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Safe Adaptive Control of Parabolic PDE-ODE Cascades

Yun Jiang, Ji Wang ยท 2026

In this paper, we propose a safe adaptive boundary control strategy for a class of parabolic partial differential equation-ordinary differential equation (PDE-ODE) cascaded systems with parametric uncโ€ฆ

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Data-Driven Safe Output Regulation of Strict-Feedback Linear Systems with Input Delay

Zhenxu Zhao, Ji Wang, Weiyao Lan ยท 2026

This paper develops a data-driven safe control framework for linear systems possessing a known strict-feedback structure, but with most plant parameters, external disturbances, and input delay being uโ€ฆ

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Towards predicting binaural audio quality in listeners with normal and impaired hearing

Thomas Biberger, Stephan D. Ewert ยท 2025

Eurich et al. (2024) recently introduced the computationally efficient monaural and binaural audio quality model (eMoBi-Q). This model integrates both monaural and binaural auditory features and has bโ€ฆ

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Open-Ended Goal Inference through Actions and Language for Human-Robot Collaboration

Debasmita Ghose, Oz Gitelson, Marynel Vazquez, Brian Scassellati ยท 2025

To collaborate with humans, robots must infer goals that are often ambiguous, difficult to articulate, or not drawn from a fixed set. Prior approaches restrict inference to a predefined goal set, relyโ€ฆ

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Smooth path planning with safety margins using Piece-Wise Bezier curves

Iancu Andrei, Marius Kloetzer, Cristian Mahulea, Catalin Dosoftei ยท 2025

In this paper, we propose a computationally efficient quadratic programming (QP) approach for generating smooth, $C^1$ continuous paths for mobile robots using piece-wise quadratic Bezier (PWB) curvesโ€ฆ

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CL-UZH submission to the NIST SRE 2024 Speaker Recognition Evaluation

Aref Farhadipour, Shiran Liu, Masoumeh Chapariniya, Valeriia Vyshnevetska, Srikanth Madikeri, Teodora Vukovic, Volker Dellwo ยท 2025

The CL-UZH team submitted one system each for the fixed and open conditions of the NIST SRE 2024 challenge. For the closed-set condition, results for the audio-only trials were achieved using the X-veโ€ฆ

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The Missing Piece: A Case for Pre-Training in 3D Medical Object Detection

Katharina Eckstein, Constantin Ulrich, Michael Baumgartner, Jessica Kachele, Dimitrios Bounias, Tassilo Wald, Ralf Floca, Klaus H. Maier-Hein ยท 2025

Large-scale pre-training holds the promise to advance 3D medical object detection, a crucial component of accurate computer-aided diagnosis. Yet, it remains underexplored compared to segmentation, wheโ€ฆ

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Zero-Shot KWS for Children's Speech using Layer-Wise Features from SSL Models

Subham Kutum, Abhijit Sinha, Hemant Kumar Kathania, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, Mahesh Chandra Govil ยท 2025

Numerous methods have been proposed to enhance Keyword Spotting (KWS) in adult speech, but children's speech presents unique challenges for KWS systems due to its distinct acoustic and linguistic charโ€ฆ

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Can Layer-wise SSL Features Improve Zero-Shot ASR Performance for Children's Speech?

Abhijit Sinha, Hemant Kumar Kathania, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, Shrikanth Narayanan ยท 2025

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems often struggle to accurately process children's speech due to its distinct and highly variable acoustic and linguistic characteristics. While recent advancemโ€ฆ

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PierGuard: A Planning Framework for Underwater Robotic Inspection of Coastal Piers

Pengyu Wang, Hin Wang Lin, Jialu Li, Jiankun Wang, Ling Shi, Max Q.-H. Meng ยท 2025

Using underwater robots instead of humans for the inspection of coastal piers can enhance efficiency while reducing risks. A key challenge in performing these tasks lies in achieving efficient and rapโ€ฆ

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Geolocation with Large LEO Constellations: Insights from Fisher Information

