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Optimizing Dynamic Metasurface Antenna Configurations for Direction-of-Arrival and Polarization Estimation Using an Experimentally Calibrated Multiport-Network Model

Jean Tapie, Philipp del Hougne · 2026

Sensing the direction of arrival and polarization of impinging signals is a key prerequisite for beamforming and interference mitigation in modern wireless communication systems. Dynamic metasurface a…

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A Matrix-Free Galerkin Multigrid Solver and Failure-Mode Screen for Single-GPU 3D SIMP Linear Systems

Shaoliang Yang, Jun Wang, Yunsheng Wang · 2026

Large 3D SIMP studies require repeated elasticity solves for density-dependent operators whose finest matrices are expensive to assemble and whose conditioning degrades under high contrast. We study t…

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Unfitted Multi-Level hp Refinement for Localized and Moving Solution Features

Jan Niklas Schmake, Martin Ruess · 2026

Localized features such as singularities, sharp gradients, discontinuities, and moving sources require adaptive finite element discretizations. Conventional refinement strategies introduce significant…

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Walking Through Uncertainty: An Empirical Study of Uncertainty Estimation for Audio-Aware Large Language Models

Chun-Yi Kuan, Wei-Ping Huang, Hung-yi Lee · 2026

Recent audio-aware large language models (ALLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities across diverse audio understanding and reasoning tasks, but they still frequently produce hallucinated or overly …

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

Sriram Narayanan, Daniele Sicoli, Piyush Mehta · 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 forci…

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OpenPodcar2: a robust, ROS2 vehicle for self-driving research

Rakshit Soni, Chris Waltham, Md Umar Ibrahim, Mark Crampton, Charles Fox · 2026

OpenPodcar2 is a robust, ROS2-interfaced, low-cost, open source hardware and software, autonomous vehicle platform based on an off-the-shelf, hard-canopy, mobility scooter donor vehicle. It is a modif…

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Generalizable Friction Coefficient Estimation via Material Embedding and Proxy Interaction Modeling

Zhendong Wang, Huamin Wang · 2026

Accurately estimating friction coefficients between arbitrary material pairs is critical for robotics, digital fabrication, and physics-based simulation, but exhaustive pairwise testing scales quadrat…

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IPRU: Input-Perturbation-based Radio Frequency Fingerprinting Unlearning for LAWNs

Ce Liu, Rui Meng, Yinqiu Liu, Xiaodong Xu, Yi Ma, Rahim Tafazolli, Ping Zhang · 2026

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) is a key technology for identity authentication in wireless networks. However, due to the rapid dynamics of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs) in low-altitude wirel…

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Extracting Exact Lie Derivatives Without Backpropagation: A Dual Compiler for Neural Control Barrier Functions

Mohammadreza Kamaldar · 2026

Deploying neural-network control barrier functions (CBFs) on embedded hardware requires evaluating the barrier value and its Lie derivatives along the system vector fields at every control cycle. The …

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Useful nonrobust features are ubiquitous in biomedical images

Coenraad Mouton, Randle Rabe, Niklas C. Koser, Nicolai Krekiehn, Christopher Hansen, Jan-Bernd Hovener, Claus-C. Gluer · 2026

We study whether deep networks for medical imaging learn useful nonrobust features - predictive input patterns that are not human interpretable and highly susceptible to small adversarial perturbation…

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Monolithically Integrated VO$_2$ Mott Oscillators for Energy-Efficient Spiking Neurons

Fabio Bersano, Cyrille Masserey, Vanessa Conti, Andrea Iaconeta, Niccolo' Martinolli, Ehsan Ansari, Anna Varini, Igor Stolichnov, Adrian Mihai Ionescu · 2026

Brain-inspired non-Boolean computing offers intrinsic error tolerance and parallelism, but its practical deployment is limited by the lack of compact, energy-efficient spiking hardware compatible with…

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Ufil: A Unified Framework for Infrastructure-based Localization

Simon Schafer, Lucas Hegerath, Marius Molz, Massimo Marcon, Bassam Alrifaee · 2026

Infrastructure-based localization enhances road safety and traffic management by providing state estimates of road users. Development is hindered by fragmented, application-specific stacks that tightl…

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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 · 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 wit…

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Controlling the \'{C}uk Converter using Piecewise Linear Lyapunov Functions

Aleksandra Lekic, Nikola Petrovic, Dusan Stipanovic · 2026

In this paper we design a switching control law for the \'Cuk converter in the continuous conduction mode using piecewise linear Lyapunov functions. These Lyapunov functions can be constructed using d…

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Toward Safe Autonomous Robotic Endovascular Interventions using World Models

Harry Robertshaw, Nikola Fischer, Han-Ru Wu, Andrea Walker Perez, Weiyuan Deng, Benjamin Jackson, Christos Bergeles, Alejandro Granados, Thomas C Booth · 2026

Autonomous mechanical thrombectomy (MT) presents substantial challenges due to highly variable vascular geometries and the requirements for accurate, real-time control. While reinforcement learning (R…

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SL(C)AMma: Simultaneous Localisation, (Calibration) and Mapping With a Magnetometer Array

Thomas Edridge, Manon Kok · 2026

Indoor localisation techniques suffer from attenuated Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals and from the accumulation of unbounded drift by integration of proprioceptive sensors. Magnetic …

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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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Path Integral Control for Partially Observed Systems with Controlled Sensing

Goutam Das, Takashi Tanaka · 2026

Path integral control in Gaussian belief space requires a structural matching condition between the observation-driven diffusion of the belief mean and the actuation authority, which a fixed observati…

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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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Safe Control using Learned Safety Filters and Adaptive Conformal Inference

Sacha Huriot, Ihab Tabbara, Hussein Sibai · 2026

Safety filters have been shown to be effective tools to ensure the safety of control systems with unsafe nominal policies. To address scalability challenges in traditional synthesis methods, learning-…

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