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Rapid Worst-Case Gust Identification for Very Flexible Aircraft Using Reduced-Order Models

Nikolaos D. Tantaroudas, Ilias Karachalios ยท 2026

Identification of worst-case gust loads is a critical step in the certification of very flexible aircraft, yet the computational cost of nonlinear full-order simulations renders exhaustive parametric โ€ฆ

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See, Learn, Assist: Safe and Self-Paced Robotic Rehabilitation via Video-Based Learning from Demonstration

Ali Alabbas, Camillo Murgia, Joanne Regan, Philip Long ยท 2026

In this paper, we propose a novel framework that allows therapists to teach robot-assisted rehabilitation exercises remotely via RGB-D video. Our system encodes demonstrations as 6-DoF body-centric trโ€ฆ

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Exploration-assisted Bottleneck Transition Toward Robust and Data-efficient Deformable Object Manipulation

Yujiro Onishi, Ryo Takizawa, Yoshiyuki Ohmura, Yasuo Kuniyoshi ยท 2026

Imitation learning has demonstrated impressive results in robotic manipulation but fails under out-of-distribution (OOD) states. This limitation is particularly critical in Deformable Object Manipulatโ€ฆ

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Multi-Modal Intelligent Channel Modeling: From Fine-tuned LLMs to Pre-trained Foundation Models

Lu Bai, Zengrui Han, Mingran Sun, Xiang Cheng ยท 2026

To meet the evolving demands of sixth-generation (6G) wireless channel modeling, such as precise prediction capability, extension capabilities, and system participation capability, multi-modal intelliโ€ฆ

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Molecular Dynamics Simulations Reveal PolyQ-Length-Dependent Conformational Changes in Huntingtin Exon-1: Implications for Environmental Co-Solvent Modulation of Aggregation-Prone States

Jai Geddes-Nelson, Xiaochen Liu, Ken-Tye Yong ยท 2026

Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by CAG-repeat expansion in HTT, which lengthens the polyglutamine (polyQ) tract in huntingtin (HTT) and promotes misfolding and aggregation. While polyQ-length-depeโ€ฆ

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TGM-VLA: Task-Guided Mixup for Sampling-Efficient and Robust Robotic Manipulation

Fanqi Pu, Lei Jiang, Wenming Yang ยท 2026

The performance of robotic imitation learning is fundamentally limited by data quality and training strategies. Prevalent sampling strategies on RLBench suffer from severe keyframe redundancy and imbaโ€ฆ

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A Perspective on Open Challenges in Deformable Object Manipulation

Ryan Paul McKennaa, John Oyekan ยท 2026

Deformable object manipulation (DOM) represents a critical challenge in robotics, with applications spanning healthcare, manufacturing, food processing, and beyond. Unlike rigid objects, deformable obโ€ฆ

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Intrusive and Non-Intrusive Model Order Reduction for Airborne Contaminant Transport: Comparative Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification

Lisa Kuhn, Jacopo Bonari, Max von Danwitz, Alexander Popp ยท 2026

Numerical simulations of contaminant dispersion, as after a gas leakage incident on a chemical plant, can provide valuable insights for both emergency response and preparedness. Simulation approaches โ€ฆ

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SODA-CitrON: Static Object Data Association by Clustering Multi-Modal Sensor Detections Online

Jan Nausner, Kilian Wohlleben, Michael Hubner ยท 2026

The online fusion and tracking of static objects from heterogeneous sensor detections is a fundamental problem in robotics, autonomous systems, and environmental mapping. Although classical data assocโ€ฆ

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Nonlinear Predictive Control of the Continuum and Hybrid Dynamics of a Suspended Deformable Cable for Aerial Pick and Place

Antonio Rapuano, Yaolei Shen, Federico Califano, Chiara Gabellieri, Antonio Franchi ยท 2026

This paper presents a framework for aerial manipulation of an extensible cable that combines a high-fidelity model based on partial differential equations (PDEs) with a reduced-order representation suโ€ฆ

