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Design and Experimental Validation of a 3D Printed Torsional Series Elastic Actuator for Safe Human Robot Interaction

arXiv:2609.19367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ensuring intrinsic safety in physical human robot interaction (pHRI) is a critical requirement for social and service robots. While Series Elastic Actua

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Distributed Model Predictive Control with Connectivity-based Contracts

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arXiv:2609.19912v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Teams of mobile robots rely on continuous communication with their neighbors for coordination, yet most distributed model predictive control (DMPC) sche

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FASA: Feedback-Aware Sampling Adaptation for Efficient Diffusion-Based VLA Models

arXiv:2609.19475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion-based Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve strong performance in embodied tasks, but their iterative sampling imposes heavy computation

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From Models to Systems: A Comprehensive Survey of Efficient Multimodal Learning

arXiv:2609.19445v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid expansion of multimodal models has surfaced formidable bottlenecks in computation, memory, and deployment, catalyzing the rise of Efficient

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GLAMDRING: Gait Learning And Morphology co-Design via Reinforcement LearnING of CPGs

arXiv:2609.19452v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots are moving out of the structured factory floor and into unstructured environments such as disaster sites, planetary surfaces, and agricultural

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Hybrid Residual Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Robotic Book Insertion

arXiv:2609.19962v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Placing a grasped book into a tight shelf is a compact but difficult contact-rich control problem: millimetre-scale pose error can turn a geometrically

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Implementation of Tightly-Coupled SLAM Fusion of GPS, IMU, and LiDAR for Autonomous Vehicles

arXiv:2609.20321v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous vehicles depend entirely on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) to navigate safely in unknown environments. However, relying on a si

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Position: It is Time to Virtualize Foundation Models with a Self-evolving Operating System Layer

arXiv:2609.19203v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI applications have shifted from single, monolithic foundation models (FM) to compound agentic systems. Yet today's stacks remain fragmented: even as p

RTK-Vision PPO for Autonomous Micro UAV Recovery on an Airborne Carrier

arXiv:2609.20629v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous recovery of a micro unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) onto a moving airborne carrier enables reusable deploy-mission-recover operation, but coupl

Towards High-DoF Dexterous Manipulation through VLA Post-Training

arXiv:2609.19666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation-learned vision--language--action (VLA) foundation models acquire broad manipulation capabilities by scaling robot data across tasks and embodi

Transformer fault diagnosis using an efficient simulation-driven variational quantum classifier with domain-aware feature encoding

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arXiv:2609.20214v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Early transformer fault diagnosis is challenged by nonlinear dissolved-gas interactions, overlapping fault signatures, and limited labeled data, while

Trust, but Validate the Instrument: Auditing AI-Generated RTL Verification Plans on Authored Security-Regression Proxies

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arXiv:2609.19844v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI-generated RTL verification plans can satisfy a provider schema yet fail at the boundary to trusted execution. We present SecTB-RTL, an auditable fr

ULOHA: An Underwater Bimanual Robot System for Robot Learning

arXiv:2609.19200v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Underwater visuomotor policy learning has focused primarily on single manipulators, while bimanual imitation learning has been studied largely in air. W

UniExo: Unified Multi-Skill Policies for Musculoskeletal Locomotion and Co-Adaptive Exoskeleton Control

arXiv:2609.19690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Daily locomotion encompasses diverse activities and frequent transitions between them, yet most exoskeleton controllers are designed for a single acti

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Winning a Won Game: Strict Reach-Avoid-Stay Control Barrier Functions for High-Dimensional Black-Box Systems

arXiv:2609.19449v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots must complete their tasks and maintain the achieved outcomes while avoiding safety failures at all times. Strict reach-avoid-stay (sRAS) formaliz

Workspace Models: Lightweight Robotic Memory via Saliency-Driven Supervision

arXiv:2609.20820v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Complex robotic manipulation tasks frequently require a long-term memory of past events and actions. As conditioning on full histories renders policie

