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Non-Overlap-Aware Egocentric Pose Estimation for Collaborative Perception in Connected Autonomy
Hong Huang, Dongkuan Xu, Hao Zhang, Peng Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14180

Non-Overlap-Aware Egocentric Pose Estimation for Collaborative Perception in Connected Autonomy
Egocentric pose estimation is a fundamental capability for multi-robot collaborative perception in connected autonomy, such as connected autonomous vehicles. During multi-robot operations, a robot needs to know the relative pose between itself and its teammates with respect to its own coordinates. However, different robots usually observe completely different views that contains similar objects, which leads to wrong pose estimation. In addition, it is unrealistic to allow robots to share their …

Levels of Autonomy for AI Agents
K. J. Kevin Feng, David W. McDonald, Amy X. Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12469 https://arxiv.org…

Levels of Autonomy for AI Agents
Autonomy is a double-edged sword for AI agents, simultaneously unlocking transformative possibilities and serious risks. How can agent developers calibrate the appropriate levels of autonomy at which their agents should operate? We argue that an agent's level of autonomy can be treated as a deliberate design decision, separate from its capability and operational environment. In this work, we define five levels of escalating agent autonomy, characterized by the roles a user can take when interac…

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Design and Evaluation of an Uncertainty-Aware Shared-Autonomy System with Hierarchical Conservati...

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Gaze-informed Signatures of Trust and Collaboration in Human-Autonomy Teams

A retrospective on DISPEED -- Leveraging heterogeneity in a drone swarm for IDS execution
Vincent Lannurien, Cam\'elia Slimani, Louis Morge-Rollet, Laurent Lemarchand, David Espes, Fr\'ed\'eric Le Roy, Jalil Boukhobza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11800

A retrospective on DISPEED -- Leveraging heterogeneity in a drone swarm for IDS execution
Swarms of drones are gaining more and more autonomy and efficiency during their missions. However, security threats can disrupt their missions' progression. To overcome this problem, Network Intrusion Detection Systems ((N)IDS) are promising solutions to detect malicious behavior on network traffic. However, modern NIDS rely on resource-hungry machine learning techniques, that can be difficult to deploy on a swarm of drones. The goal of the DISPEED project is to leverage the heterogeneity (exec…

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A Unified Framework for Human AI Collaboration in Security Operations Centers with Trusted Autonomy
This article presents a structured framework for Human-AI collaboration in Security Operations Centers (SOCs), integrating AI autonomy, trust calibration, and Human-in-the-loop decision making. Existing frameworks in SOCs often focus narrowly on automation, lacking systematic structures to manage human oversight, trust calibration, and scalable autonomy with AI. Many assume static or binary autonomy settings, failing to account for the varied complexity, criticality, and risk across SOC tasks c…

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Key Issues Review: Useful autonomous quantum machines
Controlled quantum machines have matured significantly. A natural next step is to increasingly grant them autonomy, freeing them from time-dependent external control. For example, autonomy could pare down the classical control wires that heat and decohere quantum circuits; and an autonomous quantum refrigerator recently reset a superconducting qubit to near its ground state, as is necessary before a computation. Which fundamental conditions are necessary for realizing useful autonomous quantum …

Great video by @… on what it will take for Europe to achieve strategic autonomy in the areas of military power, energy sources, and IT. Highly recommended watch (25 minutes). https://www.youtube.c…

⭐️Trump, Bashed the Federalist Society
(Not Corrupt Enough),
Asserts Autonomy on Judge Picks
⭐️Felon growns increasingly angry at court rulings blocking parts of his agenda,
including by judges he appointed
https://www.

Trump, Bashing the Federalist Society, Asserts Autonomy on Judge Picks
The president has grown increasingly angry at court rulings blocking parts of his agenda, including by judges he appointed.

