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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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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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Multi-layer barrier adaptation of the discrete-time super-twisting controller

Antoine Thibault Vie, Leonid Fridman, Roberto Galeazzi, Dimitrios Papageorgiou ยท 2026

In digital sliding mode control implementations, discretization-induced chattering and inter-sample blindness can severely degrade the closed-loop performance, especially in case of fast perturbationsโ€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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Sliding Mode Control for Safe Trajectory Tracking with Moving Obstacles Avoidance: Experimental Validation on Planar Robots

Shubham Sawarkar, P Sangeerth, S Saharsh, Pushpak Jagtap ยท 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 transfโ€ฆ

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Efficient Near Field Beam Tracking via Thompson Sampling

Junchi Liu, Zijun Wang, Shawn Tsai, Rui Zhang ยท 2026

The shift to the radiative near field region due to large antenna arrays necessitates beamforming that accounts for both angle and range, evolving mobility management into a joint angular range trackiโ€ฆ

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Robust Operation of Distribution Networks: Generalized Uncertainty Modelling in Confidence-Level-Based Information Gap Decision

Zhisheng Xiong, Dimitris Boskos, Bo Zeng, Peter Palensky, Pedro P. Vergara ยท 2026

This paper studies the robust optimal operation of distribution networks (DNs) under renewable generation and load demand uncertainties, seeking an improved trade-off between robustness and economic pโ€ฆ

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DiariZen Explained: A Tutorial for the Open Source State-of-the-Art Speaker Diarization Pipeline

Nikhil Raghav ยท 2026

Speaker diarization (SD) is the task of answering "who spoke when" in a multi-speaker audio stream. Classically, an SD system clusters segments of speech belonging to an individual speaker's identity.โ€ฆ

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A Systematic Review and Taxonomy of Reinforcement Learning-Model Predictive Control Integration for Linear Systems

Mohsen Jalaeian Farimani, Roya Khalili Amirabadi, Davoud Nikkhouy, Malihe Abdolbaghi, Mahshad Rastegarmoghaddam, Shima Samadzadeh ยท 2026

The integration of Model Predictive Control (MPC) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for constrained decision-making and adaptive control. MPC offers structured optimiโ€ฆ

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LMI Approach for Sliding Mode Control and Analysis of DC-DC Converters

Aleksandra Lekic, Dusan Stipanovic ยท 2026

Circuits' and in particular DC/DC converters' switching behavior is analyzed in this paper using the equivalent control modeling of the dynamic systems' sliding mode regime. As a representative examplโ€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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AI-Enabled Image-Based Hybrid Vision/Force Control of Tendon-Driven Aerial Continuum Manipulators

Shayan Sepahvand, Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi, Farhad Aghili ยท 2026

This paper presents an AI-enabled cascaded hybrid vision/force control framework for tendon-driven aerial continuum manipulators based on constant-strain modeling in $SE(3)$ as a coupled system. The pโ€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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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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Real-Time Solution-Seeking for Game-Theoretic Autonomous Driving via Time-Distributed Iterations

Shaoqing Liu, Mushuang Liu ยท 2026

Computational complexity has been a major challenge in game-theoretic model predictive control (GT-MPC), as real-time solutions to a game (e.g., Nash equilibria (NEs)) have to be computed at each sampโ€ฆ

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From Seeing to Simulating: Generative High-Fidelity Simulation with Digital Cousins for Generalizable Robot Learning and Evaluation

Jasper Lu, Zhenhao Shen, Yuanfei Wang, Shugao Liu, Shengqiang Xu, Shawn Xie, Jingkai Xu, Feng Jiang, Jade Yang, Chen Xie, Ruihai Wu ยท 2026

Learning robust robot policies in real-world environments requires diverse data augmentation, yet scaling real-world data collection is costly due to the need for acquiring physical assets and reconfiโ€ฆ

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Load Block Modeling in Distribution Systems: Network Reconfiguration for Load Restoration

David M. Fobes, Harsha Nagarajan, Manuel Garcia, Robert Ferrando, Russell Bent ยท 2026

The distribution system restoration (DSR) problem has received considerable attention over the last decade or more. Solutions to the DSR problem identify the best set or sequence of actions to performโ€ฆ

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CT-VIR: Continuous-Time Visual-Inertial-Ranging Fusion for Indoor Localization with Sparse Anchors

Yu-An Liu, Li Zhang ยท 2026

Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is widely used for mobile robot localization, but its long-term accuracy degrades without global constraints. Incorporating ranging sensors such as ultra-wideband (UWB) โ€ฆ

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