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A Two Stage Pipeline for Left Atrial Wall Constrained Scar Segmentation and Localization from LGE-MR Images

Bipasha Kundu, Cristian Linte · 2026

Accurate segmentation and localization of left atrial (LA) ablation scars from Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE)-MRI is essential for assessing the lesion completeness and guiding ablation therapy. In…

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Privileged Foresight Distillation: Zero-Cost Future Correction for World Action Models

Pengcheng Fang, Hongli Chen, Xiaohao Cai · 2026

World action models jointly predict future video and action during training, raising an open question about what role the future-prediction branch actually plays. A recent finding shows that this bran…

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Dual-Polarized Massive MIMO Based on Precoding for Vehicle-To-Ground Communication in Urban Rail Transit

Zhengyuan Wu, Junhui Zhao, Qingmiao Zhang, Ming Zhang · 2026

The development of intelligent and diversified ser vices in urban rail transit (URT) has resulted in an increasing de mand for high-rate communication between vehicles and ground equipment. However, e…

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Beam Scheduling for Cross-Layer ISAC: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

Xiyu Wang, Gilberto Berardinelli, Hei Victor Cheng, Petar Popovski, Ramoni Adeogun · 2026

Resource allocation in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems needs to be optimized to balance the requirements of the communication and sensing modules considering complicated cross-laye…

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Graph Neural Ordinary Differential Equations for Power System Identification

Hannes M.H. Wolf, Christian A. Hans · 2026

With the shift towards decentralized energy generation, the increasing complexity of power systems renders physics-based modeling challenging. At the same time the growing amount of available measurem…

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Learning the Weather-Grid Nexus via Weather-to-Voltage (W2V) Predictive Modeling

Sol Lim, Min-Seung Ko, Farnaz Safdarian, Hao Zhu · 2026

This paper proposes a weather-to-voltage (W2V) predictive modeling framework to learn the underlying weather-grid nexus. Unlike existing approaches on weather-informed grid operations, our proposed W2…

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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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Learning Control Policies to Provably Satisfy Hard Affine Constraints for Black-Box Hybrid Dynamical Systems

Aayushi Shrivastava, Kartik Nagpal, Sairam Jinkala, Jean-Baptiste Bouvier, Negar Mehr · 2026

Ensuring safety for black-box hybrid dynamical systems presents significant challenges due to their instantaneous state jumps and unknown explicit nonlinear dynamics. Existing solutions for strict saf…

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Accurate Frequency Response Modeling in Integrated T&D Co-Simulation via EWMA-RTTA-Based Quadratic Extrapolation

Jong Ha Woo, Qi Xiao, Yu Ma, Zishuo Yang, Victor Daldegan Paduani, Ning Lu · 2026

The large-scale integration of inverter-based resources (IBRs), particularly distributed photovoltaics (DPVs), into distribution networks increases the need for integrated transmission and distributio…

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Benefits of Low-Cost Bio-Inspiration in the Age of Overparametrization

Kevin Godin-Dubois, Anil Yaman, Anna V. Kononova · 2026

While Central Pattern Generators (CPGs) and Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP) are widely used paradigms in robot control, few systematic studies have been performed on the relative merits of large paramet…

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Stochastic Barrier Certificates in the Presence of Dynamic Obstacles

Rayan Mazouz, Luca Laurenti, Morteza Lahijanian · 2026

Safety of stochastic dynamic systems in environments with dynamic obstacles is studied in this paper through the lens of stochastic barrier functions. We introduce both time-invariant and time-varying…

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Defining Robust Ultrasound Quality Metrics via an Ultrasound Foundation Model

Ziyang Huang, Bingyan Li, Chen Ma, Tianyi Liu, Yihui Zhai, Hong Xu, Yi Guo, Zeju Li, Yuanyuan Wang · 2026

Clinicians lack a principled framework to quantify diagnostic utility in ultrasound reconstructions. Existing standards like PSNR and VGG-LPIPS are inadequate, failing to account for modality-specific…

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Design, Modelling and Experimental Evaluation of a Tendon-driven Wrist Abduction-Adduction Mechanism for an upper limb exoskeleton

Juwairiya S. Khan, Mostafa Mohammadi, John Rasmussen, Lotte N.S. Andreasen Struijk · 2026

Wrist exoskeletons play a vital role in rehabilitation and assistive applications, yet conventional actuation mechanisms such as electric motors or pneumatics often introduce undesirable weight, frict…

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EcoTIM: Fuel-saving multi-brand tillage with ISO 11783 TIM

Ruben Hefele, Timo Oksanen · 2026

Tillage operations account for a large share of on-farm diesel consumption, yet the fuel efficiency of the combined tractor-implement system is not optimised in current practice. Modern continuously v…

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Kill-Probability-Maximization Guidance: Breaking from the Miss-Distance-Minimization Paradigm

Liraz Mudrik, Yaakov Oshman · 2026

Classical guidance laws aim at minimizing the miss distance, thus implicitly determining the minimum warhead lethality radius required against nominal targets. However, nonnominal targets or scenarios…

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Coordinated Dynamic Operating Envelopes for Unlocking Additional Flexibility at Grid Edge

Ali Jalilian, Deepjyoti Deka, Md. Umar Hashmi, Dirk Van Hertem · 2026

Dynamic operating envelopes (DOEs) provide a systematic framework to integrate the flexibility of distribution grid resources while safeguarding network limits such as line ratings and voltage bounds.…

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Safe Deep Reinforcement Learning for Building Heating Control and Demand-side Flexibility

Colin Juni, Mina Montazeri, Yi Guo, Federica Bellizio, Giovanni Sansavini, Philipp Heer · 2026

Buildings account for approximately 40% of global energy consumption, and with the growing share of intermittent renewable energy sources, enabling demand-side flexibility, particularly in heating, ve…

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Abstract Sim2Real through Approximate Information States

Yunfu Deng, Yuhao Li, Josiah P. Hanna · 2026

In recent years, reinforcement learning (RL) has shown remarkable success in robotics when a fast and accurate simulator is available for a given task. When using RL and simulation, more simulator rea…

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CBF-based Probabilistic Safe Navigation under Unknown Nonlinear Obstacle Dynamics

Jiwon Lee, Hugo Matias, Daniel Silvestre, Thinh T. Doan · 2026

Safe navigation for an ego vehicle in uncertain environments characterized by dynamic obstacles with unknown nonlinear dynamics is a challenging problem of significant practical interest. Existing app…

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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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