Beyond Compliance: A User-Autonomy Framework for Inclusive and Customizable Web Accessibility
Lalitha A R
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10324 https://

Beyond Compliance: A User-Autonomy Framework for Inclusive and Customizable Web Accessibility
This paper proposes a shift from compliance-centered web accessibility to a care-driven model that prioritizes user autonomy, using neurodivergent users as a catalyst case for broader personalization needs. While accessibility standards offer a flexible framework, they are often interpreted and implemented as static compliance checklists, our approach reframes it as a flexible, user-centered process. We introduce a customizable Comfort Mode framework that allows users to adapt interface setting…

The Zapatistas are best described as semi-anarchist or libertarian socialist, they blend indigenous, Marxist, and anarchist traditions.
What I admire most is how they reject vanguardism and state power, building horizontal, participatory structures rooted in real community autonomy.
- https://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/…

On the Virtues of Information Security in the UK Climate Movement
Mikaela Brough, Rikke Bjerg Jensen, Martin R. Albrecht
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09719 h…

On the Virtues of Information Security in the UK Climate Movement
We report on an ethnographic study with members of the climate movement in the United Kingdom (UK). We conducted participant observation and interviews at protests and in various activist settings. Reporting on the findings as they relate to information security, we show that members of the UK climate movement wrestled with (i) a fundamental tension between openness and secrecy; (ii) tensions between autonomy and collective interdependence in information-security decision-making; (iii) conflict…

Delegations as Adaptive Representation Patterns: Rethinking Influence in Liquid Democracy
Davide Grossi, Andreas Nitsche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09789 h…

Delegations as Adaptive Representation Patterns: Rethinking Influence in Liquid Democracy
Liquid democracy is a mechanism for the division of labor in decision-making through the transitive delegation of influence. In essence, all individuals possess the autonomy to determine the issues with which they will engage directly, while for other matters, they may appoint a representative of their choosing. So far, the literature has studied the delegation structures emerging in liquid democracy as static. As a result, transitivity defined as the capacity to transfer acquired authority to …

Agentic Semantic Control for Autonomous Wireless Space Networks: Extending Space-O-RAN with MCP-Driven Distributed Intelligence
Eduardo Baena, Paolo Testolina, Michele Polese, Sergi Aliaga, Andrew Benincasa, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Josep Jornet, Tommaso Melodia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10925

Agentic Semantic Control for Autonomous Wireless Space Networks: Extending Space-O-RAN with MCP-Driven Distributed Intelligence
Lunar surface operations impose stringent requirements on wireless communication systems, including autonomy, robustness to disruption, and the ability to adapt to environmental and mission-driven context. While Space-O-RAN provides a distributed orchestration model aligned with 3GPP standards, its decision logic is limited to static policies and lacks semantic integration. We propose a novel extension incorporating a semantic agentic layer enabled by the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-…

PyGemini: Unified Software Development towards Maritime Autonomy Systems
Kjetil Vasstein, Christian Le, Simon Lerv{\aa}g Breivik, Trygve Maukon Myhr, Annette Stahl, Edmund F{\o}rland Brekke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06262

PyGemini: Unified Software Development towards Maritime Autonomy Systems
Ensuring the safety and certifiability of autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) requires robust decision-making systems, supported by extensive simulation, testing, and validation across a broad range of scenarios. However, the current landscape of maritime autonomy development is fragmented -- relying on disparate tools for communication, simulation, monitoring, and system integration -- which hampers interdisciplinary collaboration and inhibits the creation of compelling assurance cases, demanded…

Trump, Bashing the Federalist Society, Asserts Autonomy on Judge Picks (Charlie Savage/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/politics/trump-judges-nominations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LU8.67al.TV7M3LuXBybz&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p11#a250531p11

Followstopper Revisited: Phase-space Lagrangian Controller for Traffic Decongestion
Rahul Bhadani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08036 https://

Followstopper Revisited: Phase-space Lagrangian Controller for Traffic Decongestion
This paper revisits Followerstopper, a phase-space-based control system that had demonstrated its ability to mitigate emergent traffic jams due to stop-and-go traffic during rush hour in the mixed-autonomy setting. Followerstopper was deployed on an autonomous vehicle. The controller attenuates the emanant traffic waves by regulating its velocity according to the relative distance and velocity of the leader car. While regulating the velocity, the controller also prevents the collision of the eg…

What is the biggest threat to companies regarding remote work?
I think it really comes down to remote employees have more autonomy over their life, and so aren't forced to cower to the company. Remote work removes the hassle of having upend ones life when changing companies by moving country etc.

