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SASI: Leveraging Sub-Action Semantics for Robust Early Action Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction

Yongpeng Cao, Masahiro Hirano, Hyuno Kim, Yuji Yamakawa ยท 2026

Understanding human actions is critical for advancing behavior analysis in human-robot interaction. Particularly in tasks that demand quick and proactive feedback, robots must recognize human actions โ€ฆ

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Multidisciplinary Design Optimization for Wave-Driven Desalination Systems

Nate DeGoede, Maha N. Haji ยท 2026

Wave-driven desalination systems are an innovative solution to the global freshwater crisis, leveraging the complementary characteristics of seawater reverse osmosis and wave energy converters. Howeveโ€ฆ

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Sparse Graph Learning from Sparse Data via Fiedler Number Maximization

Bahar Oveisgharan, Gene Cheung, Andrew Eckford ยท 2026

We aim to learn a sparse and connected graph from sparse data, where the number of observations K can be substantially smaller than the signal dimension N for signals x in R^N, and the underlying distโ€ฆ

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UAV Trajectory and Bandwidth Allocation for Efficient Data Collection in Low-Altitude Intelligent IoT: A Hierarchical DRL Approach

Zhenjia Xu, Xiaoling Zhang, Nan Qi, Xiaojie Li, Luliang Jia ยท 2026

Under the 6G wireless network evolution, the low-altitude Internet of Things (IoT), supported by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) capabilities, providesโ€ฆ

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Learning from the Best: Smoothness-Driven Metrics for Data Quality in Imitation Learning

Soham Kulkarni, Raayan Dhar, Yuchen Cui ยท 2026

In behavioral cloning (BC), policy performance is fundamentally limited by demonstration data quality. Real-world datasets contain trajectories of varying quality due to operator skill differences, teโ€ฆ

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PREVENT-JACK: Context Steering for Swarms of Long Heavy Articulated Vehicles

Adrian Baruck, Michael Dube, Christoph Steup, Sanaz Mostaghim ยท 2026

In this paper, we aim to extend the traditional point-mass-like robot representation in swarm robotics and instead study a swarm of long Heavy Articulated Vehicles (HAVs). HAVs are kinematically constโ€ฆ

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Trapping Regions for Quadratic Systems with Generalized Lossless Nonlinearities

Diganta Bhattacharjee, Shih-Chi Liao, Peter J. Seiler, Maziar S. Hemati ยท 2026

A trapping region is a compact set that is forward invariant with respect to the dynamics. Existence of a trapping region certifies boundedness of trajectories, and the size of the set provides an estโ€ฆ

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Trajectory Planning for a Multi-UAV Rigid-Payload Cascaded Transportation System Based on Enhanced Tube-RRT*

Jianqiao Yu, Jia Li, Tianhua Gao ยท 2026

This paper presents a two-stage trajectory planning framework for a multi-UAV rigid-payload cascaded transportation system, aiming to address planning challenges in densely cluttered environments. In โ€ฆ

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Optimal Robust Adaptive Beamforming for a General-Rank Signal Model via Equivalence of Maximin and Minimax SINR Problems

Yongwei Huang, Zhenhui Huang, Sergiy A. Vorobyov, Zhi-Quan Luo ยท 2026

The globally optimal robust adaptive beamforming (RAB) solution is studied for worst-case signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) maximization (the maximin SINR problem) under convex and closedโ€ฆ

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A transformable slender microrobot inspired by nematode parasites for interventional endovascular surgery

Xin Yang, Dongliang Fan, Yunteng Ma, Yuxuan Liao, Diancheng Li, U Kei Cheang, Bo Peng, Hongqiang Wang ยท 2026

Cardiovascular diseases account for around 17.9 million deaths per year globally, the treatment of which is challenging considering the confined space and complex topology of the vascular network and โ€ฆ

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Motion planning and approximate controllability of a moving cantilever beam with a tip-mass

Soham Chatterjee, Aman Batra, Vivek Natarajan ยท 2026

Consider a non-uniform Euler-Bernoulli beam with a tip-mass at one end and a cantilever joint at the other end. The cantilever joint is not fixed and can itself be moved along an axis perpendicular toโ€ฆ

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Stability and Robustness of Tensor-Coupled Flow-Conservation Dynamical Systems on Hypergraphs

Chencheng Zhang, Hao Yang, Bin Jiang, Shaoxuan Cui ยท 2026

This paper develops an entropy-based stability and robustness framework for nonlinear hypergraph dynamics with conservation and flow balance. We consider generator-form systems on the simplex whose stโ€ฆ

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Data Selection Effects on Self-Supervised Learning of Audio Representations for French Audiovisual Broadcasts

Valentin Pelloin, Lina Bekkali, Reda Dehak, David Doukhan ยท 2026

Audio and speech self-supervised encoder models are now widely used for a lot of different tasks. Many of these models are often trained on clean segmented speech content such as LibriSpeech. In this โ€ฆ

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On-Policy Distillation of Language Models for Autonomous Vehicle Motion Planning

Amirhossein Afsharrad, Amirhesam Abedsoltan, Ahmadreza Moradipari, Sanjay Lall ยท 2026

Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated strong potential for autonomous vehicle motion planning by reformulating trajectory prediction as a language generation problem. However, deployโ€ฆ

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Spatio-Temporal Grounding of Large Language Models from Perception Streams

Jacob Anderson, Bardh Hoxha, Georgios Fainekos, Hideki Okamoto, Danil Prokhorov ยท 2026

Embodied-AI agents must reason about how objects move and interact in 3-D space over time, yet existing smaller frontier Large Language Models (LLMs) still mis-handle fine-grained spatial relations, mโ€ฆ

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Local Sensitivity Analysis for Kernel-Regularized ARX Predictors in Data-Driven Predictive Control

Aihui Liu, Magnus Jansson ยท 2026

We study local sensitivity of structured ARX-based data-driven predictive control. Although predictor estimation is linear in the ARX parameters, the lifted multi-step predictor used in MPC depends onโ€ฆ

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Multi-Robot Multi-Queue Control via Exhaustive Assignment Actor-Critic Learning

Mohammad Merati, H. M. Sabbir Ahmad, Wenchao Li, David Castanon ยท 2026

We study online task allocation for multi-robot, multi-queue systems with asymmetric stochastic arrivals and switching delays. We formulate the problem in discrete time: each location can host at mostโ€ฆ

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SafeSpace: Aggregating Safe Sets from Backup Control Barrier Functions under Input Constraints

Pio Ong, David E. J. van Wijk, Massimiliano de Sa, Joel W. Burdick, Aaron D. Ames ยท 2026

Control barrier functions (CBFs) provide a principled framework for enforcing safety in control systems -- yet the certified safe operating region in practice is often conservative, especially under iโ€ฆ

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Schrodinger Bridges and Density Steering Problems for Gaussian Mixtures Models in Discrete-Time

George Rapakoulias, Fengjiao Liu, Panagiotis Tsiotras ยท 2026

In this work, we revisit the discrete-time Schr\"{o}dinger Bridge (SB) and Density Steering (DS) problems for Gaussian mixture model (GMM) boundary distributions. Building on the existing literature, โ€ฆ

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A Self-Rotating Tri-Rotor UAV for Field of View Expansion and Autonomous Flight

Xiaobin Zhou, Zihao Zheng, Aoxu Jin, Lei Qiang, Bo Zhu ยท 2026

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) perception relies on onboard sensors like cameras and LiDAR, which are limited by the narrow field of view (FoV). We present Self-Perception INertial Navigation Enabledโ€ฆ

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