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Sensing-Assisted Channel Estimation for Flexible-Antenna Systems: A Unified Framework

Ruoxiao Cao, Wentao Yu, Zixin Wang, Shenghui Song, Jun Zhang, Yi Gong, Khaled B. Letaief ยท 2026

Flexible-antenna systems, which use a small number of radio frequency (RF) chains to dynamically access a large set of candidate antenna locations, have emerged as a hardware-efficient architecture foโ€ฆ

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Empirical Material Sampling and Linearisation -- A Simple and Efficient Strain-Space Model Order Reduction Approach for Computational Homogenisation in Large-Deformation Hyperelasticity

Erik Faust, Lisa Scheunemann ยท 2026

In this article, we propose a simple and efficient hyperreduced strain-space model order reduction (MOR) approach for hyperelastic representative volume elements (RVEs), called Empirical Material Sampโ€ฆ

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A New Location Estimator for Mixed LOS & NLOS scenarios

Gaurav Duggal, Richard M. Buehrer, Harpreet S. Dhillon, Jeffrey H. Reed ยท 2026

Time-of-arrival (TOA)-based localization in mixed line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments is challenging because conventional Euclidean range models do not capture diffraction-doโ€ฆ

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Real-Time Solution-Seeking for Game-Theoretic Autonomous Driving via Time-Distributed Iterations

Shaoqing Liu, Mushuang Liu ยท 2026

Computational complexity has been a major challenge in game-theoretic model predictive control (GT-MPC), as real-time solutions to a game (e.g., Nash equilibria (NEs)) have to be computed at each sampโ€ฆ

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A Total Lagrangian Finite Element Framework for Multibody Dynamics: Part II -- GPU Implementation and Numerical Experiments

Zhenhao Zhou, Ruochun Zhang, Ganesh Arivoli, Dan Negrut ยท 2026

We present the numerical methods and GPU-accelerated implementation underlying a Total Lagrangian finite element framework for finite-deformation flexible multibody dynamics, introduced in the companiโ€ฆ

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Natural Gradient Gaussian Approximation Filter with Positive Definiteness Guarantee

Tianyi Zhang, Wenhan Cao, Shengbo Eben Li ยท 2026

Popular Bayes filters often apply linearization techniques, such as Taylor expansion or stochastic linear regression, to enable the use of the Kalman filter structure, but this can lead to large errorโ€ฆ

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\texttt{DR-DAQP}: An Hybrid Operator Splitting and Active-Set Solver for Affine Variational Inequalities

Daniel Arnstrom, Emilio Benenati, Giuseppe Belgioioso ยท 2026

We present \texttt{DR-DAQP}, an open-source solver for strongly monotone affine variational inequaliries that combines Douglas-Rachford operator splitting with an active-set acceleration strategy. Theโ€ฆ

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Radar Cross Section Characterization of Quantized Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Kainat Yasmeen, Shobha Sundar Ram, Debidas Kundu ยท 2026

We present a radar sensing framework based on a low-complexity, quantized reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) that enables programmable manipulation of electromagnetic wavefronts for enhanced detโ€ฆ

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Near-field Beam Training under Multi-path Channels: A Hybrid Learning-and-Optimization Approach

Jiapeng Li, Changsheng You, Guoliang Cheng, Haobin Sun, Chao Zhou, Linglong Dai ยท 2026

For extremely large-scale arrays (XL-arrays), the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) codebook, conventionally used in the far-field, has recently been employed for near-field beam training. However, mosโ€ฆ

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PinPoint: Monocular Needle Pose Estimation for Robotic Suturing via Stein Variational Newton and Geometric Residuals

Jesse F. d'Almeida, Tanner Watts, Susheela Sharma Stern, James Ferguson, Alan Kuntz, Robert J. Webster III ยท 2026

Reliable estimation of surgical needle 3D position and orientation is essential for autonomous robotic suturing, yet existing methods operate almost exclusively under stereoscopic vision. In monocularโ€ฆ

