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A Model and Estimation of the Bitcoin Transaction Fee

Daniel Aronoff, Kristian Praizner, Armin Sabouri · 2026

Bitcoin transaction fees will become more important as the block subsidy declines, but fee formation is hard to study with blockchain data alone because the relevant queueing environment is unobserved…

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Inexpensive Optical Projection Tomography on a Mobile Phone Platform

Gennifer T. Smith, James M. Sikes, Nicholas Dwork · 2026

This work presents an inexpensive optical projection tomography (OPT) system built on a mobile phone platform for three-dimensional optical microscopy. The system uses an iPhone camera together with a…

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RIS-Aided Sensing: Experimental Validation of Radar 3D Imaging in the mmWave Band

Sergio Mico-Rosa, Alvaro Villaescusa-Tebar, Saul Fenollosa, Carlos Villena-Jimenez, Monika Drozdowska, Narcis Cardona · 2026

The transition toward 6G networks demands energy-efficient hardware capable of active interaction with the environment. Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) have emerged as a key technology for I…

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Truthful Production Uncertainty in Electricity Markets: A Two-Stage Mechanism

Shobhit Singhal, Lesia Mitridati, Licio Romao · 2026

Renewable power sources have low marginal pro-duction costs, but may result in high balancing costs due to the inherent production uncertainty. Current day-ahead markets elicit only point production p…

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Hybrid Energy-Based Models for Physical AI: Provably Stable Identification of Port-Hamiltonian Dynamics

Simone Betteti, Luca Laurenti · 2026

Energy-based models (EBMs) implement inference as gradient descent on a learned Lyapunov function, yielding interpretable, structure-preserving alternatives to black-box neural ODEs and aligning natur…

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Affine Transformable Unmanned Ground Vehicle

Aron Mathias, Mohammad Ghufran, Jack Hughes, Hossein Rastgoftar · 2026

This paper develops the proof of concept for a novel affine transformable unmanned ground vehicle (ATUGV) with the capability of safe and aggressive deformation while carrying multiple payloads. The A…

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CLARE: Continual Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models via Autonomous Adapter Routing and Expansion

Ralf Romer, Yi Zhang, Angela P. Schoellig · 2026

To teach robots complex manipulation tasks, it is now a common practice to fine-tune a pre-trained vision-language-action model (VLA) on task-specific data. However, since this recipe updates existing…

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From Metrics to Meaning: Insights from a Mixed-Methods Field Experiment on Retail Robot Deployment

Sichao Song, Yuki Okafuji, Takuya Iwamoto, Jun Baba, Hiroshi Ishiguro · 2026

We report a mixed-methods field experiment of a conversational service robot deployed under everyday staffing discretion in a live bedding store. Over 12 days we alternated three conditions--Baseline …

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NeuRehab: A Reinforcement Learning and Spiking Neural Network-Based Rehab Automation Framework

Phani Pavan Kambhampati, Chainesh Gautam, Jagan Palaniswamy, Madhav Rao · 2025

Recent advancements in robotic rehabilitation therapy have provided modular exercise systems for post-stroke muscle recovery with basic control schemes. But these systems struggle to adapt to patients…

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Scheduling the Charge of Temporally Flexible Electric Vehicles: a Market-based Approach

Sabri El Amrani, Thibaut Horel, Saurabh Vaishampayan, Maryam Kamgarpour, Munther A. Dahleh · 2025

The increasing electrification of human activities and the rapid integration of variable renewable energy sources strain the power grid. A solution to address the need for more grid storage is to use …

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Design, modelling and experimental validation of bipenniform shape memory alloy-based linear actuator integrable with hydraulic stroke amplification mechanism

Kanhaiya Lal Chaurasiya, Ruchira Kumar Pradhan, Yashaswi Sinha, Shivam Gupta, Ujjain Kumar Bidila, Digambar Killedar, Kapil Das Sahu, Bishakh Bhattacharya · 2025

The increasing industrial demand for alternative actuators over conventional electromagnetism-based systems having limited efficiency, bulky size, complex design due to in-built gear-train mechanisms,…

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Ultra-Low Insertion Loss Stepped Impedance Resonator Topology for HTSC RF Front-End

Ilan Kurtser, Yoav Koral, Eldad Holdengreber, Shmuel E. Schacham, Eliyahu Farber · 2025

We present the design, fabrication, and measurement of a high-temperature superconductor (HTSC) Stepped Impedance Resonator (SIR) band-pass filter for S-band applications, and its incorporation into a…

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On Systematic Performance of 3-D Holographic MIMO: Clarke, Kronecker, and 3GPP Models

Quan Gao, Shuai S. A. Yuan, Zhanwen Wang, Wanchen Yang, Chongwen Huang, Xiaoming Chen, Wei E. I. Sha · 2025

Holographic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) has emerged as a key enabler for 6G networks, yet conventional planar implementations suffer from spatial correlation and mutual coupling at sub-wavel…

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Predictive control barrier functions for piecewise affine systems with non-smooth constraints

Kanghui He, Anil Alan, Shengling Shi, Ton van den Boom, Bart De Schutter · 2025

Obtaining control barrier functions (CBFs) with large safe sets for complex nonlinear systems and constraints is a challenging task. Predictive CBFs address this issue by using an online finite-horizo…

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The method of the approximate inverse for limited-angle CT

Bernadette Hahn, Gael Rigaud, Richard Schmahl · 2025

Limited-angle computerized tomography stands for one of the most difficult challenges in imaging. Although it opens the way to faster data acquisition in industry and less dangerous scans in medicine,…

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Understanding the Geometry of Faulted Power Systems under High Penetration of Inverter-Based Resources via Ellipse Fitting and Geometric Algebra

Jorge Ventura, Jaroslav Hrdina, Ales Navrat, Marek Stodola, Ahmad Eid, Santiago Sanchez-Acevedo, Francisco G. Montoya · 2025

Power systems with high penetration of inverter-based resources (IBR) present significant challenges for conventional protection schemes, with traditional distance protection methods failing to detect…

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Vibration Damping in Underactuated Cable-suspended Artwork -- Flying Belt Motion Control

Martin Goubej, Lauria Clarke, Martin Hrabacka, David Tolar · 2025

This paper presents a comprehensive refurbishment of the interactive robotic art installation Standards and Double Standards by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. The installation features an array of belts suspen…

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Two-Stage Mechanism Design for Electric Vehicle Charging with Day-Ahead Reservations

Pan-Yang Su, Yi Ju, Scott Moura, Shankar Sastry · 2025

We propose a general two-period model where electrical vehicles (EVs) can reserve charging sessions in the day-ahead market and swap them in the real-time market. Under the model, we explore several c…

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DynaMark: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Dynamic Watermarking in Industrial Machine Tool Controllers

Navid Aftabi, Abhishek Hanchate, Satish Bukkapatnam, Dan Li · 2025

Industry 4.0's highly networked Machine Tool Controllers (MTCs) are prime targets for replay attacks that use outdated sensor data to manipulate actuators. Dynamic watermarking can reveal such tamperi…

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Mechanical Automation with Vision: A Design for Rubik's Cube Solver

Abhinav Chalise, Nimesh Gopal Pradhan, Nishan Khanal, Prashant Raj Bista, Dinesh Baniya Kshatri · 2025

The core mechanical system is built around three stepper motors for physical manipulation, a microcontroller for hardware control, a camera and YOLO detection model for real-time cube state detection.…

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