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

James O'Hara, Karl Wunderlich, Gregory Stevens · 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 veh…

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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 · 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 combinator…

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Feedback Linearization of Hyperbolic PDEs with Volterra Nonlinearities

Miroslav Krstic · 2026

Alberto Isidori's framework of geometric nonlinear control, and particularly of feedback linearization, is the inspiration behind PDE backstepping: apply a transfromation of the state to cast the plan…

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Interaction Forces and Internal Loads in Parallel Manipulators with Actuation Redundancy

Joshua Flight, Clement Gosselin · 2026

This paper discusses null-space wrench components in parallel manipulators. We examine the adaptation of the two most common characterizations of these components in grasp-like systems, namely, intera…

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Cooperative OFDM-ISAC Networks: Performance Analysis and Resource Allocation

Shoushuo Zhang, Rang Liu, Qian Liu, Ming Li · 2026

Cooperative integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) based on orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) enables network-wide sensing by exploiting the spatial diversity of multi-base-statio…

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Fuelling fusion plasmas with pellets: Can neuromorphic control outperform Sigma-Delta modulation?

L.L.T.C. Jansen, E. Petri, M. van Berkel, W.P.M.H. Heemels · 2026

Nuclear fusion is a promising clean energy source in which deuterium and tritium fuse inside a magnetically confined plasma in a tokamak, releasing energy. A key challenge on the route to practical nu…

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Split over $n$ resource sharing problem: Are fewer capable agents better than many simpler ones?

Karthik Soma, Mohamed S. Talamali, Genki Miyauchi, Giovanni Beltrame, Heiko Hamann, Roderich Gross · 2026

In multi-agent systems, should limited resources be concentrated into a few capable agents or distributed among many simpler ones? This work formulates the split over $n$ resource sharing problem wher…

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The False Resonance: A Critical Examination of Emotion Embedding Similarity for Speech Generation Evaluation

Yun-Shao Tsai, Yi-Cheng Lin, Huang-Cheng Chou, Tzu-Wen Hsu, Yun-Man Hsu, Chun Wei Chen, Shrikanth Narayanan, Hung-yi Lee · 2026

Objective metrics for emotional expressiveness are vital for speech generation, particularly in expressive synthesis and voice conversion requiring emotional prosody transfer. To quantify this, the fi…

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Sparse Graph Learning from Sparse Data via Fiedler Number Maximization

Bahar Oveisgharan, Gene Cheung, Andrew Eckford · 2026

We aim to learn a sparse and connected graph from sparse data, where the number of observations K can be substantially smaller than the signal dimension N for signals x in R^N, and the underlying dist…

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Wave Tank Experiment for Sea State Monitoring with Distributed Acoustic Sensing

Yoshiyuki Yajima, Sakiko Mishima, Noriyuki Tonami, Tomoyuki Hino, Shugo Aibe, Junichiro Saikawa, Koji Mizuguchi · 2026

Monitoring sea states across the offshore wind farm areas is essential to keep their structures safe, efficiently operate the systems, and assess the environmental effects of wind turbines. Convention…

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MotionBricks: Scalable Real-Time Motions with Modular Latent Generative Model and Smart Primitives

Tingwu Wang, Olivier Dionne, Michael De Ruyter, David Minor, Davis Rempe, Kaifeng Zhao, Mathis Petrovich, Ye Yuan, Chenran Li, Zhengyi Luo, Brian Robison, Xavier Blackwell, Bernardo Antoniazzi, Xue Bin Peng, Yuke Zhu, Simon Yuen · 2026

Despite transformative advances in generative motion synthesis, real-time interactive motion control remains dominated by traditional techniques. In this work, we identify two key challenges in bridgi…

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Sliding Mode Control for Safe Trajectory Tracking with Moving Obstacles Avoidance: Experimental Validation on Planar Robots

Shubham Sawarkar, P Sangeerth, S Saharsh, Pushpak Jagtap · 2026

This paper presents a unified control framework for robust trajectory tracking and moving obstacle avoidance applicable to a broad class of mobile robots. By formulating a generalized kinematic transf…

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SPLIT: Separating Physical-Contact via Latent Arithmetic in Image-Based Tactile Sensors

Wadhah Zai El Amri, Nicolas Navarro-Guerrero · 2026

Training machine learning models for robotic tactile sensing requires vast amounts of data, yet obtaining realistic interaction data remains a challenge due to physical complexity and variability. Sim…

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Pedestrians play chicken with an autonomous vehicle

Rakshit Soni, Charles Fox · 2026

Automated vehicles (AVs) are commonly programmed to yield unconditionally to pedestrians in the interest of safety. However, this design choice can give rise to the Freezing Robot Problem in which ped…

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An Individual-Delay-Reflected Generalized Consensus Analysis for Multi-Agent Systems with Heterogeneous Time-Varying Delays

Hye Jin Lee, Ho Sub Lee, PooGyeon Park · 2026

In multi-agent systems, heterogeneous time delays exist for all agents because of the difference in communication environments. Therefore, the consensus analysis of a system considering a homogeneous …

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Move-Then-Operate: Behavioral Phasing for Human-Like Robotic Manipulation

Haoming Xu, Lei Lei, Jie Gu, Chu Tang, Jingmin Chen, Ruiqi Wang · 2026

We present Move-Then-Operate, a Vision language action framework that explicitly decouples robotic manipulation into two distinct behavioral phases: coarse relocation (move) and contact-critical inter…

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RecoverFormer: End-to-End Contact-Aware Recovery for Humanoid Robots

Zihui Liu · 2026

Humanoid robots operating in unstructured environments must recover from unexpected disturbances-a capability that remains challenging for end-to-end control policies. We present RECOVERFORMER, a full…

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Minimax Optimal Procedures for Joint Detection and Estimation

Dominik Reinhard, Michael Fau{ss}, Abdelhak M. Zoubir · 2026

We investigate the problem of jointly testing a pair of composite hypotheses and, depending on the test result, estimating a random parameter under distributional uncertainties. Specifically, it is as…

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Learning Control Policies to Provably Satisfy Hard Affine Constraints for Black-Box Hybrid Dynamical Systems

Aayushi Shrivastava, Kartik Nagpal, Sairam Jinkala, Jean-Baptiste Bouvier, Negar Mehr · 2026

Ensuring safety for black-box hybrid dynamical systems presents significant challenges due to their instantaneous state jumps and unknown explicit nonlinear dynamics. Existing solutions for strict saf…

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FastICA with Learned Scores from the Empirical Characteristic Function

David Watts, Jonathan H. Manton · 2026

Independent component analysis (ICA) estimates a demixing matrix that can recover statistically independent sources from linear mixtures. FastICA is a popular ICA algorithm due to its efficiency, but …

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