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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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A Hidden Markov Framework for Physically Interpretable Arc Stability Dynamics in Welding Systems

Hidir Selcuk Nogay ยท 2026

Electric arc welding (EAW) exhibits strongly non stationary and temporally evolving behavior, making reliable assessment of arc stability difficult using conventional frame based approaches. In this sโ€ฆ

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A Hybrid STFT-Based Machine Learning Framework for Physically Interpretable Arc Stability Classification in Electric Arc Welding Systems

Tahir Cetin Akinci, Gokhan Gokmen, Alfredo A. Martinez-Morales ยท 2026

This study presents a physically informed hybrid time-frequency and machine learning (STFT-ML) framework for arc stability monitoring in electric arc welding systems. The primary current signal is modโ€ฆ

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MARS-Dragonfly: Agile and Robust Flight Control of Modular Aerial Robot Systems

Rui Huang, Zhiqian Cai, Siyu Tang, Pengxuan Wei, Lidong Li, Xin Chen, Wenhan Cao, Zhenyu Zhang, Lin Zhao ยท 2026

Modular Aerial Robot Systems (MARS) comprise multiple drone units with reconfigurable connected formations, providing high adaptability to diverse mission scenarios, fault conditions, and payload capaโ€ฆ

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VA-FastNavi-MARL: Real-Time Robot Control with Multimedia-Driven Meta-Reinforcement Learning

Yang Zhang, Shengxi Jing, Fengxiang Wang, Yuan Feng, Hong Wang ยท 2026

Interpreting dynamic, heterogeneous multimedia commands with real-time responsiveness is critical for Human-Robot Interaction. We present VA-FastNavi-MARL, a framework that aligns asynchronous audio-vโ€ฆ

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A Three-Dimensional Path Loss Model for THz Band Aerial Communications

Sina Jorjani, Caglar Tunc, Ozgur Gurbuz, Akhtar Saeed ยท 2026

Accurate characterization of Terahertz (THz) band path loss is critical for reliable high-frequency communication, especially in aerial networks where transceivers may operate at different altitudes. โ€ฆ

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ARC: Alignment-based RPM Estimation with Curvature-adaptive Tracking

Weiheng Hua, Changyu Hao ยท 2026

Tacho-less rotational speed estimation is critical for vibration-based prognostics and health management (PHM) of rotating machinery, yet traditional methods--such as time-domain periodicity, cepstrumโ€ฆ

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COIN: Collaborative Interaction-Aware Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Self-Driving Systems

Yifeng Zhang, Jieming Chen, Tingguang Zhou, Tanishq Duhan, Jianghong Dong, Yuhong Cao, Guillaume Sartoretti ยท 2026

Multi-Agent Self-Driving (MASD) systems provide an effective solution for coordinating autonomous vehicles to reduce congestion and enhance both safety and operational efficiency in future intelligentโ€ฆ

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LATS: Large Language Model Assisted Teacher-Student Framework for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Traffic Signal Control

Yifeng Zhang, Peizhuo Li, Tingguang Zhou, Mingfeng Fan, Guillaume Sartoretti ยท 2026

Adaptive Traffic Signal Control (ATSC) aims to optimize traffic flow and minimize delays by adjusting traffic lights in real time. Recent advances in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) have shoโ€ฆ

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Training Diffusion Language Models for Black-Box Optimization

Zipeng Sun, Can Chen, Ye Yuan, Haolun Wu, Jiayao Gu, Christopher Pal, Xue Liu ยท 2026

We study offline black-box optimization (BBO), aiming to discover improved designs from an offline dataset of designs and labels, a problem common in robotics, DNA, and materials science with limited โ€ฆ

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MA-VLCM: A Vision Language Critic Model for Value Estimation of Policies in Multi-Agent Team Settings

Shahil Shaik, Aditya Parameshwaran, Anshul Nayak, Jonathon M. Smereka, Yue Wang ยท 2026

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) commonly relies on a centralized critic to estimate the value function. However, learning such a critic from scratch is highly sample-inefficient and often laโ€ฆ

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Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for UAV-Based Chemical Plume Source Localization

Zhirun Li, Derek Hollenbeck, Ruikun Wu, Michelle Sherman, Sihua Shao, Xiang Sun, Mostafa Hassanalian ยท 2026

Undocumented orphaned wells pose significant health and environmental risks to nearby communities by releasing toxic gases and contaminating water sources, with methane emissions being a primary conceโ€ฆ

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Less is More: Robust Zero-Communication 3D Pursuit-Evasion via Representational Parsimony

Jialin Ying, Zhihao Li, Zicheng Dong, Guohua Wu, Yihuan Liao ยท 2026

Asymmetric 3D pursuit-evasion in cluttered voxel environments is difficult under communication latency, partial observability, and nonholonomic maneuver limits. While many MARL methods rely on richer โ€ฆ

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Cognition to Control - Multi-Agent Learning for Human-Humanoid Collaborative Transport

Hao Zhang, Ding Zhao, H. Eric Tseng ยท 2026

Effective human-robot collaboration (HRC) requires translating high-level intent into contact-stable whole-body motion while continuously adapting to a human partner. Many vision-language-action (VLA)โ€ฆ

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HALyPO: Heterogeneous-Agent Lyapunov Policy Optimization for Human-Robot Collaboration

Hao Zhang, Yaru Niu, Yikai Wang, Ding Zhao, H. Eric Tseng ยท 2026

To improve generalization and resilience in human-robot collaboration (HRC), robots must handle the combinatorial diversity of human behaviors and contexts, motivating multi-agent reinforcement learniโ€ฆ

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TSC: Topology-Conditioned Stackelberg Coordination for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Interactive Driving

Xiaotong Zhang, Gang Xiong, Yuanjing Wang, Siyu Teng, Alois Knoll, Long Chen ยท 2026

Safe and efficient autonomous driving in dense traffic is fundamentally a decentralized multi-agent coordination problem, where interactions at conflict points such as merging and weaving must be resoโ€ฆ

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Toward AI Autonomous Navigation for Mechanical Thrombectomy using Hierarchical Modular Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (HM-MARL)

Harry Robertshaw, Nikola Fischer, Lennart Karstensen, Benjamin Jackson, Xingyu Chen, S.M.Hadi Sadati, Christos Bergeles, Alejandro Granados, Thomas C Booth ยท 2026

Mechanical thrombectomy (MT) is typically the optimal treatment for acute ischemic stroke involving large vessel occlusions, but access is limited due to geographic and logistical barriers. Reinforcemโ€ฆ

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A Collaborative Safety Shield for Safe and Efficient CAV Lane Changes in Congested On-Ramp Merging

Bharathkumar Hegde, Melanie Bouroche ยท 2026

Lane changing in dense traffic is a significant challenge for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs). Existing lane change controllers primarily either ensure safety or collaboratively improve traffโ€ฆ

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In-Context System Identification for Nonlinear Dynamics Using Large Language Models

Linyu Lin ยท 2026

Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (SINDy) is a powerful method for discovering parsimonious governing equations from data, but it often requires expert tuning of candidate libraries. We propโ€ฆ

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RoboStriker: Hierarchical Decision-Making for Autonomous Humanoid Boxing

Kangning Yin, Zhe Cao, Wentao Dong, Weishuai Zeng, Tianyi Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Jingbo Wang, Jiangmiao Pang, Ming Zhou, Weinan Zhang ยท 2026

Achieving human-level competitive intelligence and physical agility in humanoid robots remains a major challenge, particularly in contact-rich and highly dynamic tasks such as boxing. While Multi-Agenโ€ฆ

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