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Accuracy- and Real-Time-Aware 4D Radar Preprocessing for Autonomous Driving Perception Systems

arXiv:2609.18542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 4D radar has emerged as a promising next-generation sensor for improving the robustness of autonomous driving perception systems because of its stable s

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Adaptive-MHE : A Sampling-Based Adaptive MPC for Legged Loco-Manipulation via Moving Horizon Estimation

arXiv:2609.17832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Legged robots have demonstrated a remarkable ability to traverse various terrains, yet generating effective loco-manipulation behaviors remains challeng

An Efficient Algorithm for Minimum-Pressure Growth Planning of Vine Robots

arXiv:2609.18070v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vine robots navigate cluttered environments by extending from their tip. Although their ability to operate in such environments has been extensively dem

APGEM: Adaptive Policy-Guided Error Mitigation for Quantum Reinforcement Learning on a Real-World CVRP Case Study

arXiv:2609.18219v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum Reinforcement Learning (QRL) represents policies as variational quantum circuits (VQCs), making it attractive for combinatorial optimization s

DANTINOX: A Unified Framework for Multi-Paradigm Language Modeling

arXiv:2609.17535v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language generation research increasingly spans three paradigms: autoregressive decoding, discrete masked diffusion, and continuous flow-matching. Compa

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DetAug: Obstacle-Blind Trajectory Augmentation for Zero-shot Obstacle Avoidance

arXiv:2609.18395v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Policies for robotic manipulation are produced by training on large teleoperated datasets. These datasets typically consist of free-space trajectories,

DistAL: Distance-based Advantage Learning for VLA Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2609.18392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs) have trans- formed the field of robotic manipulation in recent years by combining the semantic understanding of LLM

Generalizable Neural Reconstruction of High-Fidelity Surfaces via Sparse Volumetric Representations

arXiv:2507.05952v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Neural implicit representations have recently achieved impressive results in novel view synthesis and multi-view 3D reconstruction, yet both NeRF- a

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HyQuant: Hybrid-Precision Quantization for LLM Attention

arXiv:2608.27875v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Quantization has been widely adopted in LLM training and inference to reduce cost and improve efficiency. However, low-bit quantization of the atten

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Learning Multi-Humanoid Pickup and Transport via Decentralized Object-Centric Control

arXiv:2609.17824v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study cooperative multi-humanoid pickup and transport of objects with varying size, weight, and geometry, requiring robot teams of different sizes.

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Loco-Loco-RL: Low-Cost Terrain Mapping for Humanoid Locomotion with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.19041v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Informative terrain perception is important for robust reinforcement learning policies in humanoid locomotion. Still, common sensors such as depth camer

Real-Time Maneuver Planning for Fixed-Wing UAVs in Unsteady Flows Using a GPU-Accelerated Vortex Particle Model

arXiv:2509.16079v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unsteady aerodynamic effects can have a profound impact on aerial vehicle flight performance, especially during agile maneuvers and in complex aerod

ReDIL-GNN: Resynthesis Domain Incremental Learning for Circuit Graph Neural Networks

arXiv:2609.18595v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Logic resynthesis preserves circuit functionality while changing gate vocabulary, topology, and structural statistics, creating domain shift for circuit

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SPROUT: The Open-Source Soft Growing Robot for Search and Rescue

arXiv:2609.17781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft robotic systems have long been theorized as ideal candidates for use in search and rescue operations; however, there have been significant barriers

Switchable-Polarity Electropermanent Magnet: Reconfigurable Magnetic Fields for Scalable Fluidic Control

arXiv:2603.24811v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scalable control of pneumatic and fluidic networks remains fundamentally constrained by architectures that require continuous power input, dense ext

