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Bi-Level Optimization for Contact and Motion Planning in Rope-Assisted Legged Robots

Ruben Malacarne, Ioannis Tsikelis, Enrico Mingo Hoffman, Michele Focchi ยท 2026

This paper presents a planning pipeline framework for locomotion in rope-assisted robots climbing vertical surfaces. The proposed framework is formulated as a bi-level optimization scheme that addressโ€ฆ

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FlowS: One-Step Motion Prediction via Local Transport Conditioning

Leandro Di Bella, Adrian Munteanu, Bruno Cornelis ยท 2026

Generative motion prediction must satisfy three simultaneous requirements for real-world autonomy: high accuracy, diverse multimodal futures, and strictly bounded latency. Diffusion models meet the fiโ€ฆ

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VEHRON: A Configuration-Driven BEV Simulation Framework for Subsystem-Level Studies

Subramanyam Natarajan ยท 2026

In practical early-stage battery-electric vehicle studies, analysis workflows may become fragmented across spreadsheets, notebooks, and project-specific scripts, making reuse, audit, and extension harโ€ฆ

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Generalizable Friction Coefficient Estimation via Material Embedding and Proxy Interaction Modeling

Zhendong Wang, Huamin Wang ยท 2026

Accurately estimating friction coefficients between arbitrary material pairs is critical for robotics, digital fabrication, and physics-based simulation, but exhaustive pairwise testing scales quadratโ€ฆ

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AsyncShield: A Plug-and-Play Edge Adapter for Asynchronous Cloud-based VLA Navigation

Kai Yang, Zedong Chu, Yingnan Guo, Zhengbo Wang, Shichao Xie, Yanfen Shen, Xiaolong Wu, Xing Li, Mu Xu ยท 2026

While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have been demonstrated possessing strong zero-shot generalization for robot control, their massive parameter sizes typically necessitate cloud-based deploymenโ€ฆ

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Extracting Exact Lie Derivatives Without Backpropagation: A Dual Compiler for Neural Control Barrier Functions

Mohammadreza Kamaldar ยท 2026

Deploying neural-network control barrier functions (CBFs) on embedded hardware requires evaluating the barrier value and its Lie derivatives along the system vector fields at every control cycle. The โ€ฆ

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Equivariant Filter for Radar-Inertial Odometry

Giulio Delama, Jan Michalczyk, Morten Nissov, Martin Scheiber, Alessandro Fornasier, Kostas Alexis, Stephan Weiss ยท 2026

Radar-Inertial Odometry (RIO) based on the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) relies on accurate extrinsic calibration between the radar and the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and is sensitive to disturbanโ€ฆ

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Robust Localization for Autonomous Vehicles in Highway Scenes

Daqian Cheng, Xuchu Ding, Yujia Wu, Xiang Zhang, Lei Wang ยท 2026

Localization for autonomous vehicles on highways remains under-explored compared to urban roads, and state-of-the-art methods for urban scenes degrade when directly applied to highways. We identify keโ€ฆ

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Sparsification of Precoding Codebooks for PAPR Reduction via Grassmannian Representations

Joe Asano, Yuto Hama, Hiroki Iimori, Szabolcs Malomsoky, Naoki Ishikawa ยท 2026

In this letter, we propose a sparsification method for precoding codebooks that reduces the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) while preserving the achievable rate. By exploiting the fact that precodeโ€ฆ

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DUSG-Tomo-Net: A Deep Unfolded Neural Network for Super-Resolving Gridless Spaceborne SAR Tomography via Learned Toeplitz-Structured Covariance Representation

Kun Qian, Zhuge Xia, Qian Ma, Qi Zhang, Weijian Liu, Xiufeng He ยท 2026

Synthetic aperture radar tomography (TomoSAR) enables 3-D imaging by exploiting multibaseline acquisitions and has become an important tool for urban mapping. To achieve super-resolution inversion, spโ€ฆ

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Self-Noise Reduction for Capacitive Sensors via Photoelectric DC Servo: Application to Condenser Microphones

