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VULCAN: Vision-Language-Model Enhanced Multi-Agent Cooperative Navigation for Indoor Fire-Disaster Response

Shengding Liu, Qiben Yan · 2026

Indoor fire disasters pose severe challenges to autonomous search and rescue due to dense smoke, high temperatures, and dynamically evolving indoor environments. In such time-critical scenarios, multi…

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A note on input signal generators: A relaxation of Willems' fundamental lemma in the SISO case

Yun Jeong Yang, Jin Gyu Lee · 2026

We provide a practical relaxation of Willems' fundamental lemma for discrete-time linear time-invariant (single-input-single-output) systems. Instead of maintaining conventional Willems' persistency o…

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Data-Driven Koopman Predictive Control for Frequency Regulation of Power Systems using Black-Box IBRs

Sohrab Rezaei, Xiaomo Wang, Sijia Geng · 2026

Model uncertainty of inverter-based resources (IBRs) presents significant challenges for power system control and stability. This work studies secondary frequency regulation in inverter-based power sy…

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Willems' Fundamental Lemma with Large Noisy Fragmented Dataset

Sahand Kiani, Constantino M. Lagoa · 2026

Willems' Fundamental Lemma enables parameterizing all trajectories generated by a Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) system directly from data. However, this lemma relies on the assumption of noiseless measu…

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Joint Sensing and Covert Communications in RIS-NOMA Systems

Jiayi Lei, Xidong Mu, Tiankui Zhang, Wenjun Xu, Ping Zhang · 2026

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system is investigated, where the transmitter (Alice) is a dual functional radar communication (DFRC) base sta…

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Multi-User Covert Communication in Spatially Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Jinyoung Lee, Hyeonsik Yeom · 2026

This paper investigates an uplink multi-user covert communication system with spatially distributed users. Unlike prior works that approximate channel statistics using averaged parameters and homogene…

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On Port-Hamiltonian Formulation of Hysteretic Energy Storage Elements: The Backlash Case

Jurrien Keulen, Bayu Jayawardhana, Arjan van der Schaft · 2026

This paper presents a port-Hamiltonian formulation of hysteretic energy storage elements. First, we revisit the passivity property of backlash-driven storage elements by presenting a family of storage…

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A Deep Learning Approach to Multipath Component Detection in Power Delay Profiles

Ondrej Zeleny, Radek Zavorka, Ales Prokes, Tomas Fryza, Jaroslaw Wojtun, Jan M. Kelner, Cezary Ziolkowski, Aniruddha Chandra · 2026

Power Delay Profile (PDP) plays a crucial role in wireless communications, providing information on multipath propagation and signal strength variations over time. Accurate detection of peaks within P…

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Data-Driven Predictive Control for Stochastic Descriptor Systems: An Innovation-Based Approach Handling Non-Causal Dynamics

Yunxiang Ma, Yibo Wang, Zhongmei Li, Chao Shang · 2026

Descriptor systems arise naturally in applications governed by algebraic constraints, such as power networks and chemical processes. The singular system matrix in descriptor systems may introduce non-…

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Stability Guarantees for Data-Driven Predictive Control of Nonlinear Systems via Approximate Koopman Embeddings

Amin Taghieh, SangWoo Park · 2026

Data-driven model predictive control based on Willems' fundamental lemma has proven effective for linear systems, but extending stability guarantees to nonlinear systems remains an open challenge. In …

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Rotatable Antenna Enabled Covert Communication

Qi Dai, Beixiong Zheng, Yanhua Tan, Weidong Mei, Shiqi Gong, Jie Tang, Chengwen Xing · 2026

Unlike conventional fixed-antenna architectures, rotatable antenna (RA) has shown great potential in enhancing wireless communication performance by exploiting additional spatial degrees of freedom (D…

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Unsupervised LiDAR-Based Multi-UAV Detection and Tracking Under Extreme Sparsity

Nivand Khosravi, Rodrigo Ventura, Meysam Basiri · 2026

Non-repetitive solid-state LiDAR scanning leads to an extremely sparse measurement regime for detecting airborne UAVs: a small quadrotor at 10-25 m typically produces only 1-2 returns per scan, which …

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Neural Luenberger state observer for nonautonomous nonlinear systems

Moritz Woelk, Jarod Morris, Wentao Tang · 2026

This work proposes a method for model-free synthesis of a state observer for nonlinear systems with manipulated inputs, where the observer is trained offline using a historical or simulation dataset o…

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Autonomous Inspection of Power Line Insulators with UAV on an Unmapped Transmission Tower

Vaclav Riss, Vit Kratky, Robert Penicka, Martin Saska · 2026

This paper introduces an online inspection algorithm that enables an autonomous UAV to fly around a transmission tower and obtain detailed inspection images without a prior map of the tower. Our algor…

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Unsupervised Semi-Parametric Plug-in Likelihood-Ratio Detection for Covert Communications in the Presence of Disco Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Luyao Sun, Huan Huang, Yongxing Song, Zhongxing Tian, Hongliang Zhang, Weidong Mei, Dongdong Zou, Yi Cai · 2026

Covert communications, also referred to as low probability of detection (LPD) communications, provide a higher level of privacy protection than cryptography and physical-layer security (PLS) by hiding…

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Multi-Functional RIS-enabled Radar and Communication Coexistence: Channel Modeling and a Sub-6 GHz Indoor Measurement Campaign

Anton Tishchenko, Demos Serghiou, Hamidreza Taghvaee, Arman Shojaeifard, Ahmed Elzanaty, Gabriele Gradoni, Mohsen Khalily, Rahim Tafazolli · 2026

In this work, we analyze a multi-functional reconfigurable intelligent surface (MF-RIS)-enabled radar and communication coexistence (RCC) system, detailing the key aspects of its phase synthesis codeb…

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Movable Antenna Empowered Covert Dual-Functional Radar-Communication

Ran Yang, Ning Wei, Zheng Dong, Lin Zhang, Wanting Lyu, Yue Xiu, Ahmad Bazzi, Chadi Assi · 2026

Movable antenna (MA) has emerged as a promising technology to flexibly reconfigure wireless channels by adjusting antenna placement. In this paper, we study a secured dual-functional radar-communicati…

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An Event-Based Opto-Tactile Skin

Mohammadreza Koolani, Simeon Bamford, Petr Trunin, Simon F. Muller-Cleve, Matteo Lo Preti, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Lucia Beccai, Chiara Bartolozzi · 2026

This paper presents a neuromorphic, event-driven tactile sensing system for soft, large-area skin, based on the Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS) integrated with a flexible silicone optical waveguide skin.…

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Transfer-learned Kolosov-Muskhelishvili Informed Neural Networks for Fracture Mechanics

Shuwei Zhou, Christian Haeffner, Shuancheng Wang, Sophie Stebner, Zhen Liao, Bing Yang, Zhichao Wei, Sebastian Muenstermann · 2026

Physics-informed neural networks have been widely applied to solid mechanics problems. However, balancing the governing partial differential equations and boundary conditions remains challenging, part…

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Real-Time Multi-Target Detection and Tracking with mmWave 5G NR Waveforms on RFSoC

Xinyang Li, Hian Zing Voon, Vlad C. Andrei, Alexander Sessler, Nunzio Sciammetta, Ullrich J. Monich, Dominic A. Schupke, Holger Boche · 2025

We demonstrate a real-time implementation of multi-target detection and tracking using 5G New Radio (NR) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) waveform with 400 MHz bandwidth at 28 GHz carrier freq…

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