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Bi-Level Optimization for Contact and Motion Planning in Rope-Assisted Legged Robots

Ruben Malacarne, Ioannis Tsikelis, Enrico Mingo Hoffman, Michele Focchi · 2026

This paper presents a planning pipeline framework for locomotion in rope-assisted robots climbing vertical surfaces. The proposed framework is formulated as a bi-level optimization scheme that address…

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Spectral Boundary Observer for Counter-Flow Heat Exchangers

Mohamed Camil Belhadjoudja, Mohamed Maghenem, Emmanuel Witrant · 2026

We consider a system of two coupled first-order linear hyperbolic partial differential equations modeling heat transport in a counter-flow heat exchanger: one equation describes the transport of a hot…

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Slot-hopping Enabled Loiter Guidance and Automation for Fixed-wing UAV Corridors

Pradeep J, Siddhardha Kedarisetty, Ashwini Ratnoo · 2026

This paper addresses the problem of traffic congestion management in fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) corridors by further developing a recently introduced loiter-lane framework. A semi-cooper…

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Energy Efficiency Maximization for Discrete Activation based NOMA-assisted Pinching-Antenna Systems

Yishi Zhang, Aditya Powari, Kaidi Wang, Yaru Fu, Daniel K. C. So · 2026

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) have recently attracted significant attention as a promising architecture for flexible and reconfigurable wireless communications. Despite notable advancements, researc…

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Plug-and-Play Consistency Models for MIMO Channel Estimation

Jinlong Li, Peng Yang, Zehui Xiong, Xianbin Cao · 2026

Consistency models (CMs) learn a consistent mapping from multiple noise levels to the data endpoint and can therefore perform generative inference in one or a few steps. This property makes them attra…

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Large Language Model based Interactive Decision-Making for Autonomous Driving

Xinwei Dong, Jiyang Li, Jiabin Xie, Yang Yi, Tianshang Jia, Shiyu Fang, Ye Tian, Peng Hang · 2026

In high-conflict mixed-traffic scenarios involving human-driven and autonomous vehicles, most existing autonomous driving systems default to overly conservative behaviors, lack proactive interaction, …

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Advancing automatic speech recognition using feature fusion with self-supervised learning features: A case study on Fearless Steps Apollo corpus

Szu-Jui Chen, John H.L. Hansen · 2026

Using self-supervised learning (SSL) models has significantly improved performance for downstream speech tasks, surpassing the capabilities of traditional hand-crafted features. This study investigate…

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Threat Detection and Resilience Techniques in PRS-Assisted OTDOA 5G Positioning Systems

Thodoris Spanos, Nikolaos Papageorgiou, Samuele Fantinato, Nikos Kanistras, Sergi Duenas Pedrosa, Gianluca Caparra, Vassilis Paliouras · 2026

Precise positioning is a key enabler for emerging 5G applications, from autonomous transport to industrial automation. Yet the open physical layer (PL) leaves standard positioning reference signals (P…

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PokeVLA: Empowering Pocket-Sized Vision-Language-Action Model with Comprehensive World Knowledge Guidance

Yupeng Zheng, Xiang Li, Songen Gu, Yuhang Zheng, Shuai Tian, Weize Li, Linbo Wang, Senyu Fei, Pengfei Li, Yinfeng Gao, Zebin Xing, Yilun Chen, Qichao Zhang, Haoran Li, Wenchao Ding · 2026

Recent advances in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have opened new avenues for robot manipulation, yet existing methods exhibit limited efficiency and a lack of high-level knowledge and spatial aw…

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Model Predictive Communication for Timely Status Updates in Low-Altitude Networks

Bowen Li, Jiping Luo, Themistoklis Charalambous, Nikolaos Pappas · 2026

Timely information delivery in low-altitude networks is critical for many time-sensitive applications, such as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation, inspection, and surveillance. The key challenge…

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Rank-Aware Link Adaptation for XR Tethering Groups with Realistic Tethering Link: A Multi-Offset OLLA Framework

Muhammad Ahsen, Boyan Yanakiev, Claudio Rosa, Ramoni Adeogun · 2026

We investigate higher-rank transmissions for multi-connected Extended Reality (XR) devices enabled through tethering group (TGr), in which a nearby tethering User Equipment (UE) cooperates with an XR …

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Mass Matrix Assembly on Tensor Cores for Implicit Particle-In-Cell Methods

Luca Pennati, Stefano Markidis · 2026

Matrix-multiply-accumulate (MMA) units, or tensor cores, are now widespread across modern computing architectures. Yet, their use for particle-grid operators remains limited. In implicit particle meth…

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Transformer Architecture with Minimal Inference Latency for Multi-Modal Wireless Networks

Minsu Kim, Walid Saad, Kui Wang, Zongdian Li, Tao Yu, Kei Sakaguchi · 2026

Next-generation wireless networks are expected to leverage multi-modal data sources to execute various wireless communication tasks such as beamforming and blockage prediction with situational-awarene…

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A numerical approach to the co-design of PID controllers and low-pass filters for time-delay systems

Diego Torres-Garcia, Wim Michiels · 2026

This paper addresses the numerical optimization of proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers for linear time-invariant systems with delays, where the derivative action is implemented using a …

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Co-Design of Cryptographic Parameters and Delay-Aware Feedback Gain for Encrypted Control Systems

Yeongjun Jang · 2026

Encrypted control employs homomorphic encryption (HE) to protect both the computation and communication stages, making it a promising approach for secure networked control systems. Most existing resul…

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Towards SAFE-ISAC: STAR-RIS-Aided Joint Jamming Suppression and Target Concealment

Radwa Sultan · 2026

Designing robust architectures that can mitigate sophisticated attacks is now a key priority for modern wireless systems. This paper investigates a single-cell bistatic integrated sensing and communic…

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VPD-Centric Cascading Control with Neural Network Optimization for Energy-Efficient Climate Management in Controlled Environment Agriculture

Andrii Vakhnovskyi · 2026

Conventional climate control in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) uses independent PID loops for temperature and humidity, creating cross-coupling conflicts that waste 20-40% of HVAC energy. We…

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Simple but Stable, Fast and Safe: Achieve End-to-end Control by High-Fidelity Differentiable Simulation

Fanxing Li, Shengyang Wang, Yuxiang Huang, Fangyu Sun, Shuyu Wu, Yufei Yan, Danping Zou, Wenxian Yu · 2026

Obstacle avoidance is a fundamental vision-based task essential for enabling quadrotors to perform advanced applications. When planning the trajectory, existing approaches both on optimization and lea…

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A Total Lagrangian Finite Element Framework for Multibody Dynamics: Part II -- GPU Implementation and Numerical Experiments

Zhenhao Zhou, Ruochun Zhang, Ganesh Arivoli, Dan Negrut · 2026

We present the numerical methods and GPU-accelerated implementation underlying a Total Lagrangian finite element framework for finite-deformation flexible multibody dynamics, introduced in the compani…

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A Ray Intersection Algorithm for Fast Growth Distance Computation Between Convex Sets

Akshay Thirugnanam, Koushil Sreenath · 2026

In this paper, we discuss an efficient algorithm for computing the growth distance between two compact convex sets with representable support functions. The growth distance between two sets is the min…

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