Hirotaka Obo, Atsushi Tsuchiya, Tadashi Ebihara, Naoto Wakatsuki ยท 2026

The self-noise of capacitive sensors, primarily caused by thermal noise from the gate-bias resistor in the preamplifier, imposes a fundamental limit on measurement sensitivity. In electret condenser mโ€ฆ

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Trajectory-Based Optimization for Air Traffic Control in the Terminal Maneuvering Area

Yutian Pang, Daniel Delahaye, John-Paul Clarke ยท 2026

We present a trajectory-based optimization framework for arrival sequencing and scheduling in the terminal maneuvering area (TMA). Unlike node-link scheduling models that reduce trajectories to time-dโ€ฆ

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BIEVR-LIO: Robust LiDAR-Inertial Odometry through Bump-Image-Enhanced Voxel Maps

Patrick Pfreundschuh, Turcan Tuna, Cedric Le Gentil, Roland Siegwart, Cesar Cadena, Helen Oleynikova ยท 2026

Reliable odometry is essential for mobile robots as they increasingly enter more challenging environments, which often contain little information to constrain point cloud registration, resulting in deโ€ฆ

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Behavioral Systems Theory Meets Machine Learning: Control-Aware Learning of the Intrinsic Behavior from Big Data

Yitao Yan, Yu Tong, Jie Bao, Wei Wang ยท 2026

The abundance of process operating data in modern industries, along with the rapid advancement of learning techniques, has led to a paradigm shift towards data-centric analysis and control. However, iโ€ฆ

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A transformable slender microrobot inspired by nematode parasites for interventional endovascular surgery

Xin Yang, Dongliang Fan, Yunteng Ma, Yuxuan Liao, Diancheng Li, U Kei Cheang, Bo Peng, Hongqiang Wang ยท 2026

Cardiovascular diseases account for around 17.9 million deaths per year globally, the treatment of which is challenging considering the confined space and complex topology of the vascular network and โ€ฆ

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Complementarity by Construction: A Lie-Group Approach to Solving Quadratic Programs with Linear Complementarity Constraints

Arun L. Bishop, Micah I. Reich, Zachary Manchester ยท 2026

Many problems in robotics require reasoning over a mix of continuous dynamics and discrete events, such as making and breaking contact in manipulation and locomotion. These problems are locally well mโ€ฆ

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Olfactory pursuit: catching a moving odor source in complex flows

Maurizio Carbone, Lorenzo Piro, Robin A. Heinonen, Luca Biferale, Massimo Cencini, Antonio Celani ยท 2026

Locating and intercepting a moving target from possibly delayed, intermittent sensory signals is a paradigmatic problem in decision-making under uncertainty, and a fundamental challenge for, e.g., aniโ€ฆ

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Natural Gradient Gaussian Approximation Filter on Lie Groups for Robot State Estimation

Tianyi Zhang, Wenhan Cao, Chang Liu, Yao Lyu, Shengbo Eben Li ยท 2026

Accurate state estimation for robotic systems evolving on Lie group manifolds, such as legged robots, is a prerequisite for achieving agile control. However, this task is challenged by nonlinear obserโ€ฆ

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Toward Hardware-Agnostic Quadrupedal World Models via Morphology Conditioning

Mohamad H. Danesh, Chenhao Li, Amin Abyaneh, Anas Houssaini, Kirsty Ellis, Glen Berseth, Marco Hutter, Hsiu-Chin Lin ยท 2026

World models promise a paradigm shift in robotics, where an agent learns the underlying physics of its environment once to enable efficient planning and behavior learning. However, current world modelโ€ฆ

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Data-Driven Unknown Input Reconstruction for MIMO Systems with Convergence Guarantees

Enno Breukelman, Takumi Shinohara, Joowon Lee, Henrik Sandberg ยท 2026

In this paper, we consider data-driven reconstruction of unknown inputs to linear time-invariant (LTI) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We propose a novel autoregressive estimator based โ€ฆ

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