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Optimizing Dynamic Metasurface Antenna Configurations for Direction-of-Arrival and Polarization Estimation Using an Experimentally Calibrated Multiport-Network Model

Jean Tapie, Philipp del Hougne ยท 2026

Sensing the direction of arrival and polarization of impinging signals is a key prerequisite for beamforming and interference mitigation in modern wireless communication systems. Dynamic metasurface aโ€ฆ

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Structural Limits of Soft Fusion in Multi-Warden Covert Communication

Abbas Arghavani, Subhrakanti Dey, Anders Ahlen ยท 2026

This paper investigates covert wireless communication with a Fusion Center (FC) that aggregates raw energy measurements from multiple Wardens via soft fusion. Extending our prior work on power-threshoโ€ฆ

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Learning an Opponent-aware Anti-jamming Strategy via Online Convex Optimization

Liangqi Liu, Wenqiang Pu, Yingru Li, Zhi-Quan Luo ยท 2026

The dynamic competition against intelligent jammer systems presents a significant challenge to modern radar. Traditional active anti-jamming strategy learning methods often suffer from low sample effiโ€ฆ

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FAS-aided Robust Anti-Jamming Communications: Continuous and Discrete Positioning Designs

Yifan Guo, Junshan Luo, Shilian Wang, Zhenhai Xu ยท 2026

This paper investigates the joint optimization of beamforming and antenna positions in fluid antenna system (FAS)-aided anti-jamming communications. We consider a multi-user multiple-input multiple-ouโ€ฆ

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XR-CareerAssist: An Immersive Platform for Personalised Career Guidance Leveraging Extended Reality and Multimodal AI

N.D. Tantaroudas, A.J. McCracken, I. Karachalios, E. Papatheou, V. Pastrikakis ยท 2026

Conventional career guidance platforms rely on static, text-driven interfaces that struggle to engage users or deliver personalised, evidence-based insights. Although Computer-Assisted Career Guidanceโ€ฆ

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Learning Surrogate LPV State-Space Models with Uncertainty Quantification

E. Javier Olucha, Valentin Preda, Amritam Das, Roland Toth ยท 2026

The Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) framework enables the construction of surrogate models of complex nonlinear and high-dimensional systems, facilitating efficient stability and performance analysis tโ€ฆ

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Communications-Aware NMPC for Multi-Rotor Aerial Relay Networks Under Jamming Interference

Giuseppe Silano, Daniel Bonilla Licea, Davide Liuzza, Antonio Franchi, Martin Saska ยท 2026

Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles (MRAVs) are increasingly used in communication-dependent missions where connectivity loss directly compromises task execution. Existing anti-jamming strategies often decoupโ€ฆ

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SABER: A Stealthy Agentic Black-Box Attack Framework for Vision-Language-Action Models

Xiyang Wu, Guangyao Shi, Qingzi Wang, Zongxia Li, Amrit Singh Bedi, Dinesh Manocha ยท 2026

Vision-language-action (VLA) models enable robots to follow natural-language instructions grounded in visual observations, but the instruction channel also introduces a critical vulnerability: small tโ€ฆ

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FODMP: Fast One-Step Diffusion of Movement Primitives Generation for Time-Dependent Robot Actions

Xirui Shi, Arya Ebrahimi, Yi Hu, Jun Jin ยท 2026

Diffusion models are increasingly used for robot learning, but current designs face a clear trade-off. Action-chunking diffusion policies like ManiCM are fast to run, yet they only predict short segmeโ€ฆ

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The Binding Effect: Analyzing How Multi-Dimensional Cues Form Gender Bias in Instruction TTS

Kuan-Yu Chen, Yi-Cheng Lin, Po-Chung Hsieh, Huang-Cheng Chou, Chih-Fan Hsu, Jeng-Lin Li, Hung-yi Lee, Jian-Jiun Ding ยท 2026

