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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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Frequency Response of Nonlinear Systems: Notions, Analysis, and Graphical Representation

Alessio Moreschini, Matteo Scandella · 2026

The invariance principle, through which the steady-state behavior of nonlinear systems was introduced by Isidori and Byrnes, is leveraged in this article to bring forth a unifying characterization of …

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BioDCASE 2026 Challenge Baseline for Cross-Domain Mosquito Species Classification

Yuanbo Hou, Vanja Zdravkovic, Marianne Sinka, Yunpeng Li, Wenwu Wang, Mark D. Plumbley, Kathy Willis, Stephen Roberts · 2026

Mosquito-borne diseases affect more than one billion people each year and cause close to one million deaths. Traditional surveillance methods rely on traps and manual identification that are slow, lab…

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Soft Surfaced Vision-Based Tactile Sensing for Bipedal Robot Applications

Jaeeun Kim, Junhee Lim, Yu She · 2026

Legged locomotion benefits from embodied sensing, where perception emerges from the physical interaction between body and environment. We present a soft-surfaced, vision-based tactile foot sensor that…

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dLITE: Differentiable Lighting-Informed Trajectory Evaluation for On-Orbit Inspection

Jack Naylor, Raghav Mishra, Nicholas H. Barbara, Donald G. Dansereau · 2025

Visual inspection of space-borne assets is of increasing interest to spacecraft operators looking to plan maintenance, characterise damage, and extend the life of high-value satellites in orbit. The e…

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Pivot-Only Azimuthal Control and Attitude Estimation of Balloon-borne Payloads

Philippe Voyer, Simon Tartakovsky, Steven J. Benton, William C. Jones · 2025

This paper presents an attitude estimation and yaw-rate control framework for balloon-borne payloads using pivot-only actuation, motivated by the Taurus experiment. Taurus is a long-duration balloon i…

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Stability of Lyapunov redesign trajectory tracking control with unbounded perturbations -- A tube-based stability analysis

Niclas Tietze, Kai Wulff, Johann Reger · 2025

Considering a nonlinear system in Byrnes-Isidori form that is subject to unbounded perturbations, we apply Lyapunov redesign via feedback linearisation for trajectory tracking. Leveraging the ideas of…

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Managing Charging Induced Grid Stress and Battery Degradation in Electric Taxi Fleets

Michael Yuhas, Rajesh K. Ahir, Laksamana Vixell Tanjaya Hartono, Muhammad Dzaki Dwi Putranto, Arvind Easwaran, Suhono Harso Supangkat · 2025

Operating fleets of electric vehicles (EVs) introduces several challenges, some of which are borne by the fleet operator, and some of which are borne by the power grid. To maximize short-term profit a…

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A Human-Vector Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible Model for Analyzing and Controlling the Spread of Vector-Borne Diseases

Lorenzo Zino, Alessandro Casu, Alessandro Rizzo · 2025

We propose an epidemic model for the spread of vector-borne diseases. The model, which is built extending the classical susceptible-infected-susceptible model, accounts for two populations -- humans a…

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A Drone-mounted Magnetometer System for Automatic Interference Removal and Landmine Detection

Alex Paul Hoffmann, Matthew G. Finley, Eftyhia Zesta, Mark B. Moldwin, Lauro V. Ojeda · 2025

Landmines have been extensively used in conflict zones as an indiscriminate weapon to control military movements, often remaining active long after hostilities have ended. Their presence poses a persi…

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UAV-Borne Digital Radar System for Coherent Multistatic SAR Imaging

Julian Kanz, Christian Gesell, Christina Bonfert, David Werbunat, Alexander Grathwohl, Julian Aguilar, Martin Vossiek, Christian Waldschmidt · 2025

Advancements in analog-to-digital converter (ADC) technology have enabled higher sampling rates, making it feasible to adopt digital radar architectures that directly sample the radio-frequency (RF) s…

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High-gain model-following control for trajectory tracking

Nicals Tietze, Kai Wulff, Johann Reger · 2025

We consider trajectory tracking for minimum-phase nonlinear systems in Byrnes-Isidori form using the model-following control (MFC) architecture. The tracking problem is motivated by a hierarchical con…

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Adaptive Finite State Projection with Quantile-Based Pruning for Solving the Chemical Master Equation

Aditya Dendukuri, Linda Petzold · 2025

We present an adaptive Finite State Projection (FSP) method for efficiently solving the Chemical Master Equation (CME) with rigorous error control. Our approach integrates time-stepping with dynamic s…

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AVSim -- Realistic Simulation Framework for Airborne and Vector-Borne Disease Dynamics

Pandula Thennakoon, Mario De Silva, M. Mahesha Viduranga, Sashini Liyanage, Roshan Godaliyadda, Mervyn Parakrama Ekanayake, Vijitha Herath, Anuruddhika Rathnayake, Ganga Thilakarathne, Janaka Ekanayake, Samath Dharmarathne · 2025

Computational disease modeling plays a crucial role in understanding and controlling the transmission of infectious diseases. While agent-based models (ABMs) provide detailed insights into individual …

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Soil moisture estimation of bare and vegetation-covered areas using a P/L/C-band SAR

Gian Ore, Jhonnatan Yepes, Juliana A. Goes, Luciano P. Oliveira, Barbara Teruel, Hugo E. Hernandez-Figueroa · 2024

The paper introduces a novel approach for estimating soil moisture in vegetated surfaces, specifically focusing on sugarcane crops throughout various growth stages in agriculture applications. While e…

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Ant Nest Detection Using Underground P-Band TomoSAR

Gian Ore, Alexandre Santos, Daniele Ukan, Ronald Zanetti, Mariane Camargo, Luciano P. Oliveira, Guillermo Kemper, Alonso Sanchez, Aldo Diaz, Jorge Gonzalez, Ruth Rubio-Noriega, Levy Boccato, Hugo E. Hernandez-Figueroa · 2024

Leaf-cutting ants, notorious for causing defoliation in commercial forest plantations, significantly contribute to biomass and productivity losses, impacting forest producers in Brazil. These ants con…

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MosquitoMiner: A Light Weight Rover for Detecting and Eliminating Mosquito Breeding Sites

Md. Adnanul Islam, Md. Faiyaz Abdullah Sayeedi, Jannatul Ferdous Deepti, Shahanur Rahman Bappy, Safrin Sanzida Islam, Fahim Hafiz · 2024

In this paper, we present a novel approach to the development and deployment of an autonomous mosquito breeding place detector rover with the object and obstacle detection capabilities to control mosq…

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RobocupGym: A challenging continuous control benchmark in Robocup

Michael Beukman, Branden Ingram, Geraud Nangue Tasse, Benjamin Rosman, Pravesh Ranchod · 2024

Reinforcement learning (RL) has progressed substantially over the past decade, with much of this progress being driven by benchmarks. Many benchmarks are focused on video or board games, and a large n…

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Optimizing Air-borne Network-in-a-box Deployment for Efficient Remote Coverage

Sidrah Javed, Yunfei Chen, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Cheng-Xiang Wang · 2024

Among many envisaged drivers for the sixth generation, one is from the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals 2030 to eliminate digital inequality. Remote coverage in sparsely populated areas…

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Deep Joint Semantic Coding and Beamforming for Near-Space Airship-Borne Massive MIMO Network

Minghui Wu, Zhen Gao, Zhaocheng Wang, Dusit Niyato, George K. Karagiannidis, Sheng Chen · 2024

Near-space airship-borne communication network is recognized to be an indispensable component of the future integrated ground-air-space network thanks to airships' advantage of long-term residency at …

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