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sumoITScontrol: Traffic Controller Collection for SUMO Traffic Simulations

Kevin Riehl, Anastasios Kouvelas, Michail A. Makridis ยท 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,โ€ฆ

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ospEDA: Orthogonal Subspace Projection for Electrodermal Activity Decomposition

Yongbin Lee, Youngsun Kong, Ki H. Chon ยท 2026

Electrodermal activity (EDA) is a widely used physiological signal for assessing sympathetic nervous activity, such as arousal, stress, and pain. However, reliable decomposition into tonic and phasic โ€ฆ

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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 ยท 2026

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

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Bridging the numerical-physical gap in acoustic holography via end-to-end differentiable structural optimization

Moon Hwan Lee, Mohd. Afzal Khan, Akm Ashiquzzaman, Eunbin Lee, Jonghun Lee, Euiheon Chung, Hyuk-Sang Kwon, Jae Youn Hwang ยท 2026

Acoustic holography provides a practical means of flexibly controlling acoustic wavefronts. However, high-fidelity shaping of acoustic fields remains constrained by the numerical-physical gap inherentโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 2026

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

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Material Driven HRI Design: Aesthetics as Explainability

Natalie Friedman, Kevin Weatherwax, Chengchao Zhu ยท 2026

Aesthetics - often treated as secondary to function-guides how people interpret robots' roles. A great deal of robot designs - both real and fictitious - use sleek industrial aesthetics. These featureโ€ฆ

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A Multi-Layer Sim-to-Real Framework for Gaze-Driven Assistive Neck Exoskeletons

Colin Rubow, Eric Brewer, Ian Bales, Haohan Zhang, Daniel S. Brown ยท 2026

Dropped head syndrome, caused by neck muscle weakness from neurological diseases, severely impairs an individual's ability to support and move their head, causing pain and making everyday tasks challeโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 2026

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

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Analyzing URA Geometry for Enhanced Near-Field Beamfocusing and Spatial Degrees of Freedom

Ahmed Hussain, Asmaa Abdallah, Abdulkadir Celik, Emil Bjornson, Ahmed M. Eltawil ยท 2026

With the deployment of large antenna arrays at high-frequency bands, future wireless communication systems are likely to operate in the radiative near-field. Unlike far-field beam steering, near-fieldโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 dueโ€ฆ

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Practical RIS Gain without the Pain: Randomization and Opportunistic Scheduling in 5G NR

L. Yashvanth, Raju Malleboina, Venkatareddy Akumalla, Nekkanti Guna Sai Kiran, Debdeep Sarkar, Chandra R. Murthy ยท 2026

We experimentally demonstrate the performance gains achieved by an in-house built reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) integrated with a real-time 5G new radio (NR) system implemented using the Opโ€ฆ

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Design, Development, and Use of Maya Robot as an Assistant for the Therapy/Education of Children with Cancer: a Pilot Study

Alireza Taheri, Minoo Alemi, Elham Ranjkar, Raman Rafatnejad, Ali F. Meghdari ยท 2026

This study centers around the design and implementation of the Maya Robot, a portable elephant-shaped social robot, intended to engage with children undergoing cancer treatment. Initial efforts were dโ€ฆ

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Backstepping Control of PDEs on Domains with Graph-Monotone Boundaries

Mohamed Camil Belhadjoudja ยท 2026

Despite the extensive body of work on backstepping for one-dimensional PDEs, results in higher dimensions remain comparatively limited. Most available methods either exploit particular symmetries of tโ€ฆ

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Multi-objective computational design optimization of a Total Disc Replacement implant

Lucia Kolle, Victor Oei, Ida Monus, Syn Schmitt, Daniel Haschtmann, Fabio Galbusera, Stephen J. Ferguson, Benedikt Helgason ยท 2026

While cervical arthroplasty using Total Disc Replacement (TDR) implants is an established treatment for persistent neck and arm pain, revision rates limit it from reaching its full potential. To addreโ€ฆ

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FISC: A Fluid-Inspired Framework for Decentralized and Scalable Swarm Control

Mohini Priya Kolluri, Ammar Waheed, Zohaib Hasnain ยท 2026

Achieving scalable coordination in large robotic swarms is often constrained by reliance on inter-agent communication, which introduces latency, bandwidth limitations, and vulnerability to failure. Toโ€ฆ

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i-Socket: Design, Development, and Pilot Evaluation of an Individualized Multi-Material, Multi-Thickness Transtibial Prosthetic Socket

Noor Alhuda Ameen, Omid Arfaie, Ramazan Unal ยท 2026

The prosthetic socket is an essential part in ensuring comfort and stability for the overall prosthesis system. This study proposes a multi-material/thickness individualized transtibial prosthetic socโ€ฆ

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ToS: A Team of Specialists ensemble framework for Stereo Sound Event Localization and Detection with distance estimation in Video

Davide Berghi, Philip J. B. Jackson ยท 2026

Sound event localization and detection with distance estimation (3D SELD) in video involves identifying active sound events at each time frame while estimating their spatial coordinates. This multimodโ€ฆ

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Helical Tendon-Driven Continuum Robot with Programmable Follow-the-Leader Operation

Behnam Moradkhani, Raghav Sankaranarayanan, Pejman Kheradmand, Harshith Jella, Nicholas Ahn, Ajmal Zemmar, Yash Chitalia ยท 2026

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is primarily utilized for pain management and has recently demonstrated efficacy in promoting functional recovery in patients with spinal cord injury. Effective stimulatiโ€ฆ

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Replacing Gas with Low-cost, Abundant Long-duration Pumped Hydro in Electricity Systems

Timothy Weber, Cheng Cheng, Harry Thawley, Kylie Catchpole, Andrew Blakers, Bin Lu, Jennifer Zhao, Anna Nadolny ยท 2025

Fossil gas is sometimes presented as an enabler of variable solar and wind generation beyond 2050, despite being a primary source of greenhouse gas emissions from methane leakage and combustion. We fiโ€ฆ

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Research on Dead Reckoning Algorithm for Self-Propelled Pipeline Robots in Three-Dimensional Complex Pipelines

Yan Gao, Jiliang Wang, Minghan Wang, Xiaohua Chen, Demin Chen, Zhiyong Ren, Tian-Yun Huang ยท 2025

In the field of gas pipeline location, existing pipeline location methods mostly rely on pipeline location instruments. However, when faced with complex and curved pipeline scenarios, these methods ofโ€ฆ

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