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FlexiTac: A Low-Cost, Open-Source, Scalable Tactile Sensing Solution for Robotic Systems

Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li · 2026

We present FlexiTac, a low-cost, open-source, and scalable piezoresistive tactile sensing solution designed for robotic end-effectors. FlexiTac is a practical "plug-in" module consisting of (i) thin, …

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Design and Characteristics of a Thin-Film ThermoMesh for the Efficient Embedded Sensing of a Spatio-Temporally Sparse Heat Source

Sajjad Boorghan Farahan, Ahmed Alajlouni, Jingzhou Zhao · 2026

This work presents ThermoMesh, a passive thin-film thermoelectric mesh sensor designed to detect and characterize spatio-temporally sparse heat sources through conduction-based thermal imaging. The de…

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Dreaming Across Towns: Semantic Rollout and Town-Adversarial Regularization for Zero-Shot Held-Out-Town Fixed-Route Driving in CARLA

Feeza Khan Khanzada, Jaerock Kwon · 2026

Learned driving agents often degrade when deployed in unseen environments. This paper studies a deliberately bounded instance of that problem in the CARLA simulator: zero-shot transfer of a closed-loo…

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Sensing-Assisted Channel Estimation for Flexible-Antenna Systems: A Unified Framework

Ruoxiao Cao, Wentao Yu, Zixin Wang, Shenghui Song, Jun Zhang, Yi Gong, Khaled B. Letaief · 2026

Flexible-antenna systems, which use a small number of radio frequency (RF) chains to dynamically access a large set of candidate antenna locations, have emerged as a hardware-efficient architecture fo…

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Representative Spectral Correlation Network for Multi-source Remote Sensing Image Classification

Chuanzheng Gong, Feng Gao, Junyan Lin, Junyu Dong, Qian Du · 2026

Hyperspectral image (HSI) and SAR/LiDAR data offer complementary spectral and structural information for land-cover classification. However, their effective fusion remains challenging due to two major…

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Stochastic Entanglement of Deterministic Origami Tentacles For Universal Robotic Gripping

Alec Boron, Bokun Zheng, Ziyang Zhou, Noel Naughton, Suyi Li · 2026

Origami-inspired robotic grippers have shown promising potential for object manipulation tasks due to their compact volume and mechanical flexibility. However, robust capture of objects with random sh…

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Multi-Modal Fiber Sensing for OffshoreEnvironmental and Infrastructure Monitoring

Konstantinos Alexoudis, Florian Azendorf, Alvaro Doval, Steinar Bj{o}rnstad, Jasper Muller, Vincent Sleiffer, Chigo Okonkwo, Tom Bradley · 2026

Monitoring a 118 km subsea cable using Distributed acoustic, state-of-polarization, and Brillouin sensing captured storm-induced strain up to $\approx 0.003 \mu\epsilon$ (dynamic) and $\approx 180 \mu…

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Blind OFDM-ISAC Relying on Asymmetric Modem Constellations

Henglin Pu, Ahmad Musallam, Husheng Li, Lajos Hanzo · 2026

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is increasingly expected to operate under aggressive spectrum reuse, where co-channel orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) interference can be …

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Optimal-Control Suggestion for Congestion on Freeways using Data Assimilation of Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing

Yoshiyuki Yajima, Hemant Prasad, Daisuke Ikefuji, Takemasa Suzuki, Shin Tominaga, Hitoshi Sakurai, Manabu Otani · 2026

This paper presents the optimal-control suggestion for congestion on freeways using data assimilation (DA) of distributed fiber-optic sensing (DFOS). To simultaneously maximize throughput and avoid/mi…

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Improving Sensing Coverage and Compliance of 3D-Printed Artificial Skins Through Multi-Modal Sensing and Soft Materials

Carson Kohlbrenner, Caleb Escobedo, Sayak Ray, Alexander Dickhans, Anna Soukhovei, Nickolaus Jackoski, Lyle Antieau, Alessandro Roncone · 2026

