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Computational Design and Co-Robotic Fabrication for Material Reuse in Architecture

Arash Adel, Daniel Ruan, Ruxin Xie · 2026

Climate change and resource depletion demand a shift from the dominant linear "take-make-use-dispose" paradigm of construction toward circular, low-waste practices. Material reuse offers a promising p…

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Topology Optimization for Materially Efficient Reinforced Concrete Design: Development, Fabrication, and Structural Evaluation

Jackson L. Jewett, Josephine V. Carstensen · 2026

The production of concrete generates roughly 8% of anthropogenic CO2 globally, largely because of the massive quantities that are manufactured. New design methods must be developed and deployed to imp…

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Thrust Regulation Through Wing Linkage Modulation on the Aerobat Platform: Piezoelectric Slip-Stick Actuated Regulator Development

Luca Ciampaglia · 2026

Aerobat is a bat-inspired flapping-wing robot with a wing gait generate by the computational structure, a planar linkage of carbon fiber links driven by a single motor. This design minimizes weight bu…

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AnchorRefine: Synergy-Manipulation Based on Trajectory Anchor and Residual Refinement for Vision-Language-Action Models

Tingzheng Jia, Kan Guo, Lanping Qian, Yongli Hu, Daxin Tian, Guixian Qu, Chunmian Lin, Baocai Yin, Jiapu Wang · 2026

Precision-critical manipulation requires both global trajectory organization and local execution correction, yet most vision-language-action (VLA) policies generate actions within a single unified spa…

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Modeling and Simulation of Nitrogen Generation by Pressure Swing Adsorption for Power-to-Ammonia

Marcus J. Schytt, Lorenz T. Biegler, John B. J{o}rgensen · 2026

Power-to-ammonia (P2A) provides a carbon-free alternative to conventional ammonia production by replacing fossil-based feedstocks with electrolytic hydrogen and nitrogen from air separation. For decen…

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Networking-Aware Energy Efficiency in Agentic AI Inference: A Survey

Xiaojing Chen, Haiqi Yu, Wei Ni, Dusit Niyato, Ruichen Zhang, Xin Wang, Shunqing Zhang, Shugong Xu · 2026

The rapid emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has catalyzed Agentic artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous systems integrating perception, reasoning, and action into closed-loop pipelines for …

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FM-CAC: Carbon-Aware Control for Battery-Buffered Edge AI via Time-Series Foundation Models

Kang Yang, Walid A. Hanafy, Prashant Shenoy, Mani Srivastava · 2026

As edge AI deployments scale to billions of devices running always-on, real-time compound AI pipelines, they represent a massive and largely unmanaged source of energy consumption and carbon emissions…

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A Process-Aware Demand Response Framework for Hydrogen-Integrated Zero-Carbon Steel Plants Coupled with Methanol Production

Qiang Ji, Lin Cheng, Yue Zhou, Ning Qi, Kaidi Huang, Jianzhong Wu, Ming Cheng · 2026

The integration of the high penetration of intermittent renewable energy sources (RES) and the retirement of thermal units have significantly aggravated the flexibility scarcity and real-time balancin…

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LACE-S: Toward Sensitivity-consistent Locational Average Carbon Emissions via Neural Representation

Young-ho Cho, Min-Seung Ko, Hao Zhu · 2026

Carbon-aware grid optimization relies on accurate locational emission metrics to effectively guide demand-side decarbonization tasks such as spatial load shifting. However, existing metrics are only v…

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Reinforcement Learning-Based Energy Management for Industrial Park with Heterogeneous Batteries under Demand Response

Meng Yuan, Tinghui Yan, Zhezhuang Xu · 2026

The integration of photovoltaic (PV) systems, stationary energy storage systems (ESSs), and electric vehicles (EVs) alongside demand response (DR) programmes in industrial parks presents opportunities…

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Demand response potential evaluation of a zero carbon hydrogen metallurgy system considering shaft furnace's flexibility

