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Differentiable Satellite Constellation Configuration via Relaxed Coverage and Revisit Objectives

Shreeyam Kacker, Kerri Cahoy · 2026

Satellite constellation design requires optimizing orbital parameters across multiple satellites to maximize mission specific metrics. For many types of mission, it is desirable to maximize coverage a…

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Bipedal-Walking-Dynamics Model on Granular Terrains

Xunjie Chen, Xinyan Huang, Peter Shan, Jingang Yi, Tao Liu · 2026

Bipeds have demonstrated high agility and mobility in unstructured environments such as sand. The yielding of such granular media brings significant sinkage and slip of the bipedal feet, leading to un…

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Differentiable Invariant Sets for Hybrid Limit Cycles with Application to Legged Robots

Varun Madabushi, Akash Harapanahalli, Samuel Coogan, Maegan Tucker · 2026

For hybrid systems exhibiting periodic behavior, analyzing the invariant set containing the limit cycle is a natural way to study the robustness of the closed-loop system. However, computing these set…

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Stein Variational Uncertainty-Adaptive Model Predictive Control

Hrishikesh Sathyanarayan, Ian Abraham · 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-…

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A Computational Framework for Cross-Domain Mission Design and Onboard Cognitive Decision Support

J. de Curto, Adrianne Schneider, Ricardo Yanez, Maria Begara, Alvaro Rodriguez, Javier Lopez, Martina Fraga, Ignacio Gomez, Arman Akdag, Sumit Kulkarni, Siddhant Nair, Kiyan Govender, Eian Wratchford, Eli Lynskey, Seamus Dunlap, Cooper Nervick, Nicolas Tete, Rocio Fernandez, Pablo Gonzalez, Elena Municio, I. de Zarza · 2026

The design of distributed autonomous systems for operation beyond reliable ground contact presents a fundamental tension: as round-trip communication latency grows, the set of decisions delegable to g…

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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 · 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 monocular…

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

Milad Banitalebi Dehkordi, Manas Mejari, Dario Piga · 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 sta…

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Cybo-Waiter: A Physical Agentic Framework for Humanoid Whole-Body Locomotion-Manipulation

Peng Ren, Haoyang Ge, Chuan Qi, Cong Huang, Hong Li, Jiang Zhao, Pei Chi, Kai Chen · 2026

Robots are increasingly expected to execute open ended natural language requests in human environments, which demands reliable long horizon execution under partial observability. This is especially ch…

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Stein Variational Ergodic Surface Coverage with SE(3) Constraints

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

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

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Lifelong Embodied Navigation Learning

Xudong Wang, Jiahua Dong, Baichen Liu, Qi Lyu, Lianqing Liu, Zhi Han · 2026

Embodied navigation agents powered by large language models have shown strong performance on individual tasks but struggle to continually acquire new navigation skills, which suffer from catastrophic …

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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 · 2026

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

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Understanding Fire Through Thermal Radiation Fields for Mobile Robots

Anton R. Wagner, Madhan Balaji Rao, Xuesu Xiao, Soren Pirk · 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 …

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It Takes Two to Tango: A Holistic Simulator for Joint Order Scheduling and Multi-Agent Path Finding in Robotic Warehouses

Haozheng Xu, Wenhao Li, Zifan Wei, Bo Jin, Hongxing Bai, Ben Yang, Xiangfeng Wang · 2026

The prevailing paradigm in Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems (RMFS) typically treats order scheduling and multi-agent pathfinding as isolated sub-problems. We argue that this decoupling is a fundamen…

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UniManip: General-Purpose Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation with Agentic Operational Graph

Haichao Liu, Yuanjiang Xue, Yuheng Zhou, Haoyuan Deng, Yinan Liang, Lihua Xie, Ziwei Wang · 2026

Achieving general-purpose robotic manipulation requires robots to seamlessly bridge high-level semantic intent with low-level physical interaction in unstructured environments. However, existing appro…

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A compliant ankle-actuated compass walker with triggering timing control

Deniz Kerimoglu, Ismail Uyanik · 2026

Passive dynamic walkers are widely adopted as a mathematical model to represent biped walking. The stable locomotion of these models is limited to tilted surfaces, requiring gravitational energy. Vari…

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A texture-based framework for foundational ultrasound models

Tal Grutman, Carmel Shinar, Tali Ilovitsh · 2026

Ultrasound is the most widely used medical imaging modality, yet the images it produces are fundamentally unique, arising from tissue-dependent scattering, reflection, and speed-of-sound variations th…

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LLaViDA: A Large Language Vision Driving Assistant for Explicit Reasoning and Enhanced Trajectory Planning

Yudong Liu, Spencer Hallyburton, Jiwoo Kim, Yueqian Lin, Yiming Li, Qinsi Wang, Hui Ye, Jingwei Sun, Miroslav Pajic, Yiran Chen, Hai Li · 2025

Trajectory planning is a fundamental yet challenging component of autonomous driving. End-to-end planners frequently falter under adverse weather, unpredictable human behavior, or complex road layouts…

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FlowSteer: Conditioning Flow Field for Consistent Image Restoration

Tharindu Wickremasinghe, Chenyang Qi, Harshana Weligampola, Zhengzhong Tu, Stanley H. Chan · 2025

Flow-based text-to-image (T2I) models excel at prompt-driven image generation, but falter on Image Restoration (IR), often "drifting away" from being faithful to the measurement. Prior work mitigate t…

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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 · 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 Ge…

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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 · 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 of…

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