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A Matrix-Free Galerkin Multigrid Solver and Failure-Mode Screen for Single-GPU 3D SIMP Linear Systems

Shaoliang Yang, Jun Wang, Yunsheng Wang ยท 2026

Large 3D SIMP studies require repeated elasticity solves for density-dependent operators whose finest matrices are expensive to assemble and whose conditioning degrades under high contrast. We study tโ€ฆ

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Risk Assessments for Evasive Emergency Maneuvers in Autonomous Vehicles

Aliasghar Arab, Milad Khaleghi, Koorosh Aslansefat ยท 2026

This paper presents a systematic verification and validation (V\&V) framework for the Evasive Minimum Risk Maneuver (EMRM) feature in autonomous vehicles, addressing a critical gap in existing safety โ€ฆ

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Path Integral Control for Partially Observed Systems with Controlled Sensing

Goutam Das, Takashi Tanaka ยท 2026

Path integral control in Gaussian belief space requires a structural matching condition between the observation-driven diffusion of the belief mean and the actuation authority, which a fixed observatiโ€ฆ

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Safe Control using Learned Safety Filters and Adaptive Conformal Inference

Sacha Huriot, Ihab Tabbara, Hussein Sibai ยท 2026

Safety filters have been shown to be effective tools to ensure the safety of control systems with unsafe nominal policies. To address scalability challenges in traditional synthesis methods, learning-โ€ฆ

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A Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability-Guided Search Framework for Efficient and Safe Indoor Planar Robot Navigation

Hanyang Hu, Cameron Siu, Mo Chen ยท 2026

Autonomous navigation requires planning to reach a goal safely and efficiently in complex and potentially dynamic environments. Graph search-based algorithms are widely adopted due to their generalityโ€ฆ

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Hybrid Architecture Gets Fluid: A New Paradigm for Direction-of-arrival Estimation in 6G Networks

Ye Tian, Jiaji Ren, Tuo Wu, Wei Liu, Maged Elkashlan, Matthew C. Valenti, Naofal Al-Dhahir, Hing Cheung So ยท 2026

High-precision direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation, as a key sensing capability for 6G-enabled applications such as autonomous driving and extended reality, is increasingly dependent on the effectivโ€ฆ

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Boundary Sampling to Learn Predictive Safety Filters via Pontryagin's Maximum Principle

James Dallas, Thomas Lew, John Talbot, Jonathan DeCastro, Somil Bansal, John Subosits ยท 2026

Safety filters provide a practical approach for enforcing safety constraints in autonomous systems. While learning-based tools scale to high-dimensional systems, their performance depends on informatiโ€ฆ

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Path Integral Control in Gaussian Belief Space for Partially Observed Systems

Goutam Das, Takashi Tanaka ยท 2026

This paper extends path integral control (PIC) to partially observed systems by formulating the problem in Gaussian belief space. PIC relies on the diffusion being proportional to the control channel โ€ฆ

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Steering with Contingencies: Combinatorial Stabilization and Reach-Avoid Filters

Yana Lishkova, Pio Ong, Sander Tonkens, Sylvia Herbert, Aaron D. Ames ยท 2026

In applications such as autonomous landing and navigation, it is often desirable to steer toward a target while retaining the ability to divert to at least $r$ (out of $p$) alternative sites if conditโ€ฆ

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Closed-Form Analytical Solution for Effective Resistance in Finite 2D Anisotropic Resistor Grids via Jacobi Theta Functions

Ruichao Liu ยท 2026

Computing the effective resistance between nodes in finite discrete resistor grids is a classical problem in circuit analysis with applications in VLSI power delivery network analysis, graph theory, aโ€ฆ

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Certified Set Convergence for Piecewise Affine Systems via Neural Lyapunov Functions

Yanliang Huang, Peng Xie, Zhen Zhang, Wenyuan Wu, Zhuoqi Zeng, Amr Alanwar ยท 2026

Safety-critical control of piecewise affine (PWA) systems under bounded additive disturbances requires guarantees not for individual states but for entire state sets simultaneously: a single control aโ€ฆ

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SCRAMPPI: Efficient Contingency Planning for Mobile Robot Navigation via Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability

Raj Harshit Srirangam, Leonard Jung, Rohith Poola, Michael Everett ยท 2026

Autonomous robots commonly aim to complete a nominal behavior while minimizing a cost; this leaves them vulnerable to failure or unplanned scenarios, where a backup or contingency plan to a safe set iโ€ฆ

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From Global to Local: Hierarchical Probabilistic Verification for Reachability Learning

Ebonye Smith, Sampada Deglurkar, Jingqi Li, Gechen Qu, Claire J. Tomlin ยท 2026

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability provides formal safety guarantees for nonlinear systems. However, it becomes computationally intractable in high-dimensional settings, motivating learning-based approโ€ฆ

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From Singleton Obstacles to Clutter: Translation Invariant Compositional Avoid Sets

Prashant Solanki, Jasper Van Beers, Coen De Visser ยท 2026

This paper studies obstacle avoidance under translation invariant dynamics using an avoid-side travel cost Hamilton Jacobi formulation. For running costs that are zero outside an obstacle and strictlyโ€ฆ

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Verifiable Error Bounds for Physics-Informed Neural Network Solutions of Lyapunov and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations

Jun Liu ยท 2026

Many core problems in nonlinear systems analysis and control can be recast as solving partial differential equations (PDEs) such as Lyapunov and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations. Physics-informโ€ฆ

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Contingency-Aware Planning via Certified Neural Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability

Kasidit Muenprasitivej, Derya Aksaray ยท 2026

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability provides formal safety guarantees for dynamical systems, but solving high-dimensional HJ partial differential equations limits its use in real-time planning. This papโ€ฆ

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Near-Optimal Constrained Feedback Control of Nonlinear Systems via Approximate HJB and Control Barrier Functions

Milad Alipour Shahraki, Laurent Lessard ยท 2026

This paper presents a two-stage framework for constrained near-optimal feedback control of input-affine nonlinear systems. An approximate value function for the unconstrained control problem is computโ€ฆ

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Safety Case Patterns for VLA-based driving systems: Insights from SimLingo

Gerhard Yu, Fuyuki Ishikawa, Oluwafemi Odu, Alvine Boaye Belle ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA)-based driving systems represent a significant paradigm shift in autonomous driving since, by combining traffic scene understanding, linguistic interpretation, and action gโ€ฆ

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Let's Reward Step-by-Step: Step-Aware Contrastive Alignment for Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments

Haoyuan Li, Rui Liu, Hehe Fan, Yi Yang ยท 2026

Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) requires agents to learn complex reasoning from long-horizon human interactions. While Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have driโ€ฆ

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CN-CBF: Composite Neural Control Barrier Function for Safe Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments

Bojan Derajic, Sebastian Bernhard, Wolfgang Honig ยท 2026

Safe navigation of autonomous robots remains one of the core challenges in the field, especially in dynamic and uncertain environments. One of the prevalent approaches is safety filtering based on conโ€ฆ

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