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Can Tabular Foundation Models Guide Exploration in Robot Policy Learning?

Buqing Ou, Frederike Dumbgen · 2026

Policy optimization in high-dimensional continuous control for robotics remains a challenging problem. Predominant methods are inherently local and often require extensive tuning and carefully chosen …

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Joint Secrecy and Covert Communication (JSACC): An Enhanced Physical Layer Security Approach

Yanyu Cheng, Haitao Du, Liqin Hu, Wei Yang Bryan Lim, Pan Li · 2026

In this paper, we propose an enhanced physical layer security approach, named joint secrecy and covert communication (JSACC), which aims to improve the performance of physical layer security (PLS). Th…

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A Lightweight Toggleable Adhesion Prototype for Multirotor UAV Landing on Tilting Platforms

Teighin Nordholt, Melissa Greeff · 2026

Autonomous multirotor landings on uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) are critical for persistent maritime operations but remain challenging due to wave-induced tilt, wind disturbances, and limited landin…

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LeHome: A Simulation Environment for Deformable Object Manipulation in Household Scenarios

Zeyi Li, Yushi Yang, Shawn Xie, Kyle Xu, Tianxing Chen, Yuran Wang, Zhenhao Shen, Yan Shen, Yue Chen, Wenjun Li, Yukun Zheng, Chaorui Zhang, Siyi Lin, Fei Teng, Hongjun Yang, Ming Chen, Steve Xie, Ruihai Wu · 2026

Household environments present one of the most common, impactful yet challenging application domains for robotics. Within household scenarios, manipulating deformable objects is particularly difficult…

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Self-Predictive Representation for Autonomous UAV Object-Goal Navigation

Angel Ayala, Donling Sui, Francisco Cruz, Mitchell Torok, Mohammad Deghat, Bruno J. T. Fernandes · 2026

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have revolutionized industries through their versatility with applications including aerial surveillance, search and rescue, agriculture, and delivery. Their…

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Open-H-Embodiment: A Large-Scale Dataset for Enabling Foundation Models in Medical Robotics

