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MACAW: Matching-free Acquisition of Channels with Anisotropic Wavefronts

Heling Zhang, Shidong Zhou ยท 2026

The escalating data rate demands of future wireless communications necessitate the deployment of extremely large aperture arrays (ELAA) at base stations. In such configurations, wireless channel charaโ€ฆ

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An Open-Source Hardware-Aware Sub-THz Radio-Stripe Simulator

Tijl Schepens, Thomas Feys, Thomas Eriksson, Gilles Callebaut ยท 2026

Sub-Terahertz radio-stripe and distributed MIMO architectures promise extreme spatial reuse and multi-GHz bandwidths, but the cascaded fiber front-haul and RF hardware impairments strongly shape end-tโ€ฆ

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High-Slip-Ratio Control for Peak Tire-Road Friction Estimation Using Automated Vehicles

Zhaohui Liang, Hang Zhou, Heye Huanh, Xiaopeng Li ยท 2026

Accurate estimation of the tire-road friction coefficient (TRFC) is critical for ensuring safe vehicle control, especially under adverse road conditions. However, most existing methods rely on naturalโ€ฆ

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Digging for Data: Experiments in Rock Pile Characterization Using Only Proprioceptive Sensing in Excavation

Unal Artan, Martin Magnusson, Joshua A. Marshall ยท 2026

Characterization of fragmented rock piles is a fundamental task in the mining and quarrying industries, where rock is fragmented by blasting, transported using wheel loaders, and then sent for furtherโ€ฆ

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Phase-Aware Policy Learning for Skateboard Riding of Quadruped Robots via Feature-wise Linear Modulation

Minsung Yoon, Jeil Jeong, Sung-Eui Yoon ยท 2026

Skateboards offer a compact and efficient means of transportation as a type of personal mobility device. However, controlling them with legged robots poses several challenges for policy learning due tโ€ฆ

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Exploring Polarimetric Properties Preservation during Reconstruction of PolSAR images using Complex-valued Convolutional Neural Networks

Quentin Gabot, Joana Frontera-Pons, Jeremy Fix, Chengfang Ren, Jean-Philippe Ovarlez ยท 2026

The inherently complex-valued nature of Polarimetric SAR data necessitates using specialized algorithms capable of directly processing complex-valued representations. However, this aspect remains undeโ€ฆ

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Systemization of Knowledge: Resilience and Fault Tolerance in Cyber-Physical Systems

Rahul Bulusu ยท 2025

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) now support critical infrastructure spanning transportation, energy, manufacturing, medical devices, and autonomous robotics. Their defining characteristic is the tight coโ€ฆ

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YOPO-Nav: Visual Navigation using 3DGS Graphs from One-Pass Videos

Ryan Meegan, Adam D'Souza, Bryan Bo Cao, Shubham Jain, Kristin Dana ยท 2025

Visual navigation has emerged as a practical alternative to traditional robotic navigation pipelines that rely on detailed mapping and path planning. However, constructing and maintaining 3D maps is oโ€ฆ

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Pauli Decomposition of Impedance Matrices for Understanding the Root Cause of Instabilities in Grid-Connected Power Electronic Converters

Josue Andino, Milan Prodanovic, Javier Roldan-Perez ยท 2025

The impedance criterion has emerged as an alternative way to stability assessment of grid-connected power electronic converters. However, the lack of physical meaning of impedance and admittance matriโ€ฆ

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Efficient Decoders for Sensing Subspace Code

Siva Aditya Gooty, Hessam Mahdavifar ยท 2025

Sparse antenna array sensing of source/target via direction of arrival (DoA) estimation motivates design of the sensing framework in joint communication and sensing (JCAS) systems for sixth generationโ€ฆ

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NAWOA-XGBoost: A Novel Model for Early Prediction of Academic Potential in Computer Science Students

Junhao Wei, Yanzhao Gu, Ran Zhang, Mingjing Huang, Jinhong Song, Yanxiao Li, Wenxuan Zhu, Yapeng Wang, Zikun Li, Zhiwen Wang, Xu Yang, Ngai Cheong ยท 2025

Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) suffers from limited global search ability, slow convergence, and tendency to fall into local optima, restricting its effectiveness in hyperparameter optimization foโ€ฆ

