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Stein Variational Uncertainty-Adaptive Model Predictive Control

Hrishikesh Sathyanarayan, Ian Abraham ยท 2026

We propose a Stein variational distributionally robust controller for nonlinear dynamical systems with latent parametric uncertainty. The method is an alternative to conservative worst-case ambiguity-โ€ฆ

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PinPoint: Monocular Needle Pose Estimation for Robotic Suturing via Stein Variational Newton and Geometric Residuals

Jesse F. d'Almeida, Tanner Watts, Susheela Sharma Stern, James Ferguson, Alan Kuntz, Robert J. Webster III ยท 2026

Reliable estimation of surgical needle 3D position and orientation is essential for autonomous robotic suturing, yet existing methods operate almost exclusively under stereoscopic vision. In monocularโ€ฆ

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Rao-Blackwellized Stein Gradient Descent for Joint State-Parameter Estimation

Milad Banitalebi Dehkordi, Manas Mejari, Dario Piga ยท 2026

We present a filtering framework for online joint state estimation and parameter identification in nonlinear, time-varying systems. The algorithm uses Rao-Blackwellization technique to infer joint staโ€ฆ

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GenMFSR: Generative Multi-Frame Image Restoration and Super-Resolution

Harshana Weligampola, Joshua Peter Ebenezer, Weidi Liu, Abhinau K. Venkataramanan, Sreenithy Chandran, Seok-Jun Lee, Hamid Rahim Sheikh ยท 2026

Camera pipelines receive raw Bayer-format frames that need to be denoised, demosaiced, and often super-resolved. Multiple frames are captured to utilize natural hand tremors and enhance resolution. Muโ€ฆ

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Stein Variational Ergodic Surface Coverage with SE(3) Constraints

Jiayun Li, Yufeng Jin, Sangli Teng, Dejian Gong, Georgia Chalvatzaki ยท 2026

Surface manipulation tasks require robots to generate trajectories that comprehensively cover complex 3D surfaces while maintaining precise end-effector poses. Existing ergodic trajectory optimizationโ€ฆ

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STL-SVPIO: Signal Temporal Logic guided Stein Variational Path Integral Optimization

Hongrui Zheng, Zirui Zang, Ahmad Amine, Cristian Ioan Vasile, Rahul Mangharam ยท 2026

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) enables formal specification of complex spatiotemporal constraints for robotic task planning. However, synthesizing long-horizon continuous control trajectories from compleโ€ฆ

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Understanding Fire Through Thermal Radiation Fields for Mobile Robots

Anton R. Wagner, Madhan Balaji Rao, Xuesu Xiao, Soren Pirk ยท 2026

Safely moving through environments affected by fire is a critical capability for autonomous mobile robots deployed in disaster response. In this work, we present a novel approach for mobile robots to โ€ฆ

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State-Space Averaging Revisited via Reconstruction Operators

Yuxin Yang, Hang Zhou, Hourong Song, Branislav Hredzak ยท 2025

This paper presents an operator-theoretic reconstruction of an equivalent continuous-time LTI model from an exact sampled-data (Poincar\'e-map) baseline of a piecewise-linear switching system. The rebโ€ฆ

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Multi-Rigid-Body Approximation of Human Hands with Application to Digital Twin

Bin Zhao, Yiwen Lu, Haohua Zhu, Xiao Li, Sheng Yi ยท 2025

Human hand simulation plays a critical role in digital twin applications, requiring models that balance anatomical fidelity with computational efficiency. We present a complete pipeline for constructiโ€ฆ

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PINN vs LSTM: A Comparative Study for Steam Temperature Control in Heat Recovery Steam Generators

Mojtaba Fanoodi, Farzaneh Abdollahi, Mahdi Aliyari Shoorehdeli ยท 2025

This paper introduces a direct comparative study of Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks for adaptive steam temperature control in Heat Recovery Steam Geโ€ฆ

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Fault-Tolerant Control of Steam Temperature in HRSG Superheater under Actuator Fault Using a Sliding Mode Observer and PINN

Mojtaba Fanoodi, Farzaneh Abdollahi, Mahdi Aliyari Shoorehdeli ยท 2025

This paper presents a novel fault-tolerant control framework for steam temperature regulation in Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSGs) subject to actuator faults. Addressing the critical challenge ofโ€ฆ

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Provably Safe Stein Variational Clarity-Aware Informative Planning

Kaleb Ben Naveed, Utkrisht Sahai, Anouck Girard, Dimitra Panagou ยท 2025

Autonomous robots are increasingly deployed for information-gathering tasks in environments that vary across space and time. Planning informative and safe trajectories in such settings is challenging โ€ฆ

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SeFA-Policy: Fast and Accurate Visuomotor Policy Learning with Selective Flow Alignment

Rong Xue, Jiageng Mao, Mingtong Zhang, Yue Wang ยท 2025

Developing efficient and accurate visuomotor policies poses a central challenge in robotic imitation learning. While recent rectified flow approaches have advanced visuomotor policy learning, they sufโ€ฆ

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Stein-based Optimization of Sampling Distributions in Model Predictive Path Integral Control

Jace Aldrich, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins ยท 2025

This paper introduces a method for Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) control that optimizes sample generation towards an optimal trajectory through Stein Variational Gradient Descent (SVGD). MPPI โ€ฆ

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A Perspective on the Algebra, Topology, and Logic of Electrical Networks

Marko Oreskovic, Ivana Kuzmanovic Ivicic, Juraj Benic, Mario Essert ยท 2025

This paper presents a unified algebraic, topological, and logical framework for electrical one-port networks based on \v{S}are's $m$-theory. Within this formalism, networks are represented by $m$-wordโ€ฆ

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RFI Removal from SAR Imagery via Sparse Parametric Estimation of LFM Interferences

Dehui Yang, Feng Xi, Qihao Cao, Huizhang Yang ยท 2025

One of the challenges in spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is modeling and mitigating radio frequency interference (RFI) artifacts in SAR imagery. Linear frequency modulated (LFM) signals haveโ€ฆ

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Wohlhart's Three-Loop Mechanism: An Overconstrained and Shaky Linkage

Andreas Mueller ยท 2025

This paper revisits a three-loop spatial linkage that was proposed in an ARK 2004 paper by Karl Wohlhart (as extension of a two-loop linkage proposed by Eddie Baker in 1980) and later analyzed in an Aโ€ฆ

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SVN-ICP: Uncertainty Estimation of ICP-based LiDAR Odometry using Stein Variational Newton

Shiping Ma, Haoming Zhang, Marc Toussaint ยท 2025

This letter introduces SVN-ICP, a novel Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm with uncertainty estimation that leverages Stein Variational Newton (SVN) on manifold. Designed specifically for fusing โ€ฆ

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Fail2Progress: Learning from Real-World Robot Failures with Stein Variational Inference

Yixuan Huang, Novella Alvina, Mohanraj Devendran Shanthi, Tucker Hermans ยท 2025

Skill effect models for long-horizon manipulation tasks are prone to failures in conditions not covered by training data distributions. Therefore, enabling robots to reason about and learn from failurโ€ฆ

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A James-Stein Estimator based Generalized OMP Algorithm for Robust Signal Recovery using Sparse Representation

Debraj Banerjee, Amitava Chatterjee ยท 2025

In this paper, we introduce a novel algorithm named JS-gOMP, which enhances the generalized Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (gOMP) algorithm for improved noise robustness in sparse signal processing. The โ€ฆ

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