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Dynamic Network Prices for Prosumer-aware Hosting Capacity Management
Jiawei Zhang, Gregor Verbic, Frederik Geth +3 more
2026
Eva-Tracker: ESDF-update-free, Visibility-aware Planning with Target Reacquisition for Robust Aerial Tracking
Yue Lin, Yang Liu, Dong Wang +1 more
2026
Self-Supervised JEPA-based World Models for LiDAR Occupancy Completion and Forecasting
Haoran Zhu, Anna Choromanska
2026
CRAFT: Adapting VLA Models to Contact-rich Manipulation via Force-aware Curriculum Fine-tuning
Yike Zhang, Yaonan Wang, Xinxin Sun +6 more
2026
Monocular Reconstruction of Neural Tactile Fields
Pavan Mantripragada, Siddhanth Deshmukh, Eadom Dessalene +2 more
2026
Composable Model-Free RL for Navigation with Input-Affine Systems
Xinhuan Sang, Abdelrahman Abdelgawad, Roberto Tron
2026
Gradient-Enhanced Partitioned Gaussian Processes for Real-Time Quadrotor Dynamics Modeling
Xinhuan Sang, Adam Rozman, Sheryl Grace +1 more
2026
Grid-ECO: Grid Aware Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Placement Optimizer
Bikram Panthee, Haoming Yang, Corey D. Harper +1 more
2026
Implementation of a Directional Modulation Testbed for Reconfigurable Transmitters for Spatially Agile MIMO Systems
Jonathan E. Swindell, David W. Cox, Rebekah Edwards +5 more
2026
Your Robot Will Feel You Now: Empathy in Robots and Embodied Agents
Angelica Lim, Ö. Nilay Yalçin
2026
Interpolation-Inspired Closure Certificates
Mohammed Adib Oumer, Vishnu Murali, Majid Zamani
2026
An Autonomous, End-to-End, Convex-Based Framework for Close-Range Rendezvous Trajectory Design and Guidance with Hardware Testbed Validation
Minduli C. Wijayatunga, Julian Guinane, Nathan D. Wallace +1 more
2026
Visual Foresight for Robotic Stow: A Diffusion-Based World Model from Sparse Snapshots
Lijun Zhang, Nikhil Chacko, Petter Nilsson +8 more
2026
Control Barrier Functions with Audio Risk Awareness for Robot Safe Navigation on Construction Sites
Johannes Mootz, Reza Akhavian
2026
MiDAS: A Multimodal Data Acquisition System and Dataset for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery
Keshara Weerasinghe, Seyed Hamid Reza Roodabeh, Andrew Hawkins +3 more
2026
Self-Refining Vision Language Model for Robotic Failure Detection and Reasoning
Carl Qi, Xiaojie Wang, Silong Yong +6 more
2026
Zero-Shot Adaptation to Robot Structural Damage via Natural Language-Informed Kinodynamics Modeling
Anuj Pokhrel, Aniket Datar, Mohammad Nazeri +2 more
2026
Thermal Imaging for Contactless Cardiorespiratory and Sudomotor Response Monitoring
Constantino Álvarez Casado, Mohammad Rahman, Sasan Sharifipour +4 more
2026
Predicting Dynamic Map States from Limited Field-of-View Sensor Data
Knut Peterson, David Han
2026
LongNav-R1: Horizon-Adaptive Multi-Turn RL for Long-Horizon VLA Navigation
Yue Hu, Avery Xi, Qixin Xiao +4 more
2026
Schur-MI: Fast Mutual Information for Robotic Information Gathering
Kalvik Jakkala, Jason O'Kane, Srinivas Akella
2026
Scaling Verification Can Be More Effective than Scaling Policy Learning for Vision-Language-Action Alignment
Jacky Kwok, Xilun Zhang, Mengdi Xu +4 more
2026
ForeAct: Steering Your VLA with Efficient Visual Foresight Planning
Zhuoyang Zhang, Shang Yang, Qinghao Hu +5 more
2026
6G Empowering Future Robotics: A Vision for Next-Generation Autonomous Systems
Mona Ghassemian, Andrés Meseguer Valenzuela, Ana Garcia Armada +4 more
2026