3D-printed artificial skins are a scalable approach to whole-body tactile and proximity coverage, but prior implementations have been limited to unimodal sensing and rigid materials. To improve the pr…

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Bridging the Indoor-Outdoor Gap: Cross-Technology Ranging for Seamless Robot Navigation

Paul Schwarzbach · 2026

Mobile robots that move between outdoor and indoor environments still struggle with consistent positioning. Satellite-based and terrestrial ranging each work well in their home domains, but combining …

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Wave Tank Experiment for Sea State Monitoring with Distributed Acoustic Sensing

Yoshiyuki Yajima, Sakiko Mishima, Noriyuki Tonami, Tomoyuki Hino, Shugo Aibe, Junichiro Saikawa, Koji Mizuguchi · 2026

Monitoring sea states across the offshore wind farm areas is essential to keep their structures safe, efficiently operate the systems, and assess the environmental effects of wind turbines. Convention…

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Monitoring exposure-length variations in submarine power cables using distributed fiber-optic sensing

Sakiko Mishima, Yoshiyuki Yajima, Noriyuki Tonami, Tomoyuki Hino, Shugo Aibe, Junichiro Saikawa, Koji Mizuguchi · 2026

This study proposes an anomaly-detection framework for monitoring exposure-length variations in submarine free-span cables using Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), which is one of the distributed fib…

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CONCERTO: Characterization of analog readout electronics

Mounir Abdkrimi (NEEL - MagSup), Olivier Rossetto (LPSC), O. Bourrion (LPSC), Christophe Vescovi (LPSC), C. Hoarau (LPSC) · 2026

CONCERTO is a millimeter-wave imaging instrument that operated on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope from April 2021 to May 2023. Its primary scientific objectives include the study of…

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Deep Learning-Enabled Dissolved Oxygen Sensing in Biofouling Environments for Ocean Monitoring

Nikolaos Salaris, Adrien Desjardins, Manish K. Tiwari · 2026

The escalating climate crisis and ecosystem degradation demand intelligent, low-cost sensors capable of robust, long-term monitoring in real-world environments. Absolute dissolved oxygen (DO) concentr…

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Toward Low-Altitude Embodied Intelligence: A Sensing-Communication-Computation-Control Closed-Loop Perspective

Jihao Luo, Zesong Fei, Xinyi Wang, Shuntian Tang, Zilong Liu, Yiqing Zhou · 2026

The rapid growth of the low-altitude economy drives increasingly autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations, giving rise to low-altitude embodied intelligence (LAEI), in which sensing, commun…

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Cooperative Informative Sensing for Monitoring Dynamic Indoor Environments via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Kanghoon Lee, Matthew M. Sato, Jinnyeong Yang, Seungro Lee, Sujin Lee, Jiachen Li, Kuk-Jin Yoon, Jinkyoo Park, Kincho H. Law, Yoonjin Yoon · 2026

Monitoring human activity in indoor environments is important for applications such as facility management, safety assessment, and space utilization analysis. While mobile robot teams offer the potent…

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Learning from the Best: Smoothness-Driven Metrics for Data Quality in Imitation Learning

Soham Kulkarni, Raayan Dhar, Yuchen Cui · 2026

In behavioral cloning (BC), policy performance is fundamentally limited by demonstration data quality. Real-world datasets contain trajectories of varying quality due to operator skill differences, te…

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Learning-augmented robotic automation for real-world manufacturing

Yunho Kim, Quan Nguyen, Taewhan Kim, Youngjin Heo, Joonho Lee · 2026

Industrial robots are widely used in manufacturing, yet most manipulation still depends on fixed waypoint scripts that are brittle to environmental changes. Learning-based control offers a more adapti…

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Navigating the Clutter: Waypoint-Based Bi-Level Planning for Multi-Robot Systems

Jiabao Ji, Yongchao Chen, Yang Zhang, Ramana Rao Kompella, Chuchu Fan, Gaowen Liu, Shiyu Chang · 2026

Multi-robot control in cluttered environments is a challenging problem that involves complex physical constraints, including robot-robot collisions, robot-obstacle collisions, and unreachable motions.…

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