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OmniRobotHome: A Multi-Camera Platform for Real-Time Multiadic Human-Robot Interaction

Junyoung Lee, Sookwan Han, Jeonghwan Kim, Inhee Lee, Mingi Choi, Jisoo Kim, Wonjung Woo, Hanbyul Joo ยท 2026

Human-robot collaboration has been studied primarily in dyadic or sequential settings. However, real homes require multiadic collaboration, where multiple humans and robots share a workspace, acting cโ€ฆ

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LaST-R1: Reinforcing Action via Adaptive Physical Latent Reasoning for VLA Models

Hao Chen, Jiaming Liu, Zhonghao Yan, Nuowei Han, Renrui Zhang, Chenyang Gu, Jialin Gao, Ziyu Guo, Siyuan Qian, Yinxi Wang, Peng Jia, Chi-Wing Fu, Shanghang Zhang, Pheng-Ann Heng ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have increasingly incorporated reasoning mechanisms for complex robotic manipulation. However, existing approaches share a critical limitation: whether employing exโ€ฆ

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Sequential Inference for Gaussian Processes: A Signal Processing Perspective

Daniel Waxman, Fernando Llorente, Petar M. Djuric ยท 2026

The proliferation of capable and efficient machine learning (ML) models marks one of the strongest methodological shifts in signal processing (SP) in its nearly 100-year history. ML models support theโ€ฆ

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RopeDreamer: A Kinematic Recurrent State Space Model for Dynamics of Flexible Deformable Linear Objects

Tim Missal, Lucas Domingues, Berk Guler, Simon Manschitz, Jan Peters, Paula Dornhofer Paro Costa ยท 2026

The robotic manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects (DLOs) is a fundamental challenge due to the high-dimensional, non-linear dynamics of flexible structures and the complexity of maintaining topoloโ€ฆ

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FlexiTac: A Low-Cost, Open-Source, Scalable Tactile Sensing Solution for Robotic Systems

Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li ยท 2026

We present FlexiTac, a low-cost, open-source, and scalable piezoresistive tactile sensing solution designed for robotic end-effectors. FlexiTac is a practical "plug-in" module consisting of (i) thin, โ€ฆ

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Design and Characteristics of a Thin-Film ThermoMesh for the Efficient Embedded Sensing of a Spatio-Temporally Sparse Heat Source

Sajjad Boorghan Farahan, Ahmed Alajlouni, Jingzhou Zhao ยท 2026

This work presents ThermoMesh, a passive thin-film thermoelectric mesh sensor designed to detect and characterize spatio-temporally sparse heat sources through conduction-based thermal imaging. The deโ€ฆ

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Hierarchical Control for Continuous-time Systems via General Approximate Alternating Simulation Relations

Zhiyuan Huang, Shuo Li, Murat Arcak, Majid Zamani, Bingzhuo Zhong ยท 2026

This paper introduces a general approximate alternating simulation relation (\emph{$\varepsilon$-gAAS relation}) for continuous-time systems, which relaxes existing simulation relations to tolerate laโ€ฆ

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Intelligent Self-tuning Active EMI Filtering for Electrified Automotive Power Systems Using Reinforcement Learning

Mahuizi Lu, Kelin Jia, Rajib Goswami, Yukun Hu ยท 2026

The rapid electrification and intelligence of modern transportation systems place stringent demands on the electromagnetic compatibility, reliability, and adaptability of automotive power electronics.โ€ฆ

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A MEC-Based Optimization Framework for Dynamic Inductive Charging

Emre Ak{i}skal{i}oglu, Mustafa Atmaca, Lorenzo Ghiro, Giovanni Perin, Renato Lo Cigno ยท 2026

Range anxiety and long recharging times remain critical barriers to electric vehicle adoption. Dynamic Inductive Charging (DIC) offers a compelling solution by enabling wireless power transfer while dโ€ฆ

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Framework for Collaborative Operation of Autonomous Delivery Vehicles Within a Marshaling Yard

James O'Hara, Karl Wunderlich, Gregory Stevens ยท 2026

As autonomous vehicles slowly deploy into urban roads for limited use cases with significant edge case issues, closed facilities like marshaling yards provide a ripe case for combining lower-level vehโ€ฆ