Open-H-Embodiment Consortium: Nigel Nelson, Juo-Tung Chen, Jesse Haworth, Xinhao Chen, Lukas Zbinden, Dianye Huang, Alaa Eldin Abdelaal, Alberto Arezzo, Ayberk Acar, Farshid Alambeigi, Carlo Alberto Ammirati, Yunke Ao, Pablo David Aranda Rodriguez, Soofiyan Atar, Mattia Ballo, Noah Barnes, Federica Barontini, Filip Binkiewicz, Peter Black, Sebastian Bodenstedt, Leonardo Borgioli, Nikola Budjak, Benjamin Calme, Fabio Carrillo, Nicola Cavalcanti, Changwei Chen, Haoxin Chen, Sihang Chen, Qihan Chen, Zhongyu Chen, Ziyang Chen, Shing Shin Cheng, Meiqing Cheng, Min Cheng, Zih-Yun Sarah Chiu, Xiangyu Chu, Camilo Correa-Gallego, Giulio Dagnino, Anton Deguet, Jacob Delgado, Jonathan C. DeLong, Kaizhong Deng, Alexander Dimitrakakis, Qingpeng Ding, Hao Ding, Giovanni Distefano, Daniel Donoho, Anqing Duan, Marco Esposito, Shane Farritor, Jad Fayad, Zahi Fayad, Mario Ferradosa, Filippo Filicori, Chelsea Finn, Philipp Furnstahl, Jiawei Ge, Stamatia Giannarou, Xavier Giralt Ludevid, Frederic Giraud, Aditya Amit Godbole, Ken Goldberg, Antony Goldenberg, Diego Granero Marana, Xiaoqing Guo, Tamas Haidegger, Evan Hailey, Pascal Hansen, Ziyi Hao, Kush Hari, Kengo Hayashi, Jonathon Hawkins, Shelby Haworth, Ortrun Hellig, S. Duke Herrell, Zhouyang Hong, Andrew Howe, Junlei Hu, Zhaoyang Jacopo Hu, Ria Jain, Mohammad Rafiee Javazm, Howard Ji, Rui Ji, Jianmin Ji, Zhongliang Jiang, Dominic Jones, Jeffrey Jopling, Britton Jordan, Ran Ju, Michael Kam, Luoyao Kang, Fausto Kang, Siddhartha Kapuria, Peter Kazanzides, Sonika Kiehler, Ethan Kilmer, Ji Woong Kim, Przemys{l}aw Korzeniowski, Chandra Kuchi, Nithesh Kumar, Alan Kuntz, Federico Lavagno, Yu Chung Lee, Hao-Chih Lee, Hang Li, Zhen Li, Xiao Liang, Xinxin Lin, Jinsong Lin, Chang Liu, Fei Liu, Pei Liu, Yun-hui Liu, Wanli Liuchen, Eszter Lukacs, Sareena Mann, Miles Mannas, Brett Marinelli, Sabina Martyniak, Francesco Marzola, Lorenzo Mazza, Xueyan Mei, Maria Clara Morais, Luigi Muratore, Chetan Reddy Narayanaswamy, Micha{l} Naskret, David Navarro-Alarcon, Cyrus Neary, Chi Kit Ng, Christopher Nguan, David Noonan, Ki Hwan Oh, Tom Christian Olesch, Allison M. Okamura, Justin Opfermann, Matteo Pescio, Doan Xuan Viet Pham, Tito Porras, Hongliang Ren, Ariel Rodriguez Jimenez, Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena, Septimiu E. Salcudean, Asmitha Sathya, Preethi Satish, Lalithkumar Seenivasan, Jiaqi Shao, Yiqing Shen, Yu Sheng, Lucy XiaoYang Shi, Zoe Soule, Stefanie Speidel, Mingwu Su, Jianhao Su, Idris Sunmola, Kristof Takacs, Yunxi Tang, Patrick Thornycroft, Yu Tian, Jordan Thompson, Mehmet K. Turkcan, Mathias Unberath, Pietro Valdastri, Carlos Vives, Quan Vuong, Martin Wagner, Farong Wang, Wei Wang, Lidian Wang, Chung-Pang Wang, Guankun Wang, Junyi Wang, Erqi Wang, Ziyi Wang, Tanner Watts, Wolfgang Wein, Yimeng Wu, Zijian Wu, Hongjun Wu, Luohong Wu, Jie Ying Wu, Junlin Wu, Victoria Wu, Kaixuan Wu, Mateusz Wojcikowski, Yunye Xiao, Nan Xiao, Wenxuan Xie, Hao Yang, Tianqi Yang, Yinuo Yang, Menglong Ye, Ryan S. Yeung, Nural Yilmaz, Chim Ho Yin, Michael Yip, Rayan Younis, Chenhao Yu, Sayem Nazmuz Zaman, Milos Zefran, Han Zhang, Yuelin Zhang, Yidong Zhang, Yanyong Zhang, Xuyang Zhang, Yameng Zhang, Joyce Zhang, Ning Zhong, Peng Zhou, Haoying Zhou, Xiuli Zuo, Nassir Navab, Mahdi Azizian, Sean D. Huver, Axel Krieger · 2026

Autonomous medical robots hold promise to improve patient outcomes, reduce provider workload, democratize access to care, and enable superhuman precision. However, autonomous medical robotics has been…

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Hiding Secrets in the CSI Quotient: A Robust Wi-Fi CSI Steganography System

Jiamu Guo, Hailang Jia, Guanxiong Shen, Junqing Zhang, Linning Peng, Liquan Chen · 2026

Physical layer (PHY) steganography conceals secrets by making subtle modifications to transmitted radio waveforms, which can be applied to establish covert communication systems. Given the widespread …

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Predicting food taste with bound-driven optimization

Pagkratis Tagkopoulos, Dimitris Sfondilis, Ilias Tagkopoulos, Tarek Zohdi · 2026

The prediction of sensory attributes from ingredient-level formulations is an emerging challenge at the intersection of food science and artificial intelligence. We address the fundamental question of…

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Toward Safe Autonomous Robotic Endovascular Interventions using World Models