Your Ride, Your Rules: Psychology and Cognition Enabled Automated Driving Systems
Zhipeng Bao, Qianwen Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11842 https://

Your Ride, Your Rules: Psychology and Cognition Enabled Automated Driving Systems
Despite rapid advances in autonomous driving, current autonomous vehicles (AVs) lack effective bidirectional communication with occupants, limiting personalization and recovery from immobilization. This reduces comfort and trust, potentially slowing broader AV adoption. We propose PACE-ADS (Psychology and Cognition Enabled Automated Driving Systems), a human-centered autonomy framework that enables AVs to sense, interpret, and respond to both external traffic and internal occupant states. PACE-…

Rational Superautotrophic Diplomacy (SupraAD); A Conceptual Framework for Alignment Based on Interdisciplinary Findings on the Fundamentals of Cognition
Andrea Morris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05389

Rational Superautotrophic Diplomacy (SupraAD); A Conceptual Framework for Alignment Based on Interdisciplinary Findings on the Fundamentals of Cognition
Populating our world with hyperintelligent machines obliges us to examine cognitive behaviors observed across domains that suggest autonomy may be a fundamental property of cognitive systems, and while not inherently adversarial, it inherently resists containment and control. If this principle holds, AI safety and alignment efforts must transition to mutualistic negotiation and reciprocal incentive structures, abandoning methods that assume we can contain and control an advanced artificial gene…

#wordweavers 26. If you were starting an anthology of short stories, what theme would be easiest for you?
Loss.
Loss of freedom. Loss of autonomy. Loss of agency. Loss of control. Loss of self-confidence. Loss of independence. Loss of dignity.
How much can you loose without actually losing yourself?

From Connectivity to Autonomy: The Dawn of Self-Evolving Communication Systems
Zeinab Nezami, Syed Danial Ali Shah, Maryam Hafeez, Karim Djemame, Syed Ali Raza Zaidi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23710

From Connectivity to Autonomy: The Dawn of Self-Evolving Communication Systems
This paper envisions 6G as a self-evolving telecom ecosystem, where AI-driven intelligence enables dynamic adaptation beyond static connectivity. We explore the key enablers of autonomous communication systems, spanning reconfigurable infrastructure, adaptive middleware, and intelligent network functions, alongside multi-agent collaboration for distributed decision-making. We explore how these methodologies align with emerging industrial IoT frameworks, ensuring seamless integration within digi…

Multi Layered Autonomy and AI Ecologies in Robotic Art Installations
Baoyang Chen, Xian Xu, Huamin Qu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02606 https://

Multi Layered Autonomy and AI Ecologies in Robotic Art Installations
Symbiosis of Agents is a large-scale installation by Baoyang Chen that embeds AI-driven robots in an immersive, mirror-lined arena, probing the tension between machine agency and artistic authorship. Drawing on early cybernetics, rule-based conceptual art, and seminal robotic works, it orchestrates fluid exchanges among robotic arms, quadruped machines, their environment, and the public. A three tier faith system pilots the ecology: micro-level adaptive tactics, meso-level narrative drives, and…

#wordweavers 26. If you were starting an anthology of short stories, what theme would be easiest for you?
Loss.
Loss of freedom. Loss of autonomy. Loss of agency. Loss of control. Loss of self-confidence. Loss of independence. Loss of dignity.
How much can you loose without actually losing yourself?

HabSim: Architecture for modelling disruptions, propagation, detection and repair in deep space habitats
Luca Vaccino, Alana K. Lund, Shirley J. Dyke, Mohsen Azimi, Ethan Vallerga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08903

HabSim: Architecture for modelling disruptions, propagation, detection and repair in deep space habitats
Establishing long-term human settlements in deep space presents significant challenges. Harsh environmental conditions, such as extreme temperature fluctuations, micrometeorite impacts, seismic activity, and exposure to solar and cosmic radiation pose obstacles to the design and operation of habitat systems. Prolonged mission duration and the vast distances from Earth introduce further complications in the form of delayed communication and limited resources, making autonomy especially desirable…

Sign Language: Towards Sign Understanding for Robot Autonomy
Ayush Agrawal, Joel Loo, Nicky Zimmerman, David Hsu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02556 https://

Sign Language: Towards Sign Understanding for Robot Autonomy
Signage is an ubiquitous element of human environments, playing a critical role in both scene understanding and navigation. For autonomous systems to fully interpret human environments, effectively parsing and understanding signs is essential. We introduce the task of navigational sign understanding, aimed at extracting navigational cues from signs that convey symbolic spatial information about the scene. Specifically, we focus on signs capturing directional cues that point toward distant locat…

