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Fuelling fusion plasmas with pellets: Can neuromorphic control outperform Sigma-Delta modulation?

L.L.T.C. Jansen, E. Petri, M. van Berkel, W.P.M.H. Heemels · 2026

Nuclear fusion is a promising clean energy source in which deuterium and tritium fuse inside a magnetically confined plasma in a tokamak, releasing energy. A key challenge on the route to practical nu…

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RSMA-Aided Full-Duplex Networks Under Imperfect CSI and SIC: Performance Evaluation

Farjam Karim, Nurul Huda Mahmood, Deepak Kumar, Arthur Sousa de Sena, Matti-Latva-aho · 2026

This work investigates a full-duplex (FD)-enhanced Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) system under practical constraints, including imperfect channel state information (CSI) and successive interfer…

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AWARE: Adaptive Whole-body Active Rotating Control for Enhanced LiDAR-Inertial Odometry under Human-in-the-Loop Interaction

Yizhe Zhang, Jianping Li, Liangliang Yin, Zhen Dong, Bisheng Yang · 2026

Human-in-the-loop (HITL) UAV operation is essential in complex and safety-critical aerial surveying environments, where human operators provide navigation intent while onboard autonomy must maintain a…

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GasLiteAA: Optimizing ERC-4337 for Efficient and Secure Gas Sponsorship

Hongxu Su, Mingzhe Liu, Jie Xu, Xiaohua Jia, Xuechao Wang · 2026

ERC-4337, the Ethereum account abstraction standard, simplifies account management and transaction fee payment in decentralized applications by introducing programmable smart contract wallets and gas …

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Dead Code Doesn't Talk: Authentic Requirements Elicitation in Introductory Software Engineering

Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Vanesa Metaj, Stefan Wagner · 2026

Requirements elicitation is among the most communication-intensive activities in software engineering, yet it receives limited explicit treatment in undergraduate curricula. This paper presents a case…

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A note on input signal generators: A relaxation of Willems' fundamental lemma in the SISO case

Yun Jeong Yang, Jin Gyu Lee · 2026

We provide a practical relaxation of Willems' fundamental lemma for discrete-time linear time-invariant (single-input-single-output) systems. Instead of maintaining conventional Willems' persistency o…

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Data-Driven Koopman Predictive Control for Frequency Regulation of Power Systems using Black-Box IBRs

Sohrab Rezaei, Xiaomo Wang, Sijia Geng · 2026

Model uncertainty of inverter-based resources (IBRs) presents significant challenges for power system control and stability. This work studies secondary frequency regulation in inverter-based power sy…

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Willems' Fundamental Lemma with Large Noisy Fragmented Dataset

Sahand Kiani, Constantino M. Lagoa · 2026

Willems' Fundamental Lemma enables parameterizing all trajectories generated by a Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) system directly from data. However, this lemma relies on the assumption of noiseless measu…

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On Port-Hamiltonian Formulation of Hysteretic Energy Storage Elements: The Backlash Case

Jurrien Keulen, Bayu Jayawardhana, Arjan van der Schaft · 2026

This paper presents a port-Hamiltonian formulation of hysteretic energy storage elements. First, we revisit the passivity property of backlash-driven storage elements by presenting a family of storage…

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MIRROR: Visual Motion Imitation via Real-time Retargeting and Teleoperation with Parallel Differential Inverse Kinematics

Junheng Li, Lizhi Yang, Aaron D. Ames · 2026

Real-time humanoid teleoperation requires inverse kinematics (IK) solvers that are both responsive and constraint-safe under kinematic redundancy and self-collision constraints. While differential IK …

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Data-Driven Predictive Control for Stochastic Descriptor Systems: An Innovation-Based Approach Handling Non-Causal Dynamics

Yunxiang Ma, Yibo Wang, Zhongmei Li, Chao Shang · 2026

Descriptor systems arise naturally in applications governed by algebraic constraints, such as power networks and chemical processes. The singular system matrix in descriptor systems may introduce non-…

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Stability Guarantees for Data-Driven Predictive Control of Nonlinear Systems via Approximate Koopman Embeddings

Amin Taghieh, SangWoo Park · 2026

Data-driven model predictive control based on Willems' fundamental lemma has proven effective for linear systems, but extending stability guarantees to nonlinear systems remains an open challenge. In …

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Explainable AI Using Inherently Interpretable Components for Wearable-based Health Monitoring

Maurice Kuschel, Solveig Vieluf, Claus Reinsberger, Tobias Loddenkemper, Tanuj Hasija · 2026

The use of wearables in medicine and wellness, enabled by AI-based models, offers tremendous potential for real-time monitoring and interpretable event detection. Explainable AI (XAI) is required to a…

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Design of Grid Forming Multi Timescale Coordinated Control Strategies for Dynamic Virtual Power Plants

Yan Tong, Qin Wang, Sihao Chen, Xue Hu, Zhaoyuan Wu · 2026

As the penetration level of distributed energy resources (DERs) continues to rise, traditional frequency and voltage support from synchronous machines declines. This weakens grid stability and increas…

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NFT Games: an Empirical Look into the Play-to-Earn Model

Yixiao Gao, Fei Li, Ruizhe Shi, Ruizhi Cheng, Jean Zhang, Bo Han, Songqing Chen · 2026

The past decade has witnessed the burgeoning and continuous development of blockchain and its applications. Besides various cryptocurrencies, an industry that has quickly embraced this trend is gaming…

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Closed-Loop Consistent, Causal Data-Driven Predictive Control via SSARX

Aihui Liu, Magnus Jansson · 2025

We propose a fundamental-lemma-free data-driven predictive control (DDPC) scheme for synthesizing model predictive control (MPC)-like policies directly from input-output data. Unlike the well-known De…

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CATNUS: Coordinate-Aware Thalamic Nuclei Segmentation Using T1-Weighted MRI

Anqi Feng, Zhangxing Bian, Samuel W. Remedios, Savannah P. Hays, Blake E. Dewey, Alexa Colinco, Jiachen Zhuo, Dan Benjamini, Jerry L. Prince · 2025

Accurate segmentation of thalamic nuclei from magnetic resonance images is important due to the distinct roles of these nuclei in overall brain function and to their differential involvement in neurol…

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A Unified Bayesian Framework for Data-Driven Smoothing, Prediction, and Control

Mingzhou Yin, Andrea Iannelli, Seyed Ali Nazari, Matthias A. Muller · 2025

Extending data-driven algorithms based on Willems' fundamental lemma to stochastic data often requires empirical and customized workarounds. This work presents a unified Bayesian framework for linear …

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Tactile Robotics: Past and Future

Nathan F. Lepora · 2025

What is the future of tactile robotics? To help define that future, this article provides a historical perspective on tactile sensing in robotics from the wealth of knowledge and expert opinion in nea…

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EEG Emotion Recognition Through Deep Learning

Roman Dolgopolyi, Antonis Chatzipanagiotou · 2025

An advanced emotion classification model was developed using a CNN-Transformer architecture for emotion recognition from EEG brain wave signals, effectively distinguishing among three emotional states…

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