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Interval Observer Design Using Observability Decomposition for Detectable Linear Systems

Gia Quoc Bao Tran, Thach Ngoc Dinh, Zhenhua Wang · 2026

We provide a systematic interval observer design method for detectable linear time-invariant (LTI) systems, where a part of the state is observable from the measured output. An observability-based inv…

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Design, Modelling and Experimental Evaluation of a Tendon-driven Wrist Abduction-Adduction Mechanism for an upper limb exoskeleton

Juwairiya S. Khan, Mostafa Mohammadi, John Rasmussen, Lotte N.S. Andreasen Struijk · 2026

Wrist exoskeletons play a vital role in rehabilitation and assistive applications, yet conventional actuation mechanisms such as electric motors or pneumatics often introduce undesirable weight, frict…

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Distributed State Estimation of Discrete-Time LTI Systems via Jordan Canonical Representation

Giulio Fattore, Maria Elena Valcher, Rui Gao, Guang-Hong Yang · 2026

In this paper, we address the problem of distributed state estimation for a discrete-time, linear time-invariant system. Building on the framework proposed in [2], we exploit the Jordan canonical form…

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Antagonistic Bowden-Cable Actuation of a Lightweight Robotic Hand: Toward Dexterous Manipulation for Payload Constrained Humanoids

Sungjae Min, Hyungjoo Kim, David Hyunchul Shim · 2025

Humanoid robots toward human-level dexterity require robotic hands capable of simultaneously providing high grasping force, rapid actuation speeds, multiple degrees of freedom, and lightweight structu…

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ModAn-MulSupCon: Modality-and Anatomy-Aware Multi-Label Supervised Contrastive Pretraining for Medical Imaging

Eichi Takaya, Ryusei Inamori · 2025

Background and objective: Expert annotations limit large-scale supervised pretraining in medical imaging, while ubiquitous metadata (modality, anatomical region) remain underused. We introduce ModAn-M…

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Feelit: Combining Compliant Shape Displays with Vision-Based Tactile Sensors for Real-Time Teletaction

Oscar Yu, Yu She · 2024

Teletaction, the transmission of tactile feedback or touch, is a crucial aspect in the field of teleoperation. High-quality teletaction feedback allows users to remotely manipulate objects and increas…

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Canonical Form of Datatic Description in Control Systems

Guojian Zhan, Ziang Zheng, Shengbo Eben Li · 2024

The design of feedback controllers is undergoing a paradigm shift from modelic (i.e., model-driven) control to datatic (i.e., data-driven) control. Canonical form of state space model is an important …

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Towards Tenodesis-Modulated Control of an Assistive Hand Exoskeleton for SCI

Joaquin Palacios, Alexandra Deli-Ivanov, Ava Chen, Lauren Winterbottom, Dawn M. Nilsen, Joel Stein, Matei Ciocarlie · 2023

Restoration of hand function is one of the highest priorities for SCI populations. In this work, we present a prototype of a robotic assistive orthosis capable of implementing tenodesis user control. …

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A Stiffness-Oriented Model Order Reduction Method for Low-Inertia Power Systems

Simon Muntwiler, Ognjen Stanojev, Andrea Zanelli, Gabriela Hug, Melanie N. Zeilinger · 2023

This paper presents a novel model order reduction technique tailored for power systems with a large share of inverter-based energy resources. Such systems exhibit an increased level of dynamic stiffne…

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BioGAN: An unpaired GAN-based image to image translation model for microbiological images

Saber Mirzaee Bafti, Chee Siang Ang, Gianluca Marcelli, Md. Moinul Hossain, Sadiya Maxamhud, Anastasios D. Tsaousis · 2023

A diversified dataset is crucial for training a well-generalized supervised computer vision algorithm. However, in the field of microbiology, generation and annotation of a diverse dataset including f…

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An Interactive Automation for Human Biliary Tree Diagnosis Using Computer Vision

Mohammad AL-Oudat, Saleh Alomari, Hazem Qattous, Mohammad Azzeh, Tariq AL-Munaizel · 2022

The biliary tree is a network of tubes that connects the liver to the gallbladder, an organ right beneath it. The bile duct is the major tube in the biliary tree. The dilatation of a bile duct is a ke…

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Evaluation of 3D GANs for Lung Tissue Modelling in Pulmonary CT

Sam Ellis, Octavio E. Martinez Manzanera, Vasileios Baltatzis, Ibrahim Nawaz, Arjun Nair, Loic Le Folgoc, Sujal Desai, Ben Glocker, Julia A. Schnabel · 2022

GANs are able to model accurately the distribution of complex, high-dimensional datasets, e.g. images. This makes high-quality GANs useful for unsupervised anomaly detection in medical imaging. Howeve…

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WOGAN at the SBST 2022 CPS Tool Competition

Jarkko Peltomaki, Frankie Spencer, Ivan Porres · 2022

WOGAN is an online test generation algorithm based on Wasserstein generative adversarial networks. In this note, we present how WOGAN works and summarize its performance in the SBST 2022 CPS tool comp…

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Dynamic Models of Spherical Parallel Robots for Model-Based Control Schemes

Ali Hassani, Abbas Bataleblu, S. A. Khalilpour, Hamid D. Taghirad, Philippe Cardou · 2021

In this paper, derivation of different forms of dynamic formulation of spherical parallel robots (SPRs) is investigated. These formulations include the explicit dynamic forms, linear regressor, and Sl…

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Enabling variable high spatial resolution retrieval from a long pulse BOTDA sensor

Zhao Ge, Li Shen, Can Zhao, Hao Wu, Zhiyong Zhao, Ming Tang · 2021

In the field of Internet of Things, there is an urgent need for sensors with large-scale sensing capability for scenarios such as intelligent monitoring of production lines and urban infrastructure. B…

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Chitrakar: Robotic System for Drawing Jordan Curve of Facial Portrait

Aniruddha Singhal, Ayush Kumar, Shivam Thukral, Deepak Raina, Swagat Kumar · 2020

This paper presents a robotic system (\textit{Chitrakar}) which autonomously converts any image of a human face to a recognizable non-self-intersecting loop (Jordan Curve) and draws it on any planar s…

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DR-Unet104 for Multimodal MRI brain tumor segmentation

Jordan Colman, Lei Zhang, Wenting Duan, Xujiong Ye · 2020

In this paper we propose a 2D deep residual Unet with 104 convolutional layers (DR-Unet104) for lesion segmentation in brain MRIs. We make multiple additions to the Unet architecture, including adding…

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Improving the spatial resolution of a BOTDA sensor using deconvolution algorithm

Li Shen, Zhiyong Zhao, Can Zhao, Hao Wu, Chao Lu (Fellow, OSA), Ming Tang (Senior Member, IEEE) · 2020

Spatial resolution improvement from an acquired measurement using long pulse is developed for Brillouin optical time domain analysis (BOTDA) systems based on the total variation deconvolution algorith…

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not-so-BigGAN: Generating High-Fidelity Images on Small Compute with Wavelet-based Super-Resolution

Seungwook Han, Akash Srivastava, Cole Hurwitz, Prasanna Sattigeri, David D. Cox · 2020

State-of-the-art models for high-resolution image generation, such as BigGAN and VQVAE-2, require an incredible amount of compute resources and/or time (512 TPU-v3 cores) to train, putting them out of…

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Digraph Signal Processing with Generalized Boundary Conditions

Bastian Seifert, Markus Puschel · 2020

Signal processing on directed graphs (digraphs) is problematic, since the graph shift, and thus associated filters, are in general not diagonalizable. Furthermore, the Fourier transform in this case i…

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