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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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Simulation-based Learning of Electrical Cabinet Assembly Using Robot Skills

Arik Laemmle, Balazs Andras Balint, Philipp Tenbrock, Frank Naegele, David Traunecker, Jozsef Vancza, Marco F. Huber · 2026

This paper presents a simulation-driven approach for automating the force-controlled assembly of electrical terminals on DIN-rails, a task traditionally hindered by high programming effort and product…

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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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Robots That Generate Planarity Through Geometry

Jakub F. Kowalewski, Abdulaziz O. Alrashed, Jacob Alpert, Rishi Ponnapalli, Lucas R. Meza, Jeffrey Ian Lipton · 2026

Constraining motion to a flat surface is a fundamental requirement for equipment across science and engineering. Modern precision robotic motion systems, such as gantries, rely on the flatness of comp…

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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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Sparse Neural Approximations for Bilevel Adversarial Problems in Power Grids

Young-ho Cho, Harsha Nagarajan, Deepjyoti Deka, Hao Zhu · 2025

The adversarial worst-case load shedding (AWLS) problem is pivotal for identifying critical contingencies under line outages. It is naturally cast as a bilevel program: the upper level simulates an at…

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Negotiating Highway Interchange Traffic with a Decentralized Instability-Driven CBF-based Algorithm

Mrdjan Jankovic, Shreshta Rajakumar Deshpande, Gopika Ajaykumar · 2025

In this paper we consider an interchange lane-swap scenario, a limited stretch of highway with two parallel lanes where most vehicles want to change lanes. We show that a particular decentralized Cont…

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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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High-Fidelity Simulated Data Generation for Real-World Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation Learning with Gaussian Splatting

Haoyu Zhao, Cheng Zeng, Linghao Zhuang, Yaxi Zhao, Shengke Xue, Hao Wang, Xingyue Zhao, Zhongyu Li, Kehan Li, Siteng Huang, Mingxiu Chen, Xin Li, Deli Zhao, Hua Zou · 2025

The scalability of robotic learning is fundamentally bottlenecked by the significant cost and labor of real-world data collection. While simulated data offers a scalable alternative, it often fails to…

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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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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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Control Systems Analysis of a 3-Axis Photovoltatic Solar Tracker for Water Pumping

Justin London · 2025

We propose 3-axis solar tracker water pumping system. The solar tracker can rotate and tilt using stepper/DC motors and can rise and lower on a tripod using a linear actuator. The charge generated fro…

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Falling through the cracks: energy storage along segmented brittle crack fronts

Xinyue Wei, John M. Kolinski · 2025

During brittle crack propagation, a smooth crack front curve frequently becomes disjoint, generating a stepped crack and a material ligament that unites the newly formed crack fronts. These universal …

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Adaptive Locomotion on Mud through Proprioceptive Sensing of Substrate Properties

Shipeng Liu, Jiaze Tang, Siyuan Meng, Feifei Qian · 2025

Muddy terrains present significant challenges for terrestrial robots, as subtle changes in composition and water content can lead to large variations in substrate strength and force responses, causing…

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Compensating Hysteresis and Mechanical Misalignment in Piezo-Stepper Actuators

Max van Meer, Tim van Meijel, Emile van Halsema, Edwin Verschueren, Gert Witvoet, Tom Oomen · 2025

Piezo-stepper actuators enable accurate positioning through the sequential contraction and expansion of piezoelectric elements, generating a walking motion. The aim of this paper is to reduce velocity…

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Analysis of Power Losses and the Efficacy of Power Minimization Strategies in Multichannel Electrical Stimulation Systems

Francesc Varkevisser, Wouter A. Serdijn, Tiago L. Costa · 2025

Neuroprosthetic devices require multichannel stimulator systems with an increasing number of channels. However, there are inherent power losses in typical multichannel stimulation circuits caused by a…

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3-DUSSS: 3-Dimensional Ultrasonic Self Supervised Segmentation

Shaun McKnight, Vedran Tunukovic, Amine Hifi, Gareth Pierce, Ehsan Mohseni, Charles MacLeod, Tom OHare · 2024

This study introduces a novel self-supervised learning approach for volumetric segmentation of defect indications captured by phased array ultrasonic testing data from Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers…

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