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Design and Characteristics of a Thin-Film ThermoMesh for the Efficient Embedded Sensing of a Spatio-Temporally Sparse Heat Source

Sajjad Boorghan Farahan, Ahmed Alajlouni, Jingzhou Zhao · 2026

This work presents ThermoMesh, a passive thin-film thermoelectric mesh sensor designed to detect and characterize spatio-temporally sparse heat sources through conduction-based thermal imaging. The de…

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Sparse Graph Learning from Sparse Data via Fiedler Number Maximization

Bahar Oveisgharan, Gene Cheung, Andrew Eckford · 2026

We aim to learn a sparse and connected graph from sparse data, where the number of observations K can be substantially smaller than the signal dimension N for signals x in R^N, and the underlying dist…

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FlowS: One-Step Motion Prediction via Local Transport Conditioning

Leandro Di Bella, Adrian Munteanu, Bruno Cornelis · 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 fi…

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SpecFed: Accelerating Federated LLM Inference with Speculative Decoding and Compressed Transmission

Ce Zheng, Xinghan Wang, Jiahong Ning, Yuxuan Shi, Ning Huang, Tingting Yang · 2026

Federated inference enhances LLM performance in edge computing through weighted averaging of distributed model predictions. However, autoregressive LLM inference requires frequent full-model forward p…

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Optimal UGV-UAV Cooperative Partitioning and Inspection of Shortest Paths

Ninh Nguyen, Srinivas Akella · 2026

We study cooperative shortest path planning for an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) assisted by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in environments with unknown road blockages that are only discovered when …

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Assessing the dynamic response of long-span bridges under simultaneous wind and traffic loads

Gledson Rodrigo Tondo, Guido Morgenthal · 2026

Wind-traffic interactions strongly influence the dynamic response of long-span bridges, yet loads are often analysed independently. This work models concurrent wind and traffic and demonstrates that i…

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Explainable AI in Speaker Recognition -- Making Latent Representations Understandable

Yanze Xu, Wenwu Wang, Mark D. Plumbley · 2026

Neural networks can be trained to learn task-relevant representations from data. Understanding how these networks make decisions falls within the Explainable AI (XAI) domain. This paper proposes to st…

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Control of Multi-agent Systems under STL Specifications based on Prescribed Performance Observers

Tommaso Zaccherini, Siyuan Liu, Dimos V. Dimarogonas · 2026

This paper addresses decentralized control of large-scale heterogeneous multi-agent systems subject to bounded external disturbances and limited communication, with the objective of satisfying coopera…

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Analytical PI Tuning for Second-Order Plants with Monotonic Response and Minimum Settling Time

Senol Gulgonul · 2026

Background: Tuning proportional-integral (PI) controllers for second-order plants to achieve monotonic step response with minimum settling time is an important problem in analytical control design. Ex…

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Safety-Certified CRT Sparse FFT: $\Omega(k^2)$ Lower Bound and $O(N \log N)$ Worst-Case

Aaron R. Flouro, Shawn P. Chadwick · 2026

Computing Fourier transforms of k-sparse signals, where only k of N frequencies are non-zero, is fundamental in compressed sensing, radar, and medical imaging. While the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) e…

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Quantitative Verification of Constrained Occupation Time for Stochastic Discrete-time Systems

Bai Xue, Peixin Wang, C.-H. Luke Ong · 2026

This paper addresses the quantitative verification of constrained occupation time in stochastic discrete-time systems, focusing on the probability of visiting a target set at least $k$ times while mai…

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Trajectory-Based Optimization for Air Traffic Control in the Terminal Maneuvering Area

Yutian Pang, Daniel Delahaye, John-Paul Clarke · 2026

We present a trajectory-based optimization framework for arrival sequencing and scheduling in the terminal maneuvering area (TMA). Unlike node-link scheduling models that reduce trajectories to time-d…

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Robust Fleet Sizing for Multi-UAV Inspection Missions under Synchronized Replacement Demand

Vishal Ramesh, Antony Thomas · 2026

Multi-UAV inspection missions require spare drones to replace active drones during recharging cycles. Existing fleet-sizing approaches often assume steady-state operating conditions that do not apply …

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POMDP-based Object Search with Growing State Space and Hybrid Action Domain

Yongbo Chen, Hesheng Wang, Shoudong Huang, Hanna Kurniawati · 2026

Efficiently locating target objects in complex indoor environments with diverse furniture, such as shelves, tables, and beds, is a significant challenge for mobile robots. This difficulty arises from …

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A Nonasymptotic Theory of Gain-Dependent Error Dynamics in Behavior Cloning

Junghoon Seo · 2026

Behavior cloning (BC) policies on position-controlled robots inherit the closed-loop response of the underlying PD controller, yet the effect of controller gains on BC failure lacks a nonasymptotic th…

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Homotopy-Guided Potential Games for Congestion-Aware Navigation

Mohammed Irshadh Ismaaeel Sathyamangalam Imran, Lasse Peters, Michael Khayyat, Stefano Arrigoni, Francesco Braghin, Laura Ferranti · 2026

We address the multi-agent motion planning problem where interactions, collisions, and congestion co-exist. Conventional game-theoretic planners capture interactions among agents but often converge to…

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Self-adaptive Multi-Access Edge Architectures: A Robotics Case

Mahyar T Moghaddam, Joakim Leed, Anders Frandsen · 2026

The growth of compute-intensive AI tasks highlights the need to mitigate the processing costs and improve performance and energy efficiency. This necessitates the integration of intelligent agents as …

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The Elusive Nature of Roughness: Linking Hydraulics and Graph Theory for Water Distribution Networks Model Calibration

Karol Dykiert, Mateusz Stolarski, Micha{l} Czuba, Wojciech Ciezak, Piotr Brodka · 2026

Accurate pipe roughness estimation in large-scale water distribution networks is often hindered by the high cost of traditional field methods. This study investigates whether network partitioning, by …

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{\Psi}-Map: Panoptic Surface Integrated Mapping Enables Real2Sim Transfer

Xuan Yu, Yuxuan Xie, Changjian Jiang, Shichao Zhai, Rong Xiong, Yu Zhang, Yue Wang · 2026

Open-vocabulary panoptic reconstruction is essential for advanced robotics perception and simulation. However, existing methods based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) often struggle to simultaneously a…

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Fast-SegSim: Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Segmentation for Robotics in Simulation

Xuan Yu, Yuxuan Xie, Shichao Zhai, Shuhao Ye, Rong Xiong, Yue Wang · 2026

Open-vocabulary panoptic reconstruction is crucial for advanced robotics and simulation. However, existing 3D reconstruction methods, such as NeRF or Gaussian Splatting variants, often struggle to ach…

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