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Effects of Swarm Size Variability on Operator Workload

William Hunt, Aleksandra Landowska, Horia A. Maior, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Mohammad Soorati · 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 ma…

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Risk-Aware Hosting Capacity Analysis for Flexible Load Interconnection in Distribution Networks

Gobinda Chandra Sarker, Nathan Dahlin · 2026

The increasing penetration of flexible loads, such as electric vehicles and AI data-centers necessitates new methodologies for quantifying electrical load hosting capacity under operational constraint…

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Importance of Aggregated DER Installed Capacity in Distribution Networks

Alexandre M. V. Gouveia, Md. Umar Hashmi, Reinhilde D'hulst, Dirk Van Hertem · 2026

The increasing penetration of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), particularly electric vehicles, heat pumps, and photovoltaic systems, is fundamentally changing power flows in Low-Voltage (LV) distr…

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Topology Estimation for Open Multi-Agent Systems

Nana Wang, Pelin Sekercioglu, Dimos V. Dimarogonas · 2026

We address the problem of interaction topology identification in open multi-agent systems (OMAS) with dynamic node sets and fast switching interactions. In such systems, new agents join and interactio…

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Optimal Decentralized Dynamic Energy Management over Asynchronous Peer-to-Peer Transactive Networks via Operator Splitting

Xi Zhang, Huqiang Cheng, Guo Chen, Huaqing Li, Liang Ran, Jinhui Hu, Tingwen Huang · 2026

Peer-to-peer (P2P) energy management facilitates decentralized resource allocation among prosumers, improving local hosting capacity for renewables and minimizing energy expenditures while ensuring da…

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D-BDM: A Direct and Efficient Boundary-Based Occupancy Grid Mapping Framework for LiDARs

Benxu Tang, Yixi Cai, Fanze Kong, Longji Yin, Fu Zhang · 2026

Efficient and scalable 3D occupancy mapping is essential for autonomous robot applications in unknown environments. However, traditional occupancy grid representations suffer from two fundamental limi…

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Pinching Antenna System-Assisted Hybrid AirComp-NOMA Uplink: Joint Precoding and Antenna Placement Optimization

Saeid Pakravan, Imene Trigui, Wessam Ajib, Wei-Ping Zhu · 2026

This paper studies a pinching antenna system (PAS)-assisted hybrid uplink architecture that integrates over-the-air computation (AirComp) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to simultaneously su…

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Scalable Optimization for Mobility-Aware Coordinated Electric Vehicle Charging in Distribution Power Networks

Yi Ju, Lunlong Li, Jingchun Wang, Scott Moura · 2026

Rapid growth in electric-vehicle (EV) charging demand is placing increasing stress on distribution power networks (DPNs), whose hosting capacity is often limited and spatially uneven. Beyond demonstra…

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Investing Is Compression

Oscar Stiffelman · 2026

In 1956 John Kelly wrote a paper at Bell Labs describing the relationship between gambling and Information Theory. What came to be known as the Kelly Criterion is both an objective and a closed-form s…

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Governed Capability Evolution for Embodied Agents: Safe Upgrade, Compatibility Checking, and Runtime Rollback for Embodied Capability Modules

Xue Qin, Simin Luan, John See, Cong Yang, Zhijun Li · 2026

Embodied agents are increasingly expected to improve over time by updating their executable capabilities rather than rewriting the agent itself. Prior work has separately studied modular capability pa…

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Multi-User Symbol Detection with XL Reception: Dynamic Metasurface Antennas with Low Resolution ADCs

Rahul K. Pal, Soumya P. Dash, Barathram Ramkumar, George C. Alexandropoulos · 2026

Dynamic Metasurface Antennas (DMAs) have been recently proposed as a cost- and energy-efficient front-end solution for eXtremely Large (XL) antenna array systems, supporting scalable Analog and Digita…

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Dynamic resource coordination can increase grid hosting capacity to support more renewables, storage, and electrified load growth

Vineet Jagadeesan Nair, Morteza Vahid-Ghavidel, Anuradha M. Annaswamy · 2026

We show that dynamic coordination of distributed energy resources (DERs) can increase the capacity of low- and medium-voltage grids, improve reliability and power quality, and reduce solar curtailment…

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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 · 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 of…

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Distributed Predictive Control Barrier Functions: Towards Scalable Safety Certification in Modular Multi-Agent Systems

Jonas Ohnemus, Alexandre Didier, Ahmed Aboudonia, Andrea Carron, Melanie N. Zeilinger · 2026

We consider safety-critical multi-agent systems with distributed control architectures and potentially varying network topologies. While learning-based distributed control enables scalability and high…

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StreamingVLA: Streaming Vision-Language-Action Model with Action Flow Matching and Adaptive Early Observation

Yiran Shi, Dongqi Guo, Tianchen Zhao, Feng Gao, Liangzhi Shi, Chao Yu, ZhiJian Mo, Qihua Xiao, XiaoShuai Peng, Qingmin Liao, Yu Wang · 2026

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have demonstrated exceptional performance in natural language-driven perception and control. However, the high computational cost of VLA models poses significant ef…

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Whittaker-Henderson smoother for long satellite image time series interpolation

Mathieu Fauvel (CESBIO) · 2026

Whittaker smoother is a widely adopted solution to pre-process satellite image time series. Yet, two key limitations remain: the smoothing parameter must be tuned individually for each pixel, and the …

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Beyond Freshness and Semantics: A Coupon-Collector Framework for Effective Status Updates

Youssef Ahmed, Arnob Ghosh, Chih-Chun Wang, Ness B. Shroff · 2026

For status update systems operating over unreliable energy-constrained wireless channels, we address Weaver's long-standing Level-C question: do my packets actually improve the plant's behavior? Each …

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Gaussian Mixture Model Based Bayesian Learning for Sparse Channel Estimation in Orthogonal Time Frequency Space Modulated Systems

Surbhi Gehlot, Suraj Srivastava, Sandeep Kumar Yadav, Lajos Hanzo · 2026

A novel Gaussian mixture model (GMM) aided sparse Bayesian learning (SBL) framework is proposed for channel state information (CSI) estimation in orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS) modulated syste…

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Design, Modelling and Characterisation of a Miniature Fibre-Reinforced Soft Bending Actuator for Endoluminal Interventions

Xiangyi Tan, Aoife McDonald-Bowyer, Danail Stoyanov, Agostino Stilli · 2026

Miniaturised soft pneumatic actuators are crucial for robotic intervention within highly constrained anatomical pathways. This work presents the design and validation of a fibre-reinforced soft actuat…

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Graph-Theoretic Analysis of Residual Generation Under Computational Constraints

Jan {AA}slund · 2026

A unified structural framework is presented for model-based fault diagnosis that explicitly incorporates both fault locations and constraints imposed by the residual generation methodology. Building o…

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