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RAY-TOLD: Ray-Based Latent Dynamics for Dense Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance with TDMPC

Seungho Han, Seokju Lee, Jeonguk Kang ยท 2026

Dense, dynamic crowds pose a persistent challenge for autonomous mobile robots. Purely reactive planning methods, such as Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) control, often fail to escape local miniโ€ฆ

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Array Zooming Optimization for Near-Field Localization With Movable Antennas

Yuxin Duan, Boyu Teng, Xiaojun Yuan, Rui Wang ยท 2026

The emergence of movable antenna (MA) technology provides a promising way to enhance wireless sensing and communication by introducing spatial degrees of freedom through dynamic array reconfiguration.โ€ฆ

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Impact of Background Dense Multipath Components on Multi-Band Fusion ISAC Systems

Dexin Wang, Roberto Bomfin, Ahmad Bazzi, Marwa Chafii ยท 2026

Multi-band sensing has emerged as a key enabler of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), one of the six primary usage scenarios defined for IMT-2030 (6G). The introduction of frequency range 3 โ€ฆ

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A New Location Estimator for Mixed LOS & NLOS scenarios

Gaurav Duggal, Richard M. Buehrer, Harpreet S. Dhillon, Jeffrey H. Reed ยท 2026

Time-of-arrival (TOA)-based localization in mixed line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments is challenging because conventional Euclidean range models do not capture diffraction-doโ€ฆ

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CRLB and Parameter Estimation for OFDM-ISAC with Non-Uniform Sparse Resource Allocation

Wenjie Zhang, Qianglong Dai, Xiaoli Xu, Ruoguang Li, Yong Zeng ยท 2026

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) holds great promise in expanding the applications of wireless communication networks. However, in current communication-centric systems, the time-frequency โ€ฆ

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Cooperative OFDM-ISAC Networks: Performance Analysis and Resource Allocation

Shoushuo Zhang, Rang Liu, Qian Liu, Ming Li ยท 2026

Cooperative integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) based on orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) enables network-wide sensing by exploiting the spatial diversity of multi-base-statioโ€ฆ

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Optimizing Tracking Accuracy in Energy-Constrained Multimodal ISAC via Lyapunov-Driven Heterogeneous Mixture-of-Experts

Wenqi Fan, Ning Wei, Ahmad Bazzi, Rongyan Xi, Zhixian Song, You Li, Zhihan Zeng, Yue Xiu, Chadi Assi ยท 2026

The integration of multimodal sensing and millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications is a key enabler for highly mobile vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) networks. However, continuous high-resolution visuaโ€ฆ

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Blind OFDM-ISAC Relying on Asymmetric Modem Constellations

Henglin Pu, Ahmad Musallam, Husheng Li, Lajos Hanzo ยท 2026

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is increasingly expected to operate under aggressive spectrum reuse, where co-channel orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) interference can be โ€ฆ

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Performance Benchmarks for Line Spectral Estimation: Ordered Ziv-Zakai Characterization and Plug-In Amplitude Error Analysis

Fangqing Xiao, Dirk T. M. Slock ยท 2026

Line spectral estimation (LSE) involves estimating both spectral frequencies and their associated complex amplitudes. Existing Fisher-information-based benchmarks are local and therefore do not capturโ€ฆ

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Networked Tracking of Multiple Moving Targets in 6G Network

Yanmo Hu, Weifeng Zhu, Chenshu Wu, Shuowen Zhang, J. Andrew Zhang, Liang Liu ยท 2026

This paper considers a networked tracking architecture in 6G integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, where multiple base stations (BSs) cooperatively transmit radio signals and process reโ€ฆ

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GenerativeMPC: VLM-RAG-guided Whole-Body MPC with Virtual Impedance for Bimanual Mobile Manipulation

Marcelino Julio Fernando, Miguel Altamirano Cabrera, Jeffrin Sam, Yara Mahmoud, Konstantin Gubernatorov, Dzmitry Tsetserukou ยท 2026

