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OmniRobotHome: A Multi-Camera Platform for Real-Time Multiadic Human-Robot Interaction

Junyoung Lee, Sookwan Han, Jeonghwan Kim, Inhee Lee, Mingi Choi, Jisoo Kim, Wonjung Woo, Hanbyul Joo ยท 2026

Human-robot collaboration has been studied primarily in dyadic or sequential settings. However, real homes require multiadic collaboration, where multiple humans and robots share a workspace, acting cโ€ฆ

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Framework for Collaborative Operation of Autonomous Delivery Vehicles Within a Marshaling Yard

James O'Hara, Karl Wunderlich, Gregory Stevens ยท 2026

As autonomous vehicles slowly deploy into urban roads for limited use cases with significant edge case issues, closed facilities like marshaling yards provide a ripe case for combining lower-level vehโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 โ€ฆ

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Flying by Inference: Active Inference World Models for Adaptive UAV Swarms

Kaleem Arshid, Ali Krayani, Lucio Marcenaro, David Martin Gomez, Carlo Regazzoni ยท 2026

This paper presents an expert-guided active-inference-inspired framework for adaptive UAV swarm trajectory planning. The proposed method converts multi-UAV trajectory design from a repeated combinatorโ€ฆ

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Feedback Linearization of Hyperbolic PDEs with Volterra Nonlinearities

Miroslav Krstic ยท 2026

Alberto Isidori's framework of geometric nonlinear control, and particularly of feedback linearization, is the inspiration behind PDE backstepping: apply a transfromation of the state to cast the planโ€ฆ

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Interaction Forces and Internal Loads in Parallel Manipulators with Actuation Redundancy

Joshua Flight, Clement Gosselin ยท 2026

This paper discusses null-space wrench components in parallel manipulators. We examine the adaptation of the two most common characterizations of these components in grasp-like systems, namely, interaโ€ฆ

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Learning to Route Electric Trucks Under Operational Uncertainty

Stavros Orfanoudakis, Ziyan Li, Ruixiao Yang, Nikolay Aristov, Pedro P. Vergara, Chuchu Fan, Elenna Dugundji ยท 2026

Electric truck operations require routing decisions that remain feasible under limited battery range, long charging times, travel and energy consumption, and competition for shared charging infrastrucโ€ฆ

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Cooperative OFDM-ISAC Networks: Performance Analysis and Resource Allocation

Shoushuo Zhang, Rang Liu, Qian Liu, Ming Li ยท 2026

Cooperative integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) based on orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) enables network-wide sensing by exploiting the spatial diversity of multi-base-statioโ€ฆ

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Fuelling fusion plasmas with pellets: Can neuromorphic control outperform Sigma-Delta modulation?

L.L.T.C. Jansen, E. Petri, M. van Berkel, W.P.M.H. Heemels ยท 2026

Nuclear fusion is a promising clean energy source in which deuterium and tritium fuse inside a magnetically confined plasma in a tokamak, releasing energy. A key challenge on the route to practical nuโ€ฆ

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The False Resonance: A Critical Examination of Emotion Embedding Similarity for Speech Generation Evaluation

Yun-Shao Tsai, Yi-Cheng Lin, Huang-Cheng Chou, Tzu-Wen Hsu, Yun-Man Hsu, Chun Wei Chen, Shrikanth Narayanan, Hung-yi Lee ยท 2026

Objective metrics for emotional expressiveness are vital for speech generation, particularly in expressive synthesis and voice conversion requiring emotional prosody transfer. To quantify this, the fiโ€ฆ

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Variational Neural Belief Parameterizations for Robust Dexterous Grasping under Multimodal Uncertainty

Clinton Enwerem, Shreya Kalyanaraman, John S. Baras, Calin Belta ยท 2026

Contact variability, sensing uncertainty, and external disturbances make grasp execution stochastic. Expected-quality objectives ignore tail outcomes and often select grasps that fail under adverse coโ€ฆ

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VISION-SLS: Safe Perception-Based Control from Learned Visual Representations via System Level Synthesis

Antoine P. Leeman, Shuyu Zhan, Melanie N. Zeilinger, Glen Chou ยท 2026

We propose VISION-SLS, a method for nonlinear output-feedback control from high-resolution RGB images which provides robust constraint satisfaction guarantees under calibrated uncertainty bounds despiโ€ฆ

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Wave Tank Experiment for Sea State Monitoring with Distributed Acoustic Sensing

Yoshiyuki Yajima, Sakiko Mishima, Noriyuki Tonami, Tomoyuki Hino, Shugo Aibe, Junichiro Saikawa, Koji Mizuguchi ยท 2026

Monitoring sea states across the offshore wind farm areas is essential to keep their structures safe, efficiently operate the systems, and assess the environmental effects of wind turbines. Conventionโ€ฆ

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MotionBricks: Scalable Real-Time Motions with Modular Latent Generative Model and Smart Primitives

Tingwu Wang, Olivier Dionne, Michael De Ruyter, David Minor, Davis Rempe, Kaifeng Zhao, Mathis Petrovich, Ye Yuan, Chenran Li, Zhengyi Luo, Brian Robison, Xavier Blackwell, Bernardo Antoniazzi, Xue Bin Peng, Yuke Zhu, Simon Yuen ยท 2026

Despite transformative advances in generative motion synthesis, real-time interactive motion control remains dominated by traditional techniques. In this work, we identify two key challenges in bridgiโ€ฆ

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Data-Driven Privacy-Preserving Modeling and Frequency Regulation with Aggregated Electric Vehicles via Bilinear Hidden Markov Model

Yiping Liu, Xiaozhe Wang, Geza Joos ยท 2026

Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology allows bidirectional power flow for real-time grid support, making electric vehicles (EVs) well-suited for ancillary services such as frequency regulation. However, exโ€ฆ

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

Arash Adel, Daniel Ruan, Ruxin Xie ยท 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 pโ€ฆ

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Sliding Mode Control for Safe Trajectory Tracking with Moving Obstacles Avoidance: Experimental Validation on Planar Robots

Shubham Sawarkar, P Sangeerth, S Saharsh, Pushpak Jagtap ยท 2026

This paper presents a unified control framework for robust trajectory tracking and moving obstacle avoidance applicable to a broad class of mobile robots. By formulating a generalized kinematic transfโ€ฆ

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SPLIT: Separating Physical-Contact via Latent Arithmetic in Image-Based Tactile Sensors

Wadhah Zai El Amri, Nicolas Navarro-Guerrero ยท 2026

Training machine learning models for robotic tactile sensing requires vast amounts of data, yet obtaining realistic interaction data remains a challenge due to physical complexity and variability. Simโ€ฆ

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Pedestrians play chicken with an autonomous vehicle

Rakshit Soni, Charles Fox ยท 2026

Automated vehicles (AVs) are commonly programmed to yield unconditionally to pedestrians in the interest of safety. However, this design choice can give rise to the Freezing Robot Problem in which pedโ€ฆ

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OpenPodcar2: a robust, ROS2 vehicle for self-driving research

Rakshit Soni, Chris Waltham, Md Umar Ibrahim, Mark Crampton, Charles Fox ยท 2026

OpenPodcar2 is a robust, ROS2-interfaced, low-cost, open source hardware and software, autonomous vehicle platform based on an off-the-shelf, hard-canopy, mobility scooter donor vehicle. It is a modifโ€ฆ

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