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FreeOcc: Training-Free Embodied Open-Vocabulary Occupancy Prediction

Zeyu Jiang, Changqing Zhou, Xingxing Zuo, Changhao Chen ยท 2026

Existing learning-based occupancy prediction methods rely on large-scale 3D annotations and generalize poorly across environments. We present FreeOcc, a training-free framework for open-vocabulary occโ€ฆ

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Sensing-Assisted Channel Estimation for Flexible-Antenna Systems: A Unified Framework

Ruoxiao Cao, Wentao Yu, Zixin Wang, Shenghui Song, Jun Zhang, Yi Gong, Khaled B. Letaief ยท 2026

Flexible-antenna systems, which use a small number of radio frequency (RF) chains to dynamically access a large set of candidate antenna locations, have emerged as a hardware-efficient architecture foโ€ฆ

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Unified 4D World Action Modeling from Video Priors with Asynchronous Denoising

Jun Guo, Qiwei Li, Peiyan Li, Zilong Chen, Nan Sun, Yifei Su, Heyun Wang, Yuan Zhang, Xinghang Li, Huaping Liu ยท 2026

We propose X-WAM, a Unified 4D World Model that unifies real-time robotic action execution and high-fidelity 4D world synthesis (video + 3D reconstruction) in a single framework, addressing the criticโ€ฆ

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Atomic-Probe Governance for Skill Updates in Compositional Robot Policies

Xue Qin, Simin Luan, John See, Cong Yang, Zhijun Li ยท 2026

Skill libraries in deployed robotic systems are continually updated through fine-tuning, fresh demonstrations, or domain adaptation, yet existing typed-composition methods (BLADE, SymSkill, Generativeโ€ฆ

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SEP Analysis of Quantized SIMO Systems with M-PSK over Correlated Fading Channels

Amila Ravinath, Bikshapathi Gouda, Italo Atzeni, Antti Tolli ยท 2026

The average symbol error probability (SEP) of a phase-quantized single-input multiple-output system with M-ary phase-shift keying modulation and maximum ratio combining (MRC) is analyzed under correlaโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 nuโ€ฆ

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Optimizing Tracking Accuracy in Energy-Constrained Multimodal ISAC via Lyapunov-Driven Heterogeneous Mixture-of-Experts

Wenqi Fan, Ning Wei, Ahmad Bazzi, Rongyan Xi, Zhixian Song, You Li, Zhihan Zeng, Yue Xiu, Chadi Assi ยท 2026

The integration of multimodal sensing and millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications is a key enabler for highly mobile vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) networks. However, continuous high-resolution visuaโ€ฆ

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2D and 3D Grasp Planners for the GET Asymmetrical Gripper

Andrew Goldberg, Ethan Ransing, Anton Kourakin, Cael Magner, Edward H. Adelson, Ken Goldberg ยท 2026

In this paper, we introduce GET-2D-1.0, a fast grasp planner for the GET asymmetrical gripper that operates from a single-view RGB-D image, using the Ferrari-Canny metric and a novel sampling strategyโ€ฆ

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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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UNet-Based Fusion and Exponential Moving Average Adaptation for Noise-Robust Speaker Recognition

Chong-Xin Gan, Peter Bell, Man-Wai Mak, Zhe Li, Zezhong Jin, Zilong Huang, Kong Aik Lee ยท 2026

The joint training of speech enhancement and speaker embedding networks for speaker recognition is widely adopted under noisy acoustic environments. While effective, this paradigm often fails to leverโ€ฆ

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Robust Graph Matching through Semantic Relationship Generation for SLAM

David Perez-Saura, Jose Andres Millan-Romera, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Holger Voos, Pascual Campoy, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez ยท 2026

Graph-based representations such as Scene Graphs enable localization in structured indoor environments by matching a locally observed graph, constructed from sensor data, to a prior map. This process โ€ฆ

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Monitoring exposure-length variations in submarine power cables using distributed fiber-optic sensing

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

This study proposes an anomaly-detection framework for monitoring exposure-length variations in submarine free-span cables using Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), which is one of the distributed fibโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 bridgiโ€ฆ

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Passage-Aware Structural Mapping for RGB-D Visual SLAM

Ali Tourani, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Saad Ejaz, David Perez Saura, Asier Bikandi-Noya, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez, Holger Voos ยท 2026

Doorways and passages are critical structural elements for indoor robot navigation, yet they remain underexplored in modern Visual SLAM (VSLAM) frameworks. This paper presents a passage-aware structurโ€ฆ

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Real-time windrow detection from onboard tractor sensors for automated following

Lorenz Gunreben, Nico Heider, Sebastian Zurner, Martin Schieck, Bogdan Franczyk ยท 2026

Proprietary design in commercial windrow-detection systems restricts transparency and limits progress in open autonomous forage-harvesting research. We present a multi-modal dataset combining stereo vโ€ฆ

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Semantic Segmentation for Histopathology using Learned Regularization based on Global Proportions

Yangping Li, Thomas Pinetz, Michael Holzel, Marieta Toma, Alexander Effland ยท 2026

In pathology, the spatial distribution and proportions of tissue types are key indicators of disease progression, and are more readily available than fine-grained annotations. However, these assessmenโ€ฆ

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$M^2$-VLA: Boosting Vision-Language Models for Generalizable Manipulation via Layer Mixture and Meta-Skills

Siyao Xiao, Yuhong Zhang, Zhifang Liu, Zihan Gao, Jingye Zhang, Sinwai Choo, Dake Zhong, Mengzhe Wang, Xiao Lin, Xianfeng Zhou, Jia Jia, Haoqian Wang ยท 2026

Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models predominantly rely on end-to-end fine-tuning. While effective, this paradigm compromises the inherent generalization capabilities of Vision-Language Models โ€ฆ

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Supporting Family-School Partnerships with Robot-Facilitated Home-Based Activities

Michael F Xu, Qiyao Yang, Heather Kirkorian, Bilge Mutlu ยท 2026

Family-school partnerships (FSP) are critical to children's development, yet families often face barriers such as time constraints, fragmented communication, and limited opportunities for meaningful eโ€ฆ

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QuietWalk: Physics-Informed Reinforcement Learning for Ground Reaction Force-Aware Humanoid Locomotion Under Diverse Footwear

Hanze Hu, Luying Feng, Silu Chen, Tianjiang Zheng, Dexin Jiang, Wei Chen, Chi Zhang, Guilin Yang, Yaochu Jin ยท 2026

Humanoid robots operating in human-centered environments (e.g., homes, hospitals, and offices) must mitigate foot--ground impact transients, as impact-induced vibration and noise degrade user experienโ€ฆ

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Predictive Directional Selective Fixed-Filter Active Noise Control for Moving Sources via a Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network

Boxiang Wang, Zhengding Luo, Dongyuan Shi, Junwei Ji, Xiruo Su, Woon-Seng Gan ยท 2026

Directional Selective Fixed-Filter Active Noise Control (D-SFANC) can effectively attenuate noise from different directions by selecting the suitable pre-trained control filter based on the Direction-โ€ฆ

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