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On the Nesterov's acceleration: A NAIM perspective

Rachit Mehra, M Parimi, Amol Yerudkar, S.R. Wagh, Navdeep Singh ยท 2026

We present a unifying Nearly Asymptotically Invariant Manifold (NAIM) framework for understanding Nesterovs Accelerated Gradient (NAG) method. By lifting the first-order gradient flow into a second-orโ€ฆ

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FlowS: One-Step Motion Prediction via Local Transport Conditioning

Leandro Di Bella, Adrian Munteanu, Bruno Cornelis ยท 2026

Generative motion prediction must satisfy three simultaneous requirements for real-world autonomy: high accuracy, diverse multimodal futures, and strictly bounded latency. Diffusion models meet the fiโ€ฆ

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VEHRON: A Configuration-Driven BEV Simulation Framework for Subsystem-Level Studies

Subramanyam Natarajan ยท 2026

In practical early-stage battery-electric vehicle studies, analysis workflows may become fragmented across spreadsheets, notebooks, and project-specific scripts, making reuse, audit, and extension harโ€ฆ

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Reduced-Order Data Assimilation for Thermospheric Density Using Physics-informed SINDyc Models

Sriram Narayanan, Daniele Sicoli, Piyush Mehta ยท 2026

Accurate estimation of thermospheric mass density is a prerequisite for orbit prediction and space situational awareness, where the upper atmosphere responds nonlinearly to solar and geomagnetic forciโ€ฆ

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Extracting Exact Lie Derivatives Without Backpropagation: A Dual Compiler for Neural Control Barrier Functions

Mohammadreza Kamaldar ยท 2026

Deploying neural-network control barrier functions (CBFs) on embedded hardware requires evaluating the barrier value and its Lie derivatives along the system vector fields at every control cycle. The โ€ฆ

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VLM-VPI: A Vision-Language Reasoning Framework for Improving Automated Vehicle-Pedestrian Interactions

Qingwen Pu, Kun Xie, Yuxiang Liu ยท 2026

Autonomous driving systems often infer pedestrian yielding behavior from geometric and kinematic cues alone, limiting their ability to reason about visual scene context and age-dependent behavioral vaโ€ฆ

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Equivariant Filter for Radar-Inertial Odometry

Giulio Delama, Jan Michalczyk, Morten Nissov, Martin Scheiber, Alessandro Fornasier, Kostas Alexis, Stephan Weiss ยท 2026

Radar-Inertial Odometry (RIO) based on the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) relies on accurate extrinsic calibration between the radar and the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and is sensitive to disturbanโ€ฆ

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Algebraic Diversity: Principles of a Group-Theoretic Approach to Signal Processing

Mitchell A. Thornton ยท 2026

We present principles of algebraic diversity (AD), a group-theoretic approach to signal processing exploiting signal symmetry to extract more information per observation, complementing classical methoโ€ฆ

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Sparsification of Precoding Codebooks for PAPR Reduction via Grassmannian Representations

Joe Asano, Yuto Hama, Hiroki Iimori, Szabolcs Malomsoky, Naoki Ishikawa ยท 2026

In this letter, we propose a sparsification method for precoding codebooks that reduces the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) while preserving the achievable rate. By exploiting the fact that precodeโ€ฆ

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Iterated Invariant EKF for Quadruped Robot Odometry

Hilton Marques Souza Santana, Joao Carlos Virgolino Soares, Sven Goffin, Ylenia Nistico, Silvere Bonnabel, Claudio Semini, Marco Antonio Meggiolaro ยท 2026

Kalman filter-based algorithms are fundamental for mobile robots, as they provide a computationally efficient solution to the challenging problem of state estimation. However, they rely on two main asโ€ฆ

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Benchmarking Classical Coverage Path Planning Heuristics on Irregular Hexagonal Grids for Maritime Coverage Scenarios

Carlos S. Sepulveda, Gonzalo A. Ruz ยท 2026

Coverage path planning on irregular hexagonal grids is relevant to maritime surveillance, search and rescue and environmental monitoring, yet classical methods are often compared on small ad hoc exampโ€ฆ

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Complementarity by Construction: A Lie-Group Approach to Solving Quadratic Programs with Linear Complementarity Constraints

Arun L. Bishop, Micah I. Reich, Zachary Manchester ยท 2026

Many problems in robotics require reasoning over a mix of continuous dynamics and discrete events, such as making and breaking contact in manipulation and locomotion. These problems are locally well mโ€ฆ

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Natural Gradient Gaussian Approximation Filter on Lie Groups for Robot State Estimation

Tianyi Zhang, Wenhan Cao, Chang Liu, Yao Lyu, Shengbo Eben Li ยท 2026

Accurate state estimation for robotic systems evolving on Lie group manifolds, such as legged robots, is a prerequisite for achieving agile control. However, this task is challenged by nonlinear obserโ€ฆ

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CableTract: A Co-Designed Cable-Driven Field Robot for Low-Compaction, Off-Grid Capable Agriculture

Ozgur Yilmaz ยท 2026

Conventional field operations spend most of their energy moving the tractor body, not the implement. Yet feasibility studies for novel agricultural vehicles rarely tie mechanics, energy harvest, draftโ€ฆ

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BVH-Accelerated Ray Tracing for High-Frequency Electromagnetic Backscattering

Marco Pasquale, Andong Hu, Luca Pennati, Ivy Peng, Stefano Markidis ยท 2026

As computational complexity in electromagnetics increases with frequency, full-wave solvers become computationally infeasible for electrically large problems. To address this limitation, we present a โ€ฆ

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Data-Driven Unknown Input Reconstruction for MIMO Systems with Convergence Guarantees

Enno Breukelman, Takumi Shinohara, Joowon Lee, Henrik Sandberg ยท 2026

In this paper, we consider data-driven reconstruction of unknown inputs to linear time-invariant (LTI) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We propose a novel autoregressive estimator based โ€ฆ

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CT-VoxelMap: Efficient Continuous-Time LiDAR-Inertial Odometry with Probabilistic Adaptive Voxel Mapping

Lei Zhao, Xingyi Li, Tianchen Deng, Chuan Cao, Han Zhang, Weidong Chen ยท 2026

Maintaining stable and accurate localization during fast motion or on rough terrain remains highly challenging for mobile robots with onboard resources. Currently, multi-sensor fusion methods based onโ€ฆ

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How Sensor Attacks Transfer Across Lie Groups

Rijad Alisic, Saurabh Amin ยท 2026

Sensor spoofing analysis in cyber-physical systems is predominantly confined to linear state spaces, where attack transferability is trivial. On Lie groups, however, the noncommutativity of the dynamiโ€ฆ

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The Compression Gap: Why Discrete Tokenization Limits Vision-Language-Action Model Scaling

Takuya Shiba ยท 2026

Scaling Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models by upgrading the vision encoder is expected to improve downstream manipulation performance--as it does in vision-language modeling. We show that this expectโ€ฆ

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Bridging Discrete Planning and Continuous Execution for Redundant Robot

Teng Yan, Yue Yu, Yihan Liu, Bingzhuo Zhong ยท 2026

Voxel-grid reinforcement learning is widely adopted for path planning in redundant manipulators due to its simplicity and reproducibility. However, direct execution through point-wise numerical inversโ€ฆ

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