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3D Generation for Embodied AI and Robotic Simulation: A Survey

Tianwei Ye, Yifan Mao, Minwen Liao, Jian Liu, Chunchao Guo, Dazhao Du, Quanxin Shou, Fangqi Zhu, Song Guo · 2026

Embodied AI and robotic systems increasingly depend on scalable, diverse, and physically grounded 3D content for simulation-based training and real-world deployment. While 3D generative modeling has a…

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VEHRON: A Configuration-Driven BEV Simulation Framework for Subsystem-Level Studies

Subramanyam Natarajan · 2026

In practical early-stage battery-electric vehicle studies, analysis workflows may become fragmented across spreadsheets, notebooks, and project-specific scripts, making reuse, audit, and extension har…

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Single-Cycle Multidirectional EOG Classification Faster than Human Reaction Time for Wearable Human-Computer Interactions

Tasnia Nabiha, Orthy Toor, Wakim Sajjad Sakib, Abdullah Bin Shams · 2026

Electrooculogram (EOG) is a non-invasive bio-signal generated by the potential difference between the retina and cornea during eye movement, and is widely utilized in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) …

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Designing Robots to Support Parent-Child Connections: Opportunities Through Robot-Mediated Communication

Michael F Xu, Bengisu Cagiltay, Yaxin Hu, Anjun Zhu, Bilge Mutlu · 2026

The sense of family connectedness may support positive outcomes including individual well-being, resilience, and healthy family functioning. However, as technologies advance, they often replace human-…

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Tube Diffusion Policy: Reactive Visual-Tactile Policy Learning for Contact-rich Manipulation

Teng Xue, Alberto Rigo, Bingjian Huang, Jiayi Shen, Zhengtong Xu, Nick Colonnese, Amirhossein H. Memar · 2026

Contact-rich manipulation is central to many everyday human activities, requiring continuous adaptation to contact uncertainty and external disturbances through multi-modal perception, particularly vi…

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Vision-Language-Action in Robotics: A Survey of Datasets, Benchmarks, and Data Engines

Ziyao Wang, Bingying Wang, Hanrong Zhang, Tingting Du, Tianyang Chen, Guoheng Sun, Yexiao He, Zheyu Shen, Wanghao Ye, Ang Li · 2026

Despite remarkable progress in Vision--Language--Action (VLA) models, a central bottleneck remains underexamined: the data infrastructure that underlies embodied learning. In this survey, we argue tha…

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Topology Optimization for Materially Efficient Reinforced Concrete Design: Development, Fabrication, and Structural Evaluation

Jackson L. Jewett, Josephine V. Carstensen · 2026

The production of concrete generates roughly 8% of anthropogenic CO2 globally, largely because of the massive quantities that are manufactured. New design methods must be developed and deployed to imp…

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Hi-WM: Human-in-the-World-Model for Scalable Robot Post-Training

Yaxuan Li, Zhongyi Zhou, Yefei Chen, Yanjiang Guo, Jiaming Liu, Shanghang Zhang, Jianyu Chen, Yichen Zhu · 2026

Post-training is essential for turning pretrained generalist robot policies into reliable task-specific controllers, but existing human-in-the-loop pipelines remain tied to physical execution: each co…

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Low-Cost Turntable Designed for RF Phased Array Antenna Active Element Pattern Measurement

Rebekah Edwards, Taylor Martini, Jonathan E. Swindell, David W. Cox, Adam C. Goad, Austin Egbert, Charles Baylis, Robert J. Marks · 2026

Accurate antenna array calibrations and measurements of aspects such as active element pattern (AEP) are critical for enabling integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technologies such as directio…

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FalconApp: Rapid iPhone Deployment of End-to-End Perception via Automatically Labeled Synthetic Data

Yan Miao, Will Shen, Sayan Mitra · 2026

Reliable perception for robotics depends on large-scale labeled data, yet real-world datasets rely on heavy manual annotation and are time-consuming to produce. We present FalconApp, an iPhone app wit…

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Cram\'{e}r-Rao Bound Optimization for Near-Field ISAC with Extended Targets

