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ExoActor: Exocentric Video Generation as Generalizable Interactive Humanoid Control

Yanghao Zhou, Jingyu Ma, Yibo Peng, Zhenguo Sun, Yu Bai, Borje F. Karlsson · 2026

Humanoid control systems have made significant progress in recent years, yet modeling fluent interaction-rich behavior between a robot, its surrounding environment, and task-relevant objects remains a…

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RAY-TOLD: Ray-Based Latent Dynamics for Dense Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance with TDMPC

Seungho Han, Seokju Lee, Jeonguk Kang · 2026

Dense, dynamic crowds pose a persistent challenge for autonomous mobile robots. Purely reactive planning methods, such as Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) control, often fail to escape local mini…

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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 · 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 ma…

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Exploring Converter Control Duality in Microgrids: AC Grid-Forming vs DC Droop Control

Jovan Krajacic, Ognjen Stanojev, Mario Schweizer, Orcun Karaca, Gabriela Hug, Vladan Lazarevic · 2026

Power electronic converters are fundamental building blocks of both AC and DC microgrids, enabling the integration of renewable energy sources, energy storage systems, electronic loads, and electric v…

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3D Generation for Embodied AI and Robotic Simulation: A Survey

Tianwei Ye, Yifan Mao, Minwen Liao, Jian Liu, Chunchao Guo, Dazhao Du, Quanxin Shou, Fangqi Zhu, Song Guo · 2026

Embodied AI and robotic systems increasingly depend on scalable, diverse, and physically grounded 3D content for simulation-based training and real-world deployment. While 3D generative modeling has a…

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Alter-Art: Exploring Embodied Artistic Creation through a Robot Avatar

Do Won Park, Samuele Bordini, Giorgio Grioli, Manuel G. Catalano, Antonio Bicchi · 2026

As with every emerging technology, new tools in the hands of artists reshape the nature of artwork creation. Current frameworks for robotics in arts deploy the robot as an autonomous creator or a coll…

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Optimizing Tracking Accuracy in Energy-Constrained Multimodal ISAC via Lyapunov-Driven Heterogeneous Mixture-of-Experts

Wenqi Fan, Ning Wei, Ahmad Bazzi, Rongyan Xi, Zhixian Song, You Li, Zhihan Zeng, Yue Xiu, Chadi Assi · 2026

The integration of multimodal sensing and millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications is a key enabler for highly mobile vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) networks. However, continuous high-resolution visua…

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Step-Audio-R1.5 Technical Report

Yuxin Zhang, Xiangyu Tony Zhang, Daijiao Liu, Fei Tian, Yayue Deng, Jun Chen, Qingjian Lin, Haoyang Zhang, Yuxin Li, Jinglan Gong, Yechang Huang, Liang Zhao, Chengyuan Yao, Hexin Liu, Eng Siong Chng, Xuerui Yang, Gang Yu, Xiangyu Zhang, Daxin Jiang · 2026

Recent advancements in large audio language models have extended Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning into the auditory domain, enabling models to tackle increasingly complex acoustic and spoken tasks. To…

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Reference-Augmented Learning for Precise Tracking Policy of Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots

Ziqing Zou, Ke Qiu, Haojian Lu, Rong Xiong, Yue Wang · 2026

Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots (TDCRs) pose significant control challenges due to their highly nonlinear, path-dependent dynamics and non-Markovian characteristics. Traditional Jacobian-based controll…

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Learning-Based Dynamics Modeling and Robust Control for Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots

Ziqing Zou, Ke Qiu, Fei Wang, Haojian Lu, Rong Xiong, Yue Wang · 2026

Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots (TDCRs) pose significant modeling and control challenges due to complex nonlinearities, such as frictional hysteresis and transmission compliance. This paper proposes a …

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The role of physical models in the validation and calibration of numerical models -- The example of the Lilleb{\ae}lt Bridge

Paula Apollonia Wunderlich, Gledson Rodrigo Tondo, Guido Morgenthal · 2026

With the rapid advancement of computer technologies enabling fast calculations of complex structures, numerical methods have become a central tool in engineering sciences, while physical models have i…

