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Optimum adaptation of a Steiner network

Manou Rosenberg, Mengbin Ye, Brian D.O. Anderson · 2026

The Euclidean Steiner tree problem, normally posed in two dimensions, seeks to connect a set of prescribed terminal nodes by placing additional nodes, known as Steiner points, with edges connecting su…

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Grid-Supporting Equipment Supply Chains Constrain the Feasible Pace of Power System Expansion

Boyu Yao, Yury Dvorkin · 2026

Power system expansion depends on the equipment required to connect, convert, regulate, and condition electricity, yet grid-supporting equipment (GSE) is rarely modeled as an explicit constraint. We d…

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Physics-informed, Generative Adversarial Design of Funicular Shells

Ruben Lourenco, Iciar Alfaro, Beatriz Moya, Elias Cueto · 2026

Shell structures are pivotal in the fields of architecture and engineering, due to their aesthetic appeal and structural efficiency. Recently, 3D concrete printing has reignited the interest in these …

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From Perception to Autonomous Computational Modeling: A Multi-Agent Approach

Daniel N. Wilke · 2026

We present a solver-agnostic framework in which coordinated large language model (LLM) agents autonomously execute the complete computational mechanics workflow, from perceptual data of an engineering…

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A Process-Aware Demand Response Framework for Hydrogen-Integrated Zero-Carbon Steel Plants Coupled with Methanol Production

Qiang Ji, Lin Cheng, Yue Zhou, Ning Qi, Kaidi Huang, Jianzhong Wu, Ming Cheng · 2026

The integration of the high penetration of intermittent renewable energy sources (RES) and the retirement of thermal units have significantly aggravated the flexibility scarcity and real-time balancin…

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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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Prompt Amplification and Zero-Shot Late Fusion in Audio-Language Models for Speech Emotion Recognition

Saurabh Kataria, Xiao Hu · 2026

Audio-Language Models (ALMs) are making strides in understanding speech and non-speech audio. However, domain-specialist Foundation Models (FMs) remain the best for closed-ended speech processing task…

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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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Allometric Scaling Laws for Bipedal Robots

Naomi Oke, Aja M. Carter, Ben Gu, Steven Man, Cordelia Pride, Sarah Bergbreiter, Aaron M. Johnson · 2026

Scaling the design of robots up or down remains a fundamental challenge. While biological systems follow well-established isometric and allometric scaling laws relating mass, stride frequency, velocit…

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REST: Receding Horizon Explorative Steiner Tree for Zero-Shot Object-Goal Navigation

Shuqi Xiao, Maani Ghaffari, Chengzhong Xu, Hui Kong · 2026

Zero-shot object-goal navigation (ZSON) requires navigating unknown environments to find a target object without task-specific training. Prior hierarchical training-free solutions invest in scene unde…

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GNIO: Gated Neural Inertial Odometry

Dapeng Feng, Yizhen Yin, Zhiqiang Chen, Yuhua Qi, Hongbo Chen · 2026

Inertial navigation using low-cost MEMS sensors is plagued by rapid drift due to sensor noise and bias instability. While recent data-driven approaches have made significant strides, they often strugg…

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GelSphere: An Omnidirectional Rolling Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for Online 3D Reconstruction and Normal Force Estimation

Seoyeon Lee, Mohammad Amin Mirzaee, Wenzhen Yuan · 2026

We present GelSphere, a spherical vision-based tactile sensor designed for real-time continuous surface scanning. Unlike traditional vision-based tactile sensors that can only sense locally and are da…

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Regularizing INR with diffusion prior self-supervised 3D reconstruction of neutron computed tomography data

Maliha Hossain, Haley Duba-Sullivan, Amirkoushyar Ziabari · 2026

Recently, generative diffusion priors have made huge strides as inverse problem solvers, including the ability to be adapted for inference on out-of-distribution data. Concurrently, implicit neural re…

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Robust Cooperative Localization in Featureless Environments: A Comparative Study of DCL, StCL, CCL, CI, and Standard-CL

Nivand Khosravi, Rodrigo Ventura, Meysam Basiri · 2026

Cooperative localization (CL) enables accurate position estimation in multi-robot systems operating in GPS-denied environments. This paper presents a comparative study of five CL approaches: Centraliz…

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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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STRIDE: Structured Lagrangian and Stochastic Residual Dynamics via Flow Matching

Prakrut Kotecha, Ganga Nair B, Shishir Kolathaya · 2026

Robotic systems operating in unstructured environments must operate under significant uncertainty arising from intermittent contacts, frictional variability, and unmodeled compliance. While recent mod…

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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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Exploiting Segmented Waveguide-Enabled Pinching-Antenna Systems (SWANs) for Uplink Tri-Hybrid Beamforming

Hao Jiang, Chongjun Ouyang, Zhaolin Wang, Yuanwei Liu, Arumugam Nallanathan, Zhiguo Ding, Robert Schober · 2026

A segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN)-based tri-hybrid beamforming architecture is proposed for uplink multi-user MIMO communications, which jointly optimizes digital, analog, a…

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STRIDE: Post-Training LLMs to Reason and Refine Bio-Sequences via Edit Trajectories

Daiheng Zhang, Shiyang Zhang, Sizhuang He, Yangtian Zhang, Syed Asad Rizvi, David van Dijk · 2026

Discrete biological sequence optimization requires iterative refinement under strict syntactic constraints. Diffusion models offer progressive refinement but do not naturally expose controllable discr…

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