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RopeDreamer: A Kinematic Recurrent State Space Model for Dynamics of Flexible Deformable Linear Objects

Tim Missal, Lucas Domingues, Berk Guler, Simon Manschitz, Jan Peters, Paula Dornhofer Paro Costa ยท 2026

The robotic manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects (DLOs) is a fundamental challenge due to the high-dimensional, non-linear dynamics of flexible structures and the complexity of maintaining topoloโ€ฆ

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Connected Dependability Cage: Run-Time Function and Anomaly Monitoring for the Development and Operation of Safe Automated Vehicles

Iqra Aslam, Nour Habib, Abhishek Buragohain, Meng Zhang, Andreas Rausch, Vaibhav Tiwari, Mohamed Benchat ยท 2026

The advancement of automated vehicles introduces complex safety challenges, particularly in dynamic and unpredictable environments where AI-enabled perception systems must operate reliably. Ensuring cโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 aโ€ฆ

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SASI: Leveraging Sub-Action Semantics for Robust Early Action Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction

Yongpeng Cao, Masahiro Hirano, Hyuno Kim, Yuji Yamakawa ยท 2026

Understanding human actions is critical for advancing behavior analysis in human-robot interaction. Particularly in tasks that demand quick and proactive feedback, robots must recognize human actions โ€ฆ

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An Experimental Modular Instrument With a Haptic Feedback Framework for Robotic Surgery Training

Walid Shaker, Mustafa Suphi Erden ยท 2026

Robotic-assisted surgery offers significant clinical advantages but largely eliminates direct haptic feedback, increasing the risk of excessive tool-tissue interaction forces. Although recent commerciโ€ฆ

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DOT-Sim: Differentiable Optical Tactile Simulation with Precise Real-to-Sim Physical Calibration

Yang You, Won Kyung Do, Aiden Swann, Rika Antonova, Monroe Kennedy, Leonidas Guibas ยท 2026

Simulating optical tactile sensors presents significant challenges due to their high deformability and intricate optical properties. To address these issues and enable a physically accurate simulationโ€ฆ

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Learning Tactile-Aware Quadrupedal Loco-Manipulation Policies

Pokuang Zhou, Yuhao Zhou, Quan Luu, Seungho Han, Heng Zhang, Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li, Arash Ajoudani, Zhengtong Xu, Yu She ยท 2026

Quadrupedal loco-manipulation is commonly built on visual perception and proprioception. Yet reliable contact-rich manipulation remains difficult: vision and proprioception alone cannot resolve uncertโ€ฆ

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Real-Time GPU-Accelerated Monte Carlo Evaluation of Safety-Critical AEB Systems Under Uncertainty

Akshay Karjol, Shadi Alawneh ยท 2026

Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) systems represent a safety-critical national interest, with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS Noโ€ฆ

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Global Sampling-Based Trajectory Optimization for Contact-Rich Manipulation via KernelSOS

Zhongqi Wei, Frederike Dumbgen ยท 2026

Contact-rich manipulation is challenging due to its high dimensionality, the requirement for long time horizons, and the presence of hybrid contact dynamics. Sampling-based methods have become a populโ€ฆ

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Rule-based High-Level Coaching for Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning in Search-and-Rescue UAV Missions Under Limited-Simulation Training

Mahya Ramezani, Holger Voos ยท 2026

This paper presents a hierarchical decision-making framework for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) missions motivated by search-and-rescue (SAR) scenarios under limited simulation training. The framework โ€ฆ

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Atomic-Probe Governance for Skill Updates in Compositional Robot Policies

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

Skill libraries in deployed robotic systems are continually updated through fine-tuning, fresh demonstrations, or domain adaptation, yet existing typed-composition methods (BLADE, SymSkill, Generativeโ€ฆ

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ATLAS: An Annotation Tool for Long-horizon Robotic Action Segmentation

Sergej Stanovcic, Daniel Sliwowski, Dongheui Lee ยท 2026

Annotating long-horizon robotic demonstrations with precise temporal action boundaries is crucial for training and evaluating action segmentation and manipulation policy learning methods. Existing annโ€ฆ

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Risk-Aware Multi-Market Scheduling of Virtual Power Plants with Dynamic Network Tariffs

Lorenzo Zapparoli, Paul Fath, Blazhe Gjorgiev, Giovanni Sansavini ยท 2026

As the penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) increases, harnessing their flexibility becomes critical for power system operations. Virtual power plants (VPPs) offer a promising solution. โ€ฆ

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SPG-Codec: Exploring the Role and Boundaries of Semantic Priors in Ultra-Low-Bitrate Neural Speech Coding

Mingyu Zhao, Zijian Lin, Kun Wei, Zhiyong Wu ยท 2026

Conventional neural speech codecs suffer from severe intelligibility degradation at ultra-low bitrates, where the bottleneck transitions from acoustic distortion to semantic loss. To address this issuโ€ฆ

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Risk Assessments for Evasive Emergency Maneuvers in Autonomous Vehicles

Aliasghar Arab, Milad Khaleghi, Koorosh Aslansefat ยท 2026

This paper presents a systematic verification and validation (V\&V) framework for the Evasive Minimum Risk Maneuver (EMRM) feature in autonomous vehicles, addressing a critical gap in existing safety โ€ฆ

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Variational Neural Belief Parameterizations for Robust Dexterous Grasping under Multimodal Uncertainty

Clinton Enwerem, Shreya Kalyanaraman, John S. Baras, Calin Belta ยท 2026

Contact variability, sensing uncertainty, and external disturbances make grasp execution stochastic. Expected-quality objectives ignore tail outcomes and often select grasps that fail under adverse coโ€ฆ

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Backstepping Observer for the Quasilinear Heat Equation with Linear Design Gains: Beyond Local Stability

Mohamed Camil Belhadjoudja, Kirsten A. Morris ยท 2026

We consider the one-dimensional quasilinear heat equation with state-dependent heat capacity and thermal conductivity, and design a boundary-output observer based on the backstepping design for a lineโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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. Toโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 potentโ€ฆ

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HANDFUL: Sequential Grasp-Conditioned Dexterous Manipulation with Resource Awareness

Ethan Foong, Yunshuang Li, Hao Jiang, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Daniel Seita ยท 2026

Dexterous robot hands offer rich opportunities for multifunctional manipulation, where a robot must execute multiple skills in sequence while maintaining control over previously grasped objects. Most โ€ฆ

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