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ATLAS: An Annotation Tool for Long-horizon Robotic Action Segmentation

Sergej Stanovcic, Daniel Sliwowski, Dongheui Lee · 2026

Annotating long-horizon robotic demonstrations with precise temporal action boundaries is crucial for training and evaluating action segmentation and manipulation policy learning methods. Existing ann…

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LLM-Flax : Generalizable Robotic Task Planning via Neuro-Symbolic Approaches with Large Language Models

Seongmin Kim, Daegyu Lee · 2026

Deploying a neuro-symbolic task planner on a new domain today requires significant manual effort: a domain expert must author relaxation and complementary rules, and hundreds of training problems must…

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A Comparative study on THz Communication Systems: Photonics versus Electronics Approaches

Talha Rahman, Murat Uysal · 2026

Terahertz (THz) communication has emerged as a key enabler for sixth-generation (6G) networks, offering ultrawide bandwidths to support data-intensive applications such as holographic telepresence and…

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CONCERTO: Characterization of analog readout electronics

Mounir Abdkrimi (NEEL - MagSup), Olivier Rossetto (LPSC), O. Bourrion (LPSC), Christophe Vescovi (LPSC), C. Hoarau (LPSC) · 2026

CONCERTO is a millimeter-wave imaging instrument that operated on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope from April 2021 to May 2023. Its primary scientific objectives include the study of…

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System-Level Impacts of Flexible Data Center Load Scheduling on Cost, Emissions, and Transmission Congestion

Akibul Hasan Mazumder, Yuanrui Sang · 2026

Large data centers are being deployed in the U.S. at an unprecedented rate, introducing significant flexible load potential. A portion of data center workloads - best-effort (BE) jobs - can be schedul…

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Task-Driven Co-Design of Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems

Maximilian Stralz, Meshal Alharbi, Yujun Huang, Gioele Zardini · 2026

Designing multi-agent robotic systems requires reasoning across tightly coupled decisions spanning heterogeneous domains, including robot design, fleet composition, and planning. Much effort has been …

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VLA Foundry: A Unified Framework for Training Vision-Language-Action Models

Jean Mercat, Sedrick Keh, Kushal Arora, Isabella Huang, Paarth Shah, Haruki Nishimura, Shun Iwase, Katherine Liu · 2026

We present VLA Foundry, an open-source framework that unifies LLM, VLM, and VLA training in a single codebase. Most open-source VLA efforts specialize on the action training stage, often stitching tog…

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Active Inference-Enabled Agentic Closed-Loop ISAC with Long-Horizon Planning

Guangjin Pan, Zhuojun Tian, Mehdi Bennis, Henk Wymeersch · 2026

Wireless agentic systems enable agents to autonomously perceive, reason, and act. However, existing works neglect the tight coupling between sensing and control in closed-loop integrated sensing and c…

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DART: Learning-Enhanced Model Predictive Control for Dual-Arm Non-Prehensile Manipulation

Autrio Das, Shreya Bollimuntha, Madala Venkata Renu Jeevesh, Keshab Patra, Tashmoy Ghosh, Nagamanikandan Govindan, Arun Kumar Singh, K Madhava Krishna · 2026

What appears effortless to a human waiter remains a major challenge for robots. Manipulating objects nonprehensilely on a tray is inherently difficult, and the complexity is amplified in dual-arm sett…

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A Rapid Deployment Pipeline for Autonomous Humanoid Grasping Based on Foundation Models

Yifei Yan, Yankai Liao, Linqi Ye · 2026

Deploying a humanoid robot to manipulate a new object has traditionally required one to two days of effort: data collection, manual annotation, 3D model acquisition, and model training. This paper pre…

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Planning Smooth and Safe Control Laws for a Unicycle Robot Among Obstacles

Aref Amiri, Basak Sakcak, Steven M. LaValle · 2026

This paper presents a framework for safe navigation of a unicycle point robot to a goal position in an environment populated with obstacles from almost any admissible state, considering input limits. …

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Online Reinforcement Learning for Safe Gain Scheduling in Nonlinear Quadrotor Control

Muhammad Junayed Hasan Zahed, Chieh Tsai, Salim Hariri, Hossein Rastgoftar · 2026

This paper presents an online reinforcement-learning framework for safe gain scheduling of a nonlinear quadcopter controller. Rather than learning thrust and torque commands directly, the proposed met…

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A Control-Oriented Framework for Coupling Physics-Based and Data-Driven Models

Leeroy Makusha, Preston Abadie, Donald J. Docimo · 2026

Design, control, and estimation for dynamic systems require accurate and analytically tractable models. However, modern engineered systems contain components that are described with heterogeneous mode…

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Optimization of Phase Change Material Integration for Active Cooling Control

Asmaou S. Ouedraogo, Donald J. Docimo · 2026

This paper presents a unified optimization framework for phase change material (PCM) based cooling systems. Thermal management is critical in applications such as photovoltaic (PV) modules, battery pa…

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Impact of deployment on energy efficiency of sub-THz transmission

Hardy Halbauer, Le Hang Nguyen, Thorsten Wild · 2026

Sub-THz bands are promising high bandwidth and data rates, and in the recent years the device technologies made large progress and provided a multitude of transceiver, power amplifier (PA) and phased …

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Early Exiting U-Net for Efficient Processing on UAVs: A Case Study in Environmental Monitoring

Luca Sartori Boni, Mohamed Moursi, Norbert Wehn, Bilal Hammoud · 2026

Oil spills represent a severe threat, making early-stage thickness estimation crucial for guiding remediation efforts. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an attractive platform for environmental moni…

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EmbodiedClaw: Conversational Workflow Execution for Embodied AI Development

Xueyang Zhou, Yihan Sun, Xijie Gong, Guiyao Tie, Pan Zhou, Lichao Sun, Yongchao Chen · 2026

Embodied AI research is increasingly moving beyond single-task, single-environment policy learning toward multi-task, multi-scene, and multi-model settings. This shift substantially increases the engi…

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Time-varying optimal control under measurement errors

Patrick Schmidt, Stefan Streif · 2026

Solving optimal control problems to determine a stabilizing controller involves a significant computational effort. Time-varying optimal control provides a remedy by designing a tracking system, given…

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Boundary Sampling to Learn Predictive Safety Filters via Pontryagin's Maximum Principle

James Dallas, Thomas Lew, John Talbot, Jonathan DeCastro, Somil Bansal, John Subosits · 2026

Safety filters provide a practical approach for enforcing safety constraints in autonomous systems. While learning-based tools scale to high-dimensional systems, their performance depends on informati…

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The Elusive Nature of Roughness: Linking Hydraulics and Graph Theory for Water Distribution Networks Model Calibration

Karol Dykiert, Mateusz Stolarski, Micha{l} Czuba, Wojciech Ciezak, Piotr Brodka · 2026

Accurate pipe roughness estimation in large-scale water distribution networks is often hindered by the high cost of traditional field methods. This study investigates whether network partitioning, by …

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