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AI-Driven Performance-to-Design Generation and Optimization of Marine Propellers

Leah Chen, Keni Chih-Hua Wu, Boon Tat Chia, Xiuqing Xing, Jian Cheng Wong · 2026

AI is increasingly used to accelerate engineering design by improving decision-making and shortening iteration cycles. Application to marine propeller design, however, remains challenging due to scarc…

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Energy-Efficient Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning of Non-Convex Regions of Interests

Sourav Raxit, Jose Fuentes, Paulo Padrao, Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz, Md Tamjidul Hoque, Mark Kulp, Leonardo Bobadilla · 2026

This letter presents an energy-efficient multi-robot coverage path planning (MRCPP) framework for large, nonconvex Regions of Interest (ROI) containing obstacles and no-fly zones (NFZ). Existing minim…

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dWorldEval: Scalable Robotic Policy Evaluation via Discrete Diffusion World Model

Yaxuan Li, Zhongyi Zhou, Yefei Chen, Yaokai Xue, Yichen Zhu · 2026

Evaluating robotics policies across thousands of environments and thousands of tasks is infeasible with existing approaches. This motivates the need for a new methodology for scalable robotics policy …

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Topology Optimization for Materially Efficient Reinforced Concrete Design: Development, Fabrication, and Structural Evaluation

Jackson L. Jewett, Josephine V. Carstensen · 2026

The production of concrete generates roughly 8% of anthropogenic CO2 globally, largely because of the massive quantities that are manufactured. New design methods must be developed and deployed to imp…

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VistaBot: View-Robust Robot Manipulation via Spatiotemporal-Aware View Synthesis

Songen Gu, Yuhang Zheng, Weize Li, Yupeng Zheng, Yating Feng, Xiang Li, Yilun Chen, Pengfei Li, Wenchao Ding · 2026

Recently, end-to-end robotic manipulation models have gained significant attention for their generalizability and scalability. However, they often suffer from limited robustness to camera viewpoint ch…

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A Hidden Markov Framework for Physically Interpretable Arc Stability Dynamics in Welding Systems

Hidir Selcuk Nogay · 2026

Electric arc welding (EAW) exhibits strongly non stationary and temporally evolving behavior, making reliable assessment of arc stability difficult using conventional frame based approaches. In this s…

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Hi-WM: Human-in-the-World-Model for Scalable Robot Post-Training

Yaxuan Li, Zhongyi Zhou, Yefei Chen, Yanjiang Guo, Jiaming Liu, Shanghang Zhang, Jianyu Chen, Yichen Zhu · 2026

Post-training is essential for turning pretrained generalist robot policies into reliable task-specific controllers, but existing human-in-the-loop pipelines remain tied to physical execution: each co…

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SLAM as a Stochastic Control Problem with Partial Information: Optimal Solutions and Rigorous Approximations

Ilir Gusija, Fady Alajaji, Serdar Yuksel · 2026

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a foundational state estimation problem in robotics in which a robot accurately constructs a map of its environment while also localizing itself within …

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ADMM-Based Distributed Kalman-like Observer with Applications to Cooperative Localization

Nicola De Carli, Nicola Bastianello, Dimos V. Dimarogonas · 2026

This paper addresses distributed state estimation for multi-agent systems with local and relative measurements, motivated by cooperative localization problems in which the global state dimension scale…

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Using Assembly Language for Creating Games

Haris Turkmanovic, David Vukoje, Aleksandra Lekic, Milan Prokin · 2026

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate some interesting and useful approaches for writing a program in the assembly language. In order to demonstrate the possibilities of the assembly language, a pro…

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MISTY: High-Throughput Motion Planning via Mixer-based Single-step Drifting

Yining Xing, Zehong Ke, Yiqian Tu, Zhiyuan Liu, Wenhao Yu, Jianqiang Wang · 2026

Multi-modal trajectory generation is essential for safe autonomous driving, yet existing diffusion-based planners suffer from high inference latency due to iterative neural function evaluations. This …

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Full-Duplex Interaction in Spoken Dialogue Systems: A Comprehensive Study from the ICASSP 2026 HumDial Challenge

Chengyou Wang, Hongfei Xue, Guojian Li, Zhixian Zhao, Shuiyuan Wang, Shuai Wang, Xin Xu, Hui Bu, Lei Xie · 2026

Full-duplex interaction, where speakers and listeners converse simultaneously, is a key element of human communication often missing from traditional spoken dialogue systems. These systems, based on r…

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Scalable Sensor Scheduling for Continuous-Discrete Kalman Filtering via Information-Form Surrogate Dynamics

Hyeongmin Choe, SooJean Han · 2026

We study sensor scheduling for continuous-discrete Kalman filtering with Poisson measurement arrivals and propose an information-form deterministic surrogate for scalable offline design. Unlike the co…

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Frequency Security Assessment in Power Systems With High Penetration of Renewables Considering Spatio-Temporal Frequency Distribution

Changjun He, Hua Geng, Xiuqiang He, Chen Shen, Yushuang Liu · 2026

The increasing integration of renewable energy sources exacerbates the spatial and temporal differences in frequency across the power system, posing a serious challenge to the accurate and efficient a…

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A Convexified Eulerian Framework for Scalable Coordination of Massive DER Populations

Ge Chen, Yiwei Qiu, Shiyao Zhang, Pengfei Su, Haoran Deng, Hongcai Zhang · 2026

This paper proposes a scalable coordination framework with aggregator-side privacy protection for storage-like distributed energy resources (DERs). The framework adopts a two-layer architecture. At th…

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Reasoning About Traversability: Language-Guided Off-Road 3D Trajectory Planning

Byounggun Park, Soonmin Hwang · 2026

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) enable high-level semantic reasoning for end-to-end autonomous driving, particularly in unstructured environments, existing off-road datasets suffer from language a…

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CorridorVLA: Explicit Spatial Constraints for Generative Action Heads via Sparse Anchors

Dachong Li, ZhuangZhuang Chen, Jin Zhang, Jianqiang Li · 2026

Vision--Language--Action (VLA) models often use intermediate representations to connect multimodal inputs with continuous control, yet spatial guidance is often injected implicitly through latent feat…

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How VLAs (Really) Work In Open-World Environments

Amir Rasouli, Yangzheng Wu, Zhiyuan Li, Rui Heng Yang, Xuan Zhao, Charles Eret, Sajjad Pakdamansavoji · 2026

Vision-language-action models (VLAs) have been extensively used in robotics applications, achieving great success in various manipulation problems. More recently, VLAs have been used in long-horizon t…

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Full-Body Dynamic Safety for Robot Manipulators: 3D Poisson Safety Functions for CBF-Based Safety Filters

Meg Wilkinson, Gilbert Bahati, Ryan M. Bena, Emily Fourney, Joel W. Burdick, Aaron D. Ames · 2026

Collision avoidance for robotic manipulators requires enforcing full-body safety constraints in high-dimensional configuration spaces. Control Barrier Function (CBF) based safety filters have proven e…

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Efficient Design of Fronthaul-Constrained Uplink Reception for Cell-Free XL-MIMO

Dogon Kim, Hyunmin Noh, Seok-Hwan Park · 2026

With the evolution of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology toward extremely large (XL) MIMO systems comprising hundreds of, or more, antennas, this work investigates scalable and fronthaul…

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