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PM-EKF: A Physiological Model-Based Extended Kalman Filter for Daily-Life Physical Activity Energy Expenditure Estimation

Shuhao Que, Remco Poelarends, Valentina Breschi, Ying Wang · 2026

Monitoring physical activity energy expenditure (PAEE) in daily life is essential for characterizing individual health and metabolic status. Although indirect calorimetry provides gold-standard PAEE m…

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2D and 3D Grasp Planners for the GET Asymmetrical Gripper

Andrew Goldberg, Ethan Ransing, Anton Kourakin, Cael Magner, Edward H. Adelson, Ken Goldberg · 2026

In this paper, we introduce GET-2D-1.0, a fast grasp planner for the GET asymmetrical gripper that operates from a single-view RGB-D image, using the Ferrari-Canny metric and a novel sampling strategy…

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Robustness Evaluation of a Foundation Segmentation Model Under Simulated Domain Shifts in Abdominal CT: Implications for Health Digital Twin Deployment

Sanghati Basu · 2026

Foundation segmentation models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) have demonstrated strong generalization across natural images; however, their robustness under clinically realistic medical imag…

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The role of physical models in the validation and calibration of numerical models -- The example of the Lilleb{\ae}lt Bridge

Paula Apollonia Wunderlich, Gledson Rodrigo Tondo, Guido Morgenthal · 2026

With the rapid advancement of computer technologies enabling fast calculations of complex structures, numerical methods have become a central tool in engineering sciences, while physical models have i…

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AsyncShield: A Plug-and-Play Edge Adapter for Asynchronous Cloud-based VLA Navigation

Kai Yang, Zedong Chu, Yingnan Guo, Zhengbo Wang, Shichao Xie, Yanfen Shen, Xiaolong Wu, Xing Li, Mu Xu · 2026

While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have been demonstrated possessing strong zero-shot generalization for robot control, their massive parameter sizes typically necessitate cloud-based deploymen…

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Defining the Magnetization State of LCF Magnets: From Material Properties to Motor-Level Metrics

Taha El Hajji, Aleksandr Nadkin, Stefan Skoog, Lars Sjoberg, Kristoffer Nilsson, Anthony C. Morcos · 2026

Variable flux memory motors, which employ Low Coercive Force (LCF) magnets, achieve extended high-efficiency operation through controllable magnetization states. To address the need for a unified appr…

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Learning Control Policies to Provably Satisfy Hard Affine Constraints for Black-Box Hybrid Dynamical Systems

Aayushi Shrivastava, Kartik Nagpal, Sairam Jinkala, Jean-Baptiste Bouvier, Negar Mehr · 2026

Ensuring safety for black-box hybrid dynamical systems presents significant challenges due to their instantaneous state jumps and unknown explicit nonlinear dynamics. Existing solutions for strict saf…

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Topology Optimization for Materially Efficient Reinforced Concrete Design: Development, Fabrication, and Structural Evaluation

Jackson L. Jewett, Josephine V. Carstensen · 2026

The production of concrete generates roughly 8% of anthropogenic CO2 globally, largely because of the massive quantities that are manufactured. New design methods must be developed and deployed to imp…

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FingerViP: Learning Real-World Dexterous Manipulation with Fingertip Visual Perception

Zhen Zhang, Weinan Wang, Hejia Sun, Qingpeng Ding, Xiangyu Chu, Guoxin Fang, K. W. Samuel Au · 2026

The current practice of dexterous manipulation generally relies on a single wrist-mounted view, which is often occluded and limits performance on tasks requiring multi-view perception. In this work, w…

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Predicting food taste with bound-driven optimization

Pagkratis Tagkopoulos, Dimitris Sfondilis, Ilias Tagkopoulos, Tarek Zohdi · 2026

The prediction of sensory attributes from ingredient-level formulations is an emerging challenge at the intersection of food science and artificial intelligence. We address the fundamental question of…

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Safety-Critical Contextual Control via Online Riemannian Optimization with World Models

Tongxin Li · 2026

Modern world models are becoming too complex to admit explicit dynamical descriptions. We study safety-critical contextual control, where a Planner must optimize a task objective using only feasibilit…

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Wrench-Aware Admittance Control for Unknown-Payload Manipulation

Hossein Gholampour, Logan E. Beaver · 2026

Unknown payloads can strongly affect compliant robotic manipulation, especially when the payload center of mass is not aligned with the tool center point. In this case, the payload generates an offset…

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Text-To-Speech with Chain-of-Details: modeling temporal dynamics in speech generation

Jianbo Ma, Richard Cartwright · 2026

Recent advances in Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis have seen the popularity of multi-stage approaches that first predict semantic tokens and then generate acoustic tokens. In this paper, we extend the …

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Differentiable Satellite Constellation Configuration via Relaxed Coverage and Revisit Objectives

Shreeyam Kacker, Kerri Cahoy · 2026

Satellite constellation design requires optimizing orbital parameters across multiple satellites to maximize mission specific metrics. For many types of mission, it is desirable to maximize coverage a…

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ExplainS2A: Explainable Spectral-Spatial Duality Model for Fast Transforming Sentinel-2 Image to AVIRIS-Level Hyperspectral Image

Chia-Hsiang Lin, Zi-Chao Leng · 2026

Mainstream optical satellites often acquire multispectral multi-resolution images, which have limited material identifiability compared to the HSIs. Thus, spectrally super-resolving the MSI into their…

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EvoMarket: A High-Fidelity and Scalable Financial Market Simulator

Muyao Zhong, Zhenhua Yang, Yuxiang Liu, Ke Tang, Peng Yang · 2026

High-fidelity, scalable market simulation is a key instrument for mechanism evaluation, stress testing, and counterfactual policy analysis. Yet existing simulators rarely achieve \emph{mechanism fidel…

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Web-Gewu: A Browser-Based Interactive Playground for Robot Reinforcement Learning

Kaixuan Chen, Linqi Ye · 2026

With the rapid development of embodied intelligence, robotics education faces a dual challenge: high computational barriers and cumbersome environment configuration. Existing centralized cloud simulat…

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QGas: Interactive Gas Infrastructure Toolkit

Marco Quantschnig, Yannick Werner, Sonja Wogrin, Thomas Klatzer · 2026

Gas infrastructure datasets are essential inputs for energy system planning to support strategic decision-making toward decarbonization. However, relevant data are typically scattered across heterogen…

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Learning ultra-compressible hyperelasticity with splines: Constitutive asymmetries and non-unique representations

Miguel Angel Moreno-Mateos, Simon Wiesheier, Paul Steinmann, Ellen Kuhl · 2026

Highly compressible solids, such as foams, exhibit complex responses, including pronounced tension-compression asymmetry. Capturing such behaviors within unified hyperelastic frameworks remains challe…

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A Case Study on Energy-Efficient Edge AI Crack Segmentation

Matthias Tschope, Mohamed Moursi, Vladimir Rybalkin, Bo Zhou, Norbert Wehn, Paul Lukowicz · 2026

Crack segmentation on edge devices can support continuous infrastructure monitoring and maintenance and thereby help to preserve public safety. Furthermore, autonomous infrastructure monitoring by usi…

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