Qiang Ji, Lin Cheng, Kaidi Huang, Junxin Lv, Yue Zhou, Zeng Liang · 2026

The increasing penetration of intermittent renewable energy sources and the retirement of thermal units have widened the power system flexibility gap. Industrial demand response (DR) driven by real-ti…

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End-to-End Learning-based Operation of Integrated Energy Systems for Buildings and Data Centers

Zhenyu Pu, Yu Yang, Liang Yu, Xiaohong Guan · 2026

Buildings and data centers (DCs) are energy-intensive sectors, playing a critical role to achieve the low-carbon and sustainable energy transition targets. To this end, integrated energy system (IES) …

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A Foldable and Agile Soft Electromagnetic Robot for Multimodal Navigation in Confined and Unstructured Environments

Zhihao Lv, Xiaoyong Zhang, Mengfan Zhang, Xiaoyu Song, Xingyue Liu, Yide Liu, Shaoxing Qu, Guoyong Mao · 2026

Multimodal locomotion is crucial for an animal's adaptability in unstructured wild environments. Similarly, in the human gastrointestinal tract, characterized by viscoelastic mucus, complex rugae, and…

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An Optimal Battery-Free Approach for Emission Reduction by Storing Solar Surplus in Building Thermal Mass

Michela Boffi, Jessica Leoni, Fabrizio Leonforte, Mara Tanelli, Paolo Oliaro · 2026

Decarbonization in buildings calls for advanced control strategies that coordinate on-site renewables, grid electricity, and thermal demand. Literature approaches typically rely on demand side managem…

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Computational Facilitation of Large Scale Microfluidic Fuel Cell Architectures

Michel Takken, Robert Wille · 2026

Hydrogen fuel cells are a key technology in the transition toward carbon-neutral energy systems, offering clean power with water as the only byproduct. Microfluidic fuel cells, which operate at the mi…

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ProgressVLA: Progress-Guided Diffusion Policy for Vision-Language Robotic Manipulation

Hongyu Yan, Qiwei Li, Jiaolong Yang, Yadong Mu · 2026

Most existing vision-language-action (VLA) models for robotic manipulation lack progress awareness, typically relying on hand-crafted heuristics for task termination. This limitation is particularly s…

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Driving Condition-Aware Multi-Agent Integrated Power and Thermal Management for Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Hanghang Cui, Arash Khalatbarisoltani, Jie Han, Wenxue Liu, Muhammad Saeed, Xiaosong Hu · 2026

Effective co-optimization of energy management strategy (EMS) and thermal management (TM) is crucial for optimizing fuel efficiency in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). Driving conditions significantly…

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Disentangled Robot Learning via Separate Forward and Inverse Dynamics Pretraining

Wenyao Zhang, Bozhou Zhang, Zekun Qi, Wenjun Zeng, Xin Jin, Li Zhang · 2026

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown great potential in building generalist robots, but still face a dilemma-misalignment of 2D image forecasting and 3D action prediction. Besides, such a vi…

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DFM-VLA: Iterative Action Refinement for Robot Manipulation via Discrete Flow Matching

Jiayi Chen, Wenxuan Song, Shuai Chen, Jingbo Wang, Zhijun Li, Haoang Li · 2026

Vision--Language--Action (VLA) models that encode actions using a discrete tokenization scheme are increasingly adopted for robotic manipulation, but existing decoding paradigms remain fundamentally l…

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MMaDA-VLA: Large Diffusion Vision-Language-Action Model with Unified Multi-Modal Instruction and Generation

Yang Liu, Pengxiang Ding, Tengyue Jiang, Xudong Wang, Wenxuan Song, Minghui Lin, Han Zhao, Hongyin Zhang, Zifeng Zhuang, Wei Zhao, Siteng Huang, Jinkui Shi, Donglin Wang · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models aim to control robots for manipulation from visual observations and natural-language instructions. However, existing hierarchical and autoregressive paradigms often…

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