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ROBOGATE: Adaptive Failure Discovery for Safe Robot Policy Deployment via Two-Stage Boundary-Focused Sampling

Azuki Kim ยท 2026

Deploying learned robot manipulation policies in industrial settings requires rigorous pre-deployment validation, yet exhaustive testing across high-dimensional parameter spaces is intractable. We preโ€ฆ

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Performance Analysis of Tri-Sector Reflector Antennas for HAPS-Based Cellular Networks

German Svistunov, Matteo Bernabe, David Lopez-Perez ยท 2026

The increasing demand for ubiquitous, highcapacity mobile connectivity has driven cellular systems to explore beyond-terrestrial deployments. In this paper, we present a system-level performance evaluโ€ฆ

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Cohesive phase-field fracture with an explicit strength surface: an eigenstrain-based return-mapping formulation

Tim Hageman ยท 2026

Standard phase-field fracture methods are rooted in brittle fracture theory and therefore do not inherently prescribe a material strength for crack nucleation, while also struggling to capture cohesivโ€ฆ

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Kamino: GPU-based Massively Parallel Simulation of Multi-Body Systems with Challenging Topologies

Vassilios Tsounis, Guirec Maloisel, Christian Schumacher, Ruben Grandia, Agon Serifi, David Muller, Chris Amevor, Tobias Widmer, Moritz Bacher ยท 2026

We present Kamino, a GPU-based physics solver for massively parallel simulations of heterogeneous highly-coupled mechanical systems. Implemented in Python using NVIDIA Warp and integrated into the Newโ€ฆ

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Fast Volume Alignment by Frequency-Marched Newton

Fabian Kruse, Valentin Debarnot, Vinith Kishore, Ivan Dokmanic ยท 2026

We develop a fast and accurate method for 3D alignment, recovering the rotation and translation that best align a reference volume with a noisy observation. Classical matched filtering evaluates crossโ€ฆ

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Dual Quaternion Based Contact Modeling for Fast and Smooth Collision Recovery of Quadrotors

Valentin Gaucher, Wenlong Zhang ยท 2026

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in cluttered environments require accurate impact modeling to maintain stability post collisions. However, conventional contact models decouple linear and angโ€ฆ

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DRAFTO: Decoupled Reduced-space and Adaptive Feasibility-repair Trajectory Optimization for Robotic Manipulators

Yichang Feng, Xiao Liang, Minghui Zheng ยท 2026

This paper introduces a new algorithm for trajectory optimization, Decoupled Reduced-space and Adaptive Feasibility-repair Trajectory Optimization (DRAFTO). It first constructs a constrained objectiveโ€ฆ

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FoMo: A Multi-Season Dataset for Robot Navigation in For\^et Montmorency

Matej Boxan, Gabriel Jeanson, Alexander Krawciw, Effie Daum, Xinyuan Qiao, Sven Lilge, Timothy D. Barfoot, Francois Pomerleau ยท 2026

The For\^et Montmorency (FoMo) dataset is a comprehensive multi-season data collection, recorded over the span of one year in a boreal forest. Featuring a unique combination of on- and off-pavement enโ€ฆ

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Constraint-Free Static Modeling of Continuum Parallel Robot

Lingxiao Xun, Matyas Diezinger, Azad Artinian, Guillaume Laurent, Brahim Tamadazte ยท 2026

Continuum parallel robots (CPR) combine rigid actuation mechanisms with multiple elastic rods in a closed-loop topology, making forward statics challenging when rigid--continuum junctions are enforcedโ€ฆ

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Hyper-reduction-free reduced-order Newton solvers for projection-based model-order reduction of nonlinear dynamical systems

Liam K. Magargal, Parisa Khodabakhshi, Steven N. Rodriguez ยท 2026

This study proposes an intrusive projection-based model-order reduction framework for nonlinear problems with a polynomial structure, solved iteratively using a Newton solver in the reduced space. It โ€ฆ

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