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Active Beyond-Diagonal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface with Hybrid Transmitting and Reflecting Mode

Fu Liu, Hongyu Li, Shanpu Shen · 2026

Beyond-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (BD-RISs), originally in the passive form, have attracted attention due to their benefits in enhanced wave manipulating through flexible inter-eleme…

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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 · 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 …

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Vectorizing Projection in Manifold-Constrained Motion Planning for Real-Time Whole-Body Control

Shrutheesh R Iyer, I-Chia Chang, Andrew Z. Liu, Yan Gu, Zachary Kingston · 2026

Many robot planning tasks require satisfaction of one or more constraints throughout the entire trajectory. For geometric constraints, manifold-constrained motion planning algorithms are capable of pl…

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Utilizing Inpainting for Keypoint Detection for Vision-Based Control of Robotic Manipulators

Sreejani Chatterjee, Venkatesh Mullur, Abhinav Gandhi, Berk Calli · 2026

In this paper we present a novel visual servoing framework to control a robotic manipulator in the configuration space by using purely natural visual features. Our goal is to develop methods that can …

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Learning Versatile Humanoid Manipulation with Touch Dreaming

Yaru Niu, Zhenlong Fang, Binghong Chen, Shuai Zhou, Revanth Krishna Senthilkumaran, Hao Zhang, Bingqing Chen, Chen Qiu, H. Eric Tseng, Jonathan Francis, Ding Zhao · 2026

Humanoid robots promise general-purpose assistance, yet real-world humanoid loco-manipulation remains challenging because it requires whole-body stability, end-effector dexterity, and contact-aware in…

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E2E-Fly: An Integrated Training-to-Deployment System for End-to-End Quadrotor Autonomy

Fangyu Sun, Fanxing Li, Linzuo Zhang, Yu Hu, Renbiao Jin, Shuyu Wu, Wenxian Yu, Danping Zou · 2026

Training and transferring learning-based policies for quadrotors from simulation to reality remains challenging due to inefficient visual rendering, physical modeling inaccuracies, unmodeled sensor di…

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FastGrasp: Learning-based Whole-body Control method for Fast Dexterous Grasping with Mobile Manipulators

Heng Tao, Yiming Zhong, Zemin Yang, Yuexin Ma · 2026

Fast grasping is critical for mobile robots in logistics, manufacturing, and service applications. Existing methods face fundamental challenges in impact stabilization under high-speed motion, real-ti…

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Contextual Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Reef Monitoring

Melvin Laux, Yi-Ling Liu, Rina Alo, Soren Topper, Mariela De Lucas Alvarez, Frank Kirchner, Rebecca Adam · 2026

Although autonomous underwater vehicles promise the capability of marine ecosystem monitoring, their deployment is fundamentally limited by the difficulty of controlling vehicles under highly uncertai…

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Habitat-GS: A High-Fidelity Navigation Simulator with Dynamic Gaussian Splatting

Ziyuan Xia, Jingyi Xu, Chong Cui, Yuanhong Yu, Jiazhao Zhang, Qingsong Yan, Tao Ni, Junbo Chen, Xiaowei Zhou, Hujun Bao, Ruizhen Hu, Sida Peng · 2026

Training embodied AI agents depends critically on the visual fidelity of simulation environments and the ability to model dynamic humans. Current simulators rely on mesh-based rasterization with limit…

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Scalable Trajectory Generation for Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation

Yida Niu, Xinhai Chang, Xin Liu, Ziyuan Jiao, Yixin Zhu · 2026

Robots deployed in unstructured environments must coordinate whole-body motion -- simultaneously moving a mobile base and arm -- to interact with the physical world. This coupled mobility and dexterit…

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Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation using Offline Reinforcement Learning on Sub-optimal Controllers

Snehal Jauhri, Vignesh Prasad, Georgia Chalvatzaki · 2026

Mobile Manipulation (MoMa) of articulated objects, such as opening doors, drawers, and cupboards, demands simultaneous, whole-body coordination between a robot's base and arms. Classical whole-body co…

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Social Learning Strategies for Evolved Virtual Soft Robots

K. Ege de Bruin, Kyrre Glette, Kai Olav Ellefsen, Giorgia Nadizar, Eric Medvet · 2026

Optimizing the body and brain of a robot is a coupled challenge: the morphology determines what control strategies are effective, while the control parameters influence how well the morphology perform…

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Modular Drive Architecture for Software-defined Vehicles Enabled by Power-packet-based Sensorless Control

Shiu Mochiyama, Rikuto Kawasome · 2026

The transition toward software-defined vehicles requires standardization and modularization of hardware decoupled from software, along with centralized electrical/electronic architectures. While elect…

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Parametric Interpolation of Dynamic Mode Decomposition for Predicting Nonlinear Systems

Ananda Chakrabarti, Haitham H. Saleh, Indranil Nayak, Balasubramaniam Shanker, Fernando L. Teixeira, Debdipta Goswami · 2026

We present parameter-interpolated dynamic mode decomposition (piDMD), a parametric reduced-order modeling framework that embeds known parameter-affine structure directly into the DMD regression step. …

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Dynamic Modeling and Robust Gait Optimization of a Compliant Worm Robot

Xinyu Zhou, Yu Mei, Faith Thomson, Christian Luedtke, Xinda Qi, Xiaobo Tan · 2026

Worm-inspired robots provide an effective locomotion strategy for constrained environments by combining cyclic body deformation with alternating anchoring. For compliant robots, however, the interacti…

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Angle-based Localization and Rigidity Maintenance Control for Multi-Robot Networks

J. Francisco Presenza, Leonardo J. Colombo, Juan I. Giribet, Ignacio Mas · 2026

In this work, we study angle-based localization and rigidity maintenance control for multi-robot networks. First, we establish the relationship between angle rigidity and bearing rigidity considering …

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AffordSim: A Scalable Data Generator and Benchmark for Affordance-Aware Robotic Manipulation

Mingyang Li, Haofan Xu, Haowen Sun, Xinzhe Chen, Sihua Ren, Liqi Huang, Xinyang Sui, Chenyang Miao, Qiongjie Cui, Zeyang Liu, Xingyu Chen, Xuguang Lan · 2026

Simulation-based data generation has become a dominant paradigm for training robotic manipulation policies, yet existing platforms do not incorporate object affordance information into trajectory gene…

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Micro-Dexterity in Biological Micromanipulation: Embodiment, Perception, and Control

Kangyi Lu, Lan Wei, Zongcai Tan, Dandan Zhang · 2026

Microscale manipulation has advanced substantially in controlled locomotion and targeted transport, yet many biomedical applications require precise and adaptive interaction with biological micro-obje…

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Wideband Sensing with Dynamic Metasurface Antennas under Realistic Phase Response Modeling

Ioannis Gavras, George C. Alexandropoulos · 2026

This paper investigates the impact of practical features of the emerging antenna array technology of Dynamic Metasurface Antennas (DMAs) when used for wideband sensing. By adopting a realistic DMA res…

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ComSim: Building Scalable Real-World Robot Data Generation via Compositional Simulation

Yiran Qin, Jiahua Ma, Li Kang, Wenzhan Li, Yihang Jiao, Xin Wen, Xiufeng Song, Heng Zhou, Jiwen Yu, Zhenfei Yin, Xihui Liu, Philip Torr, Yilun Du, Ruimao Zhang · 2026

Recent advancements in foundational models, such as large language models and world models, have greatly enhanced the capabilities of robotics, enabling robots to autonomously perform complex tasks. H…

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