rendezvous and docking between a chaser spacecraft and an uncooperative target, such as an inoperative satellite, require synchronization between the chaser spacecraft and the target. In these scenari…

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Mitigating Dynamic Tip-Over during Mobile Crane Slewing using Input Shaping

Navneet Kaur, Christopher J. Adams, William E. Singhose, Santosh Devasia · 2025

Payload swing during rapid slewing of mobile cranes poses a safety risk, as it generates overturning moments that can lead to tip-over accidents of mobile cranes. Currently, to limit the risk of tip-o…

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Beyond Success: Refining Elegant Robot Manipulation from Mixed-Quality Data via Just-in-Time Intervention

Yanbo Mao, Jianlong Fu, Ruoxuan Zhang, Hongxia Xie, Meibao Yao · 2025

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have enabled notable progress in general-purpose robotic manipulation, yet their learned policies often exhibit variable execution quality. We attribute this variab…

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