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FreeOcc: Training-Free Embodied Open-Vocabulary Occupancy Prediction

Zeyu Jiang, Changqing Zhou, Xingxing Zuo, Changhao Chen ยท 2026

Existing learning-based occupancy prediction methods rely on large-scale 3D annotations and generalize poorly across environments. We present FreeOcc, a training-free framework for open-vocabulary occโ€ฆ

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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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Multidisciplinary Design Optimization for Wave-Driven Desalination Systems

Nate DeGoede, Maha N. Haji ยท 2026

Wave-driven desalination systems are an innovative solution to the global freshwater crisis, leveraging the complementary characteristics of seawater reverse osmosis and wave energy converters. Howeveโ€ฆ

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PM-EKF: A Physiological Model-Based Extended Kalman Filter for Daily-Life Physical Activity Energy Expenditure Estimation

Shuhao Que, Remco Poelarends, Valentina Breschi, Ying Wang ยท 2026

Monitoring physical activity energy expenditure (PAEE) in daily life is essential for characterizing individual health and metabolic status. Although indirect calorimetry provides gold-standard PAEE mโ€ฆ

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Validating the Clinical Utility of CineECG 3D Reconstructions through Cross-Modal Feature Attribution

Karol Dobiczek, Maciej Mozolewski, Szymon Bobek, Micha{l} Szafarczyk, Peter van Dam, Grzegorz J. Nalepa ยท 2026

Deep learning models for 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis achieve high diagnostic performance but lack the intuitive interpretability required for clinical integration. Standard feature attribโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 aโ€ฆ

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A Matrix-Free Galerkin Multigrid Solver and Failure-Mode Screen for Single-GPU 3D SIMP Linear Systems

Shaoliang Yang, Jun Wang, Yunsheng Wang ยท 2026

Large 3D SIMP studies require repeated elasticity solves for density-dependent operators whose finest matrices are expensive to assemble and whose conditioning degrades under high contrast. We study tโ€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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Robustness Evaluation of a Foundation Segmentation Model Under Simulated Domain Shifts in Abdominal CT: Implications for Health Digital Twin Deployment

Sanghati Basu ยท 2026

Foundation segmentation models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) have demonstrated strong generalization across natural images; however, their robustness under clinically realistic medical imagโ€ฆ

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Bridging the Indoor-Outdoor Gap: Cross-Technology Ranging for Seamless Robot Navigation

Paul Schwarzbach ยท 2026

Mobile robots that move between outdoor and indoor environments still struggle with consistent positioning. Satellite-based and terrestrial ranging each work well in their home domains, but combining โ€ฆ

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Optimal UGV-UAV Cooperative Partitioning and Inspection of Shortest Paths

Ninh Nguyen, Srinivas Akella ยท 2026

We study cooperative shortest path planning for an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) assisted by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in environments with unknown road blockages that are only discovered when โ€ฆ

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Dynamic UGV-UAV Cooperative Path Planning in Uncertain Environments

Ninh Nguyen, Srinivas Akella ยท 2026

This paper addresses the Dynamic UGV-UAV Cooperative Path Planning (DUCPP) problem involving one unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) assisted by one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating on an uโ€ฆ

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Dual-Polarized Massive MIMO Based on Precoding for Vehicle-To-Ground Communication in Urban Rail Transit

Zhengyuan Wu, Junhui Zhao, Qingmiao Zhang, Ming Zhang ยท 2026

The development of intelligent and diversified ser vices in urban rail transit (URT) has resulted in an increasing de mand for high-rate communication between vehicles and ground equipment. However, eโ€ฆ

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Behaviour-aware Hybrid Architecture for Trust-driven Transmissions

Dhrumil Bhatt, Anakha Kurup ยท 2026

Reliable and secure communication is essential for mission-critical aerospace and defence operations involving autonomous platforms such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), satellites, and ground contโ€ฆ

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On Distributed Control of Continuum Swarms: Local Controllers as Differential Operators

Max Emerick, Saroj Prasad Chhatoi, Bassam Bamieh ยท 2026

We study the problem of distributed control of large-scale robotic swarms which can be modeled as continuum densities evolving under the continuity equation. We propose a formalization of distributed 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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asRoBallet: Closing the Sim2Real Gap via Friction-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Underactuated Spherical Dynamics

Fang Wan, Guangyi Huang, Tianyu Wu, Zishang Zhang, Bangchao Huang, Haoran Sun, Mingdong Chen, Chaoyang Song ยท 2026

We introduce asRoBallet, to the best of our knowledge, the first successful deployment of reinforcement learning (RL) on a humanoid ballbot hardware. Historically, ballbots have served as a canonical 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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VISION-SLS: Safe Perception-Based Control from Learned Visual Representations via System Level Synthesis

Antoine P. Leeman, Shuyu Zhan, Melanie N. Zeilinger, Glen Chou ยท 2026

We propose VISION-SLS, a method for nonlinear output-feedback control from high-resolution RGB images which provides robust constraint satisfaction guarantees under calibrated uncertainty bounds despiโ€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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