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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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L-UNet: An LSTM Network for Remote Sensing Image Change Detection

Shuting Sun, Lin Mu, Lizhe Wang, Peng Liu ยท 2026

Change detection of high-resolution remote sensing images is an important task in earth observation and was extensively investigated. Recently, deep learning has shown to be very successful in plenty โ€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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An Anatomy-specific Guidewire Shaping Robot for Improved Vascular Navigation

Aabha Tamhankar, Jay Patil, Giovanni Pittiglio ยท 2026

Neuroendovascular access often relies on passive microwires that are hand-shaped at the back table and then used to track a microcatheter to the target. Neuroendovascular surgeons determine the shape โ€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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WATOS: Efficient LLM Training Strategies and Architecture Co-exploration for Wafer-scale Chip

Huizheng Wang, Zichuan Wang, Hongbin Wang, Jingxiang Hou, Taiquan Wei, Chao Li, Yang Hu, Shouyi Yin ยท 2025

Training large language models (LLMs) imposes extreme demands on computation, memory capacity, and interconnect bandwidth, driven by their ever-increasing parameter scales and intensive data movement.โ€ฆ

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DARTS: A Drone-Based AI-Powered Real-Time Traffic Incident Detection System

Bai Li, Achilleas Kourtellis, Rong Cao, Joseph Post, Brian Porter, Yu Zhang ยท 2025

Rapid and reliable incident detection is critical for reducing crash-related fatalities, injuries, and congestion. However, conventional methods, such as closed-circuit television, dashcam footage, anโ€ฆ

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ATRos: Learning Energy-Efficient Agile Locomotion for Wheeled-legged Robots

Jingyuan Sun, Hongyu Ji, Zihan Qu, Chaoran Wang, Mingyu Zhang ยท 2025

Hybrid locomotion of wheeled-legged robots has recently attracted increasing attention due to their advantages of combining the agility of legged locomotion and the efficiency of wheeled motion. But aโ€ฆ

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Autonomous Multi-Robot Infrastructure for AI-Enabled Healthcare Delivery and Diagnostics

Nakhul Kalaivanan, Senthil Arumugam Muthukumaraswamy, Girish Balasubramanian ยท 2025

This research presents a multi-robot system for inpatient care, designed using swarm intelligence principles and incorporating wearable health sensors, RF-based communication, and AI-driven decision sโ€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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Follow-Bench: A Unified Motion Planning Benchmark for Socially-Aware Robot Person Following

Hanjing Ye, Weixi Situ, Jianwei Peng, Yu Zhan, Bingyi Xia, Kuanqi Cai, Hong Zhang ยท 2025

Robot person following (RPF) -- mobile robots that follow and assist a specific person -- has emerging applications in personal assistance, security patrols, eldercare, and logistics. To be effective,โ€ฆ

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A Multi-Scale Feature Extraction and Fusion UNet for Pathloss Prediction in UAV-Assisted mmWave Radio Networks

Sajjad Hussain ยท 2025

Accurate pathloss prediction is essential for the design and optimization of UAV-assisted millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks. While deep learning approaches have shown strong potential, their generalizโ€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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