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

Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li ยท 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, โ€ฆ

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FreeOcc: Training-Free Embodied Open-Vocabulary Occupancy Prediction

Zeyu Jiang, Changqing Zhou, Xingxing Zuo, Changhao Chen ยท 2026

Existing learning-based occupancy prediction methods rely on large-scale 3D annotations and generalize poorly across environments. We present FreeOcc, a training-free framework for open-vocabulary occโ€ฆ

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Learning-Based Hierarchical Scene Graph Matching for Robot Localization Leveraging Prior Maps

Nimrod Millenium Ndulue, Jose Andres Millan-Romera, Matteo Giorgi, Holger Voos, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez ยท 2026

Accurate localization is a fundamental requirement for autonomous robots operating in indoor environments. Scene graphs encode the spatial structure of an environment as a hierarchy of semantic entitiโ€ฆ

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Hybrid Anomaly Detection for Bullion Coin Authentication Leveraging Acoustic Signature Analysis

Krzysztof Siwek, Tran Hoai Linh, Tomasz Gryczka, Maciej Stodolski ยท 2026

The verification of bullion coin authenticity is essential for maintaining integrity within the precious metals market; however, the increasing sophistication of counterfeits has rendered traditional โ€ฆ

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A Two Stage Pipeline for Left Atrial Wall Constrained Scar Segmentation and Localization from LGE-MR Images

Bipasha Kundu, Cristian Linte ยท 2026

Accurate segmentation and localization of left atrial (LA) ablation scars from Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE)-MRI is essential for assessing the lesion completeness and guiding ablation therapy. Inโ€ฆ

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Walk With Me: Long-Horizon Social Navigation for Human-Centric Outdoor Assistance

Lingfeng Zhang, Xiaoshuai Hao, Xizhou Bu, Yingbo Tang, Hongsheng Li, Jinghui Lu, Xiu-shen Wei, Jiayi Ma, Yu Liu, Jing Zhang, Hangjun Ye, Xiaojun Liang, Long Chen, Wenbo Ding ยท 2026

Assisting humans in open-world outdoor environments requires robots to translate high-level natural-language intentions into safe, long-horizon, and socially compliant navigation behavior. Existing maโ€ฆ

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PM-EKF: A Physiological Model-Based Extended Kalman Filter for Daily-Life Physical Activity Energy Expenditure Estimation

Shuhao Que, Remco Poelarends, Valentina Breschi, Ying Wang ยท 2026

Monitoring physical activity energy expenditure (PAEE) in daily life is essential for characterizing individual health and metabolic status. Although indirect calorimetry provides gold-standard PAEE mโ€ฆ

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Lights Out: A Nighttime UAV Localization Framework Using Thermal Imagery and Semantic 3D Maps

Ryan Allen, Melissa Greeff ยท 2026

Reliable backup localization for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in GNSS-denied nighttime conditions remains an open challenge due to the severe modality gap between daytime RGB maps and nigโ€ฆ

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Sensitivity-Based Tube NMPC for Cooperative Aerial Structures Under Parametric Uncertainty

Giuseppe Silano, Quentin Sable, Marco Tognon, Luigi Iannelli, Antonio Franchi ยท 2026

This paper presents a sensitivity-based tube Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) framework for cooperative aerial chains under bounded parametric uncertainty. We consider a planar two-vehicle chโ€ฆ

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ANCHOR: A Physically Grounded Closed-Loop Framework for Robust Home-Service Mobile Manipulation

Jinhao Jiang, Shengyu Fang, Sibo Zuo, Yujie Tang, Yirui Li ยท 2026

Recent advances in open-vocabulary mobile manipulation have brought robots into real domestic environments. In such settings, reliable long-horizon execution under open-set object references and frequโ€ฆ

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Learning Human-Intention Priors from Large-Scale Human Demonstrations for Robotic Manipulation

Yifan Xie, YuAn Wang, Guangyu Chen, Jinkun Liu, Yu Sun, Wenbo Ding ยท 2026

Human videos contain rich manipulation priors, but using them for robot learning remains difficult because raw observations entangle scene understanding, human motion, and embodiment-specific action. โ€ฆ

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Reduced-Order Data Assimilation for Thermospheric Density Using Physics-informed SINDyc Models

Sriram Narayanan, Daniele Sicoli, Piyush Mehta ยท 2026

Accurate estimation of thermospheric mass density is a prerequisite for orbit prediction and space situational awareness, where the upper atmosphere responds nonlinearly to solar and geomagnetic forciโ€ฆ

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GS-DOT: Gaussian splatting-based image reconstruction for diffuse optical tomography

Jingjing Jiang ยท 2026

This work presents GS-DOT, a novel image reconstruction framework based on Gaussian Splatting (GS) for diffuse optical tomography (DOT). Inspired by GS for rendering applications, absorption coefficieโ€ฆ

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Dynamic-Key Post-Quantum Encrypted Control Against System Identification Attacks

Jungjin Park, Kiminao Kogiso ยท 2026

This study proposes post-quantum encrypted control systems based on dynamic-key Learning with Errors (LWE) encryption schemes. The proposed method develops update maps that simultaneously update the pโ€ฆ

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PILOT: One Physics-Integrated Generation Framework to Unify 2D and 3D Radio Map Construction

Weiming Huang, Hao Sun, Junting Chen ยท 2026

Unified 2D and 3D radio map construction supports network planning, wireless digital twins, and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications. In urban environments, blockage, reflection, and diffractionโ€ฆ

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Integrated Lander-Propulsion-GNC Framework for Autonomous Lunar Powered Descent

Emre Aklan, Fatih Seker, Bekir Gencalioglu, Mehmet Batuhan Kaya, Yigit Serceoglu, Furkan Yavuz, Omer Burak Iskender, Burak Yaglioglu ยท 2026

This paper presents an integrated lander-propulsion-GNC framework for autonomous lunar powered descent. The BUG VTVL test vehicle serves as the reference platform, with the YUNT V0 throttleable bipropโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 predictioโ€ฆ

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RecoverFormer: End-to-End Contact-Aware Recovery for Humanoid Robots

Zihui Liu ยท 2026

Humanoid robots operating in unstructured environments must recover from unexpected disturbances-a capability that remains challenging for end-to-end control policies. We present RECOVERFORMER, a fullโ€ฆ

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False Feasibility in Variable Impedance MPC for Legged Locomotion

Vishal Ramesh ยท 2026

Variable impedance model predictive control (MPC) formulations that treat joint stiffness as an instantaneous decision variable operate on a feasible set strictly larger than the physically realizableโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 safโ€ฆ

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