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LaST-R1: Reinforcing Action via Adaptive Physical Latent Reasoning for VLA Models

Hao Chen, Jiaming Liu, Zhonghao Yan, Nuowei Han, Renrui Zhang, Chenyang Gu, Jialin Gao, Ziyu Guo, Siyuan Qian, Yinxi Wang, Peng Jia, Chi-Wing Fu, Shanghang Zhang, Pheng-Ann Heng · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have increasingly incorporated reasoning mechanisms for complex robotic manipulation. However, existing approaches share a critical limitation: whether employing ex…

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Sequential Inference for Gaussian Processes: A Signal Processing Perspective

Daniel Waxman, Fernando Llorente, Petar M. Djuric · 2026

The proliferation of capable and efficient machine learning (ML) models marks one of the strongest methodological shifts in signal processing (SP) in its nearly 100-year history. ML models support the…

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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 · 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 topolo…

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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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GSDrive: Reinforcing Driving Policies by Multi-mode Trajectory Probing with 3D Gaussian Splatting Environment

Ziang Guo, Min Chen, Xuefeng Zhang, Yixiao Zhou, Zufeng Zhang, Dzmitry Tsetserukou · 2026

End-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving presents a promising approach for translating perceptual inputs directly into driving actions. However, prohibitive annotation costs and temporal data quality degra…

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Intelligent Self-tuning Active EMI Filtering for Electrified Automotive Power Systems Using Reinforcement Learning

Mahuizi Lu, Kelin Jia, Rajib Goswami, Yukun Hu · 2026

The rapid electrification and intelligence of modern transportation systems place stringent demands on the electromagnetic compatibility, reliability, and adaptability of automotive power electronics.…

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A MEC-Based Optimization Framework for Dynamic Inductive Charging

Emre Ak{i}skal{i}oglu, Mustafa Atmaca, Lorenzo Ghiro, Giovanni Perin, Renato Lo Cigno · 2026

Range anxiety and long recharging times remain critical barriers to electric vehicle adoption. Dynamic Inductive Charging (DIC) offers a compelling solution by enabling wireless power transfer while d…

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Framework for Collaborative Operation of Autonomous Delivery Vehicles Within a Marshaling Yard

James O'Hara, Karl Wunderlich, Gregory Stevens · 2026

As autonomous vehicles slowly deploy into urban roads for limited use cases with significant edge case issues, closed facilities like marshaling yards provide a ripe case for combining lower-level veh…

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Experimental Performance of a 5G N78 Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: From Controlled Measurements to Commercial Network Deployment

Sefa Kayrakl{i}k, Samed Kesir, Batuhan Kaplan, Ahmet Muaz Aktas, Emre Arslan, Ahmet Faruk Coskun · 2026

This paper presents a real-world experimental analysis of a modular reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) prototype designed to operate in the 5G N78 band. Unlike most RIS studies in the literature…

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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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Diffusion-OAMP for Joint Image Compression and Wireless Transmission

Wentao Hou, Yimin Bai, Zelei Luo, Jiadong Hong, Lei Liu · 2026

Joint image compression and wireless transmission remain relatively underexplored compared to generic image restoration, despite its importance in practical communication systems. We formulate this pr…

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CRS-LLM: Cooperative Beam Prediction with a GPT-Style Backbone and Switch-Gated Fusion

Fangzhi Li, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren, Dongming Wang, Jiangzhou Wang · 2026

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication depends on highly directional beamforming, while fast mobility, blockage, and rapid geometry changes in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) scenarios make beam tracking …

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Flying by Inference: Active Inference World Models for Adaptive UAV Swarms

Kaleem Arshid, Ali Krayani, Lucio Marcenaro, David Martin Gomez, Carlo Regazzoni · 2026

This paper presents an expert-guided active-inference-inspired framework for adaptive UAV swarm trajectory planning. The proposed method converts multi-UAV trajectory design from a repeated combinator…

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Learning-Based Hierarchical Scene Graph Matching for Robot Localization Leveraging Prior Maps

Nimrod Millenium Ndulue, Jose Andres Millan-Romera, Matteo Giorgi, Holger Voos, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez · 2026

Accurate localization is a fundamental requirement for autonomous robots operating in indoor environments. Scene graphs encode the spatial structure of an environment as a hierarchy of semantic entiti…

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MotuBrain: An Advanced World Action Model for Robot Control

MotuBrain Team, Chendong Xiang, Fan Bao, Haitian Liu, Hengkai Tan, Hongzhe Bi, James Li, Jiabao Liu, Jingrui Pang, Kiro Jing, Louis Liu, Mengchen Cai, Rongxu Cui, Ruowen Zhao, Runqing Wang, Shuhe Huang, Yao Feng, Yinze Rong, Zeyuan Wang, Jun Zhu · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve strong semantic generalization but often lack fine-grained modeling of world dynamics. Recent work explores video generation models as a foundation for worl…

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Bitwise Over-Parameterized Neural Polar Decoding: A Theoretical Performance Analysis

Hongzhi Zhu, Wei Xu, Xiaohu You · 2026

This paper proposes a bitwise over-parameterized neural network (ONN) decoder for polar-coded transmission and develops a tractable theoretical performance analysis framework. By modeling each synthes…

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

Yongpeng Cao, Masahiro Hirano, Hyuno Kim, Yuji Yamakawa · 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 …

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RAY-TOLD: Ray-Based Latent Dynamics for Dense Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance with TDMPC

Seungho Han, Seokju Lee, Jeonguk Kang · 2026

Dense, dynamic crowds pose a persistent challenge for autonomous mobile robots. Purely reactive planning methods, such as Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) control, often fail to escape local mini…

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