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DTEA: A Dual-Topology Elastic Actuator Enabling Real-Time Switching Between Series and Parallel Compliance

Vishal Ramesh, Aman Singh, Shishir Kolathaya ยท 2026

Series and parallel elastic actuators offer complementary but mutually exclusive advantages, yet no existing actuator enables real-time transition between these topologies during operation. This paperโ€ฆ

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Physics-Informed Neural Optimal Control for Precision Immobilization Technique in Emergency Scenarios

Yangye Jiang, Jiachen Wang, Daofei Li ยท 2026

Precision Immobilization Technique (PIT) is a potentially effective intervention maneuver for emergency out-of-control vehicle, but its automation is challenged by highly nonlinear collision dynamics,โ€ฆ

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RAD-LAD: Rule and Language Grounded Autonomous Driving in Real-Time

Anurag Ghosh, Srinivasa Narasimhan, Manmohan Chandraker, Francesco Pittaluga ยท 2026

We present LAD, a real-time language--action planner with an interruptible architecture that produces a motion plan in a single forward pass (~20 Hz) or generates textual reasoning alongside a motion โ€ฆ

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LUMINA: A Multi-Vendor Mammography Benchmark with Energy Harmonization Protocol

Hongyi Pan, Gorkem Durak, Halil Ertugrul Aktas, Andrea M. Bejar, Baver Tutun, Emre Uysal, Ezgi Bulbul, Mehmet Fatih Dogan, Berrin Erok, Berna Akkus Yildirim, Sukru Mehmet Erturk, Ulas Bagci ยท 2026

Publicly available full-field digital mammography (FFDM) datasets remain limited in size, clinical annotations, and vendor diversity, hindering the development of robust models. We introduce LUMINA, aโ€ฆ

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Longitudinal Lesion Inpainting in Brain MRI via 3D Region Aware Diffusion

Zahra Karimaghaloo, Dumitru Fetco, Haz-Edine Assemlal, Hassan Rivaz, Douglas L. Arnold ยท 2026

Accurate longitudinal analysis of brain MRI is often hindered by evolving lesions, which bias automated neuroimaging pipelines. While deep generative models have shown promise in inpainting these lesiโ€ฆ

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Diagnostic Impact of Cine Clips for Thyroid Nodule Assessment on Ultrasound

Jichen Yang, Brian C. Allen, Kirti Magudia, Lisa M. Ho, Chad M. Miller, Maciej A. Mazurowski, Benjamin Wildman-Tobriner ยท 2026

Background: Thyroid ultrasound is commonly performed using a combination of static images and cine clips (video recordings). However, the exact utility and impact of cine images remains unknown. This โ€ฆ

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Denoising and Baseline Correction of Low-Scan FTIR Spectra: A Benchmark of Deep Learning Models Against Traditional Signal Processing

Azadeh Mokari, Shravan Raghunathan, Artem Shydliukh, Oleg Ryabchykov, Christoph Krafft, Thomas Bocklitz ยท 2026

High-quality Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) imaging usually needs extensive signal averaging to reduce noise and drift which severely limits clinical speed. Deep learning can accelerate imaging by โ€ฆ

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Scaling Rough Terrain Locomotion with Automatic Curriculum Reinforcement Learning

Ziming Li, Chenhao Li, Marco Hutter ยท 2026

Curriculum learning has demonstrated substantial effectiveness in robot learning. However, it still faces limitations when scaling to complex, wide-ranging task spaces. Such task spaces often lack a wโ€ฆ

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Data-driven control of hydraulic impact hammers under strict operational and control constraints

Francisco Leiva, Claudio Canales, Michelle Valenzuela, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar ยท 2026

This paper presents a data-driven methodology for the control of static hydraulic impact hammers, also known as rock breakers, which are commonly used in the mining industry. The task addressed in thiโ€ฆ

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Robust Detection of Underwater Target Against Non-Uniform Noise With Optical Fiber DAS Array

Siyuan Cang, Cong Liu, Xueli Sheng, Xiaoming Cui, Chao Li, Changxin Fa, Jiantong Chen, Chaoran Yang, Huayong Yang ยท 2025

The detection of underwater targets is severely affected by the non-uniform spatial characteristics of marine environmental noise. Additionally, the presence of both natural and anthropogenic acousticโ€ฆ

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Analytical and Cross-Sectional Clinical Validity of a Smartphone-Based U-Turn Test in Multiple Sclerosis

