Expertini Research Research

Browse Research Papers

282+ open-access research outputs.

✕ Clear
🔍 merlin keller 📂 Engineering
Showing 282 results for "merlin keller" in Engineering
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Online Long-Term Voltage Stability Margin Estimation for IBR/DER Dominated Power System with Integrated VSM-Aware TSO-DSO Framework

Ahmed Alkhonain, Kiran Kumar Challa, Amarsagar Reddy Ramapuram Matavalam, Alok Kumar Bharati, Venkataramana Ajjarapu · 2026

The rapid growth of inverter-based resources (IBRs) and distributed energy resources (DERs) has fundamentally altered the long-term voltage stability characteristics of modern power systems. This arti…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Robust Multi-Agent Target Tracking in Intermittent Communication Environments via Analytical Belief Merging

Mohamed Abdelnaby, Samuel Honor, Kevin Leahy · 2026

Autonomous multi-agent target tracking in GPS-denied and communication-restricted environments (e.g., underwater exploration, subterranean search and rescue, and adversarial domains) forces agents to …

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

OpenPRC: A Unified Open-Source Framework for Physics-to-Task Evaluation in Physical Reservoir Computing

Yogesh Phalak, Wen Sin Lor, Apoorva Khairnar, Benjamin Jantzen, Noel Naughton, Suyi Li · 2026

Physical Reservoir Computing (PRC) leverages the intrinsic nonlinear dynamics of physical substrates, mechanical, optical, spintronic, and beyond, as fixed computational reservoirs, offering a compell…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Deep Neural Network Based Roadwork Detection for Autonomous Driving

Sebastian Wullrich, Nicolai Steinke, Daniel Goehring · 2026

Road construction sites create major challenges for both autonomous vehicles and human drivers due to their highly dynamic and heterogeneous nature. This paper presents a real-time system that detects…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

AdaLTM: Adaptive Layer-wise Task Vector Merging for Categorical Speech Emotion Recognition with ASR Knowledge Integration

Chia-Yu Lee, Huang-Cheng Chou, Tzu-Quan Lin, Yuanchao Li, Ya-Tse Wu, Shrikanth Narayanan, Chi-Chun Lee · 2026

Integrating Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) into Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) enhances modeling by providing linguistic context. However, conventional feature fusion faces performance bottlenec…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Learning Adaptive Force Control for Contact-Rich Sample Scraping with Heterogeneous Materials

Cenk Cetin, Shreyas Pouli, Gabriella Pizzuto · 2026

The increasing demand for accelerated scientific discovery, driven by global challenges, highlights the need for advanced AI-driven robotics. Deploying robotic chemists in human-centric labs is key fo…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

DepthCache: Depth-Guided Training-Free Visual Token Merging for Vision-Language-Action Model Inference

Yuquan Li, Lianjie Ma, Han Ding, Lijun Zhu · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models enable generalist robotic manipulation but suffer from high inference latency. This bottleneck stems from the massive number of visual tokens processed by large lan…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

On Theoretical Stability Proof and Stability Margin Analysis of Enhanced Droop-Free Control Schemes for Islanded Microgrids

Weipeng Liu, Upendra Prasad, Yutian Liu, Yong Dong, Haoran Zhao, Lei Wu · 2026

This paper studies enhanced droop-free control strategies with sparse neighboring communication for achieving effective active power sharing of distributed energy resources (DERs) while maintaining th…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Impact of Localization Errors on Label Quality for Online HD Map Construction

Alexander Blumberg, Jonas Merkert, Richard Fehler, Fabian Immel, Frank Bieder, Jan-Hendrik Pauls, Christoph Stiller · 2026

High-definition (HD) maps are crucial for autonomous vehicles, but their creation and maintenance is very costly. This motivates the idea of online HD map construction. To provide a continuous large-s…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Detection and Classification of Cetacean Echolocation Clicks using Image-based Object Detection Methods applied to Advanced Wavelet-based Transformations

Christopher Hauer · 2026

A challenge in marine bioacoustic analysis is the detection of animal signals, like calls, whistles and clicks, for behavioral studies. Manual labeling is too time-consuming to process sufficient data…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Power Margin Ratio -- A Large-Signal System Strength Metric for Inverter-Based Resources-Dominated Power Systems

Zitian Qiu, Yunjie Gu · 2026

As the growing penetration of inverter-based resources (IBRs) in modern power systems, the system strength is decreasing. Due to the inherent difference in short-circuit capacity contributions of sync…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

A Collaborative Safety Shield for Safe and Efficient CAV Lane Changes in Congested On-Ramp Merging

Bharathkumar Hegde, Melanie Bouroche · 2026

Lane changing in dense traffic is a significant challenge for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs). Existing lane change controllers primarily either ensure safety or collaboratively improve traff…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Towards uncertainty quantification of a model for cancer-on-chip experiments

Silvia Bertoluzza, Vittoria Bianchi, Gabriella Bretti, Lorenzo Tamellini, Pietro Zanotti · 2026

This study is a first step towards using data-informed differential models to predict and control the dynamics of cancer-on-chip experiments. We consider a conceptualized one-dimensional device, conta…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Sensor Placement for Urban Traffic Interpolation: A Data-Driven Evaluation to Inform Policy

Silke K. Kaiser · 2026

Data on citywide street-segment traffic volumes are essential for urban planning and sustainable mobility management. Yet such data are available only for a limited subset of streets due to the high c…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Latent Space Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Robot Exploration

Sriram Rajasekar, Ashwini Ratnoo · 2026

Autonomous mapping of unknown environments is a critical challenge, particularly in scenarios where time is limited. Multi-agent systems can enhance efficiency through collaboration, but the scalabili…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Geometric Multi-Session Map Merging with Learned Local Descriptors

Yanlong Ma, Nakul S. Joshi, Christa S. Robison, Philip R. Osteen, Brett T. Lopez · 2025

Multi-session map merging is crucial for extended autonomous operations in large-scale environments. In this paper, we present GMLD, a learning-based local descriptor framework for large-scale multi-s…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

LeLaR: The First In-Orbit Demonstration of an AI-Based Satellite Attitude Controller

Kirill Djebko, Tom Baumann, Erik Dilger, Frank Puppe, Sergio Montenegro · 2025

Attitude control is essential for many satellite missions. Classical controllers, however, are time-consuming to design and sensitive to model uncertainties and variations in operational boundary cond…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Robust Finetuning of Vision-Language-Action Robot Policies via Parameter Merging

Yajat Yadav, Zhiyuan Zhou, Andrew Wagenmaker, Karl Pertsch, Sergey Levine · 2025

Generalist robot policies, trained on large and diverse datasets, have demonstrated the ability to generalize across a wide spectrum of behaviors, enabling a single policy to act in varied real-world …

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Fault-Tolerant MARL for CAVs under Observation Perturbations for Highway On-Ramp Merging

Yuchen Shi, Huaxin Pei, Yi Zhang, Danya Yao · 2025

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) holds significant promise for enabling cooperative driving among Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs). However, its practical application is hindered by a …

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Group-Aware Partial Model Merging for Children's Automatic Speech Recognition

Thomas Rolland, Alberto Abad · 2025

While supervised fine-tuning of adult pre-trained models for children's ASR has shown promise, it often fails to capture group-specific characteristics and variations among children. To address this, …

Read Paper →
Page 1 of 15 Next →