Current bias evaluations in Instruction Text-to-Speech (ITTS) often rely on univariate testing, overlooking the compositional structure of social cues. In this work, we investigate gender bias by modeโ€ฆ

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Bumper Drone: Elastic Morphology Design for Aerial Physical Interaction

Pongporn Supa, Alex Dunnett, Feng Xiao, Rui Wu, Mirko Kovac, Basaran Bahadir Kocer ยท 2026

Aerial robots are evolving from avoiding obstacles to exploiting the environmental contact interactions for navigation, exploration and manipulation. A key challenge in such aerial physical interactioโ€ฆ

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Role-Adaptive Collaborative Formation Planning for Team of Quadruped Robots in Cluttered Environments

Magnus Noren, Marios-Nektarios Stamatopoulos, Avijit Banerjee, George Nikolakopoulos ยท 2026

This paper presents a role-adaptive Leader-Follower-based formation planning and control framework for teams of quadruped robots operating in cluttered environments. Unlike conventional methods with fโ€ฆ

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Learning-based augmentation of first-principle models: A linear fractional representation-based approach

Jan H. Hoekstra, Bendeguz M. Gyorok, Roland Toth, Maarten Schoukens ยท 2026

Nonlinear system identificationhas proven to be effective in obtaining accurate models from data for complex real-world systems. In particular, recent encoder-based methods with artificial neural netwโ€ฆ

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The role of VSG parameters in shaping small-signal SG dynamics

Ferdinand Geuss, Orcun Karaca, Mario Schweizer, Ognjen Stanojev ยท 2026

We derive a small-signal transfer function for a system comprising a virtual synchronous generator (VSG), a synchronous generator (SG), and a load, capturing voltage and frequency dynamics. Using thisโ€ฆ

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Encoder initialisation methods in the model augmentation setting

J.H. Hoekstra, B. Gyorok, R. Toth, M. Schoukens ยท 2026

Nonlinear system identification (NL-SI) has proven to be effective in obtaining accurate models for highly complex systems. Recent encoder-based methods for artificial neural network state-space (ANN-โ€ฆ

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On the Design of an Optimal Multi-Tone Jammer Against the Wiener Interpolation Filter

Corentin Fonteneau (IETR, INSA Rennes, UR) ยท 2026

In the context of civilian and military communications, anti-jamming techniques are essential to ensure information integrity in the presence of malicious interference. A conventional time-domain apprโ€ฆ

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Gust Estimation and Rejection with a Disturbance Observer for Proprioceptive Underwater Soft Morphing Wings

Tobias Cook, Leo Micklem, Huazhi Dong, Yunjie Yang, Michael Mistry, Francesco Giorgio-Serchi ยท 2026

Unmanned underwater vehicles are increasingly employed for maintenance and surveying tasks at sea, but their operation in shallow waters is often hindered by hydrodynamic disturbances such as waves, cโ€ฆ

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Efficient Trajectory Design and Communication Scheduling for Dual-UAV Jamming-Aided Secure Communication Networks

Xinran Wang, Peng Wu, Xiaopeng Yuan, Yulin Hu, Anke Schmeink ยท 2026

We study dual-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) jamming-aided secure communication networks, in which one UAV delivers confidential data to multiple ground users (GUs), while a cooperative UAV provides prโ€ฆ

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Improved Initialization for Port-Hamiltonian Neural Network Models

G.J.E. van Otterdijk, S. Weiland, M. Schoukens ยท 2026

Port-Hamiltonian neural networks have shown promising results in the identification of nonlinear dynamics of complex systems, as their combination of physical principles with data-driven learning alloโ€ฆ

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Improving Stability Margins with Grid-Forming Damper Winding Emulation

Dahlia Saba, Dominic Gro{ss} ยท 2026

This work presents (i) a framework for certifying small-signal frequency stability of a power system with line dynamics and heterogeneous bus dynamics, (ii) a novel reduced-order model of damper windiโ€ฆ

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