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Split over $n$ resource sharing problem: Are fewer capable agents better than many simpler ones?

Karthik Soma, Mohamed S. Talamali, Genki Miyauchi, Giovanni Beltrame, Heiko Hamann, Roderich Gross · 2026

In multi-agent systems, should limited resources be concentrated into a few capable agents or distributed among many simpler ones? This work formulates the split over $n$ resource sharing problem wher…

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Single-Cycle Multidirectional EOG Classification Faster than Human Reaction Time for Wearable Human-Computer Interactions

Tasnia Nabiha, Orthy Toor, Wakim Sajjad Sakib, Abdullah Bin Shams · 2026

Electrooculogram (EOG) is a non-invasive bio-signal generated by the potential difference between the retina and cornea during eye movement, and is widely utilized in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) …

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''It Is Much Safer to Be Sparse than Connected'': Safe Control of Robotic Swarm Density Dynamics with PDE-Optimization with State Constraints

Longchen Niu, Gennaro Notomista · 2026

This paper introduces a safety-critical optimization-based control strategy that leverages control Lyapunov and control barrier functions to guide the spatial density of robotic swarms governed by the…

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A note on input signal generators: A relaxation of Willems' fundamental lemma in the SISO case

Yun Jeong Yang, Jin Gyu Lee · 2026

We provide a practical relaxation of Willems' fundamental lemma for discrete-time linear time-invariant (single-input-single-output) systems. Instead of maintaining conventional Willems' persistency o…

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Data-Driven Koopman Predictive Control for Frequency Regulation of Power Systems using Black-Box IBRs

Sohrab Rezaei, Xiaomo Wang, Sijia Geng · 2026

Model uncertainty of inverter-based resources (IBRs) presents significant challenges for power system control and stability. This work studies secondary frequency regulation in inverter-based power sy…

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Steady-state response assignment for a given disturbance and reference: Sylvester equation rather than regulator equations

Hyeonyeong Jang, Jin Gyu Lee · 2026

Conventionally, the concept of moment has been primarily employed in model order reduction to approximate system by matching the moment, which is merely the specific set of steady-state responses. In …

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Willems' Fundamental Lemma with Large Noisy Fragmented Dataset

Sahand Kiani, Constantino M. Lagoa · 2026

Willems' Fundamental Lemma enables parameterizing all trajectories generated by a Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) system directly from data. However, this lemma relies on the assumption of noiseless measu…

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Joint Sensing and Covert Communications in RIS-NOMA Systems

Jiayi Lei, Xidong Mu, Tiankui Zhang, Wenjun Xu, Ping Zhang · 2026

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system is investigated, where the transmitter (Alice) is a dual functional radar communication (DFRC) base sta…

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Multi-User Covert Communication in Spatially Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Jinyoung Lee, Hyeonsik Yeom · 2026

This paper investigates an uplink multi-user covert communication system with spatially distributed users. Unlike prior works that approximate channel statistics using averaged parameters and homogene…

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On Port-Hamiltonian Formulation of Hysteretic Energy Storage Elements: The Backlash Case

Jurrien Keulen, Bayu Jayawardhana, Arjan van der Schaft · 2026

This paper presents a port-Hamiltonian formulation of hysteretic energy storage elements. First, we revisit the passivity property of backlash-driven storage elements by presenting a family of storage…

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Rewriting TTS Inference Economics: Lightning V2 on Tenstorrent Achieves 4x Lower Cost Than NVIDIA L40S

Ranjith M. S., Akshat Mandloi, Sudarshan Kamath · 2026

Text-to-Speech (TTS) models are significantly more numerically fragile than Large Language Models (LLMs) due to their continuous waveform generation and perceptual sensitivity to small numerical pertu…

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Do World Action Models Generalize Better than VLAs? A Robustness Study

Zhanguang Zhang, Zhiyuan Li, Behnam Rahmati, Rui Heng Yang, Yintao Ma, Amir Rasouli, Sajjad Pakdamansavoji, Yangzheng Wu, Lingfeng Zhang, Tongtong Cao, Feng Wen, Xinyu Wang, Xingyue Quan, Yingxue Zhang · 2026

Robot action planning in the real world is challenging as it requires not only understanding the current state of the environment but also predicting how it will evolve in response to actions. Vision-…

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Data-Driven Predictive Control for Stochastic Descriptor Systems: An Innovation-Based Approach Handling Non-Causal Dynamics

Yunxiang Ma, Yibo Wang, Zhongmei Li, Chao Shang · 2026

Descriptor systems arise naturally in applications governed by algebraic constraints, such as power networks and chemical processes. The singular system matrix in descriptor systems may introduce non-…

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Stability Guarantees for Data-Driven Predictive Control of Nonlinear Systems via Approximate Koopman Embeddings

Amin Taghieh, SangWoo Park · 2026

Data-driven model predictive control based on Willems' fundamental lemma has proven effective for linear systems, but extending stability guarantees to nonlinear systems remains an open challenge. In …

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Rotatable Antenna Enabled Covert Communication

Qi Dai, Beixiong Zheng, Yanhua Tan, Weidong Mei, Shiqi Gong, Jie Tang, Chengwen Xing · 2026

Unlike conventional fixed-antenna architectures, rotatable antenna (RA) has shown great potential in enhancing wireless communication performance by exploiting additional spatial degrees of freedom (D…

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Tensegrity Robot Endcap-Ground Contact Estimation with Symmetry-aware Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network

Wenzhe Tong, Yicheng Jiang, Chi Zhang, Maani Ghaffari, Xiaonan Huang · 2026

Tensegrity robots possess lightweight and resilient structures but present significant challenges for state estimation due to compliant and distributed ground contacts. This paper introduces a symmetr…

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Neural Luenberger state observer for nonautonomous nonlinear systems

Moritz Woelk, Jarod Morris, Wentao Tang · 2026

This work proposes a method for model-free synthesis of a state observer for nonlinear systems with manipulated inputs, where the observer is trained offline using a historical or simulation dataset o…

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Scaling Verification Can Be More Effective than Scaling Policy Learning for Vision-Language-Action Alignment

Jacky Kwok, Xilun Zhang, Mengdi Xu, Yuejiang Liu, Azalia Mirhoseini, Chelsea Finn, Marco Pavone · 2026

The long-standing vision of general-purpose robots hinges on their ability to understand and act upon natural language instructions. Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have made remarkable progress t…

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Unsupervised Semi-Parametric Plug-in Likelihood-Ratio Detection for Covert Communications in the Presence of Disco Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Luyao Sun, Huan Huang, Yongxing Song, Zhongxing Tian, Hongliang Zhang, Weidong Mei, Dongdong Zou, Yi Cai · 2026

Covert communications, also referred to as low probability of detection (LPD) communications, provide a higher level of privacy protection than cryptography and physical-layer security (PLS) by hiding…

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aerial-autonomy-stack -- a Faster-than-real-time, Autopilot-agnostic, ROS2 Framework to Simulate and Deploy Perception-based Drones

Jacopo Panerati, Sina Sajjadi, Sina Soleymanpour, Varunkumar Mehta, Iraj Mantegh · 2026

Unmanned aerial vehicles are rapidly transforming multiple applications, from agricultural and infrastructure monitoring to logistics and defense. Introducing greater autonomy to these systems can sim…

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