Zongyao Zhao, Zhaolin Wang, Lincong Han, Liang Xu, Jing Jin, Yuanwei Liu, Kaibin Huang · 2026

Near-field integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) requires target models beyond the point-target abstraction when the target has a non-negligible spatial extent. In this letter, a geometry-aware …

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

Ruben Hefele, Timo Oksanen · 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 v…

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Think before Go: Hierarchical Reasoning for Image-goal Navigation

Pengna Li, Kangyi Wu, Shaoqing Xu, Fang Li, Lin Zhao, Long Chen, Zhi-Xin Yang, Nanning Zheng · 2026

Image-goal navigation steers an agent to a target location specified by an image in unseen environments. Existing methods primarily handle this task by learning an end-to-end navigation policy, which …

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Learning a Non-linear Surrogate Model for Multistage Stochastic Transmission Planning

Victor Schmitt, Farzaneh Pourahmadi, Angela Flores-Quiroz, Pablo Apablaza, Pierluigi Mancarella · 2026

Transmission expansion planning (TEP) plays a critical role in ensuring power system reliability and facilitating the integration of renewable energy resources. However, this process requires planners…

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Nonlinear Stochastic Density Steering via Gaussian Mixture Schrodinger Bridges and Multiple Linearizations

Mattia Mosso, George Rapakoulias, Yue Guan, Panagiotis Tsiotras · 2026

The paper studies the optimal density steering problem for nonlinear continuous-time stochastic systems. To accurately capture nonlinear dynamics in high-uncertainty regions that deviate significantly…

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Minimal Input Cardinality Disturbance Decoupling of Coupled Oscillators via Output Feedback with Application to Power Networks

Luca Claude Gino Lebon, Johan Lindberg, Claudio Altafini · 2026

In this paper, we identify the smallest set of control input nodes and an associated output feedback law that achieves complete disturbance decoupling for a class of coupled oscillator networks. The f…

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DINO-Explorer: Active Underwater Discovery via Ego-Motion Compensated Semantic Predictive Coding

Yuhan Jin, Nayari Marie Lessa, Mariela De Lucas Alvarez, Melvin Laux, Lucas Amparo Barbosa, Frank Kirchner, Rebecca Adam · 2026

Marine ecosystem degradation necessitates continuous, scientifically selective underwater monitoring. However, most autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) operate as passive data loggers, capturing exh…

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Asymptotically Stable Gait Generation and Instantaneous Walkability Determination for Planar Almost Linear Biped with Knees

Fumihiko Asano, Ning Lei, Taiki Sedoguchi · 2026

A class of planar bipedal robots with unique mechanical properties has been proposed, where all links are balanced around the hip joint, preventing natural swinging motion due to gravity. A common pro…

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Divergence-Guided Particle Swarm Optimization

Kleyton da Costa, Bernardo Modenesi, Ivan F.M. Menezes, Helio Lopes · 2026

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is susceptible to premature convergence when the swarm collapses around the global best, particularly on multimodal landscapes in higher dimensions. We propose Diverg…

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EgoVerse: An Egocentric Human Dataset for Robot Learning from Around the World

Ryan Punamiya, Simar Kareer, Zeyi Liu, Josh Citron, Ri-Zhao Qiu, Xiongyi Cai, Alexey Gavryushin, Jiaqi Chen, Davide Liconti, Lawrence Y. Zhu, Patcharapong Aphiwetsa, Baoyu Li, Aniketh Cheluva, Pranav Kuppili, Yangcen Liu, Dhruv Patel, Aidan Gao, Hye-Young Chung, Ryan Co, Renee Zbizika, Jeff Liu, Xiaomeng Xu, Haoyu Xiong, Geng Chen, Sebastiano Oliani, Chenyu Yang, Xi Wang, James Fort, Richard Newcombe, Josh Gao, Jason Chong, Garrett Matsuda, Aseem Doriwala, Marc Pollefeys, Robert Katzschmann, Xiaolong Wang, Shuran Song, Judy Hoffman, Danfei Xu · 2026

Robot learning increasingly depends on large and diverse data, yet robot data collection remains expensive and difficult to scale. Egocentric human data offer a promising alternative by capturing rich…

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