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PALCAS: A Priority-Aware Intelligent Lane Change Advisory System for Autonomous Vehicles using Federated Reinforcement Learning

Yassine Ibork, Nhat Ha Nguyen, Myounggyu Won, Lokesh Das · 2026

We present a priority-aware intelligent lane change advisory system based on multi-agent federated reinforcement learning, namely PALCAS, for autonomous vehicles (AVs). While existing lane-change appr…

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State Forecasting in an Estimation Framework with Surrogate Sensor Modeling

Sriram Narayanan, Mohamed Naveed Gul Mohamed, Ishan Paranjape, Indranil Nayak, Suman Chakravorty, Mrinal Kumar · 2026

In recent years, computational power and data availability breakthroughs have revolutionized our ability to analyze complex physical systems through the inverse problem approach. Data-driven technique…

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Integrated Sensing and Communications for Low-Altitude Economy with Deterministic Sensing and Gaussian Information Signals

Xianxin Song, Xianghao Yu, Jie Xu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng · 2026

Reliable surveillance and communication for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are crucial for enabling and sustaining the accelerated growth of the low-altitude economy. Integrated sensing and communica…

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Muscle-inspired magnetic actuators that push, pull, crawl, and grasp

Muhammad Bilal Khan, Florian Hofmann, Kilian Schafer, Matthias Lutzi, Oliver Gutfleisch · 2026

Functional magnetic composites capable of large deformation, load bearing, and multifunctional motion are essential for next-generation adaptive soft robots. Here, we present muscle-inspired magnetic …

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A Reconfigurable Pneumatic Joint Enabling Localized Selective Stiffening and Shape Locking in Vine-Inspired Robots

Ayodele James Oyejide, Ustaz A. Yaqub, Samir Erturk, Eray A. Baran, Fabio Stroppa · 2026

Vine-inspired robots achieve large workspace coverage through tip eversion, enabling safe navigation in confined and cluttered environments. However, their deployment in free space is fundamentally li…

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Robust Fleet Sizing for Multi-UAV Inspection Missions under Synchronized Replacement Demand

Vishal Ramesh, Antony Thomas · 2026

Multi-UAV inspection missions require spare drones to replace active drones during recharging cycles. Existing fleet-sizing approaches often assume steady-state operating conditions that do not apply …

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Ternary Noise Modulation

Ata Bilgin, Erkin Yap{i}c{i}, Yusuf Islam Tek, Ertugrul Basar · 2026

By exploiting noise as an information-bearing resource, noise-driven communication offers a promising framework for low-complexity and secure wireless system design. In this letter, the scheme of tern…

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HazardArena: Evaluating Semantic Safety in Vision-Language-Action Models

Zixing Chen, Yifeng Gao, Li Wang, Yunhan Zhao, Yi Liu, Jiayu Li, Xiang Zheng, Zuxuan Wu, Cong Wang, Xingjun Ma, Yu-Gang Jiang · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models inherit rich world knowledge from vision-language backbones and acquire executable skills via action demonstrations. However, existing evaluations largely focus on …

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Angle-based Localization and Rigidity Maintenance Control for Multi-Robot Networks

J. Francisco Presenza, Leonardo J. Colombo, Juan I. Giribet, Ignacio Mas · 2026

In this work, we study angle-based localization and rigidity maintenance control for multi-robot networks. First, we establish the relationship between angle rigidity and bearing rigidity considering …

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On Feedback Speed Control for a Planar Tracking

Xincheng Li, Tengyue Liu, Udit Halder · 2026

This paper investigates a planar tracking problem between a leader and follower agent. We propose a novel feedback speed control law, paired with a constant bearing steering strategy, to maintain an a…

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Spectral Kernel Dynamics via Maximum Caliber: Fixed Points, Geodesics, and Phase Transitions

Jnaneshwar Das · 2026

We derive a closed-form geometric functional for kernel dynamics on finite graphs by applying the Maximum Caliber (MaxCal) variational principle to the spectral transfer function h(lambda) of the grap…

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S3KF: Spherical State-Space Kalman Filtering for Panoramic 3D Multi-Object Tracking

Zhongyuan Liu, Shaonan Yu, Jianping Li, Pengfei Wan, Xinhang Xu, Pengfei Wang, Maggie Y. Gao, Lihua Xie · 2026

Panoramic multi-object tracking is important for industrial safety monitoring, wide-area robotic perception, and infrastructure-light deployment in large workspaces. In these settings, the sensing sys…

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Realtime-VLA V2: Learning to Run VLAs Fast, Smooth, and Accurate

Chen Yang, Yucheng Hu, Yunchao Ma, Yunhuan Yang, Jing Tan, Haoqiang Fan · 2026

In deployment of the VLA models to real-world robotic tasks, execution speed matters. In previous work arXiv:2510.26742 we analyze how to make neural computation of VLAs on GPU fast. However, we leave…

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Movable-Antenna Index Modulation (MA-IM): System Framework and Performance Analysis

Bang Huang, Shunyuan Shang, Mohamed-Slim Alouini · 2026

This paper proposes a movable-antenna-based index modulation (MA-IM) framework that exploits the spatial mobility of a single reconfigurable antenna to create additional information-bearing dimensions…

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Exploiting Self-Sustainable Information-Bearing RIS in Underlay CR-NOMA Networks

Zeyang Sun, Shuai Han, Chenyu Wu, Sai Xu, Yuanwei Liu · 2026

Information-bearing reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (IB-RIS) provide a promising solution to self-sustainable and green communications by harvesting ambient radio frequency energy while embedding …

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GelSphere: An Omnidirectional Rolling Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for Online 3D Reconstruction and Normal Force Estimation

Seoyeon Lee, Mohammad Amin Mirzaee, Wenzhen Yuan · 2026

We present GelSphere, a spherical vision-based tactile sensor designed for real-time continuous surface scanning. Unlike traditional vision-based tactile sensors that can only sense locally and are da…

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3PoinTr: 3D Point Tracks for Robot Manipulation Pretraining from Casual Videos

Adam Hung, Bardienus Pieter Duisterhof, Jeffrey Ichnowski · 2026

Data-efficient training of robust robot policies is the key to unlocking automation in a wide array of novel tasks. Current systems require large volumes of demonstrations to achieve robustness, which…

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IROSA: Interactive Robot Skill Adaptation using Natural Language

Markus Knauer, Samuel Bustamante, Thomas Eiband, Alin Albu-Schaffer, Freek Stulp, Joao Silverio · 2026

Foundation models have demonstrated impressive capabilities across diverse domains, while imitation learning provides principled methods for robot skill adaptation from limited data. Combining these a…

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A phase-field framework for anisotropic viscoelastic-viscoplastic fracture in short fiber-reinforced polymers in hygrothermal environments

Behrouz Arash, Shadab Zakavati, Timon Rabczuk · 2026

This work presents a comprehensive phase-field framework for modeling anisotropic viscoelastic-viscoplastic fracture in short fiber-reinforced polymer (SFRP) composites under hygrothermal environments…

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A Novel Modular Cable-Driven Soft Robotic Arm with Multi-Segment Reconfigurability

Moeen Ul Islam, Cheng Ouyang, Xinda Qi, Azlan Zahid, Xiaobo Tan, Dong Chen · 2026

This paper presents a novel, modular, cable-driven soft robotic arm featuring multi-segment reconfigurability. The proposed architecture enables a stackable system with independent segment control, al…

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