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FLASH: Fast Learning via GPU-Accelerated Simulation for High-Fidelity Deformable Manipulation in Minutes

Siyuan Luo, Bingyang Zhou, Chong Zhang, Xin Liu, Zhenhao Huang, Gang Yang, Zhengtao Han, Xiaotian Hu, Eric Yang, Rymon Yu, Ziqiu Zeng, Fan Shi ยท 2026

Simulation frameworks such as Isaac Sim have enabled scalable robot learning for locomotion and rigid-body manipulation; however, contact-rich simulation remains a major bottleneck for deformable objeโ€ฆ

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Flash-Mono: Feed-Forward Accelerated Gaussian Splatting Monocular SLAM

Zicheng Zhang, Ke Wu, Xiangting Meng, Keyu Liu, Jieru Zhao, Wenchao Ding ยท 2026

Monocular 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM suffers from critical limitations in time efficiency, geometric accuracy, and multi-view consistency. These issues stem from the time-consuming $\textit{Train-fromโ€ฆ

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Stein Variational Uncertainty-Adaptive Model Predictive Control

Hrishikesh Sathyanarayan, Ian Abraham ยท 2026

We propose a Stein variational distributionally robust controller for nonlinear dynamical systems with latent parametric uncertainty. The method is an alternative to conservative worst-case ambiguity-โ€ฆ

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PinPoint: Monocular Needle Pose Estimation for Robotic Suturing via Stein Variational Newton and Geometric Residuals

Jesse F. d'Almeida, Tanner Watts, Susheela Sharma Stern, James Ferguson, Alan Kuntz, Robert J. Webster III ยท 2026

Reliable estimation of surgical needle 3D position and orientation is essential for autonomous robotic suturing, yet existing methods operate almost exclusively under stereoscopic vision. In monocularโ€ฆ

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Active Robotic Perception for Disease Detection and Mapping in Apple Trees

Hayden Feddock, Francisco Yandun, Sr{dj}an Acimovic, Abhisesh Silwal ยท 2026

Large-scale orchard production requires timely and precise disease monitoring, yet routine manual scouting is labor-intensive and financially impractical at the scale of modern operations. As a resultโ€ฆ

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Rao-Blackwellized Stein Gradient Descent for Joint State-Parameter Estimation

Milad Banitalebi Dehkordi, Manas Mejari, Dario Piga ยท 2026

We present a filtering framework for online joint state estimation and parameter identification in nonlinear, time-varying systems. The algorithm uses Rao-Blackwellization technique to infer joint staโ€ฆ

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MERGE: Guided Vision-Language Models for Multi-Actor Event Reasoning and Grounding in Human-Robot Interaction

Joerg Deigmoeller, Nakul Agarwal, Stephan Hasler, Daniel Tanneberg, Anna Belardinelli, Reza Ghoddoosian, Chao Wang, Felix Ocker, Fan Zhang, Behzad Dariush, Michael Gienger ยท 2026

We introduce MERGE, a system for situational grounding of actors, objects, and events in dynamic human-robot group interactions. Effective collaboration in such settings requires consistent situationaโ€ฆ

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Field Free Novel Architecture for Spintronic Flash Analog to Digital Converter

Abin Francis, Nikhil Kumar, Prince Philip ยท 2026

A 3 bit Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) is designed using perpendicular Spin Orbit Torque Magnetic Tunnel Junction (SOT MTJ). A sampled analog input signal is transmitted as a spin orbit torque currโ€ฆ

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Stein Variational Ergodic Surface Coverage with SE(3) Constraints

Jiayun Li, Yufeng Jin, Sangli Teng, Dejian Gong, Georgia Chalvatzaki ยท 2026

Surface manipulation tasks require robots to generate trajectories that comprehensively cover complex 3D surfaces while maintaining precise end-effector poses. Existing ergodic trajectory optimizationโ€ฆ

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STL-SVPIO: Signal Temporal Logic guided Stein Variational Path Integral Optimization

