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Feedback Linearization of Hyperbolic PDEs with Volterra Nonlinearities

Miroslav Krstic ยท 2026

Alberto Isidori's framework of geometric nonlinear control, and particularly of feedback linearization, is the inspiration behind PDE backstepping: apply a transfromation of the state to cast the planโ€ฆ

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Global Sampling-Based Trajectory Optimization for Contact-Rich Manipulation via KernelSOS

Zhongqi Wei, Frederike Dumbgen ยท 2026

Contact-rich manipulation is challenging due to its high dimensionality, the requirement for long time horizons, and the presence of hybrid contact dynamics. Sampling-based methods have become a populโ€ฆ

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Atomic-Probe Governance for Skill Updates in Compositional Robot Policies

Xue Qin, Simin Luan, John See, Cong Yang, Zhijun Li ยท 2026

Skill libraries in deployed robotic systems are continually updated through fine-tuning, fresh demonstrations, or domain adaptation, yet existing typed-composition methods (BLADE, SymSkill, Generativeโ€ฆ

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SEP Analysis of Quantized SIMO Systems with M-PSK over Correlated Fading Channels

Amila Ravinath, Bikshapathi Gouda, Italo Atzeni, Antti Tolli ยท 2026

The average symbol error probability (SEP) of a phase-quantized single-input multiple-output system with M-ary phase-shift keying modulation and maximum ratio combining (MRC) is analyzed under correlaโ€ฆ

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Optimizing Tracking Accuracy in Energy-Constrained Multimodal ISAC via Lyapunov-Driven Heterogeneous Mixture-of-Experts

Wenqi Fan, Ning Wei, Ahmad Bazzi, Rongyan Xi, Zhixian Song, You Li, Zhihan Zeng, Yue Xiu, Chadi Assi ยท 2026

The integration of multimodal sensing and millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications is a key enabler for highly mobile vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) networks. However, continuous high-resolution visuaโ€ฆ

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Lights Out: A Nighttime UAV Localization Framework Using Thermal Imagery and Semantic 3D Maps

Ryan Allen, Melissa Greeff ยท 2026

Reliable backup localization for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in GNSS-denied nighttime conditions remains an open challenge due to the severe modality gap between daytime RGB maps and nigโ€ฆ

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UNet-Based Fusion and Exponential Moving Average Adaptation for Noise-Robust Speaker Recognition

Chong-Xin Gan, Peter Bell, Man-Wai Mak, Zhe Li, Zezhong Jin, Zilong Huang, Kong Aik Lee ยท 2026

The joint training of speech enhancement and speaker embedding networks for speaker recognition is widely adopted under noisy acoustic environments. While effective, this paradigm often fails to leverโ€ฆ

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Monitoring exposure-length variations in submarine power cables using distributed fiber-optic sensing

Sakiko Mishima, Yoshiyuki Yajima, Noriyuki Tonami, Tomoyuki Hino, Shugo Aibe, Junichiro Saikawa, Koji Mizuguchi ยท 2026

This study proposes an anomaly-detection framework for monitoring exposure-length variations in submarine free-span cables using Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), which is one of the distributed fibโ€ฆ

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Real-time windrow detection from onboard tractor sensors for automated following

Lorenz Gunreben, Nico Heider, Sebastian Zurner, Martin Schieck, Bogdan Franczyk ยท 2026

Proprietary design in commercial windrow-detection systems restricts transparency and limits progress in open autonomous forage-harvesting research. We present a multi-modal dataset combining stereo vโ€ฆ

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$M^2$-VLA: Boosting Vision-Language Models for Generalizable Manipulation via Layer Mixture and Meta-Skills

Siyao Xiao, Yuhong Zhang, Zhifang Liu, Zihan Gao, Jingye Zhang, Sinwai Choo, Dake Zhong, Mengzhe Wang, Xiao Lin, Xianfeng Zhou, Jia Jia, Haoqian Wang ยท 2026

Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models predominantly rely on end-to-end fine-tuning. While effective, this paradigm compromises the inherent generalization capabilities of Vision-Language Models โ€ฆ

