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Design and Characteristics of a Thin-Film ThermoMesh for the Efficient Embedded Sensing of a Spatio-Temporally Sparse Heat Source

Sajjad Boorghan Farahan, Ahmed Alajlouni, Jingzhou Zhao · 2026

This work presents ThermoMesh, a passive thin-film thermoelectric mesh sensor designed to detect and characterize spatio-temporally sparse heat sources through conduction-based thermal imaging. The de…

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Blind OFDM-ISAC Relying on Asymmetric Modem Constellations

Henglin Pu, Ahmad Musallam, Husheng Li, Lajos Hanzo · 2026

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is increasingly expected to operate under aggressive spectrum reuse, where co-channel orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) interference can be …

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Guiding Vector Field Generation via Score-based Diffusion Model

Zirui Chen, Shiliang Guo, Shiyu Zhao · 2026

Guiding Vector Fields (GVFs) are a powerful tool for robotic path following. However, classical methods assume smooth, ordered curves and fail when paths are unordered, multi-branch, or generated by p…

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Magnetic Indoor Localization through CNN Regression and Rotation Invariance

Helge Rose, Konstantin Klipp, Tom Koubek, Bernd Schaufele, Ilja Radusch · 2026

Indoor positioning is an essential technology for a wide range of applications in GNSS-denied environments, including indoor navigation and IoT systems. Combining convolutional neural networks (CNNs) …

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Control of Multi-agent Systems under STL Specifications based on Prescribed Performance Observers

Tommaso Zaccherini, Siyuan Liu, Dimos V. Dimarogonas · 2026

This paper addresses decentralized control of large-scale heterogeneous multi-agent systems subject to bounded external disturbances and limited communication, with the objective of satisfying coopera…

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How VLAs (Really) Work In Open-World Environments

Amir Rasouli, Yangzheng Wu, Zhiyuan Li, Rui Heng Yang, Xuan Zhao, Charles Eret, Sajjad Pakdamansavoji · 2026

Vision-language-action models (VLAs) have been extensively used in robotics applications, achieving great success in various manipulation problems. More recently, VLAs have been used in long-horizon t…

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Scaling of Gaussian Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks

Amir Noorizadegan, Sifan Wang · 2026

The Gaussian scale parameter \(\epsilon\) is central to the behavior of Gaussian Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks (KANs), yet its role in deep edge-based architectures has not been studied systematically. …

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Sample entropy for graph signals: An approach to nonlinear analysis of graph signals

Mei-San Maggie Lei, John Stewart Fabila Carrasco, Javier Escudero · 2026

We introduce a graph-signal generalisation of Sample Entropy, denoted SampEn$_{G}$, to quantify irregularity of graph signals on a continuous state space, complementing existing methods on symbolic dy…

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Physics-Aware Query-Conditioned Graph Attention Networks for Radio Map Estimation

Ang Li, Chengyu Liu, Yue Wang · 2026

Radio map estimation from sparse measurements is fundamental to wireless network planning, optimization, and localized map updating. Most recent learning-based approaches formulate the problem as dens…

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Neural Encoding Detection is Not All You Need for Synthetic Speech Detection

Luca Cuccovillo, Xin Wang, Milica Gerhardt, Patrick Aichroth · 2026

This paper reviews the current state and emerging trends in synthetic speech detection. It outlines the main data-driven approaches, discusses the advantages and drawbacks of focusing future research …

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Dual-Radio BLE-LoRa Hierarchical Mesh for Infrastructure-Free Emergency Communication

Andrii Vakhnovskyi · 2026

We present a dual-radio hierarchical mesh architecture for infrastructure-free emergency communication that exploits the complementary strengths of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and LoRa. Nodes equipped …

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Benchmarking Classical Coverage Path Planning Heuristics on Irregular Hexagonal Grids for Maritime Coverage Scenarios

Carlos S. Sepulveda, Gonzalo A. Ruz · 2026

Coverage path planning on irregular hexagonal grids is relevant to maritime surveillance, search and rescue and environmental monitoring, yet classical methods are often compared on small ad hoc examp…

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Evaluating the Exp-Minus-Log Sheffer Operator for Battery Characterization

Eymen Ipek · 2026

Odrzywolek (2026) recently introduced the Exp-Minus-Log (EML) operator eml (x, y) = exp(x) - ln(y) and proved constructively that, paired with the constant 1, it generates the entire scientific-calcul…

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Early-Warning Learner Satisfaction Forecasting in MOOCs via Temporal Event Transformers and LLM Text Embeddings

Anna Kowalczyk, Jakub Kowalski · 2026

Learner satisfaction is a critical quality signal in massive open online courses (MOOCs), directly influencing retention, engagement, and platform reputation. Most existing methods infer satisfaction …

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Symmetry Is Almost All You Need: Robust Stability with Uncertainty Induced by Symmetric SRG Regions

Ding Zhang, Di Zhao, Philipp Braun, Jianqi Chen · 2026

This paper investigates the robust stability problem of a feedback system in the presence of uncertainties induced by graphical regions in the plane where the scaled relative graphs (SRGs) reside. Our…

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Ternary Logic Encodings of Temporal Behavior Trees with Application to Control Synthesis

Ryan Matheu, John S. Baras, Calin Belta · 2026

Behavior Trees (BTs) provide designers an intuitive graphical interface to construct long-horizon plans for autonomous systems. To ensure their correctness and safety, rigorous formal models and verif…

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Perception Is All You Need: A Neuroscience Framework for Low Cost Sensorless Gaze in HRI

Mason Kadem · 2026

Gaze-following in child-robot interaction improves attention, recall, and learning, but requires expensive platforms (\$30,000+), sensors, algorithms, and raises privacy concerns. We propose a framewo…

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Group-invariant moments under tomographic projections

Amnon Balanov, Tamir Bendory, Dan Edidin · 2026

Let $f:\mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R}$ be an unknown object, and suppose the observations are tomographic projections of randomly rotated copies of $f$ of the form $Y = P(R\cdot f)$, where $R$ is Haar-unif…

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$\phi-$DeepONet: A Discontinuity Capturing Neural Operator

Sumanta Roy, Stephen T. Castonguay, Pratanu Roy, Michael D. Shields · 2026

We present $\phi-$DeepONet, a physics-informed neural operator designed to learn mappings between function spaces that may contain discontinuities or exhibit non-smooth behavior. Classical neural oper…

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Grasp as You Dream: Imitating Functional Grasping from Generated Human Demonstrations

Chao Tang, Jiacheng Xu, Haofei Lu, Bolin Zou, Wenlong Dong, Hong Zhang, Danica Kragic · 2026

Building generalist robots capable of performing functional grasping in everyday, open-world environments remains a significant challenge due to the vast diversity of objects and tasks. Existing metho…

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