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Bird-Inspired Spatial Flapping Wing Mechanism via Coupled Linkages with Single Actuator

Daniel Huczala, Sun-Pill Jung, Frank C. Park · 2026

Spatial single-loop mechanisms such as Bennett linkages offer a unique combination of one-degree-of-freedom actuation and nontrivial spatial trajectories, making them attractive for lightweight bio-in…

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O-ConNet: Geometry-Aware End-to-End Inference of Over-Constrained Spatial Mechanisms

Haoyu Sun, Meng Zhao, Tianhao Wang, Jianxu Wu · 2026

Deep learning has shown strong potential for scientific discovery, but its ability to model macroscopic rigid-body kinematic constraints remains underexplored. We study this problem on spatial over-co…

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Battery health reporting fails independent validation across manufacturers

Jeongju Park, Kyungkak Kim, Seungho Geum, Junhyung Lee, Hyeongyu Son, Sekyung Han · 2026

Battery state-of-health (SOH) reported by on-board battery management systems (BMS) is the primary metric available to electric vehicle (EV) owners and regulators, yet no study has validated its relia…

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Influence of Gripper Design on Human Demonstration Quality for Robot Learning

Gina L. Georgadarellis, Natalija Beslic, Seonhun Lee, Frank C. Sup IV, Meghan E. Huber · 2026

Opening sterile medical packaging is routine for healthcare workers but remains challenging for robots. Learning from demonstration enables robots to acquire manipulation skills directly from humans, …

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Equivalent Circuit Modeling of Grid-Forming Inverters in (Sub)-Transient Time-Frame

Ambuj Gupta, Balarko Chaudhuri, Mark O'Malley · 2026

The widely accepted definition of grid-forming (GFM) inverter states that it should behave as a (nearly) constant voltage source behind an impedance by maintaining a (nearly) constant internal voltage…

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Diagnostic Impact of Cine Clips for Thyroid Nodule Assessment on Ultrasound

Jichen Yang, Brian C. Allen, Kirti Magudia, Lisa M. Ho, Chad M. Miller, Maciej A. Mazurowski, Benjamin Wildman-Tobriner · 2026

Background: Thyroid ultrasound is commonly performed using a combination of static images and cine clips (video recordings). However, the exact utility and impact of cine images remains unknown. This …

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Blockchain-Enabled Renewable Energy Certificate Trading: A Secure and Privacy-Preserving Approach

Wei-Jen Liu, Wei-Yu Chiu, Weiqi Hua · 2026

In the 21st century, transitioning to renewable energy sources is imperative, with fossil fuel reserves depleting rapidly and recognizing critical environmental issues such as climate change, air poll…

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Impact Assessment of Heterogeneous Grid Support Functions in Smart Inverter Deployments

S. Gokul Krishnan, Mohd. Asim Aftab, Nabil Mohammed, Shehab Ahmed, Charalambos Konstantinou · 2026

The decarbonization of the energy sector has led to a significant high penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs), particularly photovoltaic (PV) systems, in low-voltage (LV) distribution netw…

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CT-CFAR A Robust CFAR Detector Based on CLEAN and Truncated Statistics in Sidelobe-Contaminated Environments

Jiachen Zhu, Fangjiong Chen, Jie Wu, Ming Xia · 2025

This paper proposes a constant false alarm rate (CFAR) target detection algorithm based on the CLEAN concept and truncated statistics to mitigate the non-homogeneity of reference samples caused by sid…

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Not Quite Anything: Overcoming SAMs Limitations for 3D Medical Imaging

Keith Moore · 2025

Foundation segmentation models such as SAM and SAM-2 perform well on natural images but struggle with brain MRIs where structures like the caudate and thalamus lack sharp boundaries and have low contr…

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MLFM: Multi-Layered Feature Maps for Richer Language Understanding in Zero-Shot Semantic Navigation

Sonia Raychaudhuri, Enrico Cancelli, Tommaso Campari, Lamberto Ballan, Manolis Savva, Angel X. Chang · 2025

Recent progress in large vision-language models has driven improvements in language-based semantic navigation, where an embodied agent must reach a target object described in natural language. Yet we …

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DeepCPD: Deep Learning Based In-Car Child Presence Detection Using WiFi

Sakila S. Jayaweera, Beibei Wang, Wei-Hsiang Wang, K. J. Ray Liu · 2025

Child presence detection (CPD) is a vital technology for vehicles to prevent heat-related fatalities or injuries by detecting the presence of a child left unattended. Regulatory agencies around the wo…

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Deployment of Traditional and Hybrid Machine Learning for Critical Heat Flux Prediction in the CTF Thermal Hydraulics Code

Aidan Furlong, Xingang Zhao, Robert Salko, Xu Wu · 2025

Critical heat flux (CHF) marks the transition from nucleate to film boiling, where heat transfer to the working fluid can rapidly deteriorate. Accurate CHF prediction is essential for efficiency, safe…

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Focus3D: A Practical Method to Adaptively Focus ISAR Data and Provide 3-D Information for Automatic Target Recognition

John R. Bennett · 2025

To improve ATR identification of ships at sea requires an advanced ISAR processor - one that not only provides focused images but can also determine the pose of the ship. This tells us whether the ima…

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xApp Conflict Mitigation with Scheduler

Idris Cinemre, Toktam Mahmoodi, Amirmohammad Farzaneh · 2025

Open RAN (O-RAN) fosters multi-vendor interoperability and data-driven control but simultaneously introduces the challenge of coordinating pre-trained xApps that may produce conflicting actions. Altho…

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Benchmarking Multi-Object Grasping

Tianze Chen, Ricardo Frumento, Giulia Pagnanelli, Gianmarco Cei, Villa Keth, Shahaddin Gafarov, Jian Gong, Zihe Ye, Marco Baracca, Salvatore D'Avella, Matteo Bianchi, Yu Sun · 2025

In this work, we describe a multi-object grasping benchmark to evaluate the grasping and manipulation capabilities of robotic systems in both pile and surface scenarios. The benchmark introduces three…

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Context-aware Constrained Reinforcement Learning Based Energy-Efficient Power Scheduling for Non-stationary XR Data Traffic

Kexuan Wang, An Liu · 2025

In XR downlink transmission, energy-efficient power scheduling (EEPS) is essential for conserving power resource while delivering large data packets within hard-latency constraints. Traditional constr…

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Frenet-Serret-Based Trajectory Prediction

Shashank Verma, Dennis S. Bernstein · 2025

Trajectory prediction is a crucial element of guidance, navigation, and control systems. This paper presents two novel trajectory-prediction methods based on real-time position measurements and adapti…

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Target Tracking Using the Invariant Extended Kalman Filter with Numerical Differentiation for Estimating Curvature and Torsion

Shashank Verma, Dennis S. Bernstein · 2025

The goal of target tracking is to estimate target position, velocity, and acceleration in real time using position data. This paper introduces a novel target-tracking technique that uses adaptive inpu…

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A low order, torsion deformable spatial beam element based on the absolute nodal coordinate formulation and Bishop frame

Mehran Ebrahimi, Adrian Butscher, Hyunmin Cheong · 2024

Heretofore, the Serret-Frenet frame has been the ubiquitous choice for analyzing the elastic deformations of beam elements. It is well known that this frame is undefined at the inflection points and s…

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