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Online Reinforcement Learning for Safe Gain Scheduling in Nonlinear Quadrotor Control

Muhammad Junayed Hasan Zahed, Chieh Tsai, Salim Hariri, Hossein Rastgoftar ยท 2026

This paper presents an online reinforcement-learning framework for safe gain scheduling of a nonlinear quadcopter controller. Rather than learning thrust and torque commands directly, the proposed metโ€ฆ

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Learning over Forward-Invariant Policy Classes: Reinforcement Learning without Safety Concerns

Chieh Tsai, Muhammad Junayed Hasan Zahed, Salim Hariri, Hossein Rastgoftar ยท 2026

This paper proposes a safe reinforcement learning (RL) framework based on forward-invariance-induced action-space design. The control problem is cast as a Markov decision process, but instead of relyiโ€ฆ

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The QuadSoft: Design, Construction, and Experimental Validation of a Soft and Actuated Quadrotor

Rodolfo Verdin, Hugo Moreno, Mark W. Spong, Gerardo Flores ยท 2026

This paper presents QuadSoft, a novel fully actuated quadrotor equipped with continuous-curvature, tendon-driven soft robotic arms. The design combines a semi-rigid central frame with flexible arms, eโ€ฆ

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Karhunen-Lo\`{e}ve Expansion for Fluid Antenna Systems: Information-Theoretic Optimal Channel Compression and Outage Analysis

Tuo Wu ยท 2026

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) achieve spatial diversity by dynamically switching among $N$ densely packed ports, but the resulting spatially correlated Rayleigh channels render exact outage analysis intโ€ฆ

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NanoBench: A Multi-Task Benchmark Dataset for Nano-Quadrotor System Identification, Control, and State Estimation

Syed Izzat Ullah, Jose Baca ยท 2026

Existing aerial-robotics benchmarks target vehicles from hundreds of grams to several kilograms and typically expose only high-level state data. They omit the actuator-level signals required to study โ€ฆ

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Fly, Track, Land: Infrastructure-less Magnetic Localization for Heterogeneous UAV-UGV Teaming

Valerio Brunacci, Davide Plozza, Alessio De Angelis, Michele Magno, Tommaso Polonelli ยท 2026

We present a complete infrastructure-less magneto-inductive (MI) localization system enabling a lightweight UAV to autonomously hover, track, and land with centimeter precision on a mobile quadruped rโ€ฆ

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Deep Q-Learning-Based Gain Scheduling for Nonlinear Quadcopter Dynamics

Hossein Rastgoftar, Muhammad J. H. Zahed ยท 2026

This paper presents a deep Q-network (DQN)-based gain-scheduling framework for safety-critical quadcopter trajectory tracking. Instead of directly learning control inputs, the proposed approach selectโ€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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Decentralized Multi-Robot Obstacle Detection and Tracking in a Maritime Scenario

Muhammad Farhan Ahmed, Vincent Fremont ยท 2026

Autonomous aerial-surface robot teams offer a scalable solution for maritime monitoring, but deployment remains difficult due to water-induced visual artifacts and bandwidth-limited coordination. Thisโ€ฆ

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Realistic Synthetic Household Data Generation at Scale

Siddharth Singh, Ifrah Idrees, Abraham Dauhajre ยท 2026

Advancements in foundation models have catalyzed research in Embodied AI to develop interactive agents capable of environmental reasoning and interaction. Developing such agents requires diverse, largโ€ฆ

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StepNav: Structured Trajectory Priors for Efficient and Multimodal Visual Navigation

Xubo Luo, Aodi Wu, Haodong Han, Xue Wan, Wei Zhang, Leizheng Shu, Ruisuo Wang ยท 2026

Visual navigation is fundamental to autonomous systems, yet generating reliable trajectories in cluttered and uncertain environments remains a core challenge. Recent generative models promise end-to-eโ€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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MIMO Array Calibration in Non-stationary Channels with Residual Surfaces and Slepian Spherical Harmonics

Oliver Kirkpatrick, Santiago Ozafrain, Christopher Gilliam, Beth Jelfs ยท 2026

The fundamental mechanism driving MIMO beamforming is the relative phases of signals departing the transmit array and arriving at the receive array. If a propagation channel affects all transmitted siโ€ฆ

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HyMGP: A Customized MILP-Based Tool for Techno-Economic Planning of Islanded Microgrids

Andres Intriago, Rongxing Hu, Nabil Mohammed, S. Gokul Krishnan, Konstantinos Kotsovos, Issam Gereige, Nesren Attiah, Ali Basaheeh, Sarah Aqeel, Hamad A. Saiari, Shehab Ahmed, Charalambos Konstantinou ยท 2026

This paper presents a customized microgrid planning algorithm and tool, HyMGP, for remote sites in arid regions, which is formulated as a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problem. HyMGP is compโ€ฆ

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Resilient UAV Data Mule via Adaptive Sensor Association under Timing Constraints

Md Sharif Hossen, Anil Gurses, Ozgur Ozdemir, Mihail Sichitiu, Ismail Guvenc ยท 2026

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be critical for time-sensitive data collection missions, yet existing research often relies on simulations that fail to capture real-world complexities. Many studieโ€ฆ

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Fundamental Limits for Near-Field Sensing -- Part II: Wide-Band Systems

Tong Wei, Kumar Vijay Mishra, Bhavani Shankar M.R., Bjorn Ottersten ยท 2025

Near-field sensing with extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAAs) in practical 6G systems is expected to operate over broad bandwidths, where delay, Doppler, and spatial effects become tightly coupโ€ฆ

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Fundamental Limits for Near-Field Sensing -- Part I: Narrow-Band Systems

Tong Wei, Kumar Vijay Mishra, Bhavani Shankar M.R., Bjorn Ottersten ยท 2025

Extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAAs) envisioned for 6G enable high-resolution sensing. However, the ELAAs worked in extremely high frequency will push operation into the near-field region, wheโ€ฆ

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Assessment of a Hybrid Energy System for Reliable and Sustainable Power Supply to Boru Meda Hospital in Ethiopia

Tegenu Argaw Woldegiyorgis, Hong Xian Li, Fekadu Chekol Admassu, Merkebu Gezahegne, Abdurohman Kebede, Tadese Abera, Haris Ishaq, Eninges Asmare ยท 2025

This study aims to evaluate the techno-economic feasibility of hybrid energy systems (HES) including Grid for providing reliable and sustainable power to Boru Meda Hospital, Ethiopia. HOMER pro 3.11.2โ€ฆ

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Channel State Information Preprocessing for CSI-based Physical-Layer Authentication Using Reconciliation

Atsu Kokuvi Angelo Passah, Rodrigo C. de Lamare, Arsenia Chorti ยท 2025

This paper introduces an adaptive preprocessing technique to enhance the accuracy of channel state information-based physical layer authentication (CSI-PLA) alleviating CSI variations and inconsistencโ€ฆ

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Wake Vectoring for Efficient Morphing Flight

Ioannis Mandralis, Severin Schumacher, Morteza Gharib ยท 2025

Morphing aerial robots have the potential to transform autonomous flight, enabling navigation through cluttered environments, perching, and seamless transitions between aerial and terrestrial locomotiโ€ฆ

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