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

Mitchell A. Thornton · 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 metho…

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Stein Variational Uncertainty-Adaptive Model Predictive Control

Hrishikesh Sathyanarayan, Ian Abraham · 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-…

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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 · 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 monocular…

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

Milad Banitalebi Dehkordi, Manas Mejari, Dario Piga · 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 sta…

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Diversity You Can Actually Measure: A Fast, Model-Free Diversity Metric for Robotics Datasets

Sreevardhan Sirigiri, Nathan Samuel de Lara, Christopher Agia, Florian Shkurti, Fabio Ramos · 2026

Robotics datasets for imitation learning typically consist of long-horizon trajectories of different lengths over states, actions, and high-dimensional observations (e.g., RGB video), making it non-tr…

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Stein Variational Ergodic Surface Coverage with SE(3) Constraints

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

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

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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 · 2026

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

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Understanding Fire Through Thermal Radiation Fields for Mobile Robots

Anton R. Wagner, Madhan Balaji Rao, Xuesu Xiao, Soren Pirk · 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 …

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A Domain Decomposition-based Solver for Acoustic Wave propagation in Two-Dimensional Random Media

Sudhi Sharma Padillath Vasudevan · 2025

An acoustic wave propagation problem with a log normal random field approximation for wave speed is solved using a sampling-free intrusive stochastic Galerkin approach. The stochastic partial differen…

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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 · 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 Ge…

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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 · 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 of…

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Provably Safe Stein Variational Clarity-Aware Informative Planning

Kaleb Ben Naveed, Utkrisht Sahai, Anouck Girard, Dimitra Panagou · 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 …

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2D Waveguide-Fed Metasurface Antenna Arrays: Modeling and Optimization for Bistatic Sensing

Ioannis Gavras, Panagiotis Gavriilidis, George C. Alexandropoulos · 2025

This paper presents a physics-consistent framework for bistatic sensing incorporating a 2-Dimensional (2D) waveguide-fed metasurface antenna array capable of realizing eXtremely-Large Multiple-Input M…

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

Rong Xue, Jiageng Mao, Mingtong Zhang, Yue Wang · 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 suf…

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

Jace Aldrich, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins · 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 …

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Poisson Energy Formulation for Floorplanning: Variational Analysis and Mathematical Foundations

Wenxing Zhu, Hao Ai · 2025

Arranging many modules within a bounded domain without overlap, central to the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) of very large-scale integrated (VLSI) circuits, represents a broad class of discrete g…

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Neyman Pearson Detector for Multiple Ambient Backscatter Zero-Energy-Devices Beacons using Near-Perfect Code

Shanglin Yang, Jean-Marie Gorce, Muhammad Jehangir Khan, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy, Guillaume Villemaud · 2025

Recently, a novel ultra-low-power indoor localization system based on Zero-Energy Devices (ZEDs) has shown promising results in ambient backscatter communication. In this paper, we study detection of …

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

Dehui Yang, Feng Xi, Qihao Cao, Huizhang Yang · 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 have…

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

Shiping Ma, Haoming Zhang, Marc Toussaint · 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 …

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Autoencoder-based non-intrusive model order reduction in continuum mechanics

Jannick Kehls, Ellen Kuhl, Tim Brepols, Kevin Linka, Hagen Holthusen · 2025

We propose a non-intrusive, Autoencoder-based framework for reduced-order modeling in continuum mechanics. Our method integrates three stages: (i) an unsupervised Autoencoder compresses high-dimension…

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