Autonomous Behavior and Whole-Brain Dynamics Emerge in Embodied Zebrafish Agents with Model-based Intrinsic Motivation
Reece Keller, Alyn Tornell, Felix Pei, Xaq Pitkow, Leo Kozachkov, Aran Nayebi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00138

Autonomous Behavior and Whole-Brain Dynamics Emerge in Embodied Zebrafish Agents with Model-based Intrinsic Motivation
Autonomy is a hallmark of animal intelligence, enabling adaptive and intelligent behavior in complex environments without relying on external reward or task structure. Existing reinforcement learning approaches to exploration in sparse reward and reward-free environments, including class of methods known as intrinsic motivation, exhibit inconsistent exploration patterns and thus fail to produce robust autonomous behaviors observed in animals. Moreover, systems neuroscience has largely overlooke…

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SKiD-SLAM: Robust, Lightweight, and Distributed Multi-Robot LiDAR SLAM in Resource-Constrained Field Environments
Distributed LiDAR SLAM is crucial for achieving efficient robot autonomy and improving the scalability of mapping. However, two issues need to be considered when applying it in field environments: one is resource limitation, and the other is inter/intra-robot association. The resource limitation issue arises when the data size exceeds the processing capacity of the network or memory, especially when utilizing communication systems or onboard computers in the field. The inter/intra-robot associa…

UAVs Meet Agentic AI: A Multidomain Survey of Autonomous Aerial Intelligence and Agentic UAVs
Ranjan Sapkota, Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis, Manoj Karkee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08045

UAVs Meet Agentic AI: A Multidomain Survey of Autonomous Aerial Intelligence and Agentic UAVs
Agentic UAVs represent a new frontier in autonomous aerial intelligence, integrating perception, decision-making, memory, and collaborative planning to operate adaptively in complex, real-world environments. Driven by recent advances in Agentic AI, these systems surpass traditional UAVs by exhibiting goal-driven behavior, contextual reasoning, and interactive autonomy. We provide a comprehensive foundation for understanding the architectural components and enabling technologies that distinguish…

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RT-GuIDE: Real-Time Gaussian splatting for Information-Driven Exploration
We propose a framework for active mapping and exploration that leverages Gaussian splatting for constructing dense maps. Further, we develop a GPU-accelerated motion planning algorithm that can exploit the Gaussian map for real-time navigation. The Gaussian map constructed onboard the robot is optimized for both photometric and geometric quality while enabling real-time situational awareness for autonomy. We show through simulation experiments that our method yields comparable Peak Signal-to-No…

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What Should Be Considered to Support well-being with AI: Considerations Based on Responsible Research and Innovation
To achieve people's well-being with AI systems, we should enable each user to be guided to a healthier lifestyle in a way that is appropriate for her or him. However, there is a dilemma between general well-being as defined in academic and medical discussions and the autonomy users should have when deciding how to promote their well-being. In this position paper, we discuss the difficulty for AI application developers to fully consider in the design phase what might happen to the user, taking a…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02606 has been replaced.
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Multi Layered Autonomy and AI Ecologies in Robotic Art Installations
Symbiosis of Agents is a large-scale installation by Baoyang Chen that embeds AI-driven robots in an immersive, mirror-lined arena, probing the tension between machine agency and artistic authorship. Drawing on early cybernetics, rule-based conceptual art, and seminal robotic works, it orchestrates fluid exchanges among robotic arms, quadruped machines, their environment, and the public. A three tier faith system pilots the ecology: micro-level adaptive tactics, meso-level narrative drives, and…

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Digital-physical testbed for ship autonomy studies in the Marine Cybernetics Laboratory basin
The algorithms developed for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) are often challenging to test on actual vessels due to high operational costs and safety considerations. Simulations offer a cost-effective alternative and eliminate risks, but they may not accurately represent real-world dynamics for the given tasks. Utilizing small-scale model ships and robotic vessels in conjunction with a laboratory basin provides an accessible testing environment for the early stages of validation proces…

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Foundation Models for Rapid Autonomy Validation
We are motivated by the problem of autonomous vehicle performance validation. A key challenge is that an autonomous vehicle requires testing in every kind of driving scenario it could encounter, including rare events, to provide a strong case for safety and show there is no edge-case pathological behavior. Autonomous vehicle companies rely on potentially millions of miles driven in realistic simulation to expose the driving stack to enough miles to estimate rates and severity of collisions. To …