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OmniRobotHome: A Multi-Camera Platform for Real-Time Multiadic Human-Robot Interaction

Junyoung Lee, Sookwan Han, Jeonghwan Kim, Inhee Lee, Mingi Choi, Jisoo Kim, Wonjung Woo, Hanbyul Joo · 2026

Human-robot collaboration has been studied primarily in dyadic or sequential settings. However, real homes require multiadic collaboration, where multiple humans and robots share a workspace, acting c…

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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 · 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 topolo…

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

Narahari N. Moudhgalya · 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 propos…

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Split over $n$ resource sharing problem: Are fewer capable agents better than many simpler ones?

Karthik Soma, Mohamed S. Talamali, Genki Miyauchi, Giovanni Beltrame, Heiko Hamann, Roderich Gross · 2026

In multi-agent systems, should limited resources be concentrated into a few capable agents or distributed among many simpler ones? This work formulates the split over $n$ resource sharing problem wher…

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DiscreteRTC: Discrete Diffusion Policies are Natural Asynchronous Executors

Pengcheng Wang, Kaiwen Hong, Chensheng Peng, Katherine Driggs-Campbell, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Chenfeng Xu, Chen Tang · 2026

Unlike chatbots, physical AI must act while the world keeps evolving. Therefore, the inter-chunk pause of synchronous executors are fatal for dynamic tasks regardless of how fast the inference is. Asy…

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A Class AAA Solar Testbed for Reproducible Long-Term Characterization of Energy-Harvesting Systems

Lukas Schulthess, Andreas Ratz, Michele Magno, Philipp Mayer · 2026

Energy harvesting promises maintenance-free operation of wireless sensor nodes but introduces strong dependencies on stochastic and deployment-specific environmental conditions. In particular, solar-p…

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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 · 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. Convention…

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A Realistic Discrete Event Simulation model for Ambulance Location and Deployment within a regional Emergency Medical Service

Alberto De Santis, Stefania Iannazzo, Fabio Ingravalle, Stefano Lucidi, Massimo Maurici, Giulia Riccardi, Massimo Roma, Antonio Vinci · 2026

The objective of Emergency Medical Services (EMSs) is to promptly respond to calls from citizens for first aid, providing pre-hospital care and, if necessary, to transfer patients to an appropriate Em…

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Toward Low-Altitude Embodied Intelligence: A Sensing-Communication-Computation-Control Closed-Loop Perspective

Jihao Luo, Zesong Fei, Xinyi Wang, Shuntian Tang, Zilong Liu, Yiqing Zhou · 2026

The rapid growth of the low-altitude economy drives increasingly autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations, giving rise to low-altitude embodied intelligence (LAEI), in which sensing, commun…

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Generalizable Friction Coefficient Estimation via Material Embedding and Proxy Interaction Modeling

Zhendong Wang, Huamin Wang · 2026

Accurately estimating friction coefficients between arbitrary material pairs is critical for robotics, digital fabrication, and physics-based simulation, but exhaustive pairwise testing scales quadrat…

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Trajectory Planning for an Articulated Commercial Vehicle using Model Predictive Contouring Control

A.J. Aertssen, R.G.M. Huisman, I.J.M. Besselink, J. Elfring, M.J.G. van de Molengraft · 2026

This paper presents a trajectory planning method for articulated commercial vehicles, specifically tractor-semitrailers, based on Model Predictive Contouring Control (MPCC). Although MPCC has proven e…

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Learning from Demonstration with Failure Awareness for Safe Robot Navigation

Xianghui Wang, Siwei Cheng, Shanze Wang, Xinming Zhang, Dan Zhang, Wei Zhang · 2026

Learning from demonstration is widely used for robot navigation, yet it suffers from a fundamental limitation: demonstrations consist predominantly of successful behaviors and provide limited coverage…

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GPU-Native Multi-Area State Estimation via SIMD Abstraction and Boundary Condensation

Yifei Xu, Yuzhang Lin · 2026

Power system state estimation (SE) is foundational for grid monitoring, yet conventional centralized solvers face increasing computational pressure as the system scale and real-time requirements grow.…

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A Lightweight Toggleable Adhesion Prototype for Multirotor UAV Landing on Tilting Platforms

Teighin Nordholt, Melissa Greeff · 2026

Autonomous multirotor landings on uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) are critical for persistent maritime operations but remain challenging due to wave-induced tilt, wind disturbances, and limited landin…

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RedVLA: Physical Red Teaming for Vision-Language-Action Models

Yuhao Zhang, Borong Zhang, Jiaming Fan, Jiachen Shen, Yishuai Cai, Yaodong Yang, Jiaming Ji · 2026

The real-world deployment of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models remains limited by the risk of unpredictable and irreversible physical harm. However, we currently lack effective mechanisms to proacti…

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Useful nonrobust features are ubiquitous in biomedical images

Coenraad Mouton, Randle Rabe, Niklas C. Koser, Nicolai Krekiehn, Christopher Hansen, Jan-Bernd Hovener, Claus-C. Gluer · 2026

We study whether deep networks for medical imaging learn useful nonrobust features - predictive input patterns that are not human interpretable and highly susceptible to small adversarial perturbation…

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Are Natural-Domain Foundation Models Effective for Accelerated Cardiac MRI Reconstruction?

Anam Hashmi, Mayug Maniparambil, Julia Dietlmeier, Kathleen M. Curran, Noel E. O'Connor · 2026

The emergence of large-scale pretrained foundation models has transformed computer vision, enabling strong performance across diverse downstream tasks. However, their potential for physics-based inver…

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AI-Driven Performance-to-Design Generation and Optimization of Marine Propellers

Leah Chen, Keni Chih-Hua Wu, Boon Tat Chia, Xiuqing Xing, Jian Cheng Wong · 2026

AI is increasingly used to accelerate engineering design by improving decision-making and shortening iteration cycles. Application to marine propeller design, however, remains challenging due to scarc…

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Monolithically Integrated VO$_2$ Mott Oscillators for Energy-Efficient Spiking Neurons

Fabio Bersano, Cyrille Masserey, Vanessa Conti, Andrea Iaconeta, Niccolo' Martinolli, Ehsan Ansari, Anna Varini, Igor Stolichnov, Adrian Mihai Ionescu · 2026

Brain-inspired non-Boolean computing offers intrinsic error tolerance and parallelism, but its practical deployment is limited by the lack of compact, energy-efficient spiking hardware compatible with…

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