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Phonemes vs. Projectors: An Investigation of Speech-Language Interfaces for LLM-based ASR

Ziwei Li, Lukuang Dong, Saierdaer Yusuyin, Xianyu Zhao, Zhijian Ou ยท 2026

Integrating pretrained speech encoders with large language models (LLMs) is promising for ASR, but performance and data efficiency depend on the speech-language interface. A common choice is a learnedโ€ฆ

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SoftNash: Entropy-Regularized Nash Games for Non-Fighting Virtual Fixtures

Tai Inui, Jee-Hwan Ryu ยท 2025

Virtual fixtures (VFs) improve precision in teleoperation but often ``fight'' the user, inflating mental workload and eroding the sense of agency. We propose Soft-Nash Virtual Fixtures, a game-theoretโ€ฆ

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Situated Haptic Interaction: Exploring the Role of Context in Affective Perception of Robotic Touch

Qiaoqiao Ren, Tony Belpaeme ยท 2025

Affective interaction is not merely about recognizing emotions; it is an embodied, situated process shaped by context and co-created through interaction. In affective computing, the role of haptic feeโ€ฆ

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Differentiable Simulation of Hard Contacts with Soft Gradients for Learning and Control

Anselm Paulus, A. Rene Geist, Pierre Schumacher, Vit Musil, Simon Rappenecker, Georg Martius ยท 2025

Contact forces introduce discontinuities into robot dynamics that severely limit the use of simulators for gradient-based optimization. Penalty-based simulators such as MuJoCo, soften contact resolutiโ€ฆ

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AuralNet: Hierarchical Attention-based 3D Binaural Localization of Overlapping Speakers

Linya Fu, Yu Liu, Zhijie Liu, Zedong Yang, Zhong-Qiu Wang, Youfu Li, He Kong ยท 2025

We propose AuralNet, a novel 3D multi-source binaural sound source localization approach that localizes overlapping sources in both azimuth and elevation without prior knowledge of the number of sourcโ€ฆ

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Priority-driven Constraints Softening in Safe MPC for Perturbed Systems

Ying Shuai Quan, Mohammad Jeddi, Francesco Prignoli, Paolo Falcone ยท 2025

This paper presents a safe model predictive control (SMPC) framework designed to ensure the satisfaction of hard constraints for systems perturbed by an external disturbance. Such safety guarantees arโ€ฆ

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MRS-CWC: A Weakly Constrained Multi-Robot System with Controllable Constraint Stiffness for Mobility and Navigation in Unknown 3D Rough Environments

Runze Xiao, Yongdong Wang, Yusuke Tsunoda, Koichi Osuka, Hajime Asama ยท 2025

Navigating unknown three-dimensional (3D) rugged environments is challenging for multi-robot systems. Traditional discrete systems struggle with rough terrain due to limited individual mobility, whileโ€ฆ

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Loss of Control Prevention of an Agile Aircraft: Dynamic Command Saturation Approach

Ege C. Altunkaya, Ak{i}n Catak, Emre Koyuncu, Ibrahim Ozkol ยท 2024

The prevention of the loss of control in agile aircraft during the extreme maneuvers is of concern due to the nonlinear aerodynamics and flight dynamics nature of the aircraft in this study. Within thโ€ฆ

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Multilingual Text-to-Speech Synthesis for Turkic Languages Using Transliteration

Rustem Yeshpanov, Saida Mussakhojayeva, Yerbolat Khassanov ยท 2023

This work aims to build a multilingual text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system for ten lower-resourced Turkic languages: Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Sakha, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Uyghur, andโ€ฆ

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Robust Control For Spacecraft Attitude Tracking Under Multiple Physical Limitations with Guaranteed Performance

Jiakun Lei, Tao Meng, Weijia Wang, Chengjin Yin, Zhonghe Jin ยท 2022

This paper considers the prescribed performance control (PPC) of spacecraft attitude tracking under multiple physical constraints, focusing on the robust issues. A novel Barrier Lyapunov function is pโ€ฆ

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Discrete-Fresnel Domain Channel Estimation in OCDM-based Radar Systems

Lucas Giroto de Oliveira, Benjamin Nuss, Mohamad Basim Alabd, Axel Diewald, Yueheng Li, Linda Gehre, Xueyun Long, Theresa Antes, Johannes Galinsky, Thomas Zwick ยท 2022

In recent years, orthogonal chirp-division multiplexing (OCDM) has been increasingly considered as an alternative multicarrier scheme, e.g., to orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing, in digital cโ€ฆ

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Design, Dynamics, and Dissipation of a Torsional-Magnetic Spring Mechanism

Ali Kanj, Rhinithaa P. Thanalakshme, Chengzhang Li, John Kulikowski, Gaurav Bahl, Sameh Tawfick ยท 2021

We present an analytical and experimental study of torsional magnetic mechanism where the restoring torque is due to magnetic field interactions between rotating and fixed permanent magnets. The oscilโ€ฆ

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Safe Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Systems with Parametric Uncertainties

S M Nahid Mahmud, Scott A Nivison, Zachary I. Bell, Rushikesh Kamalapurkar ยท 2020

Reinforcement learning has been established over the past decade as an effective tool to find optimal control policies for dynamical systems, with recent focus on approaches that guarantee safety duriโ€ฆ

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Hierarchical Bayesian Data Fusion for Robotic Platform Navigation

Andres F. Echeverri, Henry Medeiros, Ryan Walsh, Yevgeniy Reznichenko, Richard Povinelli ยท 2017

Data fusion has become an active research topic in recent years. Growing computational performance has allowed the use of redundant sensors to measure a single phenomenon. While Bayesian fusion approaโ€ฆ

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