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Learning Without Losing Identity: Capability Evolution for Embodied Agents

Xue Qin, Simin Luan, John See, Cong Yang, Zhijun Li ยท 2026

Embodied agents are expected to operate persistently in dynamic physical environments, continuously acquiring new capabilities over time. Existing approaches to improving agent performance often rely โ€ฆ

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Differences in Small-Signal Stability Boundaries Between Aggregated and Granular DFIG Models

Leyou Zhou, Mucheng Li, Xiaojie Shi, Meng Zhan, Juanjuan Wang, Dan Wu ยท 2026

Broadband oscillations in wind farms have been widely reported in recent years. Past studies have examined various types of oscillations in wind farms, relating small-signal stability to control settiโ€ฆ

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Vision-Language Navigation for Aerial Robots: Towards the Era of Large Language Models

Xingyu Xia, Lekai Zhou, Yujie Tang, Xiaozhou Zhu, Hai Zhu, Wen Yao ยท 2026

Aerial vision-and-language navigation (Aerial VLN) aims to enable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to interpret natural language instructions and autonomously navigate complex three-dimensional environโ€ฆ

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Safe Large-Scale Robust Nonlinear MPC in Milliseconds via Reachability-Constrained System Level Synthesis on the GPU

Jeffrey Fang, Glen Chou ยท 2026

We present GPU-SLS, a GPU-parallelized framework for safe, robust nonlinear model predictive control (MPC) that scales to high-dimensional uncertain robotic systems and long planning horizons. Our metโ€ฆ

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On the Isospectral Nature of Minimum-Shear Covariance Control

Ralph Sabbagh, Asmaa Eldesoukey, Mahmoud Abdelgalil, Tryphon T. Georgiou ยท 2026

We revisit Brockett's attention in the context of bilinear gradient flow of an ensemble, and explore an alternative formalism that aims to reduce shear by minimizing the conditioning number of the dynโ€ฆ

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SANDO: Safe Autonomous Trajectory Planning for Dynamic Unknown Environments

Kota Kondo, Jesus Tordesillas, Jonathan P. How ยท 2026

SANDO is a safe trajectory planner for 3D dynamic unknown environments, where obstacle locations and motions are unknown a priori and a collision-free plan can become unsafe at any moment, requiring fโ€ฆ

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Projected Variational Quantum Extragradient for Zero-Sum Games

Duong The Do, Matthew Aldridge, Duong Tung Nguyen ยท 2026

We propose a projected variational quantum extragradient (VQEG) framework for computing approximate Nash equilibria in two-player zero-sum matrix games. Mixed strategies are parameterized as Born distโ€ฆ

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Grasp as You Dream: Imitating Functional Grasping from Generated Human Demonstrations

Chao Tang, Jiacheng Xu, Haofei Lu, Bolin Zou, Wenlong Dong, Hong Zhang, Danica Kragic ยท 2026

Building generalist robots capable of performing functional grasping in everyday, open-world environments remains a significant challenge due to the vast diversity of objects and tasks. Existing methoโ€ฆ

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Delay-Doppler Channel Estimation using Arbitrarily Modulated Data Transmissions

Nishant Mehrotra, Sandesh Rao Mattu, Robert Calderbank ยท 2026

Conventional delay-Doppler (DD) communication and sensing systems require transmitting pilot frames at every channel coherence time interval in order to keep track of channel variations at the cost ofโ€ฆ

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Robots that learn to evaluate models of collective behavior

Mathis Hocke, Andreas Gerken, David Bierbach, Jens Krause, Tim Landgraf ยท 2026

Understanding and modeling animal behavior is essential for studying collective motion, decision-making, and bio-inspired robotics. Yet, evaluating the accuracy of behavioral models still often reliesโ€ฆ

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CADENCE: Context-Adaptive Depth Estimation for Navigation and Computational Efficiency

Timothy K Johnsen, Marco Levorato ยท 2026

Autonomous vehicles deployed in remote environments typically rely on embedded processors, compact batteries, and lightweight sensors. These hardware limitations conflict with the need to derive robusโ€ฆ

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OpenPRC: A Unified Open-Source Framework for Physics-to-Task Evaluation in Physical Reservoir Computing

Yogesh Phalak, Wen Sin Lor, Apoorva Khairnar, Benjamin Jantzen, Noel Naughton, Suyi Li ยท 2026

Physical Reservoir Computing (PRC) leverages the intrinsic nonlinear dynamics of physical substrates, mechanical, optical, spintronic, and beyond, as fixed computational reservoirs, offering a compellโ€ฆ

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Robust Quadruped Locomotion via Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning

Brian McAteer, Karl Mason ยท 2026

Deep reinforcement learning has recently achieved strong results in quadrupedal locomotion, yet policies trained in simulation often fail to transfer when the environment changes. Evolutionary reinforโ€ฆ

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From 6G Scenarios and Requirements to Design Drivers: Insights from 3GPP Release 20

Victor Moznon Baeza, Symeon Chatzinotas ยท 2026

The definition of sixth-generation (6G) systems is being shaped by early standardization efforts, including the 3GPP TR 38.914 (Release 20) study on scenarios and requirements. This study introduces aโ€ฆ

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Dead Code Doesn't Talk: Authentic Requirements Elicitation in Introductory Software Engineering

Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Vanesa Metaj, Stefan Wagner ยท 2026

Requirements elicitation is among the most communication-intensive activities in software engineering, yet it receives limited explicit treatment in undergraduate curricula. This paper presents a caseโ€ฆ

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Enhanced ShockBurst for Ultra Low-Power On-Demand Sensing

Ziyao Zhou, Chen Shen, Sicong Shen, Hen-Wei Huang ยท 2026

On demand sensing is emerging as a key paradigm in Internet of Things (IoT) systems, where devices remain in low power states and transmit data only upon event triggers. Such an operation requires wirโ€ฆ

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An RTK-SLAM Dataset for Absolute Accuracy Evaluation in GNSS-Degraded Environments

Wei Zhang, Vincent Ress, David Skuddis, Uwe Soergel, Norbert Haala ยท 2026

RTK-SLAM systems integrate simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with real-time kinematic (RTK) GNSS positioning, promising both relative consistency and globally referenced coordinates for effโ€ฆ

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Genie Sim PanoRecon: Fast Immersive Scene Generation from Single-View Panorama

Zhijun Li, Yongxin Su, Di Yang, Jichao Wang, Zheyuan Xing, Qian Wang, Maoqing Yao ยท 2026

We present Genie Sim PanoRecon, a feed-forward Gaussian-splatting pipeline that delivers high-fidelity, low-cost 3D scenes for robotic manipulation simulation. The panorama input is decomposed into siโ€ฆ

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Flow Motion Policy: Manipulator Motion Planning with Flow Matching Models

Davood Soleymanzadeh, Xiao Liang, Minghui Zheng ยท 2026

Open-loop end-to-end neural motion planners have recently been proposed to improve motion planning for robotic manipulators. These methods enable planning directly from sensor observations without relโ€ฆ

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Trust-as-a-Service: Task-Specific Orchestration for Effective Task Completion via Model Context Protocol-Aided Agentic AI

Botao Zhu, Xianbin Wang ยท 2026

As future tasks in networked systems are increasingly relying on collaborative execution among distributed devices, trust has become an essential tool for securing both reliable collaborators and taskโ€ฆ

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