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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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Hybrid A*-Based Reverse Path-Planning of a Vehicle with Trailer System

Xincheng Cao, Haochong Chen, Bilin Aksun-Guvenc, Levent Guvenc, Brian Link, Peter J Richmond, Dokyung Yim, Shihong Fan, John Harber · 2026

Reverse parking maneuvering of a vehicle with trailer system is a difficult task to complete for human drivers due to the multi-body nature of the system and the unintuitive controls required to orien…

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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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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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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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A Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability-Guided Search Framework for Efficient and Safe Indoor Planar Robot Navigation

Hanyang Hu, Cameron Siu, Mo Chen · 2026

Autonomous navigation requires planning to reach a goal safely and efficiently in complex and potentially dynamic environments. Graph search-based algorithms are widely adopted due to their generality…

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Optimization of Phase Change Material Integration for Active Cooling Control

Asmaou S. Ouedraogo, Donald J. Docimo · 2026

This paper presents a unified optimization framework for phase change material (PCM) based cooling systems. Thermal management is critical in applications such as photovoltaic (PV) modules, battery pa…

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RelativeFlow: Taming Medical Image Denoising Learning with Noisy Reference

Yuxin Liu, Yiqing Dong, Wenxue Yu, Zhan Wu, Rongjun Ge, Yang Chen, Yuting He · 2026

Medical image denoising (MID) lacks absolutely clean images for supervision, leading to a noisy reference problem that fundamentally limits denoising performance. Existing simulated-supervised discrim…

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Energy-based Regularization for Learning Residual Dynamics in Neural MPC for Omnidirectional Aerial Robots

Johannes Kubel, Henrik Krauss, Jinjie Li, Moju Zhao · 2026

Data-driven Model Predictive Control (MPC) has lately been the core research subject in the field of control theory. The combination of an optimal control framework with deep learning paradigms opens …

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A Nonasymptotic Theory of Gain-Dependent Error Dynamics in Behavior Cloning

Junghoon Seo · 2026

Behavior cloning (BC) policies on position-controlled robots inherit the closed-loop response of the underlying PD controller, yet the effect of controller gains on BC failure lacks a nonasymptotic th…

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Hybrid Architecture Gets Fluid: A New Paradigm for Direction-of-arrival Estimation in 6G Networks

Ye Tian, Jiaji Ren, Tuo Wu, Wei Liu, Maged Elkashlan, Matthew C. Valenti, Naofal Al-Dhahir, Hing Cheung So · 2026

High-precision direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation, as a key sensing capability for 6G-enabled applications such as autonomous driving and extended reality, is increasingly dependent on the effectiv…

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Boundary Sampling to Learn Predictive Safety Filters via Pontryagin's Maximum Principle

James Dallas, Thomas Lew, John Talbot, Jonathan DeCastro, Somil Bansal, John Subosits · 2026

Safety filters provide a practical approach for enforcing safety constraints in autonomous systems. While learning-based tools scale to high-dimensional systems, their performance depends on informati…

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Path Integral Control in Gaussian Belief Space for Partially Observed Systems

Goutam Das, Takashi Tanaka · 2026

This paper extends path integral control (PIC) to partially observed systems by formulating the problem in Gaussian belief space. PIC relies on the diffusion being proportional to the control channel …

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Grid-Forming Characterization in DC Microgrids

Jovan Krajacic, Ognjen Stanojev, Mario Schweizer, Orcun Karaca, Gabriela Hug, Vladan Lazarevic · 2026

DC microgrids are converter-based electrical networks that are increasingly being used in various applications, including data centers and industrial distribution systems. A central challenge in their…

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ACT: Automated CPS Testing for Open-Source Robotic Platforms

Aditya A. Krishnan, Donghoon Kim, Hokeun Kim · 2026

Open-source software for cyber-physical systems (CPS) often lacks robust testing involving robotic platforms, resulting in critical errors that remain undetected. This is especially challenging when m…

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A Study on the Controllability of Lithium-Ion Batteries

Preston T. Abadie, Donald J. Docimo · 2026

This work explores controllability and the control effort required for lithium-ion batteries. Battery packs have become a critical technology in both personal and professional applications as a means …

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Toward using Speech to Sense Student Emotion in Remote Learning Environments

Sargam Vyas, Bogdan Vlasenko, Andre Mayoraz, Egon Werlen, Per Bergamin, Mathew Magimai.-Doss · 2026

With advancements in multimodal communication technologies, remote learning environments such as, distance universities are increasing. Remote learning typically happens asynchronously. As a consequen…

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Pre-Execution Safety Gate & Task Safety Contracts for LLM-Controlled Robot Systems

Ike Obi, Vishnunandan L.N. Venkatesh, Weizheng Wang, Ruiqi Wang, Dayoon Suh, Temitope I. Amosa, Wonse Jo, Byung-Cheol Min · 2026

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to convert task commands into robot-executable code, however this pipeline lacks validation gates to detect unsafe and defective commands before they…

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Learning Dexterous Grasping from Sparse Taxonomy Guidance

Juhan Park, Taerim Yoon, Seungmin Kim, Joonggil Kim, Wontae Ye, Jeongeun Park, Yoonbyung Chai, Geonwoo Cho, Geunwoo Cho, Dohyeong Kim, Kyungjae Lee, Yongjae Kim, Sungjoon Choi · 2026

Dexterous manipulation requires planning a grasp configuration suited to the object and task, which is then executed through coordinated multi-finger control. However, specifying grasp plans with dens…

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From Video to Control: A Survey of Learning Manipulation Interfaces from Temporal Visual Data

Linfang Zheng, Zikai Ouyang, Chen Wang, Jia Pan, Wei Zhang · 2026

Video is a scalable observation of physical dynamics: it captures how objects move, how contact unfolds, and how scenes evolve under interaction -- all without requiring robot action labels. Yet trans…

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