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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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Improved GNSS Positioning in Urban Environments Using a Logistic Error Model

Zhengdao Li, Penggao Yan, Baoshan Song, Li-Ta Hsu · 2026

A Gaussian error assumption is commonly adopted in the pseudorange measurement model for global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning, which leads to the conventional least squares (LS) estim…

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Exploring Urban Air Mobility Adoption Potential in San Francisco Bay Area Region: A Systems of Systems Level Case Study on Passenger Waiting Times and Travel Efficiency

Winfrey Paul Sagayam Dennis · 2025

Urban Air mobility has gained momentum with recent advancements in the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles, offering faster point-to-point air taxi services that could help relieve…

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Characterizing the Resilience and Sensitivity of Polyurethane Vision-Based Tactile Sensors

Benjamin Davis, Hannah Stuart · 2025

Vision-based tactile sensors (VBTSs) are a promising technology for robots, providing them with dense signals that can be translated into a multi-faceted understanding of contact. However, existing VB…

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OpenScout v1.1 mobile robot: a case study on open hardware continuation

Bartosz Krawczyk, Ahmed Elbary, Robbie Cato, Jagdish Patil, Kaung Myat, Anyeh Ndi-Tah, Nivetha Sakthivel, Mark Crampton, Gautham Das, Charles Fox · 2025

OpenScout is an Open Source Hardware (OSH) mobile robot for research and industry. It is extended to v1.1 which includes simplified, cheaper and more powerful onboard compute hardware; a simulated ROS…

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Benchmarking Massively Parallelized Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning for Robotics Tasks

Viraj Joshi, Zifan Xu, Bo Liu, Peter Stone, Amy Zhang · 2025

Multi-task Reinforcement Learning (MTRL) has emerged as a critical training paradigm for applying reinforcement learning (RL) to a set of complex real-world robotic tasks, which demands a generalizabl…

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Second Order State Hallucinations for Adversarial Attack Mitigation in Formation Control of Multi-Agent Systems

Laksh Patel, Akhilesh Raj · 2025

The increasing deployment of multi-agent systems (MAS) in critical infrastructures such as autonomous transportation, disaster relief, and smart cities demands robust formation control mechanisms resi…

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A combined Machine Learning and Finite Element Modelling tool for the surgical planning of craniosynostosis correction

Itxasne Antunez Saenz, Ane Alberdi Aramendi, David Dunaway, Juling Ong, Lara Deliege, Amparo Saenz, Anita Ahmadi Birjandi, Noor UI Owase Jeelani, Silvia Schievano, Alessandro Borghi · 2025

Craniosynostosis is a medical condition that affects the growth of babies' heads, caused by an early fusion of cranial sutures. In recent decades, surgical treatments for craniosynostosis have signifi…

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Culsans: An Efficient Snoop-based Coherency Unit for the CVA6 Open Source RISC-V application processor

Riccardo Tedeschi, Luca Valente, Gianmarco Ottavi, Enrico Zelioli, Nils Wistoff, Massimiliano Giacometti, Abdul Basit Sajjad, Luca Benini, Davide Rossi · 2024

Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) based on cache coherency is crucial for high-end embedded systems like automotive applications. RISC-V is gaining traction, and open-source hardware (OSH) platforms of…

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R4: rapid reproducible robotics research open hardware control system

Chris Waltham, Andy Perrett, Rakshit Soni, Charles Fox · 2024

A key component of any robot is the interface between robotics middleware software and physical motors. New robots often use arbitrary, messy mixtures of closed and open motor drivers and error-prone …

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Joint cortical registration of geometry and function using semi-supervised learning

Jian Li, Greta Tuckute, Evelina Fedorenko, Brian L. Edlow, Bruce Fischl, Adrian V. Dalca · 2023

Brain surface-based image registration, an important component of brain image analysis, establishes spatial correspondence between cortical surfaces. Existing iterative and learning-based approaches f…

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MACARONS: A Modular and Open-Sourced Automation System for Vertical Farming

Vijja Wichitwechkarn, Charles Fox · 2022

The Modular Automated Crop Array Online System (MACARONS) is an extensible, scalable, open hardware system for plant transport in automated horticulture systems such as vertical farms. It is specified…

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On-the-Fly Test-time Adaptation for Medical Image Segmentation

Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu, Pengfei Guo, Vibashan VS, Vishal M. Patel · 2022

One major problem in deep learning-based solutions for medical imaging is the drop in performance when a model is tested on a data distribution different from the one that it is trained on. Adapting t…

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UNeXt: MLP-based Rapid Medical Image Segmentation Network

Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu, Vishal M. Patel · 2022

UNet and its latest extensions like TransUNet have been the leading medical image segmentation methods in recent years. However, these networks cannot be effectively adopted for rapid image segmentati…

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Simultaneous Location of Rail Vehicles and Mapping of Environment with Multiple LiDARs

Yusheng Wang, Weiwei Song, Yidong Lou, Fei Huang, Zhiyong Tu, Shimin Zhang · 2021

Precise and real-time rail vehicle localization as well as railway environment monitoring is crucial for railroad safety. In this letter, we propose a multi-LiDAR based simultaneous localization and m…

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SISAL Revisited

Chujun Huang, Mingjie Shao, Wing-Kin Ma, Anthony Man-Cho So · 2021

Simplex identification via split augmented Lagrangian (SISAL) is a popularly-used algorithm in blind unmixing of hyperspectral images. Developed by Jos\'{e} M. Bioucas-Dias in 2009, the algorithm is f…

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On Hyperspectral Unmixing

Wing-Kin Ma · 2021

In this article the author reviews Jos\'e Bioucas-Dias' key contributions to hyperspectral unmixing (HU), in memory of him as an influential scholar and for his many beautiful ideas introduced to the …

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Aerosolized Particle Reduction: A Novel Cadaveric Model and a Negative Airway Pressure Respirator (NAPR) System to Protect Health Care Workers From COVID-19.

Tawfiq Khoury, Pascal Lavergne, Chandala Chitguppi, Mindy Rabinowitz, Gurston Nyquist, Marc Rosen, James Evans · 2021

This study aimed to identify escape of small-particle aerosols from a variety of masks using simulated breathing conditions. This study also aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a negative-pressure envir…

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KiU-Net: Overcomplete Convolutional Architectures for Biomedical Image and Volumetric Segmentation

Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu, Vishwanath A. Sindagi, Ilker Hacihaliloglu, Vishal M. Patel · 2020

Most methods for medical image segmentation use U-Net or its variants as they have been successful in most of the applications. After a detailed analysis of these "traditional" encoder-decoder based a…

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A survey of loss functions for semantic segmentation

Shruti Jadon · 2020

Image Segmentation has been an active field of research as it has a wide range of applications, ranging from automated disease detection to self-driving cars. In the past five years, various papers ca…

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