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Effects of Swarm Size Variability on Operator Workload

William Hunt, Aleksandra Landowska, Horia A. Maior, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Mohammad Soorati ยท 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 maโ€ฆ

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Topology Estimation for Open Multi-Agent Systems

Nana Wang, Pelin Sekercioglu, Dimos V. Dimarogonas ยท 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 interactioโ€ฆ

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Investing Is Compression

Oscar Stiffelman ยท 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 sโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 highโ€ฆ

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Graph-Theoretic Analysis of Residual Generation Under Computational Constraints

Jan {AA}slund ยท 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 oโ€ฆ

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Autonomous Search for Sparsely Distributed Visual Phenomena through Environmental Context Modeling

Eric Chen, Travis Manderson, Nare Karapetyan, Peter Edmunds, Nicholas Roy, Yogesh Girdhar ยท 2026

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are increasingly used to survey coral reefs, yet efficiently locating specific coral species of interest remains difficult: target species are often sparsely distโ€ฆ

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Stability of Open Multi-agent Systems over Dynamic Signed Digraphs

Pelin Sekercioglu, Angela Fontan, Dimos V. Dimarogonas ยท 2026

We address the synchronization problem in open multi-agent systems (OMAS) containing both cooperative and antagonistic interactions. In these systems, agents can join or leave the network over time, aโ€ฆ

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A multitask framework for automated interpretation of multi-frame right upper quadrant ultrasound in clinical decision support

Haiman Guo, Cheng-Yi Li, Yuli Wang, Robin Wang, Yuwei Dai, Qinghai Peng, Danming Cao, Zhusi Zhong, Thao Vu, Linmei Zhao, Chengzhang Zhu, Christopher Tan, Jacob Schick, Stephen Kwak, Farzad Sedaghat, Javad Azadi, James Facciola, Jonathan Feng, Dilek Oncel, Ulrike Hamper, Alex Zhu, Tej Mehta, Melissa Leimkuehler, Cheng Ting Lin, Zhicheng Jiao, Ihab Kamel, Jing Wu, Li Yang, Harrison Bai ยท 2026

Ultrasound is a cornerstone of emergency and hepatobiliary imaging, yet its interpretation remains highly operator-dependent and time-sensitive. Here, we present a multitask vision-language agent (VLMโ€ฆ

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Study of Class-Incremental Radio Frequency Fingerprint Recognition Without Storing Exemplars

Rundong Jiang, Jun Hu, Yunqi Song, Zhiyuan Xie, Shiyou Xu ยท 2026

The rapid proliferation of wireless devices makes robust identity authentication essential. Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) exploits device-specific, hard-to-forge physical-layer impairments for โ€ฆ

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Number Adaptive Formation Flight Planning via Affine Deformable Guidance in Narrow Environments

Yuan Zhou, Jialiang Hou, Guangtong Xu, Fei Gao ยท 2025

Formation maintenance with varying number of drones in narrow environments hinders the convergence of planning to the desired configurations. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a formationโ€ฆ

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Multi-cluster distributed optimization in open multi-agent systems over directed graphs with acknowledgement messages

Evagoras Makridis, Gabriele Oliva, Themistoklis Charalambous ยท 2025

In this paper, we tackle the problem of distributed optimization over directed networks in open multi-agent systems (OMAS), where agents may dynamically join or leave, causing persistent changes in neโ€ฆ

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Before Humans Join the Team: Diagnosing Coordination Failures in Healthcare Robot Team Simulation

Yuanchen Bai, Zijian Ding, Shaoyue Wen, Xiang Chang, Angelique Taylor ยท 2025

As humans move toward collaborating with coordinated robot teams, understanding how these teams coordinate and fail is essential for building trust and ensuring safety. However, exposing human collaboโ€ฆ

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Dataset and Benchmark for Enhancing Critical Retained Foreign Object Detection

Yuli Wang, Victoria R. Shi, Liwei Zhou, Richard Chin, Yuwei Dai, Yuanyun Hu, Cheng-Yi Li, Haoyue Guan, Jiashu Cheng, Yu Sun, Cheng Ting Lin, Ihab Kamel, Premal Trivedi, Pamela Johnson, John Eng, Harrison Bai ยท 2025

Critical retained foreign objects (RFOs), including surgical instruments like sponges and needles, pose serious patient safety risks and carry significant financial and legal implications for healthcaโ€ฆ

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Formation Maneuver Control Based on the Augmented Laplacian Method

Xinzhe Zhou, Xuyang Wang, Xiaoming Duan, Yuzhu Bai, Jianping He ยท 2025

This paper proposes a novel formation maneuver control method for both 2-D and 3-D space, which enables the formation to translate, scale, and rotate with arbitrary orientation. The core innovation isโ€ฆ

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Stability of Open Multi-agent Systems over Dynamic Signed Graphs

Pelin Sekercioglu, Angela Fontan, Dimos V. Dimarogonas ยท 2025

This paper addresses the bipartite consensus-control problem in open multi-agent systems containing both cooperative and antagonistic interactions. In these systems, new agents can join and new interaโ€ฆ

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Plug and Play Distributed Control of Clustered Energy Hub Networks

Varsha Behrunani, Cara Koepele, Jared Miller, Ahmed Aboudonia, Philipp Heer, Roy S. Smith, John Lygeros ยท 2025

The transition to renewable energy is driving the rise of distributed multi-energy systems, in which individual energy hubs and prosumers (e.g., homes, industrial campuses) generate, store, and trade โ€ฆ

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Federated Continual 3D Segmentation With Single-round Communication

Can Peng, Qianhui Men, Pramit Saha, Qianye Yang, Cheng Ouyang, J. Alison Noble ยท 2025

Federated learning seeks to foster collaboration among distributed clients while preserving the privacy of their local data. Traditionally, federated learning methods assume a fixed setting in which cโ€ฆ

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Enhanced ECG Arrhythmia Detection Accuracy by Optimizing Divergence-Based Data Fusion

Baozhuo Su, Qingli Dou, Kang Liu, Zhengxian Qu, Jerry Deng, Ting Tan, Yanan Gu ยท 2025

AI computation in healthcare faces significant challenges when clinical datasets are limited and heterogeneous. Integrating datasets from multiple sources and different equipments is critical for effeโ€ฆ

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Robotic Automation in Apparel Manufacturing: A Novel Approach to Fabric Handling and Sewing

Abhiroop Ajith, Gokul Narayanan, Jonathan Zornow, Carlos Calle, Auralis Herrero Lugo, Jose Luis Susa Rincon, Chengtao Wen, Eugen Solowjow ยท 2025

Sewing garments using robots has consistently posed a research challenge due to the inherent complexities in fabric manipulation. In this paper, we introduce an intelligent robotic automation system dโ€ฆ

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Distributed Framework Construction for Affine Formation Control

Huiming Li, Hao Chen, Xiangke Wang, Zhongkui Li, Lincheng Shen ยท 2025

In affine formation control problems, the construction of the framework with universal rigidity and affine localizability is a critical prerequisite, but it has not yet been well addressed, especiallyโ€ฆ

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