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Design and Characteristics of a Thin-Film ThermoMesh for the Efficient Embedded Sensing of a Spatio-Temporally Sparse Heat Source

Sajjad Boorghan Farahan, Ahmed Alajlouni, Jingzhou Zhao ยท 2026

This work presents ThermoMesh, a passive thin-film thermoelectric mesh sensor designed to detect and characterize spatio-temporally sparse heat sources through conduction-based thermal imaging. The deโ€ฆ

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Connected Dependability Cage: Run-Time Function and Anomaly Monitoring for the Development and Operation of Safe Automated Vehicles

Iqra Aslam, Nour Habib, Abhishek Buragohain, Meng Zhang, Andreas Rausch, Vaibhav Tiwari, Mohamed Benchat ยท 2026

The advancement of automated vehicles introduces complex safety challenges, particularly in dynamic and unpredictable environments where AI-enabled perception systems must operate reliably. Ensuring cโ€ฆ

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SASI: Leveraging Sub-Action Semantics for Robust Early Action Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction

Yongpeng Cao, Masahiro Hirano, Hyuno Kim, Yuji Yamakawa ยท 2026

Understanding human actions is critical for advancing behavior analysis in human-robot interaction. Particularly in tasks that demand quick and proactive feedback, robots must recognize human actions โ€ฆ

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Recent Advances in mm-Wave and Sub-THz/THz Oscillators for FutureG Technologies

Baktash Behmanesh, Ahmad Rezvanitabar ยท 2026

This paper provides a concise yet comprehensive review of recent advancements in millimeter-wave (mm-wave) oscillators below 100 GHz and sub-terahertz (sub-THz/THz) oscillators above 100 GHz for next-โ€ฆ

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3D Generation for Embodied AI and Robotic Simulation: A Survey

Tianwei Ye, Yifan Mao, Minwen Liao, Jian Liu, Chunchao Guo, Dazhao Du, Quanxin Shou, Fangqi Zhu, Song Guo ยท 2026

Embodied AI and robotic systems increasingly depend on scalable, diverse, and physically grounded 3D content for simulation-based training and real-world deployment. While 3D generative modeling has aโ€ฆ

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Similarity Choice and Negative Scaling in Supervised Contrastive Learning for Deepfake Audio Detection

Jaskirat Sudan, Hashim Ali, Surya Subramani, Hafiz Malik ยท 2026

Supervised contrastive learning (SupCon) is widely used to shape representations, but has seen limited targeted study for audio deepfake detection. Existing work typically combines contrastive terms wโ€ฆ

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Behaviour-aware Hybrid Architecture for Trust-driven Transmissions

Dhrumil Bhatt, Anakha Kurup ยท 2026

Reliable and secure communication is essential for mission-critical aerospace and defence operations involving autonomous platforms such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), satellites, and ground contโ€ฆ

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On Distributed Control of Continuum Swarms: Local Controllers as Differential Operators

Max Emerick, Saroj Prasad Chhatoi, Bassam Bamieh ยท 2026

We study the problem of distributed control of large-scale robotic swarms which can be modeled as continuum densities evolving under the continuity equation. We propose a formalization of distributed โ€ฆ

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Reduced-Order Data Assimilation for Thermospheric Density Using Physics-informed SINDyc Models

Sriram Narayanan, Daniele Sicoli, Piyush Mehta ยท 2026

Accurate estimation of thermospheric mass density is a prerequisite for orbit prediction and space situational awareness, where the upper atmosphere responds nonlinearly to solar and geomagnetic forciโ€ฆ

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On the Generalization Properties of Selective State-Space Models for Filtering Tasks for Unknown Systems

Alex Tang, M. Emrullah Ildiz, Batin Kurt, Samet Oymak, Necmiye Ozay ยท 2026

Selective State-Space Models (SSMs) such as Mamba have emerged as an alternative architecture to self-attention based transformers in sequence modeling tasks. Recent works have demonstrated the use ofโ€ฆ