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LiDAR-based Dynamic Blockage Prediction: A Data-driven Approach for Learning Interactive Bayesian Models

Saleemullah Memon, Ali Krayani, Pamela Zontone, Lucio Marcenaro, David Martin Gomez, Carlo Regazzoni ยท 2026

Vehicular sensing-based intelligence has made substantial progress in transportation systems, leading to higher levels of safety and sustainability for smart cities and autonomous systems. This paper โ€ฆ

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Dreaming Across Towns: Semantic Rollout and Town-Adversarial Regularization for Zero-Shot Held-Out-Town Fixed-Route Driving in CARLA

Feeza Khan Khanzada, Jaerock Kwon ยท 2026

Learned driving agents often degrade when deployed in unseen environments. This paper studies a deliberately bounded instance of that problem in the CARLA simulator: zero-shot transfer of a closed-looโ€ฆ

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Diffusion-OAMP for Joint Image Compression and Wireless Transmission

Wentao Hou, Yimin Bai, Zelei Luo, Jiadong Hong, Lei Liu ยท 2026

Joint image compression and wireless transmission remain relatively underexplored compared to generic image restoration, despite its importance in practical communication systems. We formulate this prโ€ฆ

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Flying by Inference: Active Inference World Models for Adaptive UAV Swarms

Kaleem Arshid, Ali Krayani, Lucio Marcenaro, David Martin Gomez, Carlo Regazzoni ยท 2026

This paper presents an expert-guided active-inference-inspired framework for adaptive UAV swarm trajectory planning. The proposed method converts multi-UAV trajectory design from a repeated combinatorโ€ฆ

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LRS-VoxMM: A benchmark for in-the-wild audio-visual speech recognition

Doyeop Kwak, Jeongsoo Choi, Suyeon Lee, Joon Son Chung ยท 2026

We introduce LRS-VoxMM, an in-the-wild benchmark for audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR). The benchmark is derived from VoxMM, a dataset of diverse real-world spoken conversations with human-annotaโ€ฆ

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Learning-Based Hierarchical Scene Graph Matching for Robot Localization Leveraging Prior Maps

Nimrod Millenium Ndulue, Jose Andres Millan-Romera, Matteo Giorgi, Holger Voos, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez ยท 2026

Accurate localization is a fundamental requirement for autonomous robots operating in indoor environments. Scene graphs encode the spatial structure of an environment as a hierarchy of semantic entitiโ€ฆ

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Hybrid Anomaly Detection for Bullion Coin Authentication Leveraging Acoustic Signature Analysis

Krzysztof Siwek, Tran Hoai Linh, Tomasz Gryczka, Maciej Stodolski ยท 2026

The verification of bullion coin authenticity is essential for maintaining integrity within the precious metals market; however, the increasing sophistication of counterfeits has rendered traditional โ€ฆ

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MotuBrain: An Advanced World Action Model for Robot Control

MotuBrain Team, Chendong Xiang, Fan Bao, Haitian Liu, Hengkai Tan, Hongzhe Bi, James Li, Jiabao Liu, Jingrui Pang, Kiro Jing, Louis Liu, Mengchen Cai, Rongxu Cui, Ruowen Zhao, Runqing Wang, Shuhe Huang, Yao Feng, Yinze Rong, Zeyuan Wang, Jun Zhu ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve strong semantic generalization but often lack fine-grained modeling of world dynamics. Recent work explores video generation models as a foundation for worlโ€ฆ

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Optimal Functional Incentives for Control: The Linear-Quadratic Case with Bilinear Incentives

Jonas G. Matt, Saverio Bolognani, Florian Dorfler ยท 2026

We study the design of functional incentive mechanisms for dynamical systems, in which a leader designs a fixed incentive function to motivate a self-interested follower to actuate the system beneficiโ€ฆ

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On the Fractional Fourier Transform for FMCW Radar Interference Mitigation

Christian Oswald, Josef Kulmer, Franz Pernkopf ยท 2026

In this paper, we extend our method [1] for FMCW radar mutual interference mitigation (IM) based on the discrete fractional Fourier transform (DFrFT). Firstly, we propose a radar signal processing chaโ€ฆ

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