Bimanual mobile manipulation requires a seamless integration between high-level semantic reasoning and safe, compliant physical interaction - a challenge that end-to-end models approach opaquely and cโ€ฆ

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Multi-Target Estimation via Tensor Decomposition for Beyond Diagonal RIS-Aided Bistatic Sensing

Kenneth Benicio, Andre L. F. de Almeida, Fazal-E Asim, Bruno Sokal, Gabor Fodor, Behrooz Makki, A. Lee Swindlehurst ยท 2026

We investigate the performance of beyond-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (BD-RIS) for bistatic MIMO multi-target sensing using a two-stage tensor Doppler-delay-angle estimation (TenDAE). โ€ฆ

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Cram\'{e}r-Rao Bound Optimization for Near-Field ISAC with Extended Targets

Zongyao Zhao, Zhaolin Wang, Lincong Han, Liang Xu, Jing Jin, Yuanwei Liu, Kaibin Huang ยท 2026

Near-field integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) requires target models beyond the point-target abstraction when the target has a non-negligible spatial extent. In this letter, a geometry-aware โ€ฆ

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NIM4-ASR: Towards Efficient, Robust, and Customizable Real-Time LLM-Based ASR

Yuan Xie, Jiaqi Song, Guang Qiu, Xianliang Wang, Kai Qiao, Junfeng Yuan, Shengqing Liu, Yi Zhang, Bowen Chen, Ming Lei, Jie Gao, Jie Wu ยท 2026

Integrating large language models (LLMs) into automatic speech recognition (ASR) has become a mainstream paradigm in recent years. Although existing LLM-based ASR models demonstrate impressive performโ€ฆ

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A Novel CSI-RS Reporting Scheme for RIS Optimization in O-RAN-based NextG Networks

Ali Fuat Sahin, Sefa Kayraklik, Ali Gorcin, Ibrahim Hokelek, Ertugrul Basar, Halim Yanikomeroglu ยท 2026

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is a promising enabler for next-generation (NextG) wireless systems, capable of dynamically shaping the propagation environment. Integrating RIS witโ€ฆ

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Ray Tracing-Enabled Digital Twin for RIS Phase Optimization: Implementation and Experimental Validation

Omer Lutfu Karakelle, Sefa Kayrakl{i}k, Ibrahim Hokelek, Ali Gorcin, Halim Yan{i}komeroglu ยท 2026

Determining the optimal phase configurations of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) elements typically requires complex channel estimation procedures with high pilot overhead, creating a bottleneโ€ฆ

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Active MIMO Sensing With Exploration-Exploitation Tradeoff

Nadim Ghaddar, Kareem M. Attiah, Wei Yu ยท 2026

This paper develops an active sensing framework for designing the transmit and receive beamformers of a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system. In the proposed technique, the beamformers aโ€ฆ

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Learned Nonlocal Feature Matching and Filtering for RAW Image Denoising

Marco Sanchez-Beeckman, Antoni Buades (IAC3 & Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i Informatica, Universitat de les Illes Balears) ยท 2026

Being one of the oldest and most basic problems in image processing, image denoising has seen a resurgence spurred by rapid advances in deep learning. Yet, most modern denoising architectures make limโ€ฆ

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Movable Antenna Optimization for Multi-User MIMO Systems in Realistic Ray-Traced Propagation Environments

Xiaoyi Zhang, Amna Irshad, Emil Bjornson ยท 2026

To meet the growing data traffic demand in future wireless systems, novel transmission architectures capable of adapting to complex propagation environments are required. Movable antenna (MA) systems โ€ฆ

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DTEA: A Dual-Topology Elastic Actuator Enabling Real-Time Switching Between Series and Parallel Compliance

Vishal Ramesh, Aman Singh, Shishir Kolathaya ยท 2026

Series and parallel elastic actuators offer complementary but mutually exclusive advantages, yet no existing actuator enables real-time transition between these topologies during operation. This paperโ€ฆ

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