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FlexiTac: A Low-Cost, Open-Source, Scalable Tactile Sensing Solution for Robotic Systems

Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li · 2026

We present FlexiTac, a low-cost, open-source, and scalable piezoresistive tactile sensing solution designed for robotic end-effectors. FlexiTac is a practical "plug-in" module consisting of (i) thin, …

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CRS-LLM: Cooperative Beam Prediction with a GPT-Style Backbone and Switch-Gated Fusion

Fangzhi Li, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren, Dongming Wang, Jiangzhou Wang · 2026

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication depends on highly directional beamforming, while fast mobility, blockage, and rapid geometry changes in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) scenarios make beam tracking …

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A Real-time Scale-robust Network for Glottis Segmentation in Nasal Transnasal Intubation

Yang Zhou, Chaoyong Zhang, Ruoyi Hao, Huilin Pan, Yang Zhang, Hongliang Ren · 2026

Nasotracheal intubation (NTI) is a critical clinical procedure for establishing and maintaining patient airway patency. Machine-assisted NTI has emerged as a pivotal approach for optimizing procedural…

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Spectral Dynamic Attention Network for Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution

Tengya Zhang, Feng Gao, Lin Qi, Junyu Dong, Qian Du · 2026

Hyperspectral image super-resolution is essential for enhancing the spatial fidelity of HSI data, yet existing deep learning methods often struggle with substantial spectral redundancy and the limited…

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Representative Spectral Correlation Network for Multi-source Remote Sensing Image Classification

Chuanzheng Gong, Feng Gao, Junyan Lin, Junyu Dong, Qian Du · 2026

Hyperspectral image (HSI) and SAR/LiDAR data offer complementary spectral and structural information for land-cover classification. However, their effective fusion remains challenging due to two major…

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Model-Free Dynamic Mode Adaptive Control for Data-Driven Control Synthesis

Parham Oveissi, Ankit Goel · 2026

This paper presents a model-free, data-driven control synthesis method called dynamic mode adaptive control (DMAC) for systems whose mathematical models are unavailable or unsuitable for classical con…

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Performance Analysis of HAPS-RIS-Assisted MIMO Systems Under Phase-Dependent Amplitude Response Using Saddle Point Approximation

Tayfun Yilmaz, Haci Ilhan, Ali Gorcin, Halim Yanikomeroglu · 2026

This letter proposes a novel mathematical framework for the statistical characterization of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-mounted high-altitude platform station (HAPS)-assisted MIMO systems…

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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 · 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 …

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AsyncShield: A Plug-and-Play Edge Adapter for Asynchronous Cloud-based VLA Navigation

Kai Yang, Zedong Chu, Yingnan Guo, Zhengbo Wang, Shichao Xie, Yanfen Shen, Xiaolong Wu, Xing Li, Mu Xu · 2026

While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have been demonstrated possessing strong zero-shot generalization for robot control, their massive parameter sizes typically necessitate cloud-based deploymen…

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A Road-Mobile GNSS-Disciplined Oscillator for Accurate Synchronization of Vehicular Microwave Measurements

Maximilian Engelhardt, Carsten Andrich, Daniel Stanko, Alexander Ihlow, Markus Landmann · 2026

Precise synchronization is essential in various technical disciplines, being especially challenging in mobile scenarios. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art global navigation satellite system (GNSS) disci…

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Designing Robots to Support Parent-Child Connections: Opportunities Through Robot-Mediated Communication

Michael F Xu, Bengisu Cagiltay, Yaxin Hu, Anjun Zhu, Bilge Mutlu · 2026

The sense of family connectedness may support positive outcomes including individual well-being, resilience, and healthy family functioning. However, as technologies advance, they often replace human-…

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BridgeACT: Bridging Human Demonstrations to Robot Actions via Unified Tool-Target Affordances

