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LaST-R1: Reinforcing Action via Adaptive Physical Latent Reasoning for VLA Models

Hao Chen, Jiaming Liu, Zhonghao Yan, Nuowei Han, Renrui Zhang, Chenyang Gu, Jialin Gao, Ziyu Guo, Siyuan Qian, Yinxi Wang, Peng Jia, Chi-Wing Fu, Shanghang Zhang, Pheng-Ann Heng ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have increasingly incorporated reasoning mechanisms for complex robotic manipulation. However, existing approaches share a critical limitation: whether employing exโ€ฆ

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RopeDreamer: A Kinematic Recurrent State Space Model for Dynamics of Flexible Deformable Linear Objects

Tim Missal, Lucas Domingues, Berk Guler, Simon Manschitz, Jan Peters, Paula Dornhofer Paro Costa ยท 2026

The robotic manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects (DLOs) is a fundamental challenge due to the high-dimensional, non-linear dynamics of flexible structures and the complexity of maintaining topoloโ€ฆ

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Dreaming Across Towns: Semantic Rollout and Town-Adversarial Regularization for Zero-Shot Held-Out-Town Fixed-Route Driving in CARLA

Feeza Khan Khanzada, Jaerock Kwon ยท 2026

Learned driving agents often degrade when deployed in unseen environments. This paper studies a deliberately bounded instance of that problem in the CARLA simulator: zero-shot transfer of a closed-looโ€ฆ

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Robust Geometric Control of Catenary Robots under Unstructured Force Uncertainties

Alexandre Anahory Simoes, Leonardo Colombo ยท 2026

This paper considers the robust control of a catenary robot composed of two quadrotors connected by an inextensible cable. The system is modeled on \(SE(3)\), with the cable treated as a geometric subโ€ฆ

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Real-Time GPU-Accelerated Monte Carlo Evaluation of Safety-Critical AEB Systems Under Uncertainty

Akshay Karjol, Shadi Alawneh ยท 2026

Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) systems represent a safety-critical national interest, with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS Noโ€ฆ

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The Field of Safe Motion: Operationalizing Affordances in the Field of Safe Travel Using Reachability Analysis

Leif Johnson, Trent Victor, Johan Engstrom ยท 2026

We present the Field of Safe Motion (FSM), a quantitative safety model for determining whether a driver maintains a collision-free escape route, or "out," at any given moment by accounting for that drโ€ฆ

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Walk With Me: Long-Horizon Social Navigation for Human-Centric Outdoor Assistance

Lingfeng Zhang, Xiaoshuai Hao, Xizhou Bu, Yingbo Tang, Hongsheng Li, Jinghui Lu, Xiu-shen Wei, Jiayi Ma, Yu Liu, Jing Zhang, Hangjun Ye, Xiaojun Liang, Long Chen, Wenbo Ding ยท 2026

Assisting humans in open-world outdoor environments requires robots to translate high-level natural-language intentions into safe, long-horizon, and socially compliant navigation behavior. Existing maโ€ฆ

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Atomic-Probe Governance for Skill Updates in Compositional Robot Policies

Xue Qin, Simin Luan, John See, Cong Yang, Zhijun Li ยท 2026

Skill libraries in deployed robotic systems are continually updated through fine-tuning, fresh demonstrations, or domain adaptation, yet existing typed-composition methods (BLADE, SymSkill, Generativeโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 collโ€ฆ

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Dual-LoRA: Parameter-Efficient Adversarial Disentanglement for Cross-Lingual Speaker Verification

Qituan Shangguan, Junhao Du, Kunyang Peng, Feng Xue, Hui Zhang, Xinsheng Wang, Kai Yu, Shuai Wang ยท 2026

Cross-lingual speaker verification suffers from severe language-speaker entanglement. This causes systematic degradation in the hardest scenario: correctly accepting utterances from the same speaker aโ€ฆ

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Lights Out: A Nighttime UAV Localization Framework Using Thermal Imagery and Semantic 3D Maps

Ryan Allen, Melissa Greeff ยท 2026

Reliable backup localization for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in GNSS-denied nighttime conditions remains an open challenge due to the severe modality gap between daytime RGB maps and nigโ€ฆ

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Privileged Foresight Distillation: Zero-Cost Future Correction for World Action Models

Pengcheng Fang, Hongli Chen, Xiaohao Cai ยท 2026

World action models jointly predict future video and action during training, raising an open question about what role the future-prediction branch actually plays. A recent finding shows that this branโ€ฆ

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Cross-Linguistic Rhythmic and Spectral Feature-Based Analysis of Nyishi and Adi: Two Under-Resourced Languages of Arunachal Pradesh

Deepshikha Gogoi, Parismita Gogoi, Yang Saring ยท 2026

Under-resourced languages remain underrepresented in quantitative rhythm research,particularly in systematic intra-branch analysis of acoustic differentiation within closely related linguistic groups.โ€ฆ

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Weak-Fluctuation-Induced Clutter Covariance and Subspace Structure in Single-Snapshot FDA-MIMO GPR

Yisu Yan, Jifeng Guo ยท 2026

Weak constitutive fluctuations in dispersive subsurface media can induce distributed clutter that reshapes the observation structure of ground-penetrating radar (GPR). This paper analyzes this effect โ€ฆ

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An analysis of sensor selection for fruit picking with suction-based grippers

Eva Krueger, Marcus Rosette, Joseph R. Davidson ยท 2026

Robotic fruit harvesting often fails to reliably detect whether a fruit has been successfully picked, limiting efficiency and increasing crop damage. This problem is difficult due to compliant fruit aโ€ฆ

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Wave Tank Experiment for Sea State Monitoring with Distributed Acoustic Sensing

Yoshiyuki Yajima, Sakiko Mishima, Noriyuki Tonami, Tomoyuki Hino, Shugo Aibe, Junichiro Saikawa, Koji Mizuguchi ยท 2026

Monitoring sea states across the offshore wind farm areas is essential to keep their structures safe, efficiently operate the systems, and assess the environmental effects of wind turbines. Conventionโ€ฆ

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Pushing Radar Odometry Beyond the Pavement: Current Capabilities and Challenges

Shaunak Kolhe, Peng Jiang, Maggie Wigness, Philip Osteen, Timothy Overbye, Chrisitan Ellis, Srikanth Saripalli ยท 2026

Radar offers unique advantages for localization in unstructured environments, including robustness to weather, lighting, and airborne particulates. While most prior work has studied radar odometry in โ€ฆ

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MACAW: Matching-free Acquisition of Channels with Anisotropic Wavefronts

Heling Zhang, Shidong Zhou ยท 2026

The escalating data rate demands of future wireless communications necessitate the deployment of extremely large aperture arrays (ELAA) at base stations. In such configurations, wireless channel charaโ€ฆ

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AI-Native Autonomous Infrastructure (ANAI): A Formal Framework for the Next General-Purpose Technology

Hidir Selcuk Nogay ยท 2026

Artificial intelligence is increasingly described as a candidate next generation general purpose technology (GPT). However, existing interpretations predominantly emphasize performance scaling rather โ€ฆ

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On the Generalization Properties of Selective State-Space Models for Filtering Tasks for Unknown Systems

Alex Tang, M. Emrullah Ildiz, Batin Kurt, Samet Oymak, Necmiye Ozay ยท 2026

Selective State-Space Models (SSMs) such as Mamba have emerged as an alternative architecture to self-attention based transformers in sequence modeling tasks. Recent works have demonstrated the use ofโ€ฆ

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