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Egocentric Tactile and Proximity Sensors as Observation Priors for Humanoid Collision Avoidance

Carson Kohlbrenner, Niraj Pudasaini, William Xie, Naren Sivagnanadasan, Nikolaus Correll, Alessandro Roncone · 2026

Collision-free motion is often aided by tactile and proximity sensors distributed on the body of the robot due to their resistance to occlusion as opposed to external cameras. However, how to shape th…

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GS-Playground: A High-Throughput Photorealistic Simulator for Vision-Informed Robot Learning

Yufei Jia, Heng Zhang, Ziheng Zhang, Junzhe Wu, Mingrui Yu, Zifan Wang, Dixuan Jiang, Zheng Li, Chenyu Cao, Zhuoyuan Yu, Xun Yang, Haizhou Ge, Yuchi Zhang, Jiayuan Zhang, Zhenbiao Huang, Tianle Liu, Shenyu Chen, Jiacheng Wang, Bin Xie, Xuran Yao, Xiwa Deng, Guangyu Wang, Jinzhi Zhang, Lei Hao, Zhixing Chen, Yuxiang Chen, Anqi Wang, Hongyun Tian, Yiyi Yan, Zhanxiang Cao, Yizhou Jiang, Hanyang Shao, Yue Li, Lu Shi, Bokui Chen, Wei Sui, Hanqing Cui, Yusen Qin, Ruqi Huang, Lei Han, Tiancai Wang, Guyue Zhou · 2026

Embodied AI research is undergoing a shift toward vision-centric perceptual paradigms. While massively parallel simulators have catalyzed breakthroughs in proprioception-based locomotion, their potent…

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Passage-Aware Structural Mapping for RGB-D Visual SLAM

Ali Tourani, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Saad Ejaz, David Perez Saura, Asier Bikandi-Noya, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez, Holger Voos · 2026

Doorways and passages are critical structural elements for indoor robot navigation, yet they remain underexplored in modern Visual SLAM (VSLAM) frameworks. This paper presents a passage-aware structur…

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Hybrid A*-Based Reverse Path-Planning of a Vehicle with Trailer System

Xincheng Cao, Haochong Chen, Bilin Aksun-Guvenc, Levent Guvenc, Brian Link, Peter J Richmond, Dokyung Yim, Shihong Fan, John Harber · 2026

Reverse parking maneuvering of a vehicle with trailer system is a difficult task to complete for human drivers due to the multi-body nature of the system and the unintuitive controls required to orien…

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Sliding Mode Control for Safe Trajectory Tracking with Moving Obstacles Avoidance: Experimental Validation on Planar Robots

Shubham Sawarkar, P Sangeerth, S Saharsh, Pushpak Jagtap · 2026

This paper presents a unified control framework for robust trajectory tracking and moving obstacle avoidance applicable to a broad class of mobile robots. By formulating a generalized kinematic transf…

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SPLIT: Separating Physical-Contact via Latent Arithmetic in Image-Based Tactile Sensors

Wadhah Zai El Amri, Nicolas Navarro-Guerrero · 2026

Training machine learning models for robotic tactile sensing requires vast amounts of data, yet obtaining realistic interaction data remains a challenge due to physical complexity and variability. Sim…

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CONCERTO: Characterization of analog readout electronics

Mounir Abdkrimi (NEEL - MagSup), Olivier Rossetto (LPSC), O. Bourrion (LPSC), Christophe Vescovi (LPSC), C. Hoarau (LPSC) · 2026

CONCERTO is a millimeter-wave imaging instrument that operated on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope from April 2021 to May 2023. Its primary scientific objectives include the study of…

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Betting for Sim-to-Real Performance Evaluation

Zaid Mahboob, Yujia Chen, Bowen Weng · 2026

This paper studies the problem of robot performance evaluation, focusing on how to obtain accurate and efficient estimates of real-world behavior under severe constraints on physical experimentation. …

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Multi-Robot Motions in Milliseconds: Vector-Accelerated Primitives for Sampling-Based Planning

James D. Motes, Marco Morales, Nancy M. Amato · 2026

In this paper, we extend the recent Vector-Accelerated Motion Planning (VAMP) framework to multi-robot motion planning (MRMP). We develop two vector-accelerated primitives, multi-robot MotionValidatio…

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VLM-VPI: A Vision-Language Reasoning Framework for Improving Automated Vehicle-Pedestrian Interactions

Qingwen Pu, Kun Xie, Yuxiang Liu · 2026

Autonomous driving systems often infer pedestrian yielding behavior from geometric and kinematic cues alone, limiting their ability to reason about visual scene context and age-dependent behavioral va…

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PhysCodeBench: Benchmarking Physics-Aware Symbolic Simulation of 3D Scenes via Self-Corrective Multi-Agent Refinement