Yifan Han, Jianxiang Liu, Haoyu Zhang, Yuqi Gu, Yunhan Guo, Wenzhao Lian · 2026

Learning robot manipulation from human videos is appealing due to the scale and diversity of human demonstrations, but transferring such demonstrations to executable robot behavior remains challenging…

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Collaborative Trajectory Prediction via Late Fusion

Nadya Abdel Madjid, Murad Mebrahtu, Zakhar Yagudin, Bilal Hassan, Naoufel Werghi, Jorge Dias, Dzmitry Tsetserukou, Majid Khonji · 2026

Predicting future trajectories of surrounding traffic agents is critical for safe autonomous navigation and collision avoidance. Despite all advances in the trajectory forecasting realm, the predictio…

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Triple-Phase Sequential Fusion Network for Hepatobiliary Phase Liver MRI Synthesis

Qiuli Wang, Xinhuan Sun, Fengxi Chen, Yongxu Liu, Jie Cheng, Lin Chen, Jiafei Chen, Yue Zhang, Xiaoming Li, Wei Chen · 2026

Gadoxetate disodium-enhanced MRI is essential for the detection and characterization of hepatocellular carcinoma. However, acquisition of the hepatobiliary phase (HBP) requires a prolonged post-contra…

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Generalizable CT-Free PET Attenuation and Scatter Correction for Pediatric Patients

Jia-Mian Wu, Jun Liu, Siqi Li, Xiaoya Wang, Shibai Yin, Huanyu Luo, Lingling Zheng, Qiang Gao, Jigang Yang, Tai-Xiang Jiang · 2026

Computed tomography (CT)-based attenuation and scatter correction improves quantitative PET but adds radiation exposure that is particularly undesirable in pediatric imaging. Existing CT-free methods …

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Learning Control Policies to Provably Satisfy Hard Affine Constraints for Black-Box Hybrid Dynamical Systems

Aayushi Shrivastava, Kartik Nagpal, Sairam Jinkala, Jean-Baptiste Bouvier, Negar Mehr · 2026

Ensuring safety for black-box hybrid dynamical systems presents significant challenges due to their instantaneous state jumps and unknown explicit nonlinear dynamics. Existing solutions for strict saf…

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AI-Driven Performance-to-Design Generation and Optimization of Marine Propellers

Leah Chen, Keni Chih-Hua Wu, Boon Tat Chia, Xiuqing Xing, Jian Cheng Wong · 2026

AI is increasingly used to accelerate engineering design by improving decision-making and shortening iteration cycles. Application to marine propeller design, however, remains challenging due to scarc…

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Wiggle and Go! System Identification for Zero-Shot Dynamic Rope Manipulation

Arthur Jakobsson, Abhinav Mahajan, Karthik Pullalarevu, Krishna Suresh, Yunchao Yao, Yuemin Mao, Bardienus Duisterhof, Shahram Najam Syed, Jeffrey Ichnowski · 2026

Many robotic tasks are unforgiving; a single mistake in a dynamic throw can lead to unacceptable delays or unrecoverable failure. To mitigate this, we present a novel approach that leverages learned s…

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A Deployable Embodied Vision-Language Navigation System with Hierarchical Cognition and Context-Aware Exploration

Kuan Xu, Ruimeng Liu, Yizhuo Yang, Denan Liang, Tongxing Jin, Shenghai Yuan, Chen Wang, Lihua Xie · 2026

Bridging the gap between embodied intelligence and embedded deployment remains a key challenge in intelligent robotic systems, where perception, reasoning, and planning must operate under strict const…

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FingerViP: Learning Real-World Dexterous Manipulation with Fingertip Visual Perception

Zhen Zhang, Weinan Wang, Hejia Sun, Qingpeng Ding, Xiangyu Chu, Guoxin Fang, K. W. Samuel Au · 2026

The current practice of dexterous manipulation generally relies on a single wrist-mounted view, which is often occluded and limits performance on tasks requiring multi-view perception. In this work, w…

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