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Can Tabular Foundation Models Guide Exploration in Robot Policy Learning?

Buqing Ou, Frederike Dumbgen ยท 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 โ€ฆ

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LLM-Flax : Generalizable Robotic Task Planning via Neuro-Symbolic Approaches with Large Language Models

Seongmin Kim, Daegyu Lee ยท 2026

Deploying a neuro-symbolic task planner on a new domain today requires significant manual effort: a domain expert must author relaxation and complementary rules, and hundreds of training problems mustโ€ฆ

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A 21-24 GHz Low-Phase-Noise mmWave VCO with Third-Harmonic Expansion using a Triple-Coupled Transformer based Tank

Narahari N. Moudhgalya ยท 2026

This work presents the design and analysis of a sixth-order triple-coupled transformer-based tank, enabling third-harmonic expansion for mmWave VCOs. Unlike conventional fourth-order tanks, the proposโ€ฆ

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Polarization-diverse Detection at Microwave Frequencies Using A Passive Metasurface Aperture

Md. Abrar A Mushfik, Mohammad Ali Kaisar, Mohiminul Islam Bhuiyan Sahed, Idban Alamzadeh ยท 2026

Metasurfaces' ability to control electromagnetic wave propagation has led to a rapid paradigm shift in wireless operation. These metasurfaces are often called reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISsโ€ฆ

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The Fragility of Learning LQG Controllers

Bruce D. Lee, Anastasios Tsiamis, Nikolai Matni, Manfred Morari, John Lygeros ยท 2026

Learning methods are increasingly used to synthesize controllers from data, yet existing sample-complexity characterizations for continuous control are sharp only in the fully observed setting. This pโ€ฆ

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OpenPodcar2: a robust, ROS2 vehicle for self-driving research

Rakshit Soni, Chris Waltham, Md Umar Ibrahim, Mark Crampton, Charles Fox ยท 2026

OpenPodcar2 is a robust, ROS2-interfaced, low-cost, open source hardware and software, autonomous vehicle platform based on an off-the-shelf, hard-canopy, mobility scooter donor vehicle. It is a modifโ€ฆ

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AsyncShield: A Plug-and-Play Edge Adapter for Asynchronous Cloud-based VLA Navigation

Kai Yang, Zedong Chu, Yingnan Guo, Zhengbo Wang, Shichao Xie, Yanfen Shen, Xiaolong Wu, Xing Li, Mu Xu ยท 2026

While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have been demonstrated possessing strong zero-shot generalization for robot control, their massive parameter sizes typically necessitate cloud-based deploymenโ€ฆ

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Learning Control Policies to Provably Satisfy Hard Affine Constraints for Black-Box Hybrid Dynamical Systems

Aayushi Shrivastava, Kartik Nagpal, Sairam Jinkala, Jean-Baptiste Bouvier, Negar Mehr ยท 2026

Ensuring safety for black-box hybrid dynamical systems presents significant challenges due to their instantaneous state jumps and unknown explicit nonlinear dynamics. Existing solutions for strict safโ€ฆ

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MISTY: High-Throughput Motion Planning via Mixer-based Single-step Drifting

Yining Xing, Zehong Ke, Yiqian Tu, Zhiyuan Liu, Wenhao Yu, Jianqiang Wang ยท 2026

Multi-modal trajectory generation is essential for safe autonomous driving, yet existing diffusion-based planners suffer from high inference latency due to iterative neural function evaluations. This โ€ฆ

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Reasoning About Traversability: Language-Guided Off-Road 3D Trajectory Planning

Byounggun Park, Soonmin Hwang ยท 2026

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) enable high-level semantic reasoning for end-to-end autonomous driving, particularly in unstructured environments, existing off-road datasets suffer from language aโ€ฆ

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Radar Odometry Subject to High Tilt Dynamics of Subarctic Environments

Matej Boxan, William Larrivee-Hardy, Francois Pomerleau ยท 2026

Rotating FMCW radar odometry methods often assume flat ground conditions. While this assumption is sufficient in many scenarios, including urban environments or flat mining setups, the highly dynamic โ€ฆ

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Wrench-Aware Admittance Control for Unknown-Payload Manipulation

Hossein Gholampour, Logan E. Beaver ยท 2026

Unknown payloads can strongly affect compliant robotic manipulation, especially when the payload center of mass is not aligned with the tool center point. In this case, the payload generates an offsetโ€ฆ

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Achieving Interaction Fluidity in a Wizard-of-Oz Robotic System: A Prototype for Fluid Error-Correction

Carlos Baptista De Lima, Julian Hough, Frank Forster, Patrick Holthaus, Yongjun Zheng ยท 2026

Achieving truly fluid interaction with robots with speech interfaces remains a hard problem, and the experience of current Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) remains laboured and frustrating. Some of the bโ€ฆ

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Safe Control using Learned Safety Filters and Adaptive Conformal Inference

Sacha Huriot, Ihab Tabbara, Hussein Sibai ยท 2026

Safety filters have been shown to be effective tools to ensure the safety of control systems with unsafe nominal policies. To address scalability challenges in traditional synthesis methods, learning-โ€ฆ

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WiFo-MiSAC: A Wireless Foundation Model for Multimodal Sensing and Communication Integration via Synesthesia of Machines (SoM)

Xuanyu Liu, Shijian Gao, Boxun Liu, Xiang Cheng, Liuqing Yang ยท 2026

Current learning-based wireless methods struggle with generalization due to the fragmented processing of communication and sensing data. WiFo-MiSAC addresses this as a task-agnostic foundation model tโ€ฆ

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EcoTIM: Fuel-saving multi-brand tillage with ISO 11783 TIM

Ruben Hefele, Timo Oksanen ยท 2026

Tillage operations account for a large share of on-farm diesel consumption, yet the fuel efficiency of the combined tractor-implement system is not optimised in current practice. Modern continuously vโ€ฆ

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Memory Centric Power Allocation for Multi-Agent Embodied Question Answering

Chengyang Li, Shuai Wang, Kejiang Ye, Weijie Yuan, Boyu Zhou, Yik-Chung Wu, Chengzhong Xu, Huseyin Arslan ยท 2026

This paper considers multi-agent embodied question answering (MA-EQA), which aims to query robot teams on what they have seen over a long horizon. In contrast to existing edge resource management methโ€ฆ

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Planning Smooth and Safe Control Laws for a Unicycle Robot Among Obstacles

Aref Amiri, Basak Sakcak, Steven M. LaValle ยท 2026

This paper presents a framework for safe navigation of a unicycle point robot to a goal position in an environment populated with obstacles from almost any admissible state, considering input limits. โ€ฆ

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A Model and Estimation of the Bitcoin Transaction Fee

Daniel Aronoff, Kristian Praizner, Armin Sabouri ยท 2026

Bitcoin transaction fees will become more important as the block subsidy declines, but fee formation is hard to study with blockchain data alone because the relevant queueing environment is unobservedโ€ฆ

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Time-Division Multiplexing Actuation in Tendon-Driven Arms: Lightweight Design and Fault Tolerance

Shoujie Li, Changqing Guo, Jianle Xu, Hong Luo, Xueqian Wang, Wenbo Ding, Bin Liang ยท 2026

Robotic manipulators for aerospace applications require a delicate balance between lightweight construction and fault-tolerant operation to satisfy strict weight limitations and ensure reliability in โ€ฆ

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