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Vision-Language-Action Safety: Threats, Challenges, Evaluations, and Mechanisms

Qi Li, Bo Yin, Weiqi Huang, Ruhao Liu, Bojun Zou, Runpeng Yu, Jingwen Ye, Weihao Yu, Xinchao Wang ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are emerging as a unified substrate for embodied intelligence. This shift raises a new class of safety challenges, stemming from the embodied nature of VLA systems,โ€ฆ

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Resource-Constrained Shortest Path with Polytopic Reset Sets

Khaled Surur, Melkior Ornik ยท 2026

This paper investigates the problem of computing the shortest path between two states under resource constraints in environments with resource-replenishment regions. Namely, the length of the path is โ€ฆ

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Private and Common Information States in Decentralized Parallel Dynamic Programming for Delayed Sharing Patterns

Charalambos D. Charalambous, Umarbek Guvercin, Seddik Djouadi ยท 2026

This paper develops a dynamic programming (DP) approach for decentralized stochastic optimal control problems with delayed sharing information patterns, which exhibits the fundamental Properties of clโ€ฆ

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An Interactive Graphical Tool to Check the Coarray Continuity of Two-Fold Redundant Sparse Arrays (TFRSAs) Under Single Sensor Failures

Namya Malik, Ashish Patwari, Sangeetha N ยท 2026

Two-fold redundant sparse arrays possess inbuilt redundancy to tackle single-element failures. This property enables them to perform accurate direction of arrival (DOA) estimation even during single sโ€ฆ

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sumoITScontrol: Traffic Controller Collection for SUMO Traffic Simulations

Kevin Riehl, Anastasios Kouvelas, Michail A. Makridis ยท 2026

Reliable benchmarking is essential for progress in intelligent traffic control research. While microscopic traffic simulators such as SUMO enable detailed modelling of individual vehicle interactions,โ€ฆ

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Vision-Language-Action in Robotics: A Survey of Datasets, Benchmarks, and Data Engines

Ziyao Wang, Bingying Wang, Hanrong Zhang, Tingting Du, Tianyang Chen, Guoheng Sun, Yexiao He, Zheyu Shen, Wanghao Ye, Ang Li ยท 2026

Despite remarkable progress in Vision--Language--Action (VLA) models, a central bottleneck remains underexamined: the data infrastructure that underlies embodied learning. In this survey, we argue thaโ€ฆ

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Time-Localized Parametric Decomposition of Respiratory Airflow for Sub-Breath Analysis

Victoria Ribeiro Rodrigues, Paul W. Davenport, Nicholas J. Napoli ยท 2026

Respiratory airflow signals provide critical insight into breathing mechanics, yet conventional analysis methods remain limited in their ability to characterize the internal structure of individual brโ€ฆ

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GazeVLA: Learning Human Intention for Robotic Manipulation

Chengyang Li, Kaiyi Xiong, Yuan Xu, Lei Qian, Yizhou Wang, Wentao Zhu ยท 2026

Embodied foundation models have achieved significant breakthroughs in robotic manipulation, yet they still depend heavily on large-scale robot demonstrations. Although recent works have explored leverโ€ฆ

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Effects of Swarm Size Variability on Operator Workload

William Hunt, Aleksandra Landowska, Horia A. Maior, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Mohammad Soorati ยท 2026

Real-world deployments of human--swarm teams depend on balancing operator workload to leverage human strengths without inducing overload. A key challenge is that swarm size is often dynamic: robots maโ€ฆ

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ADMM-Based Distributed Kalman-like Observer with Applications to Cooperative Localization

Nicola De Carli, Nicola Bastianello, Dimos V. Dimarogonas ยท 2026

This paper addresses distributed state estimation for multi-agent systems with local and relative measurements, motivated by cooperative localization problems in which the global state dimension scaleโ€ฆ

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