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GS-Playground: A High-Throughput Photorealistic Simulator for Vision-Informed Robot Learning

Yufei Jia, Heng Zhang, Ziheng Zhang, Junzhe Wu, Mingrui Yu, Zifan Wang, Dixuan Jiang, Zheng Li, Chenyu Cao, Zhuoyuan Yu, Xun Yang, Haizhou Ge, Yuchi Zhang, Jiayuan Zhang, Zhenbiao Huang, Tianle Liu, Shenyu Chen, Jiacheng Wang, Bin Xie, Xuran Yao, Xiwa Deng, Guangyu Wang, Jinzhi Zhang, Lei Hao, Zhixing Chen, Yuxiang Chen, Anqi Wang, Hongyun Tian, Yiyi Yan, Zhanxiang Cao, Yizhou Jiang, Hanyang Shao, Yue Li, Lu Shi, Bokui Chen, Wei Sui, Hanqing Cui, Yusen Qin, Ruqi Huang, Lei Han, Tiancai Wang, Guyue Zhou · 2026

Embodied AI research is undergoing a shift toward vision-centric perceptual paradigms. While massively parallel simulators have catalyzed breakthroughs in proprioception-based locomotion, their potent…

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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 · 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 bridgi…

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Guiding Vector Field Generation via Score-based Diffusion Model

Zirui Chen, Shiliang Guo, Shiyu Zhao · 2026

Guiding Vector Fields (GVFs) are a powerful tool for robotic path following. However, classical methods assume smooth, ordered curves and fail when paths are unordered, multi-branch, or generated by p…

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Assessing the dynamic response of long-span bridges under simultaneous wind and traffic loads

Gledson Rodrigo Tondo, Guido Morgenthal · 2026

Wind-traffic interactions strongly influence the dynamic response of long-span bridges, yet loads are often analysed independently. This work models concurrent wind and traffic and demonstrates that i…

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Graph Signal Separation with Learnable Spectral Filters

Keivan Faghih Niresi, Dorina Thanou, Olga Fink · 2026

Separating multiple graph signals from a single observed mixture is an inherently ill-posed problem that traditionally relies on restrictive and handcrafted priors. This letter addresses this challeng…

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$M^2$-VLA: Boosting Vision-Language Models for Generalizable Manipulation via Layer Mixture and Meta-Skills

Siyao Xiao, Yuhong Zhang, Zhifang Liu, Zihan Gao, Jingye Zhang, Sinwai Choo, Dake Zhong, Mengzhe Wang, Xiao Lin, Xianfeng Zhou, Jia Jia, Haoqian Wang · 2026

Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models predominantly rely on end-to-end fine-tuning. While effective, this paradigm compromises the inherent generalization capabilities of Vision-Language Models …

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Intention-Aware Semantic Agent Communications for AI Glasses

Peiwen Jiang, Fangyu Liu, Jiajia Guo, Chao-Kai Wen, Shi Jin, Jun Zhang · 2026

Smart glasses are emerging as a promising interface between humans and artificial intelligence (AI) agents, enabling first-person perception, contextual awareness, and real-time assistance. However, c…

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Tube Diffusion Policy: Reactive Visual-Tactile Policy Learning for Contact-rich Manipulation

Teng Xue, Alberto Rigo, Bingjian Huang, Jiayi Shen, Zhengtong Xu, Nick Colonnese, Amirhossein H. Memar · 2026

Contact-rich manipulation is central to many everyday human activities, requiring continuous adaptation to contact uncertainty and external disturbances through multi-modal perception, particularly vi…

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Private and Common Information States in Decentralized Parallel Dynamic Programming for Delayed Sharing Patterns

Charalambos D. Charalambous, Umarbek Guvercin, Seddik Djouadi · 2026

This paper develops a dynamic programming (DP) approach for decentralized stochastic optimal control problems with delayed sharing information patterns, which exhibits the fundamental Properties of cl…

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