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PM-EKF: A Physiological Model-Based Extended Kalman Filter for Daily-Life Physical Activity Energy Expenditure Estimation

Shuhao Que, Remco Poelarends, Valentina Breschi, Ying Wang · 2026

Monitoring physical activity energy expenditure (PAEE) in daily life is essential for characterizing individual health and metabolic status. Although indirect calorimetry provides gold-standard PAEE m…

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The role of physical models in the validation and calibration of numerical models -- The example of the Lilleb{\ae}lt Bridge

Paula Apollonia Wunderlich, Gledson Rodrigo Tondo, Guido Morgenthal · 2026

With the rapid advancement of computer technologies enabling fast calculations of complex structures, numerical methods have become a central tool in engineering sciences, while physical models have i…

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AsyncShield: A Plug-and-Play Edge Adapter for Asynchronous Cloud-based VLA Navigation

Kai Yang, Zedong Chu, Yingnan Guo, Zhengbo Wang, Shichao Xie, Yanfen Shen, Xiaolong Wu, Xing Li, Mu Xu · 2026

While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have been demonstrated possessing strong zero-shot generalization for robot control, their massive parameter sizes typically necessitate cloud-based deploymen…

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Single-Cycle Multidirectional EOG Classification Faster than Human Reaction Time for Wearable Human-Computer Interactions

Tasnia Nabiha, Orthy Toor, Wakim Sajjad Sakib, Abdullah Bin Shams · 2026

Electrooculogram (EOG) is a non-invasive bio-signal generated by the potential difference between the retina and cornea during eye movement, and is widely utilized in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) …

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Adaptive vs. Static Robot-to-Human Handover: A Study on Orientation and Approach Direction

Federico Biagi, Dario Onfiani, Simone Silenzi, Cristina Iani, Luigi Biagiotti · 2026

Robot-to-human handovers often rely on static, open-loop strategies (or, at best, approaches that adapt only the position), which generally do not consider how the object will be grasped by the human,…

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Learning Control Policies to Provably Satisfy Hard Affine Constraints for Black-Box Hybrid Dynamical Systems

Aayushi Shrivastava, Kartik Nagpal, Sairam Jinkala, Jean-Baptiste Bouvier, Negar Mehr · 2026

Ensuring safety for black-box hybrid dynamical systems presents significant challenges due to their instantaneous state jumps and unknown explicit nonlinear dynamics. Existing solutions for strict saf…

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Predicting food taste with bound-driven optimization

Pagkratis Tagkopoulos, Dimitris Sfondilis, Ilias Tagkopoulos, Tarek Zohdi · 2026

The prediction of sensory attributes from ingredient-level formulations is an emerging challenge at the intersection of food science and artificial intelligence. We address the fundamental question of…

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Safety-Critical Contextual Control via Online Riemannian Optimization with World Models

Tongxin Li · 2026

Modern world models are becoming too complex to admit explicit dynamical descriptions. We study safety-critical contextual control, where a Planner must optimize a task objective using only feasibilit…

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Differentiable Satellite Constellation Configuration via Relaxed Coverage and Revisit Objectives

Shreeyam Kacker, Kerri Cahoy · 2026

Satellite constellation design requires optimizing orbital parameters across multiple satellites to maximize mission specific metrics. For many types of mission, it is desirable to maximize coverage a…

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ExplainS2A: Explainable Spectral-Spatial Duality Model for Fast Transforming Sentinel-2 Image to AVIRIS-Level Hyperspectral Image

Chia-Hsiang Lin, Zi-Chao Leng · 2026

Mainstream optical satellites often acquire multispectral multi-resolution images, which have limited material identifiability compared to the HSIs. Thus, spectrally super-resolving the MSI into their…

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Maritime Connectivity Vulnerability Index: Construction, Patterns, and Validation Across 185 Economies, 2006-2025

Mohamed Bouka, Moulaye Abdel Kader Moulaye Ismail · 2026

Recent disruptions at major maritime chokepoints have exposed the structural fragility of liner shipping networks. Existing indicators measure connectivity, but none quantify its structural vulnerabil…

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EvoMarket: A High-Fidelity and Scalable Financial Market Simulator

Muyao Zhong, Zhenhua Yang, Yuxiang Liu, Ke Tang, Peng Yang · 2026

High-fidelity, scalable market simulation is a key instrument for mechanism evaluation, stress testing, and counterfactual policy analysis. Yet existing simulators rarely achieve \emph{mechanism fidel…

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E2E-WAVE: End-to-End Learned Waveform Generation for Underwater Video Multicasting

Khizar Anjum, Tingcong Jiang, Dario Pompili · 2026

We present E2E-WAVE, the first end-to-end learned waveform generation system for underwater video multicasting. Acoustic channels exhibit 20--46% bit error rates where forward error correction becomes…

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Decoupling Identity from Utility: Privacy-by-Design Frameworks for Financial Ecosystems

Ifayoyinsola Ibikunle, Tyler Farnan, Senthil Kumar, Mayana Pereira · 2026

Financial institutions face tension between maximizing data utility and mitigating the re-identification risks inherent in traditional anonymization methods. This paper explores Differentially Private…

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Synthesis and Deployment of Maximal Robust Control Barrier Functions through Adversarial Reinforcement Learning

Donggeon David Oh, Duy P. Nguyen, Haimin Hu, Jaime Fernandez Fisac · 2026

Robust control barrier functions (CBFs) provide a principled mechanism for smooth safety enforcement under worst-case disturbances. However, existing approaches typically rely on explicit, closed-form…

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Data-driven augmentation of first-principles models under constraint-free well-posedness and stability guarantees

Bendeguz Gyorok, Roel Drenth, Chris Verhoek, Tamas Peni, Maarten Schoukens, Roland Toth · 2026

The integration of first-principles models with learning-based components, i.e., model augmentation, has gained increasing attention, as it offers higher model accuracy and faster convergence properti…

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Simulator Adaptation for Sim-to-Real Learning of Legged Locomotion via Proprioceptive Distribution Matching

Jeremy Dao, Alan Fern · 2026

Simulation trained legged locomotion policies often exhibit performance loss on hardware due to dynamics discrepancies between the simulator and the real world, highlighting the need for approaches th…

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An Argument-Principle Based Stability Assessment Method for Grey-Box DFIG Systems

Tao Zhang, Zhiguo Hao, Songhao Yang, Hongyue Ma, Baohui Zhang · 2026

Considerable efforts have been made to analyze the small-signal stability of doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) systems. However, commercial confidentiality and frequency coupling make the DFIG sys…

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Reliable Online Resource Allocation for Multi-User Semantic Communications: A Constraint Bayesian Optimization Approach

Huawei Hou, Suzhi Bi, Xian Li, Haixia Zhang, Zhi Quan · 2026

Semantic communication has been increasingly integrated into edge computing systems for reconstruction tasks, owing to its advantages in source compression, robustness to channel noise, and task execu…

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Taming the Black Swan: A Momentum-Gated Hierarchical Optimisation Framework for Asymmetric Alpha Generation

Arya Chakraborty, Randhir Singh · 2026

Conventional momentum strategies, despite their proven efficacy in generating alpha, frequently suffer from the "Winner's Curse", a structural vulnerability in which high performing assets exhibit clu…

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