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On the Nesterov's acceleration: A NAIM perspective

Rachit Mehra, M Parimi, Amol Yerudkar, S.R. Wagh, Navdeep Singh ยท 2026

We present a unifying Nearly Asymptotically Invariant Manifold (NAIM) framework for understanding Nesterovs Accelerated Gradient (NAG) method. By lifting the first-order gradient flow into a second-orโ€ฆ

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FlowS: One-Step Motion Prediction via Local Transport Conditioning

Leandro Di Bella, Adrian Munteanu, Bruno Cornelis ยท 2026

Generative motion prediction must satisfy three simultaneous requirements for real-world autonomy: high accuracy, diverse multimodal futures, and strictly bounded latency. Diffusion models meet the fiโ€ฆ

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Slot-hopping Enabled Loiter Guidance and Automation for Fixed-wing UAV Corridors

Pradeep J, Siddhardha Kedarisetty, Ashwini Ratnoo ยท 2026

This paper addresses the problem of traffic congestion management in fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) corridors by further developing a recently introduced loiter-lane framework. A semi-cooperโ€ฆ

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VEHRON: A Configuration-Driven BEV Simulation Framework for Subsystem-Level Studies

Subramanyam Natarajan ยท 2026

In practical early-stage battery-electric vehicle studies, analysis workflows may become fragmented across spreadsheets, notebooks, and project-specific scripts, making reuse, audit, and extension harโ€ฆ

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Deep Learning-Enabled Dissolved Oxygen Sensing in Biofouling Environments for Ocean Monitoring

Nikolaos Salaris, Adrien Desjardins, Manish K. Tiwari ยท 2026

The escalating climate crisis and ecosystem degradation demand intelligent, low-cost sensors capable of robust, long-term monitoring in real-world environments. Absolute dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrโ€ฆ

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Extracting Exact Lie Derivatives Without Backpropagation: A Dual Compiler for Neural Control Barrier Functions

Mohammadreza Kamaldar ยท 2026

Deploying neural-network control barrier functions (CBFs) on embedded hardware requires evaluating the barrier value and its Lie derivatives along the system vector fields at every control cycle. The โ€ฆ

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QuietWalk: Physics-Informed Reinforcement Learning for Ground Reaction Force-Aware Humanoid Locomotion Under Diverse Footwear

Hanze Hu, Luying Feng, Silu Chen, Tianjiang Zheng, Dexin Jiang, Wei Chen, Chi Zhang, Guilin Yang, Yaochu Jin ยท 2026

Humanoid robots operating in human-centered environments (e.g., homes, hospitals, and offices) must mitigate foot--ground impact transients, as impact-induced vibration and noise degrade user experienโ€ฆ

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Partition-of-Unity Gaussian Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

Amir Nooeizadegan ยท 2026

Gaussian basis functions provide an efficient and flexible alternative to spline activations in KANs. In this work, we introduce the partition-of-unity Gaussian KAN (PU-GKAN), a Shepard-type normalizeโ€ฆ

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Equivariant Filter for Radar-Inertial Odometry

Giulio Delama, Jan Michalczyk, Morten Nissov, Martin Scheiber, Alessandro Fornasier, Kostas Alexis, Stephan Weiss ยท 2026

Radar-Inertial Odometry (RIO) based on the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) relies on accurate extrinsic calibration between the radar and the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and is sensitive to disturbanโ€ฆ

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RedVLA: Physical Red Teaming for Vision-Language-Action Models

Yuhao Zhang, Borong Zhang, Jiaming Fan, Jiachen Shen, Yishuai Cai, Yaodong Yang, Jiaming Ji ยท 2026

The real-world deployment of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models remains limited by the risk of unpredictable and irreversible physical harm. However, we currently lack effective mechanisms to proactiโ€ฆ

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Characterizing pitch and roll torque coupling in insect-sized flapping-wing robots using a microfabricated gimbal

Aaron Weber, Daksh Dhingra, Sawyer B. Fuller ยท 2026

Sub-gram flapping-wing flying insect robots (FIRs) are challenging to model because of mechanical complexity in their wings, unsteady aerodynamic flow, and the difficulty of making precise measurementโ€ฆ

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Airspeed Forward-Invariance for Unpowered Fixed-Wing Aircraft

Huseyin Emre Tekaslan, Ella M. Atkins ยท 2026

Autonomous fixed-wing flight is becoming a key capability in aerial robotics, enabling sensing, mobility, and contingency operations across both small-scale Uncrewed Aircraft Systems and large-scale Aโ€ฆ

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Algebraic Diversity: Principles of a Group-Theoretic Approach to Signal Processing

Mitchell A. Thornton ยท 2026

We present principles of algebraic diversity (AD), a group-theoretic approach to signal processing exploiting signal symmetry to extract more information per observation, complementing classical methoโ€ฆ

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Sparsification of Precoding Codebooks for PAPR Reduction via Grassmannian Representations

Joe Asano, Yuto Hama, Hiroki Iimori, Szabolcs Malomsoky, Naoki Ishikawa ยท 2026

In this letter, we propose a sparsification method for precoding codebooks that reduces the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) while preserving the achievable rate. By exploiting the fact that precodeโ€ฆ

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Thrust Regulation Through Wing Linkage Modulation on the Aerobat Platform: Piezoelectric Slip-Stick Actuated Regulator Development

Luca Ciampaglia ยท 2026

Aerobat is a bat-inspired flapping-wing robot with a wing gait generate by the computational structure, a planar linkage of carbon fiber links driven by a single motor. This design minimizes weight buโ€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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CADRE: Card-Agnostic Domain-Aligned RF Embeddings for Virtual PIN Pads on Passive NFC Cards

Dickson Akuoko Sarpong, Hongzhi Guo ยท 2026

Near Field Communication (NFC) cards are widely used for identification, but their passive nature often limits the ability to incorporate additional security mechanisms. As a result, anyone holding thโ€ฆ

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Iterated Invariant EKF for Quadruped Robot Odometry

Hilton Marques Souza Santana, Joao Carlos Virgolino Soares, Sven Goffin, Ylenia Nistico, Silvere Bonnabel, Claudio Semini, Marco Antonio Meggiolaro ยท 2026

Kalman filter-based algorithms are fundamental for mobile robots, as they provide a computationally efficient solution to the challenging problem of state estimation. However, they rely on two main asโ€ฆ

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BIEVR-LIO: Robust LiDAR-Inertial Odometry through Bump-Image-Enhanced Voxel Maps

Patrick Pfreundschuh, Turcan Tuna, Cedric Le Gentil, Roland Siegwart, Cesar Cadena, Helen Oleynikova ยท 2026

Reliable odometry is essential for mobile robots as they increasingly enter more challenging environments, which often contain little information to constrain point cloud registration, resulting in deโ€ฆ

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Scale-Invariant Sampling in Multi-Arm Bandit Motion Planning for Object Extraction

Servet B. Bayraktar, Andreas Orthey, Marc Toussaint ยท 2026

Object extraction tasks often occur in disassembly problems, where bolts, screws, or pins have to be removed from tight, narrow spaces. In such problems, the distance to the environment is often on thโ€ฆ

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