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#machine learning Open access Jun 2026

Physics-Guided Robotic Radiation Source Localization Along Arbitrary Measurement Paths in Unstructured Environments

This study presents an automation framework for robotic RSL that leverages a physics-informed machine learning (PIML) model to precisely estimate the source location, regardless of measurement paths, in unknown environments.

Hojoon Son, Kaijun Tan, Fan Zhang · 0 citations

Towards Lifelong Aerial Autonomy: Geometric Memory Management for Continual Visual Place Recognition in Dynamic Environments

Heterogeneous memory and diversity-aware replay provide an effective basis for continual aerial VPR in mapped operating areas and introduce DBS-Hybrid, which combines prototype-based diversity trimming with representative-first feature-space coverage.

Xing-Yu Shao, Zhiqiang Yan, Liang-Zheng Sun et al. · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Understanding Autonomous Driving Datasets by Describing Differences between Image Subsets in Natural Language

This paper adapts set difference captioning to autonomous driving by focusing on object-centric patches derived from object detection, which simplifies aggregation and enables attribution of differences to specific object instances or categories and introduces a new benchmark, AD-Diff Bench.

Julian Truetsch, Felix Hauser, Christoph Stiller et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Sensing Which Modality Matters: Evidence-Gated Regularization for Robust VLA Policies

Evidence-Gated Regularization (EGR) is proposed, a modality-agnostic training objective that introduces zero inference-time overhead and derives a per-frame and per-sensor task-relevance signal to gate two state-conditional consistency objectives: invariance on low-evidence sensors, and single-sensor sufficiency on hig...

Yue Yang, D. Romeres, C. Hori et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Decentralized Vision-Based Autonomous Aerial Wildlife Monitoring

Wildlife field operations demand efficient parallel deployment methods to identify and interact with specific individuals, enabling simultaneous collective behavioral analysis, and health and safety interventions. Previous robotics solutions approach the problem from the herd perspective, or are manually operated and l...

Makram Chahine, William Yang, Alaa Maalouf et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint May 2025

LightEMMA: A Longitudinal Evaluation of Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving

Empirical findings show that, despite increased model scale and enhanced general reasoning capabilities, successive VLM generations do not consistently achieve better driving performance, and highlight the need for domain-specific adaptation to improve the safety of VLM-based autonomous driving systems.

Zhi-Jie Qiao, Hao-Wei Li, Zhong Cao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

A Low-Cost, Open Platform for End-to-End Autonomous Driving on a Miniature Ackermann Vehicle

This paper presents a low-cost, open experimental platform for research in end-to-end autonomous driving with miniature Ackermann vehicles. The platform combines a physical vehicle, a printed urban track, data collection tools, trajectory registration, and a Webots digital twin, enabling controlled experiments that con...

Gustavo Claudio Karl Couto, Eric A. Antonelo, Gabriel George Zipperer · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Adaptive Vision-Language Grasping via Composable Foundation Priors and Generalizable Grasp Synthesis

This paper proposes AdaRoboVLG, a task-adaptive Vision-Language-Grasp (VLG) framework that supports generalizable grasp synthesis across different robotic hands. Unlike existing VLG methods that tightly couple foundation models with end-to-end grasp policies, AdaRoboVLG learns an efficient generalizable base policy tha...

Si-Xu Yan, Shi-Kang Wang, Bin-Hua Huang et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Subspace Inference Enables Efficient Active Reward Learning from Preferences

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has emerged as a powerful yet sample-inefficient approach for learning reward models from human preferences, making active learning a critical component in synthesizing informative preference queries. However, effective uncertainty quantification required for active lea...

Yu-Tai Zhou, Erdem Biyik · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Catalogue Photography as a Cold Start: Toward Deployable Rotary Milling Tool Recognition

This work treats catalogue photography as a useful cold start rather than a deployment-ready training domain, and provides empirical baselines and an evaluation protocol for catalogue-to-field transfer in precision tool manufacturing.

A. Madavath, Chandra Yuvesh Aubeeluck, Augustin Raju et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

GraFT: A Training-Free Framework for Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models via 3D Scene Graphs

GraFT is introduced, a training-free framework that supplies the missing 3D structure through a compact, easily maintained 3D scene graph (3DSG) and provides three spatial reasoning capabilities: deterministic geometry through symbolic tools, allocentric layout through a bird's-eye-view (BEV) rendering, and visual-attr...

Jun Du, Fernando Ropero, Erkin Turkoz et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

FWBC-VLA: Force-Aware Whole-Body Compensation for Contact-Rich Loco-Manipulation

Contact-rich loco-manipulation requires a bridge between semantic action generation and physical interaction control. Existing Vision-language-action (VLA) models generate task-level actions from visual and linguistic observations, but cannot interpret the physical interactions induced by those actions. While the whole...

Yu-Tian Zhang, Si-Yuan Ma, Li-Wen Yang et al. · 1 citation

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Microsoft Research Blog Sep 23, 2026

Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics

Robots are getting smarter, but how can their hardware match that growth? New Microsoft Research findings show that moving AI inference beyond the robot can improve task success, boost efficiency, and support more advanced physical AI workloads. The post Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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