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Matrix-Free 3D SIMP Topology Optimization with Fused Gather-GEMM-Scatter Kernels

Shaoliang Yang, Jun Wang, Yunsheng Wang · 2026

The matrix-free gather-batched-GEMM-scatter pattern eliminates global stiffness assembly for three-dimensional SIMP topology optimization, but the conventional three-stage implementation forces avoida…

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VLN-NF: Feasibility-Aware Vision-and-Language Navigation with False-Premise Instructions

Hung-Ting Su, Ting-Jun Wang, Jia-Fong Yeh, Min Sun, Winston H. Hsu · 2026

Conventional Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) benchmarks assume instructions are feasible and the referenced target exists, leaving agents ill-equipped to handle false-premise goals. We introduce …

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Multi-Robot Coordination for Planning under Context Uncertainty

Pulkit Rustagi, Kyle Hollins Wray, Sandhya Saisubramanian · 2026

Real-world robots often operate in settings where objective priorities depend on the underlying context of operation. When the underlying context is unknown apriori, multiple robots may have to coordi…

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Inverse Resistive Force Theory (I-RFT): Learning granular properties through robot-terrain physical interactions

Shipeng Liu, Feng Xue, Yifeng Zhang, Tarunika Ponnusamy, Feifei Qian · 2026

For robots to navigate safely and efficiently on soft, granular terrains, it is crucial to gather information about the terrain's mechanical properties, which directly affect locomotion performance. R…

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Grasp, Slide, Roll: Comparative Analysis of Contact Modes for Tactile-Based Shape Reconstruction

Chung Hee Kim, Shivani Kamtikar, Tye Brady, Taskin Padir, Joshua Migdal · 2026

Tactile sensing allows robots to gather detailed geometric information about objects through physical interaction, complementing vision-based approaches. However, efficiently acquiring useful tactile …

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Driving-Over Detection in the Railway Environment

Tobias Herrmann, Nikolay Chenkov, Florian Stark, Matthias Harter, Martin Koppel · 2026

To enable fully automated driving of trains, numerous new technological components must be introduced into the railway system. Tasks that are nowadays carried out by the operating stuff, need to be ta…

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Real time fault detection in 3D printers using Convolutional Neural Networks and acoustic signals

Muhammad Fasih Waheed, Shonda Bernadin · 2026

The reliability and quality of 3D printing processes are critically dependent on the timely detection of mechanical faults. Traditional monitoring methods often rely on visual inspection and hardware …

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Optimal Derivative Feedback Control for an Active Magnetic Levitation System: An Experimental Study on Data-Driven Approaches

Saber Omidi, Rene Akupan Ebunle, Se Young Yoon · 2026

This paper presents the design and implementation of data-driven optimal derivative feedback controllers for an active magnetic levitation system. A direct, model-free control design method based on t…

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A Dialogue-Based Human-Robot Interaction Protocol for Wheelchair and Robotic Arm Integrated Control

Guangping Liu, Nicholas Hawkins, Billy Madden, Tipu Sultan, Madi Babaiasl · 2026

People with lower and upper body disabilities can benefit from wheelchairs and robotic arms to improve mobility and independence. Prior assistive interfaces, such as touchscreens and voice-driven pred…

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Integrated Exploration and Sequential Manipulation on Scene Graph with LLM-based Situated Replanning

Heqing Yang, Ziyuan Jiao, Shu Wang, Yida Niu, Si Liu, Hangxin Liu · 2026

In partially known environments, robots must combine exploration to gather information with task planning for efficient execution. To address this challenge, we propose EPoG, an Exploration-based sequ…

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Energy Harvesting in High Altitude Platform Station Enabled Sensor Networks

Melek Tuylu, Eylem Erdogan · 2026

High altitude platform station (HAPS) systems are becoming crucial facilitators for future wireless communication networks, enhancing connectivity across all vertical communication layers, including s…

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Dataset and UAV Propagation Channel Modeling for LoRa in the 860 MHz ISM Band

Joachim Tapparel, Andreas Burg · 2025

LoRa is one of the most widely used low-power wide-area network technology for the Internet of Things. To achieve long-range communication with low power consumption at a low cost, LoRa uses a chirp s…

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Surfel-LIO: Fast LiDAR-Inertial Odometry with Pre-computed Surfels and Hierarchical Z-order Voxel Hashing

Seungwon Choi, Dong-Gyu Park, Seo-Yeon Hwang, Tae-Wan Kim · 2025

LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO) is an active research area, as it enables accurate real-time state estimation in GPS-denied environments. Recent advances in map data structures and spatial indexing have…

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Estimation of Kinematic Motion from Dashcam Footage

Evelyn Zhang, Alex Richardson, Jonathan Sprinkle · 2025

The goal of this paper is to explore the accuracy of dashcam footage to predict the actual kinematic motion of a car-like vehicle. Our approach uses ground truth information from the vehicle's on-boar…

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Energy-Efficient Aerial Network Slicing for Computation Offloading, Data Gathering, and Content Delivery

Ahmed A. Al-habob, Octavia A. Dobre, Yindi Jing · 2025

This paper introduces an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled network slicing problem to provide content delivery, sensing data gathering, and mobile edge computing (MEC) services. Three tenants prov…

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Unleashing Sensor-Aided Environment Awareness for Beam Management in Beyond-5G Networks: An OpenAirInterface Experimental Platform

Aron Schott, Berk Acikgoz, Omar Massoud, Marina Petrova, Ljiljana Simic · 2025

Large antenna arrays and beamforming techniques are key components for exploiting the spectrum-rich FR2 bands in next-generation mobile communication networks. Given the site-specific spatio-temporal …

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Pretraining in Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning for Robot Locomotion

Jiale Fan, Andrei Cramariuc, Tifanny Portela, Marco Hutter · 2025

The pretraining-finetuning paradigm has facilitated numerous transformative advancements in artificial intelligence research in recent years. However, in the domain of reinforcement learning (RL) for …

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Robot Soccer Kit: Omniwheel Tracked Soccer Robots for Education

Gregoire Passault (UB, LaBRI), Clement Gaspard (UB, LaBRI), Olivier Ly (UB, LaBRI) · 2025

Recent developments of low cost off-the-shelf programmable components, their modularity, and also rapid prototyping made educational robotics flourish, as it is accessible in most schools today. They …

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ARMADA: Autonomous Online Failure Detection and Human Shared Control Empower Scalable Real-world Deployment and Adaptation

Wenye Yu, Jun Lv, Zixi Ying, Yang Jin, Chuan Wen, Cewu Lu · 2025

Imitation learning has shown promise in learning from large-scale real-world datasets. However, pretrained policies usually perform poorly without sufficient in-domain data. Besides, human-collected d…

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Generating Stable Placements via Physics-guided Diffusion Models

Philippe Nadeau, Miguel Rogel, Ivan Bilic, Ivan Petrovic, Jonathan Kelly · 2025

Stably placing an object in a multi-object scene is a fundamental challenge in robotic manipulation, as placements must be penetration-free, establish precise surface contact, and result in a force eq…

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