Don-Roberts Emenonye, Harpreet S. Dhillon, R. Michael Buehrer ยท 2025

Interest in the use of the low earth orbit (LEO) in space - from $160 \text{ km}$ to $2000 \text{ km}$ - has skyrocketed; this is evident by the fact that National Aeronautics and Space Administrationโ€ฆ

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Near-Field LoS/NLoS Channel Estimation for RIS-Aided MU-MIMO Systems: Piece-Wise Low-Rank Approximation Approach

Jeongjae Lee, Songnam Hong ยท 2024

We study the channel estimation problem for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted millimeter-wave (mmWave) multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) system. In particular, it iโ€ฆ

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PIETRA: Physics-Informed Evidential Learning for Traversing Out-of-Distribution Terrain

Xiaoyi Cai, James Queeney, Tong Xu, Aniket Datar, Chenhui Pan, Max Miller, Ashton Flather, Philip R. Osteen, Nicholas Roy, Xuesu Xiao, Jonathan P. How ยท 2024

Self-supervised learning is a powerful approach for developing traversability models for off-road navigation, but these models often struggle with inputs unseen during training. Existing methods utiliโ€ฆ

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Design and Experimental Study of Vacuum Suction Grabbing Technology to Grasp Fabric Piece

Ray Wai Man Kong, Mingyi Liu, Theodore Ho Tin Kong ยท 2024

Vacuum Suction Grabbing Technology. The primary objective of this study was to design the grabbing technique used to determine the vacuum suction gripper and its design parameters for the pocket weltiโ€ฆ

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Adaptive Safety with Control Barrier Functions and Triggered Batch Least-Squares Identifier

Jiajun Shen, Wei Wang, Jing Zhou, Jinhu Lu ยท 2024

In this paper, a triggered Batch Least-Squares Identifier (BaLSI) based adaptive safety control scheme is proposed for uncertain systems with potentially conflicting control objectives and safety consโ€ฆ

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A flexible framework for accurate LiDAR odometry, map manipulation, and localization

Jose Luis Blanco-Claraco ยท 2024

LiDAR-based SLAM is a core technology for autonomous vehicles and robots. One key contribution of this work to 3D LiDAR SLAM and localization is a fierce defense of view-based maps (pose graphs with tโ€ฆ

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Tradition or Innovation: A Comparison of Modern ASR Methods for Forced Alignment

Rotem Rousso, Eyal Cohen, Joseph Keshet, Eleanor Chodroff ยท 2024

Forced alignment (FA) plays a key role in speech research through the automatic time alignment of speech signals with corresponding text transcriptions. Despite the move towards end-to-end architecturโ€ฆ

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Time-Robust Path Planning with Piece-Wise Linear Trajectory for Signal Temporal Logic Specifications

Nhan-Khanh Le, Erfaun Noorani, Sandra Hirche, John Baras ยท 2024

Real-world scenarios are characterized by timing uncertainties, e.g., delays, and disturbances. Algorithms with temporal robustness are crucial in guaranteeing the successful execution of tasks and miโ€ฆ

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Bald Eagle Search Algorithm for High Precision Inverse Kinematics of Hyper-Redundant 9-DOF Robot

Vineeth P, Guru Nanma P, V Sankar, B Sachin Kumar ยท 2023

Robots in 3D spaces with more than six degrees of freedom are redundant. A redundant robot allows multiple configurations of the robot for the given target point in the dexterous workspace. The presenโ€ฆ

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Implementing contextual biasing in GPU decoder for online ASR

Iuliia Nigmatulina, Srikanth Madikeri, Esau Villatoro-Tello, Petr Motlicek, Juan Zuluaga-Gomez, Karthik Pandia, Aravind Ganapathiraju ยท 2023

GPU decoding significantly accelerates the output of ASR predictions. While GPUs are already being used for online ASR decoding, post-processing and rescoring on GPUs have not been properly investigatโ€ฆ

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