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The False Resonance: A Critical Examination of Emotion Embedding Similarity for Speech Generation Evaluation

Yun-Shao Tsai, Yi-Cheng Lin, Huang-Cheng Chou, Tzu-Wen Hsu, Yun-Man Hsu, Chun Wei Chen, Shrikanth Narayanan, Hung-yi Lee ยท 2026

Objective metrics for emotional expressiveness are vital for speech generation, particularly in expressive synthesis and voice conversion requiring emotional prosody transfer. To quantify this, the fiโ€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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Designing Active Operation in Low-Voltage Distribution Grids: Requirements, Interfaces and Roadmap

Eric Tonges, Andrea Schoen, Frank Marten, Marco Pau, Denis Mende ยท 2026

This paper outlines a pathway towards active operation of lowvoltage distribution grids. In these grids, the growing deployment of distributed generation, controllable demand and storage, together witโ€ฆ

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Output Feedback Backup Control Barrier Functions: Safety Guarantees Under Input Bounds and State Estimation Error

David E. J. van Wijk, Tamas G. Molnar, Samuel Coogan, Manoranjan Majji, Aaron D. Ames, Joel W. Burdick ยท 2026

Guaranteeing the safety of controllers is vital for real-world applications, but is markedly difficult when the states are not perfectly known and when the control inputs are bounded. Backup control bโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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, frictโ€ฆ

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FARM: Foundational Aerial Radio Map for Intelligent Low-Altitude Networking

Shijian Gao, Jiahui Liang, Yifeng Yuan, Wenlihan Lu, Guobin Shen, Liuqing Yang ยท 2026

Precise aerial radio environment characterization is vital for low-altitude planning. However, existing datasets and estimation methods lack the high-resolution granularity required for complex aerialโ€ฆ

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DigiForest: Digital Analytics and Robotics for Sustainable Forestry

Marco Camurri, Enrico Tomelleri, Matias Mattamala, Sebastian Barbas Laina, Martin Jacquet, Jens Behley, Sunni Kanta Prasad Kushwaha, Fang Nan, Nived Chebrolu, Leonard Frei{ss}muth, Marvin Chayton Harms, Meher V.R. Malladi, Fan Yang, Jonas Frey, Cesar Cadena, Marco Hutter, Janine Schweier, Kostas Alexis, Cyrill Stachniss, Maurice Fallon, Stefan Leutenegger ยท 2026

Covering one third of Earth's land surface, forests are vital to global biodiversity, climate regulation, and human well-being. In Europe, forests and woodlands reach approximately 40% of land area, aโ€ฆ

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CBAM-Enhanced DenseNet121 for Multi-Class Chest X-Ray Classification with Grad-CAM Explainability

Utsho Kumar Dey ยท 2026

Pneumonia remains a leading cause of childhood mortality worldwide, with a heavy burden in low-resource settings such as Bangladesh where radiologist availability is limited. Most existing deep learniโ€ฆ

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Periodic OFDMA: A Low-PAPR Multiple Access Scheme for Uplink Communications in 5G and Beyond

Gokce Hacioglu, Serkan Vela ยท 2026

Multiple access techniques are vital for 5G and beyond. While Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) is standard, its high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduces energy efficiency iโ€ฆ

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Simulation-Driven Evolutionary Motion Parameterization for Contact-Rich Granular Scooping with a Soft Conical Robotic Hand

Yongliang Wang, Cristian C. Beltran-Hernandez, Tomoya Takahashi, Masashi Hamaya ยท 2026

Tool-based scooping is vital in robot-assisted tasks, enabling interaction with objects of varying sizes, shapes, and material states. Recent studies have shown that flexible, reconfigurable soft roboโ€ฆ

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Quasi-stationary Slice Detection-Based Robust Respiration Rate Estimation under Large-scale Random Body Movement

Chendong Xu, Shuai Yao, Haoying Bao, Chiyuan Ma, Qisong Wu ยท 2026

Radar-based non-contact respiration rate (RR) measurement has become increasingly popular due to its convenience, non-intrusiveness, and low cost. However, it is still quite challenging to accurately โ€ฆ

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AnyUser: Translating Sketched User Intent into Domestic Robots

Songyuan Yang, Huibin Tan, Kailun Yang, Wenjing Yang, Shaowu Yang ยท 2026

We introduce AnyUser, a unified robotic instruction system for intuitive domestic task instruction via free-form sketches on camera images, optionally with language. AnyUser interprets multimodal inpuโ€ฆ

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Safe and Near-Optimal Gate Control: A Case Study from the Danish West Coast

Martin Kristjansen (Aalborg University), Kim Guldstrand Larsen (Aalborg University), Marius Mikucionis (Aalborg University), Christian Schilling (Aalborg University) ยท 2026

Ringkoebing Fjord is an inland water basin on the Danish west coast separated from the North Sea by a set of gates used to control the amount of water entering and leaving the fjord. Currently, human โ€ฆ

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Assessing Maintenance of Medium Voltage Cable Networks Under Time-Varying Loading

Jochen Lorenz Cremer ยท 2026

The electrification and ongoing energy transition lead to systematic changes in electricity loading and variability in power systems. Distribution systems were designed for regular operating patterns,โ€ฆ

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Deep Neural Network Based Roadwork Detection for Autonomous Driving

Sebastian Wullrich, Nicolai Steinke, Daniel Goehring ยท 2026

Road construction sites create major challenges for both autonomous vehicles and human drivers due to their highly dynamic and heterogeneous nature. This paper presents a real-time system that detectsโ€ฆ

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Empirical and Statistical Characterisation of 28 GHz mmWave Propagation in Office Environments

Ayodeji Bolanle Balogun, Sokipriala Jonah ยท 2026

Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology at 28 GHz is vital for beyond-5G systems, but indoor deployment remains challenging due to limited statistical evidence on propagation. This study investigates pathโ€ฆ

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A comparison of Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms for Bayesian inference of constitutive models

Aricia Rinkens, Rodrigo L. S. Silva, Erik Quaeghebeur, Nick Jaensson, Clemens Verhoosel ยท 2026

Employing Bayesian inference to calibrate constitutive model parameters has grown substantially in recent years. Among the available techniques, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling remains one ofโ€ฆ

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An Integrated Soft Robotic System for Measuring Vital Signs in Search and Rescue Environments

Jorge Francisco Garcia-Samartin, Christyan Cruz Ulloa, Andres Sanchez-Silva, Jaime del Cerro, Antonio Barrientos ยท 2026

Robots are frequently utilized in search-and-rescue operations. In recent years, significant advancements have been made in the field of victim assessment. However, there are still open issues regardiโ€ฆ

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From Energy Transition Pathways to Measurement Requirements: A Scenario-Based Study of Low-Voltage Grids

Nane Zimmermann, Lukas P. Wagner, Luca von Ronn, Florian Strobel, Paul Huttmann, Felix Gehlhoff ยท 2026

Increasing penetration of electric vehicles, heat pumps, and rooftop photovoltaics is creating thermal and voltage stress in low-voltage distribution grids. This work links three German energy transitโ€ฆ

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Alertness Optimization for Shift Workers Using a Physiology-based Mathematical Model

Zidi Tao, A. Agung Julius, John T Wen ยท 2026

Sleep is vital for maintaining cognitive function, facilitating metabolic waste removal, and supporting memory consolidation. However, modern societal demands, particularly shift work, often disrupt nโ€ฆ

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