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Robust Fleet Sizing for Multi-UAV Inspection Missions under Synchronized Replacement Demand

Vishal Ramesh, Antony Thomas ยท 2026

Multi-UAV inspection missions require spare drones to replace active drones during recharging cycles. Existing fleet-sizing approaches often assume steady-state operating conditions that do not apply โ€ฆ

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Discovery of unobservable parameters via physical embedding

Le Cheng, Xiaoran Liu, Lingjin Kong, Haitao Zhao, Jun Xiong, Fanglin Gu, Xiaoying Zhang, Baoquan Ren, Jibo Wei, Hao Yin ยท 2026

Recovering a source signal from indirect measurements often requires estimating latent parameters, such as wireless channel states or MRI coil sensitivities, that cannot be directly observed. Here, weโ€ฆ

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Safe or Slow? The Illusion of Thermal Stability Under Reduced-Velocity Nail Intrusion

Eymen Ipek, Oliver Korak, Georg Gsellmann, Andrey Golubkov ยท 2026

This study investigates the effects of nail penetration speed on the safety outcomes of large-format automotive lithium-ion pouch cells. Through six controlled tests varying the speed of nail insertioโ€ฆ

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Formation-Aware Adaptive Conformalized Perception for Safe Leader-Follower Multi-Robot Systems

Richie R. Suganda, Bin Hu ยท 2026

This paper considers the perception safety problem in distributed vision-based leader-follower formations, where each robot uses onboard perception to estimate relative states, track desired setpointsโ€ฆ

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Design and Experimental Validation of Closed-Form CBF-Based Safe Control for Stewart Platform Under Multiple Constraints

Benedictus C. G. Cinun, Tua A. Tamba, Immanuel R. Santjoko, Xiaofeng Wang, Michael A. Gunarso, Bin Hu ยท 2025

This letter presents a closed-form solution of Control Barrier Function (CBF) framework for enforcing safety constraints on a Stewart robotic platform. The proposed method simultaneously handles multiโ€ฆ

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CycleManip: Enabling Cyclic Task Manipulation via Effective Historical Perception and Understanding

Yi-Lin Wei, Haoran Liao, Yuhao Lin, Pengyue Wang, Zhizhao Liang, Guiliang Liu, Wei-Shi Zheng ยท 2025

In this paper, we explore an important yet underexplored task in robot manipulation: cycle-based manipulation, where robots need to perform cyclic or repetitive actions with an expected terminal time.โ€ฆ

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Ein Fenster zur gleichzeitigen Messung der Uebertragungsfunktion eines realen Systems und des Leistungsdichtespektrums des ueberlagerten Rauschens am Systemausgang (Teil 2)

Helmut Repp ยท 2025

The method described in the first part for frequency-selectively measuring the transfer function and the noise power spectral density of the superimposed noise at the output of a disturbed, real systeโ€ฆ

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Ein Fenster zur gleichzeitigen Messung der Uebertragungsfunktion eines realen Systems und des Leistungsdichtespektrums des ueberlagerten Rauschens am Systemausgang (Teil 1)

Helmut Repp ยท 2025

There is already a method known from the literature with which it is possible to measure both the transfer function and the noise power spectral density of the superimposed noise at the output of a diโ€ฆ

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NavSpace: How Navigation Agents Follow Spatial Intelligence Instructions

Haolin Yang, Yuxing Long, Zhuoyuan Yu, Zihan Yang, Minghan Wang, Jiapeng Xu, Yihan Wang, Ziyan Yu, Wenzhe Cai, Lei Kang, Hao Dong ยท 2025

Instruction-following navigation is a key step toward embodied intelligence. Prior benchmarks mainly focus on semantic understanding but overlook systematically evaluating navigation agents' spatial pโ€ฆ

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Self-evolved Imitation Learning in Simulated World

Yifan Ye, Jun Cen, Jing Chen, Zhihe Lu ยท 2025

Imitation learning has been a trend recently, yet training a generalist agent across multiple tasks still requires large-scale expert demonstrations, which are costly and labor-intensive to collect. Tโ€ฆ

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Temporal and Rotational Calibration for Event-Centric Multi-Sensor Systems

Jiayao Mai, Xiuyuan Lu, Kuan Dai, Shaojie Shen, Yi Zhou ยท 2025

Event cameras generate asynchronous signals in response to pixel-level brightness changes, offering a sensing paradigm with theoretically microsecond-scale latency that can significantly enhance the pโ€ฆ

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Focal Mechanism Uncertainty Quantification In Ground Motion Simulations Of Le Teil Earthquake

Valeria Soto, Fernando Lopez-Caballero ยท 2025

Ensuring the seismic safety of nuclear power plants (NPPs) is essential, especially for facilities that rely on base isolation to reduce earthquake impacts. For understanding the seismic response, accโ€ฆ

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HPRM: High-Performance Robotic Middleware for Intelligent Autonomous Systems

Jacky Kwok, Shulu Li, Marten Lohstroh, Edward A. Lee ยท 2024

The rise of intelligent autonomous systems, especially in robotics and autonomous agents, has created a critical need for robust communication middleware that can ensure real-time processing of extensโ€ฆ

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Bundle Adjustment in the Eager Mode

Zitong Zhan, Huan Xu, Zihang Fang, Xinpeng Wei, Yaoyu Hu, Chen Wang ยท 2024

Bundle adjustment (BA) is a critical technique in various robotic applications such as simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), augmented reality (AR), and photogrammetry. BA optimizes parametersโ€ฆ

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New parametric identification method for a preference model

J Renaud (ERPI), M Camargo (ERPI), L Morel (ERPI), C Fonteix (ERPI) ยท 2024

This article presents a contribution to multi-criteria decision support intended for industrial decision-makers in order to determine the best compromise between design criteria when working on risky โ€ฆ

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Learning secondary tool affordances of human partners using iCub robot's egocentric data

Bosong Ding, Erhan Oztop, Giacomo Spigler, Murat Kirtay ยท 2024

Objects, in particular tools, provide several action possibilities to the agents that can act on them, which are generally associated with the term of affordances. A tool is typically designed for a sโ€ฆ

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Sensor Network Localization via Riemannian Conjugate Gradient and Rank Reduction: An Extended Version

Yicheng Li, Xinghua Sun ยท 2024

This paper addresses the Sensor Network Localization (SNL) problem using received signal strength. The SNL is formulated as an Euclidean Distance Matrix Completion (EDMC) problem under the unit ball sโ€ฆ

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GDTM: An Indoor Geospatial Tracking Dataset with Distributed Multimodal Sensors

Ho Lyun Jeong, Ziqi Wang, Colin Samplawski, Jason Wu, Shiwei Fang, Lance M. Kaplan, Deepak Ganesan, Benjamin Marlin, Mani Srivastava ยท 2024

Constantly locating moving objects, i.e., geospatial tracking, is essential for autonomous building infrastructure. Accurate and robust geospatial tracking often leverages multimodal sensor fusion algโ€ฆ

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An Optimal Control Formulation of Tool Affordance Applied to Impact Tasks

Boyang Ti, Yongsheng Gao, Jie Zhao, Sylvain Calinon ยท 2024

Humans use tools to complete impact-aware tasks such as hammering a nail or playing tennis. The postures adopted to use these tools can significantly influence the performance of these tasks, where thโ€ฆ

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RoboPainter -- a conceptual towards robotized interior finishes

Mohamed Sorour ยท 2023

High demand for painters is required nowadays and foreseen in the near future for both developed and developing countries. To satisfy such demand, this paper presents the detailed computer aided desigโ€ฆ

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