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SASI: Leveraging Sub-Action Semantics for Robust Early Action Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction

Yongpeng Cao, Masahiro Hirano, Hyuno Kim, Yuji Yamakawa · 2026

Understanding human actions is critical for advancing behavior analysis in human-robot interaction. Particularly in tasks that demand quick and proactive feedback, robots must recognize human actions …

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Multidisciplinary Design Optimization for Wave-Driven Desalination Systems

Nate DeGoede, Maha N. Haji · 2026

Wave-driven desalination systems are an innovative solution to the global freshwater crisis, leveraging the complementary characteristics of seawater reverse osmosis and wave energy converters. Howeve…

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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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UAV Trajectory and Bandwidth Allocation for Efficient Data Collection in Low-Altitude Intelligent IoT: A Hierarchical DRL Approach

Zhenjia Xu, Xiaoling Zhang, Nan Qi, Xiaojie Li, Luliang Jia · 2026

Under the 6G wireless network evolution, the low-altitude Internet of Things (IoT), supported by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) capabilities, provides…

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PREVENT-JACK: Context Steering for Swarms of Long Heavy Articulated Vehicles

Adrian Baruck, Michael Dube, Christoph Steup, Sanaz Mostaghim · 2026

In this paper, we aim to extend the traditional point-mass-like robot representation in swarm robotics and instead study a swarm of long Heavy Articulated Vehicles (HAVs). HAVs are kinematically const…

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Trapping Regions for Quadratic Systems with Generalized Lossless Nonlinearities

Diganta Bhattacharjee, Shih-Chi Liao, Peter J. Seiler, Maziar S. Hemati · 2026

A trapping region is a compact set that is forward invariant with respect to the dynamics. Existence of a trapping region certifies boundedness of trajectories, and the size of the set provides an est…

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Trajectory Planning for a Multi-UAV Rigid-Payload Cascaded Transportation System Based on Enhanced Tube-RRT*

Jianqiao Yu, Jia Li, Tianhua Gao · 2026

This paper presents a two-stage trajectory planning framework for a multi-UAV rigid-payload cascaded transportation system, aiming to address planning challenges in densely cluttered environments. In …

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Optimal Robust Adaptive Beamforming for a General-Rank Signal Model via Equivalence of Maximin and Minimax SINR Problems

Yongwei Huang, Zhenhui Huang, Sergiy A. Vorobyov, Zhi-Quan Luo · 2026

The globally optimal robust adaptive beamforming (RAB) solution is studied for worst-case signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) maximization (the maximin SINR problem) under convex and closed…

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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 · 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 …

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Stability and Robustness of Tensor-Coupled Flow-Conservation Dynamical Systems on Hypergraphs

Chencheng Zhang, Hao Yang, Bin Jiang, Shaoxuan Cui · 2026

This paper develops an entropy-based stability and robustness framework for nonlinear hypergraph dynamics with conservation and flow balance. We consider generator-form systems on the simplex whose st…

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Data Selection Effects on Self-Supervised Learning of Audio Representations for French Audiovisual Broadcasts

Valentin Pelloin, Lina Bekkali, Reda Dehak, David Doukhan · 2026

Audio and speech self-supervised encoder models are now widely used for a lot of different tasks. Many of these models are often trained on clean segmented speech content such as LibriSpeech. In this …

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SIM1: Physics-Aligned Simulator as Zero-Shot Data Scaler in Deformable Worlds

Yunsong Zhou, Hangxu Liu, Xuekun Jiang, Xing Shen, Yuanzhen Zhou, Hui Wang, Baole Fang, Yang Tian, Mulin Yu, Qiaojun Yu, Li Ma, Hengjie Li, Hanqing Wang, Jia Zeng, Jiangmiao Pang · 2026

Robotic manipulation with deformable objects represents a data-intensive regime in embodied learning, where shape, contact, and topology co-evolve in ways that far exceed the variability of rigids. Al…

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On-Policy Distillation of Language Models for Autonomous Vehicle Motion Planning

Amirhossein Afsharrad, Amirhesam Abedsoltan, Ahmadreza Moradipari, Sanjay Lall · 2026

Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated strong potential for autonomous vehicle motion planning by reformulating trajectory prediction as a language generation problem. However, deploy…

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Spatio-Temporal Grounding of Large Language Models from Perception Streams

Jacob Anderson, Bardh Hoxha, Georgios Fainekos, Hideki Okamoto, Danil Prokhorov · 2026

Embodied-AI agents must reason about how objects move and interact in 3-D space over time, yet existing smaller frontier Large Language Models (LLMs) still mis-handle fine-grained spatial relations, m…

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Local Sensitivity Analysis for Kernel-Regularized ARX Predictors in Data-Driven Predictive Control

Aihui Liu, Magnus Jansson · 2026

We study local sensitivity of structured ARX-based data-driven predictive control. Although predictor estimation is linear in the ARX parameters, the lifted multi-step predictor used in MPC depends on…

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Multi-Robot Multi-Queue Control via Exhaustive Assignment Actor-Critic Learning

Mohammad Merati, H. M. Sabbir Ahmad, Wenchao Li, David Castanon · 2026

We study online task allocation for multi-robot, multi-queue systems with asymmetric stochastic arrivals and switching delays. We formulate the problem in discrete time: each location can host at most…

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SafeSpace: Aggregating Safe Sets from Backup Control Barrier Functions under Input Constraints

Pio Ong, David E. J. van Wijk, Massimiliano de Sa, Joel W. Burdick, Aaron D. Ames · 2026

Control barrier functions (CBFs) provide a principled framework for enforcing safety in control systems -- yet the certified safe operating region in practice is often conservative, especially under i…

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Schrodinger Bridges and Density Steering Problems for Gaussian Mixtures Models in Discrete-Time

George Rapakoulias, Fengjiao Liu, Panagiotis Tsiotras · 2026

In this work, we revisit the discrete-time Schr\"{o}dinger Bridge (SB) and Density Steering (DS) problems for Gaussian mixture model (GMM) boundary distributions. Building on the existing literature, …

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Data Center Chiller Plant Optimization via Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Differentiable Predictive Control

Jan Boldocky, Cary Faulkner, Elad Michael, Martin Gulan, Aaron Tuor, Jan Drgona · 2026

We present a computationally tractable framework for real-time predictive control of multi-chiller plants that involve both discrete and continuous control decisions coupled through nonlinear dynamics…

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A Sensitivity Analysis of Flexibility from GPU-Heavy Data Centers

Yiru Ji, Constance Crozier, Matthew Liska · 2026

The rapid growth of GPU-heavy data centers has significantly increased electricity demand and creating challenges for grid stability. Our paper investigates the extent to which an energy-aware job sch…

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