Marta P{l}onka, Rafa{l} Klimas, Dimitar Stanev, Lorenza Angelini, Natan Napiorkowski, Gabriela Gonzalez Chan, Lisa Bunn, Paul S Glazier, Richard Hosking, Jenny Freeman, Jeremy Hobart, Mattia Zanon, Jonathan Marsden, Licinio Craveiro, Mike D Rinderknecht ยท 2025

Background: Gait and balance impairment can profoundly impact people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS). Objectives: To evaluate the analytical and clinical validity of the U-Turn Test (UTT), a smartphoneโ€ฆ

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Reconfigurable Auxetic Devices (RADs) for Robotic Surface Manipulation

Jacob Miske, Ahyan Maya, Ahnaf Inkiad, Jeffrey Ian Lipton ยท 2025

Robotic surfaces traditionally use materials with a positive Poisson's ratio to push and pull on a manipulation interface. Auxetic materials with a negative Poisson's ratio may expand in multiple direโ€ฆ

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Bioinspired Soft Quadrotors Jointly Unlock Agility, Squeezability, and Collision Resilience

Luca Girardi, Gabriel Maquignaz, Stefano Mintchev ยท 2025

Natural flyers use soft wings to seamlessly enable a wide range of flight behaviours, including agile manoeuvres, squeezing through narrow passageways, and withstanding collisions. In contrast, convenโ€ฆ

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Powered Descent Trajectory Optimization of Chandrayaan-3 using Radau Collocation and Controllable Sets

Suraj Kumar, Aditya Rallapalli, Ashok Kumar Kakula, Bharat Kumar GVP ยท 2025

India achieved a significant milestone on August $23^{\text{rd}}$ 2023, becoming the fourth country to accomplish a soft landing on the Moon. This paper presents the powered descent trajectory design โ€ฆ

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ProstNFound+: A Prospective Study using Medical Foundation Models for Prostate Cancer Detection

Paul F. R. Wilson, Mohamed Harmanani, Minh Nguyen Nhat To, Amoon Jamzad, Tarek Elghareb, Zhuoxin Guo, Adam Kinnaird, Brian Wodlinger, Purang Abolmaesumi, Parvin Mousavi ยท 2025

Purpose: Medical foundation models (FMs) offer a path to build high-performance diagnostic systems. However, their application to prostate cancer (PCa) detection from micro-ultrasound ({\mu}US) remainโ€ฆ

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A New Type of Axis-Angle Attitude Control Law for Rotational Systems: Synthesis, Analysis, and Experiments

Francisco M. F. R. Goncalves, Ryan M. Bena, Nestor O. Perez-Arancibia ยท 2025

Over the past few decades, continuous quaternion-based attitude control has been proven highly effective for driving rotational systems that can be modeled as rigid bodies, such as satellites and dronโ€ฆ

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COMPAct: Computational Optimization and Automated Modular design of Planetary Actuators

Aman Singh, Deepak Kapa, Suryank Joshi, Shishir Kolathaya ยท 2025

The optimal design of robotic actuators is a critical area of research, yet limited attention has been given to optimizing gearbox parameters and automating actuator CAD. This paper introduces COMPActโ€ฆ

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AI-Enhanced Kinematic Modeling of Flexible Manipulators Using Multi-IMU Sensor Fusion

Amir Hossein Barjini, Jouni Mattila ยท 2025

This paper presents a novel framework for estimating the position and orientation of flexible manipulators undergoing vertical motion using multiple inertial measurement units (IMUs), optimized and caโ€ฆ

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Non-Invasive Detection of PROState Cancer with Novel Time-Dependent Diffusion MRI and AI-Enhanced Quantitative Radiological Interpretation: PROS-TD-AI

Baltasar Ramos, Cristian Garrido, Paulette Narv'aez, Santiago Gelerstein Claro, Haotian Li, Rafael Salvador, Constanza V'asquez-Venegas, Iv'an Gallegos, Yi Zhang, V'ictor Casta~neda, Cristian Acevedo, Dan Wu, Gonzalo C'ardenas, Camilo G. Sotomayor ยท 2025

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most frequently diagnosed malignancy in men and the eighth leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) has become central to the diagnostic pathwaโ€ฆ

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RADE for Land Mobile Radio: A Neural Codec for Transmission of Speech over Baseband FM Radio Channels

David Rowe, Tibor Bece ยท 2025

In the 1990s Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems evolved from analog frequency modulation (FM) to standardised digital systems. Both digital and analog FM systems now co-exist in various services and exhiโ€ฆ

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