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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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Atomic-Probe Governance for Skill Updates in Compositional Robot Policies

Xue Qin, Simin Luan, John See, Cong Yang, Zhijun Li · 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, Generative…

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SEP Analysis of Quantized SIMO Systems with M-PSK over Correlated Fading Channels

Amila Ravinath, Bikshapathi Gouda, Italo Atzeni, Antti Tolli · 2026

The average symbol error probability (SEP) of a phase-quantized single-input multiple-output system with M-ary phase-shift keying modulation and maximum ratio combining (MRC) is analyzed under correla…

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Optimizing Tracking Accuracy in Energy-Constrained Multimodal ISAC via Lyapunov-Driven Heterogeneous Mixture-of-Experts

Wenqi Fan, Ning Wei, Ahmad Bazzi, Rongyan Xi, Zhixian Song, You Li, Zhihan Zeng, Yue Xiu, Chadi Assi · 2026

The integration of multimodal sensing and millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications is a key enabler for highly mobile vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) networks. However, continuous high-resolution visua…

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Lights Out: A Nighttime UAV Localization Framework Using Thermal Imagery and Semantic 3D Maps

Ryan Allen, Melissa Greeff · 2026

Reliable backup localization for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in GNSS-denied nighttime conditions remains an open challenge due to the severe modality gap between daytime RGB maps and nig…

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UNet-Based Fusion and Exponential Moving Average Adaptation for Noise-Robust Speaker Recognition

Chong-Xin Gan, Peter Bell, Man-Wai Mak, Zhe Li, Zezhong Jin, Zilong Huang, Kong Aik Lee · 2026

The joint training of speech enhancement and speaker embedding networks for speaker recognition is widely adopted under noisy acoustic environments. While effective, this paradigm often fails to lever…

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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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Real-time windrow detection from onboard tractor sensors for automated following

Lorenz Gunreben, Nico Heider, Sebastian Zurner, Martin Schieck, Bogdan Franczyk · 2026

Proprietary design in commercial windrow-detection systems restricts transparency and limits progress in open autonomous forage-harvesting research. We present a multi-modal dataset combining stereo v…

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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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$M^2$-VLA: Boosting Vision-Language Models for Generalizable Manipulation via Layer Mixture and Meta-Skills

Siyao Xiao, Yuhong Zhang, Zhifang Liu, Zihan Gao, Jingye Zhang, Sinwai Choo, Dake Zhong, Mengzhe Wang, Xiao Lin, Xianfeng Zhou, Jia Jia, Haoqian Wang · 2026

Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models predominantly rely on end-to-end fine-tuning. While effective, this paradigm compromises the inherent generalization capabilities of Vision-Language Models …

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QuietWalk: Physics-Informed Reinforcement Learning for Ground Reaction Force-Aware Humanoid Locomotion Under Diverse Footwear

Hanze Hu, Luying Feng, Silu Chen, Tianjiang Zheng, Dexin Jiang, Wei Chen, Chi Zhang, Guilin Yang, Yaochu Jin · 2026

Humanoid robots operating in human-centered environments (e.g., homes, hospitals, and offices) must mitigate foot--ground impact transients, as impact-induced vibration and noise degrade user experien…

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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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