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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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ASAP: An Azimuth-Priority Strip-Based Search Approach to Planar Microphone Array DOA Estimation in 3D

Ming Huang, Shuting Xu, Leying Yang, Huanzhang Hu, Yujie Zhang, Jiang Wang, Yu Liu, Hao Zhao, He Kong · 2026

Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is an important task in microphone array processing and many downstream applications. The steered response power with phase transform (SRP-PHAT) method has been w…

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The Fragility of Learning LQG Controllers

Bruce D. Lee, Anastasios Tsiamis, Nikolai Matni, Manfred Morari, John Lygeros · 2026

Learning methods are increasingly used to synthesize controllers from data, yet existing sample-complexity characterizations for continuous control are sharp only in the fully observed setting. This p…

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

Rakshit Soni, Chris Waltham, Md Umar Ibrahim, Mark Crampton, Charles Fox · 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 modif…

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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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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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MISTY: High-Throughput Motion Planning via Mixer-based Single-step Drifting

Yining Xing, Zehong Ke, Yiqian Tu, Zhiyuan Liu, Wenhao Yu, Jianqiang Wang · 2026

Multi-modal trajectory generation is essential for safe autonomous driving, yet existing diffusion-based planners suffer from high inference latency due to iterative neural function evaluations. This …

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Reasoning About Traversability: Language-Guided Off-Road 3D Trajectory Planning

Byounggun Park, Soonmin Hwang · 2026

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) enable high-level semantic reasoning for end-to-end autonomous driving, particularly in unstructured environments, existing off-road datasets suffer from language a…

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Benefits of Low-Cost Bio-Inspiration in the Age of Overparametrization

Kevin Godin-Dubois, Anil Yaman, Anna V. Kononova · 2026

While Central Pattern Generators (CPGs) and Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP) are widely used paradigms in robot control, few systematic studies have been performed on the relative merits of large paramet…

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Radar Odometry Subject to High Tilt Dynamics of Subarctic Environments

Matej Boxan, William Larrivee-Hardy, Francois Pomerleau · 2026

Rotating FMCW radar odometry methods often assume flat ground conditions. While this assumption is sufficient in many scenarios, including urban environments or flat mining setups, the highly dynamic …

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Achieving Interaction Fluidity in a Wizard-of-Oz Robotic System: A Prototype for Fluid Error-Correction

Carlos Baptista De Lima, Julian Hough, Frank Forster, Patrick Holthaus, Yongjun Zheng · 2026

Achieving truly fluid interaction with robots with speech interfaces remains a hard problem, and the experience of current Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) remains laboured and frustrating. Some of the b…

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Safe Control using Learned Safety Filters and Adaptive Conformal Inference

Sacha Huriot, Ihab Tabbara, Hussein Sibai · 2026

Safety filters have been shown to be effective tools to ensure the safety of control systems with unsafe nominal policies. To address scalability challenges in traditional synthesis methods, learning-…

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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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A Model and Estimation of the Bitcoin Transaction Fee

Daniel Aronoff, Kristian Praizner, Armin Sabouri · 2026

Bitcoin transaction fees will become more important as the block subsidy declines, but fee formation is hard to study with blockchain data alone because the relevant queueing environment is unobserved…

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Timescale Limits of Linear-Threshold Networks

William Retnaraj, Simone Betteti, Alexander Davydov, Francesco Bullo, Jorge Cortes · 2026

Linear-threshold networks (LTNs) capture the mesoscale behavior of interacting populations of neurons and are of particular interest to control theorists due to their dynamical richness and relative e…

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VADF: Vision-Adaptive Diffusion Policy Framework for Efficient Robotic Manipulation

Xinglei Yu, Zhenyang Liu, Shufeng Nan, Simo Wu, Yanwei Fu · 2026

Diffusion policies are becoming mainstream in robotic manipulation but suffer from hard negative class imbalance due to uniform sampling and lack of sample difficulty awareness, leading to slow traini…

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A Dynamic-Growing Fuzzy-Neuro Controller, Application to a 3PSP Parallel Robot

Mohsen Jalaeian-Farimani, Mohammad-R Akbarzadeh-T, Alireza Akbarzadeh, Mostafa Ghaemi · 2026

To date, various paradigms of soft-Computing have been used to solve many modern problems. Among them, a self organizing combination of fuzzy systems and neural networks can make a powerful decision m…

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{\Psi}-Map: Panoptic Surface Integrated Mapping Enables Real2Sim Transfer

Xuan Yu, Yuxuan Xie, Changjian Jiang, Shichao Zhai, Rong Xiong, Yu Zhang, Yue Wang · 2026

Open-vocabulary panoptic reconstruction is essential for advanced robotics perception and simulation. However, existing methods based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) often struggle to simultaneously a…

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Fast-SegSim: Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Segmentation for Robotics in Simulation

Xuan Yu, Yuxuan Xie, Shichao Zhai, Shuhao Ye, Rong Xiong, Yue Wang · 2026

Open-vocabulary panoptic reconstruction is crucial for advanced robotics and simulation. However, existing 3D reconstruction methods, such as NeRF or Gaussian Splatting variants, often struggle to ach…

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Rain Rate Estimation Bounds and Weather-Adaptive Pilot Allocation for LEO Satellite ISAC

Haofan Dong, Houtianfu Wang, Hanlin Cai, O. Tansel Baydas, Ozgur B. Akan · 2026

Rain attenuates Ku-band satellite signals by up to 20~dB, encoding precipitation information along the Earth-space slant path. This paper derives the Bayesian Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound (BCRB) for rain rate…

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