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Augmenting Human Balance with Generic Supernumerary Robotic Limbs

Xuanyun Qiu, Dorian Verdel, Hector Cervantes-Culebro, Alexis Devillard, Etienne Burdet ยท 2026

Supernumerary robotic limbs (SLs) have the potential to transform a wide range of human activities, yet their usability remains limited by key technical challenges, particularly in ensuring safety andโ€ฆ

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Convexity Meets Curvature: Lifted Near-Field Super-Resolution

Sajad Daei, Gabor Fodor, Mikael Skoglund ยท 2026

Extra-large apertures, high carrier frequencies, and integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) are pushing array processing into the Fresnel region, where spherical wavefronts induce a range-dependโ€ฆ

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Exploiting Structural Flexibility in SIM-Enabled Communications: From Adaptive Inter-Layer Spacing to Fully Morphable Layers

Ahmed Magbool, Vaibhav Kumar, Marco Di Renzo, Mark F. Flanagan ยท 2026

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) have recently emerged as a promising metasurface-based physical-layer paradigm for wireless communications, enabling wave-domain signal processing through multiโ€ฆ

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General Humanoid Whole-Body Control via Pretraining and Fast Adaptation

Zepeng Wang, Jiangxing Wang, Shiqing Yao, Yu Zhang, Ziluo Ding, Ming Yang, Yuxuan Wang, Haobin Jiang, Chao Ma, Xiaochuan Shi, Zongqing Lu ยท 2026

Learning a general whole-body controller for humanoid robots remains challenging due to the diversity of motion distributions, the difficulty of fast adaptation, and the need for robust balance in higโ€ฆ

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Radar Sensing using Dual-Beam Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface

Kainat Yasmeen, Shobha Sundar Ram, Debidas Kundu ยท 2026

Around-the-corner radar sensing offers an opportunity for the radar to exploit multipath scattering along walls to detect targets beyond blockages. However, the radar detection performance is limited โ€ฆ

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Deep Neural Network-Enhanced Frequency-Constrained Optimal Power Flow with Multi-Governor Dynamics

Fan Jiang, Xingpeng Li, Pascal Van Hentenryck ยท 2026

To ensure frequency security in power systems, both the rate of change of frequency (RoCoF) and the frequency nadir (FN) must be explicitly accounted for in real-time frequency-constrained optimal powโ€ฆ

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Estimation of Ground Reaction Forces from Kinematic Data during Locomotion

Gautami Golani, Dong Anh Khoa To, Ananda Sidarta, Arun-Kumar Kaliya-Perumal, Oliver Roberts, Lek Syn Lim, Jim Patton, Domenico Campolo ยท 2026

Ground reaction forces (GRFs) provide fundamental insight into human gait mechanics and are widely used to assess joint loading, limb symmetry, balance control, and motor function. Despite their cliniโ€ฆ

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Hybrid-Field Channel Estimation for XL-MIMO Systems: Dictionary-based Sparse Signal Recovery

David William Marques Guerra, Taufik Abrao ยท 2026

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems are a key technology for future wireless networks, but the large array aperture naturally creates a hybrid-field (HF) propagationโ€ฆ

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DynamicVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Dynamic Object Manipulation

Haozhe Xie, Beichen Wen, Jiarui Zheng, Zhaoxi Chen, Fangzhou Hong, Haiwen Diao, Ziwei Liu ยท 2026

Manipulating dynamic objects remains an open challenge for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, which, despite strong generalization in static manipulation, struggle in dynamic scenarios requiring rapโ€ฆ

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Singularity-Free Lie Group Integration and Geometrically Consistent Evaluation of Multibody System Models Described in Terms of Standard Absolute Coordinates

Andreas Mueller ยท 2026

A classical approach to the multibody systems (MBS) modeling is to use absolute coordinates, i.e., a set of (possibly redundant) coordinates that describe the absolute position and orientation of the โ€ฆ

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