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Lights Out: A Nighttime UAV Localization Framework Using Thermal Imagery and Semantic 3D Maps

Ryan Allen, Melissa Greeff ยท 2026

Reliable backup localization for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in GNSS-denied nighttime conditions remains an open challenge due to the severe modality gap between daytime RGB maps and nigโ€ฆ

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Optimal UGV-UAV Cooperative Partitioning and Inspection of Shortest Paths

Ninh Nguyen, Srinivas Akella ยท 2026

We study cooperative shortest path planning for an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) assisted by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in environments with unknown road blockages that are only discovered when โ€ฆ

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Dynamic UGV-UAV Cooperative Path Planning in Uncertain Environments

Ninh Nguyen, Srinivas Akella ยท 2026

This paper addresses the Dynamic UGV-UAV Cooperative Path Planning (DUCPP) problem involving one unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) assisted by one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating on an uโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 orienโ€ฆ

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BandRouteNet: An Adaptive Band Routing Neural Network for EEG Artifact Removal

Phat Lam ยท 2026

Electroencephalography (EEG) is highly susceptible to artifact contamination, such as electrooculographic (EOG) and electromyographic (EMG) interference, which severely degrades signal quality and hinโ€ฆ

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Resource-Constrained Shortest Path with Polytopic Reset Sets

Khaled Surur, Melkior Ornik ยท 2026

This paper investigates the problem of computing the shortest path between two states under resource constraints in environments with resource-replenishment regions. Namely, the length of the path is โ€ฆ

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Energy-Efficient Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning of Non-Convex Regions of Interests

Sourav Raxit, Jose Fuentes, Paulo Padrao, Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz, Md Tamjidul Hoque, Mark Kulp, Leonardo Bobadilla ยท 2026

This letter presents an energy-efficient multi-robot coverage path planning (MRCPP) framework for large, nonconvex Regions of Interest (ROI) containing obstacles and no-fly zones (NFZ). Existing minimโ€ฆ

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ALAS: Adaptive Long-Horizon Action Synthesis via Async-pathway Stream Disentanglement

Yutong Shen, Hangxu Liu, Lei Zhang, Penghui Liu, Yinqi Liu, Liuxiang Yang, Tongtong Feng ยท 2026

Long-Horizon (LH) tasks in Human-Scene Interaction (HSI) are complex multi-step tasks that require continuous planning, sequential decision-making, and extended execution across domains to achieve theโ€ฆ

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Robust Path Following Control for Vehicles with Uncertain Steering Resistance Using Model Error Compensation

Rentaro Iwai, Natsuki Hikasa, Hiroshi Okajima ยท 2026

This paper presents a robust path following control method for vehicles that explicitly considers steering resistance dynamics to improve tracking accuracy. Conventional methods typically treat the stโ€ฆ

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Multi-Step Gaussian Process Propagation for Adaptive Path Planning

Alex Beaudin, Bj{o}rn Andreas Kristiansen, Kristoffer Gryte, Corrado Chiatante, Morten Omholt Alver, Murat Arcak, Tor Arne Johansen ยท 2026

Efficient and robust path planning hinges on combining all accessible information sources. In particular, the task of path planning for robotic environmental exploration and monitoring depends highly โ€ฆ

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Path Integral Control for Partially Observed Systems with Controlled Sensing

Goutam Das, Takashi Tanaka ยท 2026

Path integral control in Gaussian belief space requires a structural matching condition between the observation-driven diffusion of the belief mean and the actuation authority, which a fixed observatiโ€ฆ

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Path-Based Quantum Meta-Learning for Adaptive Optimization of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Noha Hassan, Xavier Fernando, Halim Yanikomeroglu ยท 2026

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) modify signal reflections to enhance wireless communication capabilities. Classical RIS phase optimization is highly non convex and challenging in dynamic enโ€ฆ

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A Reconfigurable Pneumatic Joint Enabling Localized Selective Stiffening and Shape Locking in Vine-Inspired Robots

Ayodele James Oyejide, Ustaz A. Yaqub, Samir Erturk, Eray A. Baran, Fabio Stroppa ยท 2026

Vine-inspired robots achieve large workspace coverage through tip eversion, enabling safe navigation in confined and cluttered environments. However, their deployment in free space is fundamentally liโ€ฆ

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Benchmarking Classical Coverage Path Planning Heuristics on Irregular Hexagonal Grids for Maritime Coverage Scenarios

Carlos S. Sepulveda, Gonzalo A. Ruz ยท 2026

Coverage path planning on irregular hexagonal grids is relevant to maritime surveillance, search and rescue and environmental monitoring, yet classical methods are often compared on small ad hoc exampโ€ฆ

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NEAT-NC: NEAT guided Navigation Cells for Robot Path Planning

Hibatallah Meliani, Khadija Slimani, Samira Khoulji ยท 2026

To navigate a space, the brain makes an internal representation of the environment using different cells such as place cells, grid cells, head direction cells, border cells, and speed cells. All theseโ€ฆ

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Path Integral Control in Gaussian Belief Space for Partially Observed Systems

Goutam Das, Takashi Tanaka ยท 2026

This paper extends path integral control (PIC) to partially observed systems by formulating the problem in Gaussian belief space. PIC relies on the diffusion being proportional to the control channel โ€ฆ

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Fluid Antennas Meet Rate-Splitting Multiple Access: A New Path Forward for 6G Networks

Jinyuan Liu, Yong Liang Guan, Hong Niu, Qian Zhang, Merouane Debbah, Hyundong Shin, Bruno Clerckx ยท 2026

Future sixth-generation (6G) networks require high spectral efficiency (SE), massive connectivity, and stringent reliability under imperfect channel state information at the transmitter. Rate-splittinโ€ฆ

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Machine Learning-Based Real-Time Detection of Compensatory Trunk Movements Using Trunk-Wrist Inertial Measurement Units

Jannis Gabler, Clement Lhoste, Max Quast, Laura Mayrhuber, Andrea Ronco, Olivier Lambercy, Paulius Viskaitis, Dane Donegan ยท 2026

Compensatory trunk movements (CTMs) are commonly observed after stroke and can lead to maladaptive movement patterns, limiting targeted training of affected structures. Objective, continuous detectionโ€ฆ

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CLASP: Closed-loop Asynchronous Spatial Perception for Open-vocabulary Desktop Object Grasping

Yiran Ling, Wenxuan Li, Siying Dong, Yize Zhang, Xiaoyao Huang, Jing Jiang, Ruonan Li, Jie Liu ยท 2026

Robot grasping of desktop object is widely used in intelligent manufacturing, logistics, and agriculture.Although vision-language models (VLMs) show strong potential for robotic manipulation, their deโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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. Alโ€ฆ

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