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sumoITScontrol: Traffic Controller Collection for SUMO Traffic Simulations

Kevin Riehl, Anastasios Kouvelas, Michail A. Makridis · 2026

Reliable benchmarking is essential for progress in intelligent traffic control research. While microscopic traffic simulators such as SUMO enable detailed modelling of individual vehicle interactions,…

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Which Reconstruction Model Should a Robot Use? Routing Image-to-3D Models for Cost-Aware Robotic Manipulation

Akash Anand, Aditya Agarwal, Leslie Pack Kaelbling · 2026

Robotic manipulation tasks require 3D mesh reconstructions of varying quality: dexterous manipulation demands fine-grained surface detail, while collision-free planning tolerates coarser representatio…

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Residual Control for Fast Recovery from Dynamics Shifts

Nethmi Jayasinghe, Diana Gontero, Francesco Migliarba, Spencer T. Brown, Vinod K. Sangwan, Mark C. Hersam, Amit Ranjan Trivedi · 2026

Robotic systems operating in real-world environments inevitably encounter unobserved dynamics shifts during continuous execution, including changes in actuation, mass distribution, or contact conditio…

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Relational Semantic Reasoning on 3D Scene Graphs for Open World Interactive Object Search

Imen Mahdi, Matteo Cassinelli, Fabien Despinoy, Tim Welschehold, Abhinav Valada · 2026

Open-world interactive object search in household environments requires understanding semantic relationships between objects and their surrounding context to guide exploration efficiently. Prior metho…

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Scout-Rover cooperation: online terrain strength mapping and traversal risk estimation for planetary-analog explorations

Shipeng Liu, J. Diego Caporale, Yifeng Zhang, Xingjue Liao, William Hoganson, Wilson Hu, Shivangi Misra, Neha Peddinti, Rachel Holladay, Ethan Fulcher, Akshay Ram Panyam, Andrik Puentes, Jordan M. Bretzfelder, Michael Zanetti, Uland Wong, Daniel E. Koditschek, Mark Yim, Douglas Jerolmack, Cynthia Sung, Feifei Qian · 2026

Robot-aided exploration of planetary surfaces is essential for understanding geologic processes, yet many scientifically valuable regions, such as Martian dunes and lunar craters, remain hazardous due…

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Noise Suppression for Time Difference of Arrival: Performance Evaluation of a Generalized Cross-Correlation Method Using Mean Signal and Inverse Filter

Hirotaka Obo, Yuki Fujita, Masahisa Ishii, Hideki Moriyama, Ryota Tsuchiya, Yuta Ohashi, Kotaro Seki · 2025

This paper proposes a novel generalized cross-correlation (GCC) method, termed GCC-MSIF, to improve time difference of arrival (TDOA) estimation accuracy in noisy environments. Conventional GCC method…

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SCOUT: A Lightweight Framework for Scenario Coverage Assessment in Autonomous Driving

Anil Yildiz, Sarah M. Thornton, Carl Hildebrandt, Sreeja Roy-Singh, Mykel J. Kochenderfer · 2025

Assessing scenario coverage is crucial for evaluating the robustness of autonomous agents, yet existing methods rely on expensive human annotations or computationally intensive Large Vision-Language M…

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Adaptive Cost-Map-based Path Planning in Partially Unknown Environments with Movable Obstacles

Liviu-Mihai Stan, Ranulfo Bezerra, Shotaro Kojima, Tsige Tadesse Alemayoh, Satoshi Tadokoro, Masashi Konyo, Kazunori Ohno · 2025

Reliable navigation in disaster-response and other unstructured indoor settings requires robots not only to avoid obstacles but also to recognise when those obstacles can be pushed aside. We present a…

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Event-Based Visual Teach-and-Repeat via Fast Fourier-Domain Cross-Correlation

Gokul B. Nair, Alejandro Fontan, Michael Milford, Tobias Fischer · 2025

Visual teach-and-repeat (VT&R) navigation enables robots to autonomously traverse previously demonstrated paths using visual feedback. We present a novel event-camera-based VT\&R system. Our system fo…

