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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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Think before Go: Hierarchical Reasoning for Image-goal Navigation

Pengna Li, Kangyi Wu, Shaoqing Xu, Fang Li, Lin Zhao, Long Chen, Zhi-Xin Yang, Nanning Zheng · 2026

Image-goal navigation steers an agent to a target location specified by an image in unseen environments. Existing methods primarily handle this task by learning an end-to-end navigation policy, which …

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Emergency Stopping for Liquid-manipulating Robots

Samuli Hynninen, Ville Kyrki · 2026

Manipulating open liquid containers is challenging because liquids are highly sensitive to vessel accelerations and jerks. Although spill-free liquid manipulation has been widely studied, emergency st…

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Real-Time Solution-Seeking for Game-Theoretic Autonomous Driving via Time-Distributed Iterations

Shaoqing Liu, Mushuang Liu · 2026

Computational complexity has been a major challenge in game-theoretic model predictive control (GT-MPC), as real-time solutions to a game (e.g., Nash equilibria (NEs)) have to be computed at each samp…

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Singularity Avoidance in Inverse Kinematics: A Unified Treatment of Classical and Learning-based Methods

Vishnu Rudrasamudram, Hariharasudan Malaichamee · 2026

Singular configurations cause loss of task-space mobility, unbounded joint velocities, and solver divergence in inverse kinematics (IK) for serial manipulators. No existing survey bridges classical si…

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AffordSim: A Scalable Data Generator and Benchmark for Affordance-Aware Robotic Manipulation

Mingyang Li, Haofan Xu, Haowen Sun, Xinzhe Chen, Sihua Ren, Liqi Huang, Xinyang Sui, Chenyang Miao, Qiongjie Cui, Zeyang Liu, Xingyu Chen, Xuguang Lan · 2026

Simulation-based data generation has become a dominant paradigm for training robotic manipulation policies, yet existing platforms do not incorporate object affordance information into trajectory gene…

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Minimal Embodiment Enables Efficient Learning of Number Concepts in Robot

Zhegong Shangguan, Alessandro Di Nuovo, Angelo Cangelosi · 2026

Robots are increasingly entering human-interactive scenarios that require understanding of quantity. How intelligent systems acquire abstract numerical concepts from sensorimotor experience remains a …

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Robust Adaptive Backstepping Impedance Control of Robots in Unknown Environments

Reza Nazmara, Alap Kshirsagar, Jan Peters, A. Pedro Aguiar · 2026

This paper presents a Robust Adaptive Backstepping Impedance Control (RABIC) strategy for robots operating in contact-rich and uncertain environments. The proposed control strategy considers the compl…

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TriDeliver: Cooperative Air-Ground Instant Delivery with UAVs, Couriers, and Crowdsourced Ground Vehicles

Junhui Gao, Yan Pan, Qianru Wang, Wenzhe Hou, Yiqin Deng, Liangliang Jiang, Yuguang Fang · 2026

Instant delivery, shipping items before critical deadlines, is essential in daily life. While multiple delivery agents, such as couriers, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), and crowdsourced agents, have…

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AEROS: A Single-Agent Operating Architecture with Embodied Capability Modules

Xue Qin, Simin Luan, Cong Yang, Zhijun Li · 2026

Robotic systems lack a principled abstraction for organizing intelligence, capabilities, and execution in a unified manner. Existing approaches either couple skills within monolithic architectures or …

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frax: Fast Robot Kinematics and Dynamics in JAX

Daniel Morton, Marco Pavone · 2026

In robot control, planning, and learning, there is a need for rigid-body dynamics libraries that are highly performant, easy to use, and compatible with CPUs and accelerators. While existing libraries…

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Hybrid Framework for Robotic Manipulation: Integrating Reinforcement Learning and Large Language Models

Md Saad, Sajjad Hussain, Mohd Suhaib · 2026

This paper introduces a new hybrid framework that combines Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve robotic manipulation tasks. By utilizing RL for accurate low-level co…

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Copilot-Assisted Second-Thought Framework for Brain-to-Robot Hand Motion Decoding

Yizhe Li, Shixiao Wang, Jian K. Liu · 2026

Motor kinematics prediction (MKP) from electroencephalography (EEG) is an important research area for developing movement-related brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). While traditional methods often rely…

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Engagement-Zone-Aware Input-Constrained Guidance for Safe Target Interception in Contested Environments

Praveen Kumar Ranjan, Abhinav Sinha, Yongcan Cao · 2026

We address target interception in contested environments in the presence of multiple defenders whose interception capability is limited by finite ranges. Conventional methods typically impose conserva…

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Robust and Interpretable Graph Neural Networks for Power Systems State Estimation

Arbel Yaniv, Kilian Golinski, Christoph Goebel · 2026

This study analyzes Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for distribution system state estimation (DSSE) by employing an interpretable Graph Neural Additive Network (GNAN) and by utilizing an edge-conditioned…

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GIFT: Generalizing Intent for Flexible Test-Time Rewards

Fin Amin, Nathaniel Dennler, Andreea Bobu · 2026

Robots learn reward functions from user demonstrations, but these rewards often fail to generalize to new environments. This failure occurs because learned rewards latch onto spurious correlations in …

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ROBOGATE: Adaptive Failure Discovery for Safe Robot Policy Deployment via Two-Stage Boundary-Focused Sampling

Azuki Kim · 2026

Deploying learned robot manipulation policies in industrial settings requires rigorous pre-deployment validation, yet exhaustive testing across high-dimensional parameter spaces is intractable. We pre…

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Bayesian Active Object Recognition and 6D Pose Estimation from Multimodal Contact Sensing

Haodong Zheng, Gabriele M. Caddeo, Andrei C. Jalba, Wijnand A. IJsselsteijn, Lorenzo Natale, Raymond H. Cuijpers · 2026

We present an active tactile exploration framework for joint object recognition and 6D pose estimation. The proposed method integrates wrist force/torque sensing, GelSight tactile sensing, and free-sp…

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Deep Filter Estimation from Inter-Frame Correlations for Monaural Speech Dereverberation

Ui-Hyeop Shin, Jun Hyung Kim, Jangyeon Kim, Wooseok Kim, Hyung-Min Park · 2026

Speech dereverberation in distant-microphone scenarios remains challenging due to the high correlation between reverberation and target signals, often leading to poor generalization in real-world envi…

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ToMPC: Task-oriented Model Predictive Control via ADMM for Safe Robotic Manipulation

Xinyu Jia, Wenxin Wang, Jun Yang, Yongping Pan, Haoyong Yu · 2026

This paper proposes a task-oriented model predictive control (ToMPC) framework for safe and efficient robotic manipulation in open workspaces. The framework unifies collision-free motion and robot-env…

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