Hongrui Zheng, Zirui Zang, Ahmad Amine, Cristian Ioan Vasile, Rahul Mangharam ยท 2026

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) enables formal specification of complex spatiotemporal constraints for robotic task planning. However, synthesizing long-horizon continuous control trajectories from compleโ€ฆ

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Understanding Fire Through Thermal Radiation Fields for Mobile Robots

Anton R. Wagner, Madhan Balaji Rao, Xuesu Xiao, Soren Pirk ยท 2026

Safely moving through environments affected by fire is a critical capability for autonomous mobile robots deployed in disaster response. In this work, we present a novel approach for mobile robots to โ€ฆ

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A Parametric Framework for Anticipatory Flashflood Warning: Integrating Landscape Vulnerability with Precipitation Forecasts

Xiangpeng Li, Junwei Ma, Samuel D Brody, Ali Mostafavi ยท 2025

Flash flood warnings are largely reactive, providing limited advance notice for evacuation planning and resource prepositioning. This study presents and validates an anticipatory, parametric frameworkโ€ฆ

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Zero-Shot Recognition of Dysarthric Speech Using Commercial Automatic Speech Recognition and Multimodal Large Language Models

Ali Alsayegh, Tariq Masood ยท 2025

Voice-based human-machine interaction is a primary modality for accessing intelligent systems, yet individuals with dysarthria face systematic exclusion due to recognition performance gaps. Whilst autโ€ฆ

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PINN vs LSTM: A Comparative Study for Steam Temperature Control in Heat Recovery Steam Generators

Mojtaba Fanoodi, Farzaneh Abdollahi, Mahdi Aliyari Shoorehdeli ยท 2025

This paper introduces a direct comparative study of Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks for adaptive steam temperature control in Heat Recovery Steam Geโ€ฆ

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Fault-Tolerant Control of Steam Temperature in HRSG Superheater under Actuator Fault Using a Sliding Mode Observer and PINN

Mojtaba Fanoodi, Farzaneh Abdollahi, Mahdi Aliyari Shoorehdeli ยท 2025

This paper presents a novel fault-tolerant control framework for steam temperature regulation in Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSGs) subject to actuator faults. Addressing the critical challenge ofโ€ฆ

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Research and Prototyping Study of an LLM-Based Chatbot for Electromagnetic Simulations

Albert Piwonski, Mirsad Hadziefendic ยท 2025

This work addresses the question of how generative artificial intelligence can be used to reduce the time required to set up electromagnetic simulation models. A chatbot based on a large language modeโ€ฆ

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Provably Safe Stein Variational Clarity-Aware Informative Planning

Kaleb Ben Naveed, Utkrisht Sahai, Anouck Girard, Dimitra Panagou ยท 2025

Autonomous robots are increasingly deployed for information-gathering tasks in environments that vary across space and time. Planning informative and safe trajectories in such settings is challenging โ€ฆ

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Context-Aware Management of IoT Nodes: Balancing Informational Value with Energy Usage

Nihal Ahmad, Talha Manzoor, Ijaz Haider Naqvi ยท 2025

The operational lifetime of energy-harvesting wireless sensor nodes is limited by availability of the energy source and the capacity of the installed energy buffer. When a sensor node depletes its eneโ€ฆ

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SeFA-Policy: Fast and Accurate Visuomotor Policy Learning with Selective Flow Alignment

Rong Xue, Jiageng Mao, Mingtong Zhang, Yue Wang ยท 2025

Developing efficient and accurate visuomotor policies poses a central challenge in robotic imitation learning. While recent rectified flow approaches have advanced visuomotor policy learning, they sufโ€ฆ

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Multi-Agent AI Framework for Road Situation Detection and C-ITS Message Generation

Kailin Tong, Selim Solmaz, Kenan Mujkic, Gottfried Allmer, Bo Leng ยท 2025

Conventional road-situation detection methods achieve strong performance in predefined scenarios but fail in unseen cases and lack semantic interpretation, which is crucial for reliable traffic recommโ€ฆ

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