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Performance Benchmarks for Line Spectral Estimation: Ordered Ziv-Zakai Characterization and Plug-In Amplitude Error Analysis

Fangqing Xiao, Dirk T. M. Slock ยท 2026

Line spectral estimation (LSE) involves estimating both spectral frequencies and their associated complex amplitudes. Existing Fisher-information-based benchmarks are local and therefore do not capturโ€ฆ

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Shared-kernel Wavelet Neural Networks for Poisson Image Reconstruction

Yuanhao Gong, Tan Tang, Qianyan Liu ยท 2026

The Laplacian operator transforms the image into its Laplacian field, which usually is sparse and satisfies a stable distribution. On the other hand, an image can be uniquely reconstructed from its Laโ€ฆ

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Medium-Induced Cross-Frequency Clutter Structure in Single-Snapshot FDA-MIMO-GPR With a Weak-Dispersion Criterion

Yisu Yan, Jifeng Guo ยท 2026

This paper investigates the cross-frequency structure of background clutter induced by random dispersive media in single-snapshot FDA-MIMO-GPR. Representative media are modeled by the Cole--Cole formuโ€ฆ

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QuietWalk: Physics-Informed Reinforcement Learning for Ground Reaction Force-Aware Humanoid Locomotion Under Diverse Footwear

Hanze Hu, Luying Feng, Silu Chen, Tianjiang Zheng, Dexin Jiang, Wei Chen, Chi Zhang, Guilin Yang, Yaochu Jin ยท 2026

Humanoid robots operating in human-centered environments (e.g., homes, hospitals, and offices) must mitigate foot--ground impact transients, as impact-induced vibration and noise degrade user experienโ€ฆ

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Partition-of-Unity Gaussian Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

Amir Nooeizadegan ยท 2026

Gaussian basis functions provide an efficient and flexible alternative to spline activations in KANs. In this work, we introduce the partition-of-unity Gaussian KAN (PU-GKAN), a Shepard-type normalizeโ€ฆ

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GPU-Native Multi-Area State Estimation via SIMD Abstraction and Boundary Condensation

Yifei Xu, Yuzhang Lin ยท 2026

Power system state estimation (SE) is foundational for grid monitoring, yet conventional centralized solvers face increasing computational pressure as the system scale and real-time requirements grow.โ€ฆ

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Learning to Trust AI and Data-driven models in Data Assimilation through a Multifidelity Ensemble Gaussian Mixture Filter Framework

Andrey A. Popov ยท 2026

AI and data-driven models have large potential for data assimilation applications by creating fast and accurate forecasts. Their tendency to produce spurious inaccurate, nonphysical results -- halluciโ€ฆ

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Collaborative Trajectory Prediction via Late Fusion

Nadya Abdel Madjid, Murad Mebrahtu, Zakhar Yagudin, Bilal Hassan, Naoufel Werghi, Jorge Dias, Dzmitry Tsetserukou, Majid Khonji ยท 2026

Predicting future trajectories of surrounding traffic agents is critical for safe autonomous navigation and collision avoidance. Despite all advances in the trajectory forecasting realm, the predictioโ€ฆ

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Monolithically Integrated VO$_2$ Mott Oscillators for Energy-Efficient Spiking Neurons

Fabio Bersano, Cyrille Masserey, Vanessa Conti, Andrea Iaconeta, Niccolo' Martinolli, Ehsan Ansari, Anna Varini, Igor Stolichnov, Adrian Mihai Ionescu ยท 2026

Brain-inspired non-Boolean computing offers intrinsic error tolerance and parallelism, but its practical deployment is limited by the lack of compact, energy-efficient spiking hardware compatible withโ€ฆ

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Ufil: A Unified Framework for Infrastructure-based Localization

Simon Schafer, Lucas Hegerath, Marius Molz, Massimo Marcon, Bassam Alrifaee ยท 2026

Infrastructure-based localization enhances road safety and traffic management by providing state estimates of road users. Development is hindered by fragmented, application-specific stacks that tightlโ€ฆ

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