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

Qingwen Pu, Kun Xie, Yuxiang Liu · 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 va…

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Vision-Language-Action Safety: Threats, Challenges, Evaluations, and Mechanisms

Qi Li, Bo Yin, Weiqi Huang, Ruhao Liu, Bojun Zou, Runpeng Yu, Jingwen Ye, Weihao Yu, Xinchao Wang · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are emerging as a unified substrate for embodied intelligence. This shift raises a new class of safety challenges, stemming from the embodied nature of VLA systems,…

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Navigating the Clutter: Waypoint-Based Bi-Level Planning for Multi-Robot Systems

Jiabao Ji, Yongchao Chen, Yang Zhang, Ramana Rao Kompella, Chuchu Fan, Gaowen Liu, Shiyu Chang · 2026

Multi-robot control in cluttered environments is a challenging problem that involves complex physical constraints, including robot-robot collisions, robot-obstacle collisions, and unreachable motions.…

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Embedding-Based Intrusive Evaluation Metrics for Musical Source Separation Using MERT Representations

Paul A. Bereuter, Alois Sontacchi · 2026

Evaluation of musical source separation (MSS) has traditionally relied on Blind Source Separation Evaluation (BSS-Eval) metrics. However, recent work suggests that BSS-Eval metrics exhibit low correla…

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Composite Control of Grid-Following Inverters for Stabilizing AI-Induced Fast Power Disturbances

Miroslav Kosanic, Marija Ilic · 2026

AI data center loads create query-driven power transients on millisecond timescales. Such loads can violate the timescale separation assumptions underlying internal inverter control of grid-following …

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A Model and Estimation of the Bitcoin Transaction Fee

Daniel Aronoff, Kristian Praizner, Armin Sabouri · 2026

Bitcoin transaction fees will become more important as the block subsidy declines, but fee formation is hard to study with blockchain data alone because the relevant queueing environment is unobserved…

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Factor Graph-Based Shape Estimation for Continuum Robots via Magnus Expansion

Lorenzo Ticozzi, Patricio A. Vela, Panagiotis Tsiotras · 2026

Reconstructing the shape of continuum manipulators from sparse, noisy sensor data is a challenging task, owing to the infinite-dimensional nature of such systems. Existing approaches broadly trade off…

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Switch: Learning Agile Skills Switching for Humanoid Robots

Yuen-Fui Lau, Qihan Zhao, Yinhuai Wang, Runyi Yu, Hok Wai Tsui, Qifeng Chen, Ping Tan · 2026

Recent advancements in whole-body control through deep reinforcement learning have enabled humanoid robots to achieve remarkable progress in real-world chal lenging locomotion skills. However, existin…

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A multi-platform LiDAR dataset for standardized forest inventory measurement at long term ecological monitoring sites

Michael R. Chang, Anna Candotti, Karl von Ellenrieder, Enrico Tomelleri, Marco Camurri · 2026

We present a curated multi-platform LiDAR reference dataset from an instrumented ICOS forest plot, explicitly designed to support calibration, benchmarking, and integration of 3D structural data with …

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Importance of Aggregated DER Installed Capacity in Distribution Networks

Alexandre M. V. Gouveia, Md. Umar Hashmi, Reinhilde D'hulst, Dirk Van Hertem · 2026

The increasing penetration of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), particularly electric vehicles, heat pumps, and photovoltaic systems, is fundamentally changing power flows in Low-Voltage (LV) distr…

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Data-Driven Reachability Analysis Using Matrix Perturbation Theory

Peng Xie, Abdulla Fawzy, Zhen Zhang, Amr Alanwar · 2026

We propose a matrix zonotope perturbation framework that leverages matrix perturbation theory to characterize how noise-induced distortions alter the dynamics within sets of models. The framework deri…

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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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BIND-USBL: Bounding IMU Navigation Drift using USBL in Heterogeneous ASV-AUV Teams

Pranav Kedia, Rajini Makam, Heiko Hamann, Suresh Sundaram · 2026

Accurate and continuous localization of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) in GPS-denied environments is a persistent challenge in marine robotics. In the absence of external position fixes, AUVs r…

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Leader-Follower Density Control of Multi-Agent Systems with Interacting Followers: Feasibility and Convergence Analysis

Beniamino Di Lorenzo, Gian Carlo Maffettone, Mario di Bernardo · 2026

We address density control problems for large-scale multi-agent systems in leader-follower settings, where a group of controllable leaders must steer a population of followers toward a desired spatial…

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Workload composition smooths aggregate power demand while sustaining short-horizon ramps in AI data centers

Subir Majumder, Minlan Yu, Le Xie · 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving rapid growth in electricity demand, yet the grid-facing power dynamics of AI data centers remain poorly understood. Here we show that, in shared-GPU systems, th…

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Second Order Physics-Informed Learning of Road Density using Probe Vehicles

S. Betancur Giraldo, J. M{aa}rtensson, M. Barreau · 2026

We propose a Physics Informed Learning framework for reconstructing traffic density from sparse trajectory data. The approach combines a second-order Aw-Rascle and Zhang model with a first-order train…

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Measurement of Generative AI Workload Power Profiles for Whole-Facility Data Center Infrastructure Planning

Roberto Vercellino, Jared Willard, Gustavo Campos, Weslley da Silva Pereira, Olivia Hull, Matthew Selensky, Juliane Mueller · 2026

The rapid growth of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has introduced unprecedented computational demands, driving significant increases in the energy footprint of data centers. However, existing…

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Multi-Region Optimal Energy Storage Arbitrage

Md Umar Hashmi, Harsha Nagarajan, Dirk Van Hertem1 · 2026

The increasing interconnection of power systems through AC and DC links enables energy storage units to access multiple electricity markets yet most existing arbitrage models remain limited to singlem…

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Ray-Based Simulation of Scattering from Discretized Curved Bodies for Vehicular and ISAC Applications

Ainur Ziganshin, Enrico M. Vitucci, Wim Kotterman, Reiner Thomae, Christian Schneider, Vittorio Degli-Esposti · 2026

Realistic modeling of scattering from curved metallic bodies - such as vehicles and roadside structures - is essential for cellular and vehicular channel modeling as well as radar applications. A prac…

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In-Tunnel Single-Anchor Localization Exploiting Near-Field and Radio-Reflective Road Markings

Lorenzo Italiano, Mattia Brambilla, Monica Nicoli · 2026

Accurate vehicular localization in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied environments, such as road tunnels, remains a key challenge for cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS). T…

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