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DVDP: An End-to-End Policy for Mobile Robot Visual Docking with RGB-D Perception

Haohan Min, Zhoujian Li, Yu Yang, Jinyu Chen, Shenghai Yuan · 2025

Automatic docking has long been a significant challenge in the field of mobile robotics. Compared to other automatic docking methods, visual docking methods offer higher precision and lower deployment…

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SCOUT: An in-vivo Methane Sensing System for Real-time Monitoring of Enteric Emissions in Cattle with ex-vivo Validation

Yuelin Deng, Hinayah Rojas de Oliveira, Richard M. Voyles, Upinder Kaur · 2025

Accurate measurement of enteric methane emissions remains a critical bottleneck for advancing livestock sustainability through genetic selection and precision management. Existing ambient sampling app…

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SimPRIVE: a Simulation framework for Physical Robot Interaction with Virtual Environments

Federico Nesti, Gianluca D'Amico, Mauro Marinoni, Giorgio Buttazzo · 2025

The use of machine learning in cyber-physical systems has attracted the interest of both industry and academia. However, no general solution has yet been found against the unpredictable behavior of ne…

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Vibrotactile information coding strategies for a body-worn vest to aid robot-human collaboration

Adrian Vecina Tercero, Praminda Caleb-Solly · 2025

This paper explores the use of a body-worn vibrotactile vest to convey real-time information from robot to operator. Vibrotactile communication could be useful in providing information without comprop…

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Optimizing Plastic Waste Collection in Water Bodies Using Heterogeneous Autonomous Surface Vehicles with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Alejandro Mendoza Barrionuevo, Samuel Yanes Luis, Daniel Gutierrez Reina, Sergio L. Toral Marin · 2024

This paper presents a model-free deep reinforcement learning framework for informative path planning with heterogeneous fleets of autonomous surface vehicles to locate and collect plastic waste. The s…

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Learning to Look: Seeking Information for Decision Making via Policy Factorization

Shivin Dass, Jiaheng Hu, Ben Abbatematteo, Peter Stone, Roberto Martin-Martin · 2024

Many robot manipulation tasks require active or interactive exploration behavior in order to be performed successfully. Such tasks are ubiquitous in embodied domains, where agents must actively search…

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GSRM: Building Roadmaps for Query-Efficient and Near-Optimal Path Planning Using a Reaction Diffusion System

Christian Henkel, Marc Toussaint, Wolfgang Honig · 2024

Mobile robots frequently navigate on roadmaps, i.e., graphs where edges represent safe motions, in applications such as healthcare, hospitality, and warehouse automation. Often the environment is quas…

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I-SCOUT: Integrated Sensing and Communications to Uncover Moving Targets in NextG Networks

Utku Demir, Kemal Davaslioglu, Yalin E. Sagduyu, Tugba Erpek, Gustave Anderson, Sastry Kompella · 2024

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) represents a transformative approach within 5G and beyond, aiming to merge wireless communication and sensing functionalities into a unified network infrast…

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Deep Learning-based Classification of Dementia using Image Representation of Subcortical Signals

Shivani Ranjan, Ayush Tripathi, Harshal Shende, Robin Badal, Amit Kumar, Pramod Yadav, Deepak Joshi, Lalan Kumar · 2024

Dementia is a neurological syndrome marked by cognitive decline. Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are the common forms of dementia, each with distinct progression patterns. E…

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Traversing Mars: Cooperative Informative Path Planning to Efficiently Navigate Unknown Scenes

Friedrich M. Rockenbauer, Jaeyoung Lim, Marcus G. Muller, Roland Siegwart, Lukas Schmid · 2024

The ability to traverse an unknown environment is crucial for autonomous robot operations. However, due to the limited sensing capabilities and system constraints, approaching this problem with a sing…

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Enhancing Visual Place Recognition via Fast and Slow Adaptive Biasing in Event Cameras

Gokul B. Nair, Michael Milford, Tobias Fischer · 2024

Event cameras are increasingly popular in robotics due to beneficial features such as low latency, energy efficiency, and high dynamic range. Nevertheless, their downstream task performance is greatly…

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