Tianyidan Xie, Peiyu Wang, Yuyi Qian, Yuxuan Wang, Rui Ma, Ying Tai, Song Wu, Qian Wang, Lanjun Wang, Zili Yi · 2026

Physics-aware symbolic simulation of 3D scenes is critical for robotics, embodied AI, and scientific computing, requiring models to understand natural language descriptions of physical phenomena and t…

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EgoLive: A Large-Scale Egocentric Dataset from Real-World Human Tasks

Yihang Li, Xuelong Wei, Jingzhou Luo, Yingjing Xiao, Yibo Bai, Guangyuan Zhou, Teng Zou, Chenguang Gui, Jiajun Wen, He Zhang, Kangliang Chen, Xing Pan, Shuaiyan Liu, Daming Wang, Tao An, Jiayi Li, Shibo Jin, Wanwan Zhang, Tianyu Wang, Boren Wei, Zhixuan Huang, Fangsheng Liu, Ruodai Li, Hui Zhang, Anson Li, Yicheng Gong, Peng Cao, Jiaming Liang, Liang Lin · 2026

The advancement of robot learning is currently hindered by the scarcity of large-scale, high-quality datasets. While established data collection methods such as teleoperation and universal manipulatio…

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A 99-Line Homogenization Code for Lattice-skin Plate Structures

Zhongkai Ji, Dawei Li, Yong Zhao, Wenhe Zhao · 2026

Recent years have seen growing application potential for Lattice-skin Plate Structures in advanced manufacturing fields such as aerospace and automotive engineering. For multiscale performance evaluat…

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Vision-Language-Action in Robotics: A Survey of Datasets, Benchmarks, and Data Engines

Ziyao Wang, Bingying Wang, Hanrong Zhang, Tingting Du, Tianyang Chen, Guoheng Sun, Yexiao He, Zheyu Shen, Wanghao Ye, Ang Li · 2026

Despite remarkable progress in Vision--Language--Action (VLA) models, a central bottleneck remains underexamined: the data infrastructure that underlies embodied learning. In this survey, we argue tha…

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ATRS: Adaptive Trajectory Re-splitting via a Shared Neural Policy for Parallel Optimization

Jiajun Yu, Guodong Liu, Li Wang, Pengxiang Zhou, Wentao Liu, Yin He, Chao Xu, Fei Gao, Yanjun Cao · 2026

Parallel trajectory optimization via the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has emerged as a scalable approach to long-horizon motion planning. However, existing frameworks typically d…

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CT-Guided Spatially-varying Regularization for Voxel-Wise Deformable Whole-Body PET Registration

Xiangcen Wu, Ruohua Chen, Sichun Li, Qianye Yang, Sheng Liu, Jianjun Liu, Zhaoheng Xie · 2026

Whole-body Positron Emission Tomography (PET) registration is essential for multi-parametric tumor characterization and assessment of metastatic disease progression. In deep learning-based deformable …

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Information-Theoretic Geometry Optimization and Physics-Aware Learning for Calibration-Free Magnetic Localization

Wenxuan Xie, Yuelin Zhang, Qingpeng Ding, Jianghua Chen, Jiewen Tan, Jiwei Shan, Shing Shin Cheng · 2026

Wireless localization of permanent magnets enables occlusion-free guidance for medical interventions, yet its practical accuracy is fundamentally limited by two coupled challenges: the poor observabil…

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Generalizable CT-Free PET Attenuation and Scatter Correction for Pediatric Patients

Jia-Mian Wu, Jun Liu, Siqi Li, Xiaoya Wang, Shibai Yin, Huanyu Luo, Lingling Zheng, Qiang Gao, Jigang Yang, Tai-Xiang Jiang · 2026

Computed tomography (CT)-based attenuation and scatter correction improves quantitative PET but adds radiation exposure that is particularly undesirable in pediatric imaging. Existing CT-free methods …

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CodeGraphVLP: Code-as-Planner Meets Semantic-Graph State for Non-Markovian Vision-Language-Action Models

Khoa Vo, Sieu Tran, Taisei Hanyu, Yuki Ikebe, Duy Nguyen, Bui Duy Quoc Nghi, Minh Vu, Anthony Gunderman, Chase Rainwater, Anh Nguyen, Ngan Le · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models promise generalist robot manipulation, but are typically trained and deployed as short-horizon policies that assume the latest observation is sufficient for action …

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Advancing automatic speech recognition using feature fusion with self-supervised learning features: A case study on Fearless Steps Apollo corpus

Szu-Jui Chen, John H.L. Hansen · 2026

Using self-supervised learning (SSL) models has significantly improved performance for downstream speech tasks, surpassing the capabilities of traditional hand-crafted features. This study investigate…

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