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

Akshay Karjol, Shadi Alawneh · 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 No…

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Empirical Material Sampling and Linearisation -- A Simple and Efficient Strain-Space Model Order Reduction Approach for Computational Homogenisation in Large-Deformation Hyperelasticity

Erik Faust, Lisa Scheunemann · 2026

In this article, we propose a simple and efficient hyperreduced strain-space model order reduction (MOR) approach for hyperelastic representative volume elements (RVEs), called Empirical Material Samp…

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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 · 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 …

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FeatureFox: Sample-Efficient Panoptic Graph Segmentation for Machining Feature Recognition in B-Rep 3D-CAD Models

Bertram Fuchs, Altay Kacan, Aaron Haag, Oliver Lohse · 2026

Automatic feature recognition (AFR) on B-Rep 3D-CAD models is central to CAD/CAM automation, yet most learning-based methods are complex, data-hungry, and evaluate instance grouping and semantic label…

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A New Location Estimator for Mixed LOS & NLOS scenarios

Gaurav Duggal, Richard M. Buehrer, Harpreet S. Dhillon, Jeffrey H. Reed · 2026

Time-of-arrival (TOA)-based localization in mixed line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments is challenging because conventional Euclidean range models do not capture diffraction-do…

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Egocentric Tactile and Proximity Sensors as Observation Priors for Humanoid Collision Avoidance

Carson Kohlbrenner, Niraj Pudasaini, William Xie, Naren Sivagnanadasan, Nikolaus Correll, Alessandro Roncone · 2026

Collision-free motion is often aided by tactile and proximity sensors distributed on the body of the robot due to their resistance to occlusion as opposed to external cameras. However, how to shape th…

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Multi-layer barrier adaptation of the discrete-time super-twisting controller

Antoine Thibault Vie, Leonid Fridman, Roberto Galeazzi, Dimitrios Papageorgiou · 2026

In digital sliding mode control implementations, discretization-induced chattering and inter-sample blindness can severely degrade the closed-loop performance, especially in case of fast perturbations…

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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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The Fragility of Learning LQG Controllers

Bruce D. Lee, Anastasios Tsiamis, Nikolai Matni, Manfred Morari, John Lygeros · 2026

Learning methods are increasingly used to synthesize controllers from data, yet existing sample-complexity characterizations for continuous control are sharp only in the fully observed setting. This p…

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Partition-of-Unity Gaussian Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

Amir Nooeizadegan · 2026

Gaussian basis functions provide an efficient and flexible alternative to spline activations in KANs. In this work, we introduce the partition-of-unity Gaussian KAN (PU-GKAN), a Shepard-type normalize…

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Dynamic-Key Post-Quantum Encrypted Control Against System Identification Attacks

Jungjin Park, Kiminao Kogiso · 2026

This study proposes post-quantum encrypted control systems based on dynamic-key Learning with Errors (LWE) encryption schemes. The proposed method develops update maps that simultaneously update the p…

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Full-Body Dynamic Safety for Robot Manipulators: 3D Poisson Safety Functions for CBF-Based Safety Filters

Meg Wilkinson, Gilbert Bahati, Ryan M. Bena, Emily Fourney, Joel W. Burdick, Aaron D. Ames · 2026

Collision avoidance for robotic manipulators requires enforcing full-body safety constraints in high-dimensional configuration spaces. Control Barrier Function (CBF) based safety filters have proven e…

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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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A Systematic Review and Taxonomy of Reinforcement Learning-Model Predictive Control Integration for Linear Systems

Mohsen Jalaeian Farimani, Roya Khalili Amirabadi, Davoud Nikkhouy, Malihe Abdolbaghi, Mahshad Rastegarmoghaddam, Shima Samadzadeh · 2026

The integration of Model Predictive Control (MPC) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for constrained decision-making and adaptive control. MPC offers structured optimi…

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A Hough transform approach to safety-aware scalar field mapping using Gaussian Processes

Muzaffar Qureshi, Trivikram Satharasi, Tochukwu E. Ogri, Kyle Volle, Rushikesh Kamalapurkar · 2026

This paper presents a framework for mapping unknown scalar fields using a sensor-equipped autonomous robot operating in unsafe environments. The unsafe regions are defined as regions of high-intensity…

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Sample entropy for graph signals: An approach to nonlinear analysis of graph signals

Mei-San Maggie Lei, John Stewart Fabila Carrasco, Javier Escudero · 2026

We introduce a graph-signal generalisation of Sample Entropy, denoted SampEn$_{G}$, to quantify irregularity of graph signals on a continuous state space, complementing existing methods on symbolic dy…

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AdaTracker: Learning Adaptive In-Context Policy for Cross-Embodiment Active Visual Tracking

Kui Wu, Hao Chen, Jinzhu Han, Haijun Liu, Churan Wang, Yizhou Wang, Zhoujun Li, Si Liu, Fangwei Zhong · 2026

Realizing active visual tracking with a single unified model across diverse robots is challenging, as the physical constraints and motion dynamics vary drastically from one platform to another. Existi…

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Algebraic Diversity: Principles of a Group-Theoretic Approach to Signal Processing

Mitchell A. Thornton · 2026

We present principles of algebraic diversity (AD), a group-theoretic approach to signal processing exploiting signal symmetry to extract more information per observation, complementing classical metho…

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Efficient Reinforcement Learning using Linear Koopman Dynamics for Nonlinear Robotic Systems

Wenjian Hao, Yuxuan Fang, Zehui Lu, Shaoshuai Mou · 2026

This paper presents a model-based reinforcement learning (RL) framework for optimal closed-loop control of nonlinear robotic systems. The proposed approach learns linear lifted dynamics through Koopma…

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