Machine Learning for the Internet of Underwater Things: From Fundamentals to Implementation

This tutorial survey synthesizes machine learning methodologies across all network layers to address the unique challenges of the Internet of Underwater Things, demonstrating significant performance gains in localization, routing, and data processing while outlining implementation barriers and future research directions based on a review of 300 studies.

Kenechi Omeke, Attai Abubakar, Michael Mollel, Lei Zhang, Qammer H. Abbasi, Muhammad Ali ImranTue, 10 Ma💻 cs

Reinforcement Learning for Vehicle-to-Grid Voltage Regulation: Single-Hub to Multi-Hub Coordination with Battery-Aware Constraints

This paper proposes a soft actor-critic-based reinforcement learning framework for vehicle-to-grid voltage regulation that effectively coordinates single and multi-hub charging systems while prioritizing battery health and fleet availability, demonstrating robust performance comparable to standard droop controllers under both nominal and aggressive overloading conditions.

Jingbo Wang, Roshni Anna Jacob, Harshal D. Kaushik, Jie ZhangTue, 10 Ma💻 cs

GuideTWSI: A Diverse Tactile Walking Surface Indicator Dataset from Synthetic and Real-World Images for Blind and Low-Vision Navigation

This paper introduces GuideTWSI, a diverse dataset combining synthetic and real-world images to address the scarcity of Tactile Walking Surface Indicator (TWSI) data, specifically bridging the gap between East Asian directional bars and North American/European truncated domes to improve navigation safety for blind and low-vision individuals.

Hochul Hwang, Soowan Yang, Anh N. H. Nguyen, Parth Goel, Krisha Adhikari, Sunghoon I. Lee, Joydeep Biswas, Nicholas A. Giudice, Donghyun KimTue, 10 Ma💻 cs

Animating Petascale Time-varying Data on Commodity Hardware with LLM-assisted Scripting

This paper presents a user-friendly framework that enables domain scientists to generate 3D animations of petascale, time-varying climate data on commodity hardware using an LLM-assisted conversational interface, thereby eliminating the need for specialized visualization expertise and high-performance computing resources.

Ishrat Jahan Eliza, Xuan Huang, Aashish Panta, Alper Sahistan, Zhimin Li, Amy A. Gooch, Valerio PascucciTue, 10 Ma💻 cs

Communication Network-Aware Missing Data Recovery for Enhanced Distribution Grid Visibility

This paper proposes a communication network-aware framework that integrates routing constraints with low-rank matrix completion to mitigate spatially correlated data losses and significantly improve missing data recovery accuracy in power distribution grids compared to traditional measurement-only approaches.

Biswas Rudra Jyoti Arka, Md Zahidul Islam, Yuzhang Lin, Vinod M. Vokkarane, Junbo ZhaoTue, 10 Ma💻 cs

Energy-Efficient Collaborative Transport of Tether-Suspended Payloads via Rotating Equilibrium

This paper proposes a rotating equilibrium strategy for collaborative tethered aerial transport, where steady circular motion generates centrifugal forces to maintain tether tension, thereby enabling quadrotors to produce purely vertical thrust and reducing total power consumption by up to 20% compared to conventional static lifting methods.

Eric Foss, Andrew Tai, Carlo Bosio, Mark W. MuellerTue, 10 Ma💻 cs

Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions

This tutorial critically examines the gap between theoretical Control Barrier Function (CBF) guarantees and practical implementation in robotics, revealing how common misuses and hidden assumptions often lead to tautological safety claims in passively safe systems while offering guidelines and interactive tools to construct valid safety arguments for systems with input constraints.

Taekyung KimTue, 10 Ma💻 cs

Adaptive Gain Nonlinear Observer for External Wrench Estimation in Human-UAV Physical Interaction

This paper proposes an Adaptive Gain Nonlinear Observer (AGNO) that leverages a full nonlinear dynamic model to accurately and robustly estimate external interaction wrenches in human-UAV physical payload transportation without dedicated force-torque sensors, demonstrating superior performance over Extended Kalman Filters through rigorous stability analysis and simulation.

Hussein N. Naser, Hashim A. Hashim, Mojtaba AhmadiTue, 10 Ma💻 cs

Robustness to Model Approximation, Model Learning From Data, and Sample Complexity in Wasserstein Regular MDPs

This paper establishes robustness bounds for discrete-time stochastic optimal control under Wasserstein model approximation, demonstrating that the performance loss of policies derived from approximate models is controlled by the Wasserstein-1 distance between transition kernels, thereby enabling rigorous sample complexity analysis for empirical model and noise distribution learning where stronger convergence criteria may fail.

Yichen Zhou, Yanglei Song, Serdar YükselTue, 10 Ma🔢 math