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FlexiTac: A Low-Cost, Open-Source, Scalable Tactile Sensing Solution for Robotic Systems

Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li · 2026

We present FlexiTac, a low-cost, open-source, and scalable piezoresistive tactile sensing solution designed for robotic end-effectors. FlexiTac is a practical "plug-in" module consisting of (i) thin, …

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GSDrive: Reinforcing Driving Policies by Multi-mode Trajectory Probing with 3D Gaussian Splatting Environment

Ziang Guo, Min Chen, Xuefeng Zhang, Yixiao Zhou, Zufeng Zhang, Dzmitry Tsetserukou · 2026

End-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving presents a promising approach for translating perceptual inputs directly into driving actions. However, prohibitive annotation costs and temporal data quality degra…

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Learning-Based Hierarchical Scene Graph Matching for Robot Localization Leveraging Prior Maps

Nimrod Millenium Ndulue, Jose Andres Millan-Romera, Matteo Giorgi, Holger Voos, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez · 2026

Accurate localization is a fundamental requirement for autonomous robots operating in indoor environments. Scene graphs encode the spatial structure of an environment as a hierarchy of semantic entiti…

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Can Tabular Foundation Models Guide Exploration in Robot Policy Learning?

Buqing Ou, Frederike Dumbgen · 2026

Policy optimization in high-dimensional continuous control for robotics remains a challenging problem. Predominant methods are inherently local and often require extensive tuning and carefully chosen …

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DOT-Sim: Differentiable Optical Tactile Simulation with Precise Real-to-Sim Physical Calibration

Yang You, Won Kyung Do, Aiden Swann, Rika Antonova, Monroe Kennedy, Leonidas Guibas · 2026

Simulating optical tactile sensors presents significant challenges due to their high deformability and intricate optical properties. To address these issues and enable a physically accurate simulation…

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Learning Tactile-Aware Quadrupedal Loco-Manipulation Policies

Pokuang Zhou, Yuhao Zhou, Quan Luu, Seungho Han, Heng Zhang, Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li, Arash Ajoudani, Zhengtong Xu, Yu She · 2026

Quadrupedal loco-manipulation is commonly built on visual perception and proprioception. Yet reliable contact-rich manipulation remains difficult: vision and proprioception alone cannot resolve uncert…

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High Coupling Tunable Acoustic Resonators in Monolithic Barium Titanate

Ian Anderson, Agham Posadas, Alexander A. Demkov, Ruochen Lu · 2026

The growing number of wireless communication bands has driven demand for compact, low-loss, and frequency adjustable RF filtering. Tunable acoustic resonators are well suited to address these needs, o…

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PM-EKF: A Physiological Model-Based Extended Kalman Filter for Daily-Life Physical Activity Energy Expenditure Estimation

Shuhao Que, Remco Poelarends, Valentina Breschi, Ying Wang · 2026

Monitoring physical activity energy expenditure (PAEE) in daily life is essential for characterizing individual health and metabolic status. Although indirect calorimetry provides gold-standard PAEE m…

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Model-Free Dynamic Mode Adaptive Control for Data-Driven Control Synthesis

Parham Oveissi, Ankit Goel · 2026

This paper presents a model-free, data-driven control synthesis method called dynamic mode adaptive control (DMAC) for systems whose mathematical models are unavailable or unsuitable for classical con…

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MappingEvolve: LLM-Driven Code Evolution for Technology Mapping

Rongliang Fu, Yi Liu, Qiang Xu, Tsung-Yi Ho · 2026

Technology mapping is a critical yet challenging stage in logic synthesis. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have been applied to generate optimization scripts, their potential for core algorithm enh…

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3D Generation for Embodied AI and Robotic Simulation: A Survey

Tianwei Ye, Yifan Mao, Minwen Liao, Jian Liu, Chunchao Guo, Dazhao Du, Quanxin Shou, Fangqi Zhu, Song Guo · 2026

Embodied AI and robotic systems increasingly depend on scalable, diverse, and physically grounded 3D content for simulation-based training and real-world deployment. While 3D generative modeling has a…

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HiPAN: Hierarchical Posture-Adaptive Navigation for Quadruped Robots in Unstructured 3D Environments

Jeil Jeong, Minsung Yoon, Seokryun Choi, Heechan Shin, Taegeun Yang, Sung-eui Yoon · 2026

Navigating quadruped robots in unstructured 3D environments poses significant challenges, requiring goal-directed motion, effective exploration to escape from local minima, and posture adaptation to t…

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Alter-Art: Exploring Embodied Artistic Creation through a Robot Avatar

Do Won Park, Samuele Bordini, Giorgio Grioli, Manuel G. Catalano, Antonio Bicchi · 2026

As with every emerging technology, new tools in the hands of artists reshape the nature of artwork creation. Current frameworks for robotics in arts deploy the robot as an autonomous creator or a coll…

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A Matrix-Free Galerkin Multigrid Solver and Failure-Mode Screen for Single-GPU 3D SIMP Linear Systems

Shaoliang Yang, Jun Wang, Yunsheng Wang · 2026

Large 3D SIMP studies require repeated elasticity solves for density-dependent operators whose finest matrices are expensive to assemble and whose conditioning degrades under high contrast. We study t…

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A Comparative study on THz Communication Systems: Photonics versus Electronics Approaches

Talha Rahman, Murat Uysal · 2026

Terahertz (THz) communication has emerged as a key enabler for sixth-generation (6G) networks, offering ultrawide bandwidths to support data-intensive applications such as holographic telepresence and…

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Optimizing Tracking Accuracy in Energy-Constrained Multimodal ISAC via Lyapunov-Driven Heterogeneous Mixture-of-Experts

Wenqi Fan, Ning Wei, Ahmad Bazzi, Rongyan Xi, Zhixian Song, You Li, Zhihan Zeng, Yue Xiu, Chadi Assi · 2026

The integration of multimodal sensing and millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications is a key enabler for highly mobile vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) networks. However, continuous high-resolution visua…

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Co-Learning Port-Hamiltonian Systems and Optimal Energy-Shaping Control

Ankur Kamboj, Biswadip Dey, Vaibhav Srivastava · 2026

We develop a physics-informed learning framework for energy-shaping control of port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems from trajectory data. The proposed approach {co-learns} a pH system model and an optimal en…

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Sparse Graph Learning from Sparse Data via Fiedler Number Maximization

Bahar Oveisgharan, Gene Cheung, Andrew Eckford · 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 dist…

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KinDER: A Physical Reasoning Benchmark for Robot Learning and Planning

Yixuan Huang, Bowen Li, Vaibhav Saxena, Yichao Liang, Utkarsh Aashu Mishra, Liang Ji, Lihan Zha, Jimmy Wu, Nishanth Kumar, Sebastian Scherer, Danfei Xu, Tom Silver · 2026

Robotic systems that interact with the physical world must reason about kinematic and dynamic constraints imposed by their own embodiment, their environment, and the task at hand. We introduce KinDER,…

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Improving Sensing Coverage and Compliance of 3D-Printed Artificial Skins Through Multi-Modal Sensing and Soft Materials

Carson Kohlbrenner, Caleb Escobedo, Sayak Ray, Alexander Dickhans, Anna Soukhovei, Nickolaus Jackoski, Lyle Antieau, Alessandro Roncone · 2026

3D-printed artificial skins are a scalable approach to whole-body tactile and proximity coverage, but prior implementations have been limited to unimodal sensing and rigid materials. To improve the pr…

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