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Real-World Reinforcement Learning of Active Perception Behaviors

Edward S. Hu, Jie Wang, Xingfang Yuan, Fiona Luo, Muyao Li, Gaspard Lambrechts, Oleh Rybkin, Dinesh Jayaraman ยท 2025

A robot's instantaneous sensory observations do not always reveal task-relevant state information. Under such partial observability, optimal behavior typically involves explicitly acting to gain the mโ€ฆ

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KinesCeTI: A Modular and Size-Adaptable Force Feedback Glove with Interchangeable Actuation for the Index and Thumb

Pablo Alvarez Romeo, Mehmet Ercan Altinsoy ยท 2025

Force feedback gloves in haptic applications remain constrained by limited adaptability, simplified feedback, and fixed architectures that limit force feedback versatility. To address these challengesโ€ฆ

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Field-programmable dynamics in a soft magnetic actuator enabling true random number generation and reservoir computing

Eduardo Sergio Oliveros-Mata, Oleksandr V. Pylypovskyi, Eleonora Raimondo, Rico Illing, Yevhen Zabila, Lin Guo, Guannan Mu, Monica Navarro Lopez, Xu Wang, Georgios Tzortzinis, Angelos Filippatos, Gilbert Santiago Canon Bermudez, Francesca Garesci, Giovanni Finocchio, Denys Makarov ยท 2025

Complex and even chaotic dynamics, though prevalent in many natural and engineered systems, has been largely avoided in the design of electromechanical systems due to concerns about wear and controlabโ€ฆ

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PUL-SLAM: Path-Uncertainty Co-Optimization with Lightweight Stagnation Detection for Efficient Robotic Exploration

Yizhen Yin, Dapeng Feng, Hongbo Chen, Yuhua Qi ยท 2025

Existing Active SLAM methodologies face issues such as slow exploration speed and suboptimal paths. To address these limitations, we propose a hybrid framework combining a Path-Uncertainty Co-Optimizaโ€ฆ

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Combined fluorescence and photoacoustic imaging of tozuleristide in muscle tissue in vitro -- toward optically-guided solid tumor surgery: feasibility studies

Ruibo Shang, Matthew Thompson, Matthew D. Carson, Eric J. Seibel, Matthew O'Donnell, Ivan Pelivanov ยท 2025

Near-infrared fluorescence (NIRF) can deliver high-contrast, video-rate, non-contact imaging of tumor-targeted contrast agents with the potential to guide surgeries excising solid tumors. However, it โ€ฆ

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Heterogeneous Robot Collaboration in Unstructured Environments with Grounded Generative Intelligence

Zachary Ravichandran, Fernando Cladera, Ankit Prabhu, Jason Hughes, Varun Murali, Camillo Taylor, George J. Pappas, Vijay Kumar ยท 2025

Heterogeneous robot teams operating in realistic settings often must accomplish complex missions requiring collaboration and adaptation to information acquired online. Because robot teams frequently oโ€ฆ

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Integration of the TIAGo Robot into Isaac Sim with Mecanum Drive Modeling and Learned S-Curve Velocity Profiles

Vincent Schoenbach, Marvin Wiedemann, Raphael Memmesheimer, Malte Mosbach, Sven Behnke ยท 2025

Efficient physics simulation has significantly accelerated research progress in robotics applications such as grasping and assembly. The advent of GPU-accelerated simulation frameworks like Isaac Sim โ€ฆ

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Nord-Parl-TTS: Finnish and Swedish TTS Dataset from Parliament Speech

Zirui Li, Jens Edlund, Yicheng Gu, Nhan Phan, Lauri Juvela, Mikko Kurimo ยท 2025

Text-to-speech (TTS) development is limited by scarcity of high-quality, publicly available speech data for most languages outside a few high-resource languages. We present Nord-Parl-TTS, an open TTS โ€ฆ

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Relay-Based Coordination for Energy-Efficient Multi-Robot Pickup and Delivery

Alkesh K. Srivastava, Jared Michael Levin, Philip Dames ยท 2025

We consider the problem of delivering multiple packages from a single depot to distinct goal locations using a homogeneous fleet of robots with limited carrying capacity. We propose VCST-RCP, a Voronoโ€ฆ

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