Harry Robertshaw, Nikola Fischer, Han-Ru Wu, Andrea Walker Perez, Weiyuan Deng, Benjamin Jackson, Christos Bergeles, Alejandro Granados, Thomas C Booth · 2026

Autonomous mechanical thrombectomy (MT) presents substantial challenges due to highly variable vascular geometries and the requirements for accurate, real-time control. While reinforcement learning (R…

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SL(C)AMma: Simultaneous Localisation, (Calibration) and Mapping With a Magnetometer Array

Thomas Edridge, Manon Kok · 2026

Indoor localisation techniques suffer from attenuated Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals and from the accumulation of unbounded drift by integration of proprioceptive sensors. Magnetic …

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New Insights into Channel vs Subspace Codes for Large-Scale Beamspace MIMO Channel Sensing

Parthasarathi Khirwadkar, Robin Rajamaki, Piya Pal · 2026

This paper provides novel insights into channel and subspace codes in nonadaptive channel sensing with a single RF chain. Observing that this problem naturally maps to a noncoherent decoding problem, …

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UniT: Toward a Unified Physical Language for Human-to-Humanoid Policy Learning and World Modeling

Boyu Chen, Yi Chen, Lu Qiu, Jerry Bai, Yuying Ge, Yixiao Ge · 2026

Scaling humanoid foundation models is bottlenecked by the scarcity of robotic data. While massive egocentric human data offers a scalable alternative, bridging the cross-embodiment chasm remains a fun…

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AeroBridge-TTA: Test-Time Adaptive Language-Conditioned Control for UAVs

Lingxue Lyu · 2026

Language-guided unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) often fail not from bad reasoning or perception, but from execution mismatch: the gap between a planned trajectory and the controller's ability to tra…

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A Safe and Stable Controller for Fuel Cell Systems Using Adaptation and Reference Governors

Mychal Amoafo, Ilya Kolmanovsky, Anuradha Annaswamy · 2026

This paper proposes a control architecture integrating adaptation with Lyapunov-based Reference Governors (LRGs) to ensure state constraint satisfaction for first-order systems with parametric uncerta…

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Active MIMO Sensing With Exploration-Exploitation Tradeoff

Nadim Ghaddar, Kareem M. Attiah, Wei Yu · 2026

This paper develops an active sensing framework for designing the transmit and receive beamformers of a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system. In the proposed technique, the beamformers a…

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BizCompass: Benchmarking the Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs in Business Knowledge and Applications

Jianing Hao, Yuhe Wu, Yuanjian Xu, Shichang Meng, Shuai Yuan, Wei Zeng, Zixuan Wang, Guang Zhang · 2026

Large language models (LLMs) hold great promise for business applications, yet business analysis remains inherently complex, demanding rigorous reasoning and the integration of diverse knowledge sourc…

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ORCA -- Online Regime Correlation Analyzer

Boris Kriuk, Fedor Kriuk · 2026

Standard risk models reduce the rich dependence structure of financial markets to scalar volatility estimates, discarding the topological information encoded in cross-asset correlation networks. We pr…

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A Hybrid STFT-Based Machine Learning Framework for Physically Interpretable Arc Stability Classification in Electric Arc Welding Systems

Tahir Cetin Akinci, Gokhan Gokmen, Alfredo A. Martinez-Morales · 2026

This study presents a physically informed hybrid time-frequency and machine learning (STFT-ML) framework for arc stability monitoring in electric arc welding systems. The primary current signal is mod…

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Autonomous Vehicle Collision Avoidance With Racing Parameterized Deep Reinforcement Learning

Shathushan Sivashangaran, Vihaan Dutta, Apoorva Khairnar, Sepideh Gohari, Azim Eskandarian · 2026

Road traffic accidents are a leading cause of fatalities worldwide. In the US, human error causes 94% of crashes, resulting in excess of 7,000 pedestrian fatalities and $500 billion in costs annually.…

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Physics-informed, Generative Adversarial Design of Funicular Shells

Ruben Lourenco, Iciar Alfaro, Beatriz Moya, Elias Cueto · 2026

Shell structures are pivotal in the fields of architecture and engineering, due to their aesthetic appeal and structural efficiency. Recently, 3D concrete printing has reignited the interest in these …

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