Ultralytics YOLO Evolution: An Overview of YOLO27, YOLO26, YOLO11, YOLOv8, and YOLOv5 Object Detectors for Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

arXiv:2510.09653v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper presents a comprehensive overview of the Ultralytics YOLO family, emphasizing architectural evolution, benchmarking, deployment, an

vidax: A Unified JAX Framework for Video Generative Models on Accelerator Meshes

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arXiv:2609.18077v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-source video generative models ship almost exclusively as PyTorch/CUDA reference implementations. This leaves Cloud TPU pods without a production

BiCLIP: Bidirectional and Consistent Language-Image Processing for Robust Medical Image Segmentation

arXiv:2603.00156v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Medical image segmentation is a cornerstone of computer-assisted diagnosis and treatment planning. While recent multimodal vision-language models ha

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Calibrate, Then Route: A Measured Study of Learned Request Routing for Disaggregated LLM Serving

arXiv:2609.16206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Disaggregated LLM serving places compute heavy prefill and memory heavy decode on separate GPU pools. Systems such as DistServe, Splitwise, and Mooncake

Continuous-Time Machine Learning: A Unified Mathematical Perspective

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arXiv:2609.16710v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continuous-time (CT) machine learning has emerged as a principled framework for modeling temporal dynamics as a continuous process, particularly when

Efficient Quantization-Aware Distillation with Cross-Modal Alignment for Edge Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.16689v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale vision-language models (VLM) such as CLIP enable strong open-vocabulary reasoning, yet deploying these capabilities on resource-constrained

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Enhancing Law-Enforcement Audio Transcription: A LoRA-Based Adaptation of Whisper for BWC Footage

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arXiv:2607.27245v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern policing faces a 'visibility paradox' where law enforcement agencies possess petabytes of Body-Worn Camera (BWC) footage that remains l

GPEvac: GNN-Based PPO for Adaptive Evacuation Routing During Shooting Events

arXiv:2609.16163v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The sharp increase in mass shootings underscores an urgent need for systems that guide victims to safety in real time. An effective evacuation system mu

High-Fidelity Digital Twin Data Models by Randomized Dynamic Mode Decomposition and Deep Learning with Applications in Fluid Dynamics

arXiv:2609.17101v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The purpose of this paper is the identification of high-fidelity digital twin data models from numerical code outputs by non-intrusive techniques (i.e.,

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LLM Inference in a Flash!

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arXiv:2609.16161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities across a range of natural language processing tasks, and LLM inference has emerged as a

Optical-Flow Wingbeat Counting in MuJoCo: A Comparison of Convolutional, Spiking, and Attention-Based Temporal Models

arXiv:2609.17308v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual monitoring of flapping-wing vehicles requires distinguishing individual wingbeats from motion strength and average frequency. This paper presents

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Applications

Optimized Wrench Polytope Analysis for Real-Time Stability Control of Legged Robots in Complex Multi-Contact Configurations

arXiv:2609.17405v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Legged robots offer a variety of automation applications in real-world scenarios. But areas that are difficult to traverse, like slopes, caves, or scaff

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Scaling Laws for Physics-Aware ACOPF Surrogate Learning

arXiv:2609.16282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning-based surrogates for AC optimal power flow (ACOPF) promise large speedups over classical solvers, but their operational value depends on physic

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SWIM: Vision-Language-Grounded Soft Whole-Body Interactive Manipulation

arXiv:2609.17035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft and continuum robots enable manipulation through distributed body deformation and contact, yet translating language and visual context into executa

TARC: Time-Adaptive Robotic Control

arXiv:2510.23176v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Most robotic systems rely on fixed-frequency discrete-time controllers, creating a trade-off between the efficiency of low-frequency control a

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BIG-CBF: Behavior-Imagination-Guided Control Barrier Function with Shared Uncertainty for Mobile Robot Navigation

arXiv:2609.14343v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Control barrier functions (CBFs) provide a mathematically grounded framework for enforcing local collision-avoidance constraints in autonomous mobile ro

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Carbon-Aware Routing for Function Calling in Edge-Cloud LLM Systems