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Opacity Enforcing Supervisory Control with a Priori Unknown Supervisors

Bohan Cui, Ziyue Ma, Alessandro Giua, Xiang Yin · 2026

We investigate the enforcement of opacity in discrete-event systems via supervisory control. A system is said to be opaque if a passive intruder can never unambiguously infer whether the system is in …

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Distributed Nonlinear Control of Networked Two-Wheeled Robots under Adversarial Interactions

Moh Kamalul Wafi, Ahmad Ataka, Yul Y. Nazaruddin, Bayu Jayawardhana · 2026

This paper studies distributed trajectory tracking for networks of nonholonomic mobile robots under adversarial information exchange. An exact global input--output feedback linearization scheme is dev…

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From Video to Control: A Survey of Learning Manipulation Interfaces from Temporal Visual Data

Linfang Zheng, Zikai Ouyang, Chen Wang, Jia Pan, Wei Zhang · 2026

Video is a scalable observation of physical dynamics: it captures how objects move, how contact unfolds, and how scenes evolve under interaction -- all without requiring robot action labels. Yet trans…

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CT-VoxelMap: Efficient Continuous-Time LiDAR-Inertial Odometry with Probabilistic Adaptive Voxel Mapping

Lei Zhao, Xingyi Li, Tianchen Deng, Chuan Cao, Han Zhang, Weidong Chen · 2026

Maintaining stable and accurate localization during fast motion or on rough terrain remains highly challenging for mobile robots with onboard resources. Currently, multi-sensor fusion methods based on…

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Human-Robot Copilot for Data-Efficient Imitation Learning

Rui Yan, Zaitian Gongye, Lars Paulsen, Xuxin Cheng, Xiaolong Wang · 2026

Collecting human demonstrations via teleoperation is a common approach for teaching robots task-specific skills. However, when only a limited number of demonstrations are available, policies are prone…

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Orientation Matters: Learning Radiation Patterns of Multi-Rotor UAVs In-Flight to Enhance Communication Availability Modeling

Martin Zoula, Daniel Bonilla Licea, Jan Faigl, Vaclav Navratil, Martin Saska · 2026

The paper presents an approach for learning antenna Radiation Patterns (RPs) of a pair of heterogeneous quadrotor Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) by calibration flight data. RPs are modeled either as …

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Cooperative Detour Planning for Dual-Task Drone Fleets

Pengbo Zhu, Meng Xu, Andreas A. Malikopoulos, Nikolas Geroliminis · 2026

As Urban air mobility scales, commercial drone fleets offer a compelling, yet underexplored opportunity to function as mobile sensor networks for real-time urban traffic monitoring. In this paper, we …

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Neural Network-Assisted Model Predictive Control for Implicit Balancing

Seyed Soroush Karimi Madahi, Kenneth Bruninx, Bert Claessens, Chris Develder · 2026

In Europe, balance responsible parties can deliberately take out-of-balance positions to support transmission system operators (TSOs) in maintaining grid stability and earn profit, a practice called i…

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Hi-LOAM: Hierarchical Implicit Neural Fields for LiDAR Odometry and Mapping

Zhiliu Yang, Jianyuan Zhang, Lianhui Zhao, Jinyu Dai, Zhu Yang · 2026

LiDAR Odometry and Mapping (LOAM) is a pivotal technique for embodied-AI applications such as autonomous driving and robot navigation. Most existing LOAM frameworks are either contingent on the superv…

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Bridging Large-Model Reasoning and Real-Time Control via Agentic Fast-Slow Planning

Jiayi Chen, Shuai Wang, Guangxu Zhu, Chengzhong Xu · 2026

Large foundation models enable powerful reasoning for autonomous systems, but mapping semantic intent to reliable real-time control remains challenging. Existing approaches either (i) let Large Langua…

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Bridging RL and MPC for mixed-integer optimal control with application to Formula 1 race strategies

Joschua Wuthrich, Romir Damle, Giona Fieni, Melanie N. Zeilinger, Christopher H. Onder, Andrea Carron · 2026

We propose a hybrid reinforcement learning (RL) and model predictive control (MPC) framework for mixed-integer optimal control, where discrete variables enter the cost and dynamics but not the constra…

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Behavioral Score Diffusion: Model-Free Trajectory Planning via Kernel-Based Score Estimation from Data

Shihao Li, Jiachen Li, Jiamin Xu, Dongmei Chen · 2026

Diffusion-based trajectory optimization has emerged as a powerful planning paradigm, but existing methods require either learned score networks trained on large datasets or analytical dynamics models …

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Contracting Neural Networks: Sharp LMI Conditions with Applications to Integral Control and Deep Learning

Anand Gokhale, Anton V. Proskurnikov, Yu Kawano, Francesco Bullo · 2026

This paper studies contractivity of firing-rate and Hopfield recurrent neural networks. We derive sharp LMI conditions on the synaptic matrices that characterize contractivity of both architectures, f…

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An Output Feedback Q-learning Algorithm for Optimal Control of Nonlinear Systems with Koopman Linear Embedding

Victor G. Lopez, Malte Heinrich, Matthias A. Muller · 2026

In the reinforcement learning literature, strong theoretical guarantees have been obtained for algorithms applicable to LTI systems. However, in the nonlinear case only weaker results have been obtain…

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CReF: Cross-modal and Recurrent Fusion for Depth-conditioned Humanoid Locomotion

Yuan Hao, Ruiqi Yu, Shixin Luo, Guoteng Zhang, Jun Wu, Qiuguo Zhu · 2026

Stable traversal over geometrically complex terrain increasingly requires exteroceptive perception, yet prior perceptive humanoid locomotion methods often remain tied to explicit geometric abstraction…

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RAAP: Retrieval-Augmented Affordance Prediction with Cross-Image Action Alignment

Qiyuan Zhuang, He-Yang Xu, Yijun Wang, Xin-Yang Zhao, Yang-Yang Li, Xiu-Shen Wei · 2026

Understanding object affordances is essential for enabling robots to perform purposeful and fine-grained interactions in diverse and unstructured environments. However, existing approaches either rely…

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CLaD: Planning with Grounded Foresight via Cross-Modal Latent Dynamics

Andrew Jeong, Jaemin Kim, Sebin Lee, Sung-Eui Yoon · 2026

Robotic manipulation involves kinematic and semantic transitions that are inherently coupled via underlying actions. However, existing approaches plan within either semantic or latent space without ex…

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Retinal Malady Classification using AI: A novel ViT-SVM combination architecture

Shashwat Jha, Vishvaditya Luhach, Raju Poddar · 2026

Macular Holes, Central serous retinopathy and Diabetic Retinopathy are one of the most widespread maladies of the eyes responsible for either partial or complete vision loss, thus making it clear that…

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Why That Robot? A Qualitative Analysis of Justification Strategies for Robot Color Selection Across Occupational Contexts

Jiangen He, Wanqi Zhang, Jessica K. Barfield · 2026

As robots increasingly enter the workforce, human-robot interaction (HRI) must address how implicit social biases influence user preferences. This paper investigates how users rationalize their select…

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Building evidence-based knowledge bases from full-text literature for disease-specific biomedical reasoning

Chang Zong, Sicheng Lv, Si-tu Xue, Huilin Zheng, Jian Wan, Lei Zhang · 2026

Biomedical knowledge resources often either preserve evidence as unstructured text or compress it into flat triples that omit study design, provenance, and quantitative support. Here we present Eviden…

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