💻 computer science

NPU-Accelerated Neuro-Fuzzy Safety Assistance with Decision-Level Multimodal Fusion for Teleoperated Assistive Robots

This paper presents an Edge-AI shared-control framework for teleoperated assistive robots that utilizes a Hailo-8L NPU to concurrently execute an Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System and a YOLOX-S detector, fusing their outputs to significantly reduce collision rates and emergency interventions while maintaining full local operation.

Sarra Ben Halima, Faten Ben Abdallah, Joseph Haggege2026-09-14
💻 computer science

A Lightweight, Distributed Energy-Aware Clustering Algorithm for Heterogeneous IoT Sensor Networks Using Adaptive Thresholding

This paper proposes AdaHet-Clust, a lightweight distributed clustering algorithm that utilizes adaptive thresholding to dynamically select cluster heads based on local energy conditions in heterogeneous IoT networks, thereby significantly extending network lifetime and reducing control overhead compared to existing methods.

Naeem A. Askar, Ismail Y. Maolood, Azad A. Ameen2026-09-14
💻 computer science

Embodied AI Agents in Urban Healthcare Systems: An Organisational Transformation Framework and Narrative Synthesis for Sustainable Implementation

This paper presents an organizational transformation framework and narrative synthesis that identifies five interdependent domains and six measurable dimensions to guide the sustainable implementation of embodied AI agents in urban healthcare systems, moving beyond simple technology adoption toward deep sociotechnical integration and institutional capability building.

Ali Asadollahi2026-09-14
💻 computer science

Human-Verified AI-Assisted Evidence Interpretation in Comparative Malware Analysis: WhiteSnake, Donex, and Emotet Samples

This paper presents a human-verified, AI-assisted workflow for interpreting static and dynamic analysis of WhiteSnake, Donex, and Emotet malware samples within an isolated FLARE VM environment, using archived undergraduate project data to identify specific behavioral indicators while explicitly noting the limitations regarding unconfirmed exfiltration, encryption, and stable process capture.

Abba Abdullahi Wakili2026-09-14
💻 computer science

LDIF: Latent Dual Interaction Flow

This paper introduces LDIF, a novel PyTorch-based neural architecture that models hidden state evolution using symmetric and skew-symmetric interaction fields combined via a response-conditioned gating mechanism and adaptive low-rank spectrum, demonstrating superior performance on both static and sequential datasets compared to traditional machine learning and deep learning baselines.

Muhammad Waseem Ashraf, Muhammad Muhaimin, Shahzadi Tayyaba2026-09-14
💻 computer science

A Comprehensive Survey of Quantum and Quantum-Inspired Image Segmentation in the Context of Modern Segmentation Methods

This survey provides a comprehensive review of quantum and quantum-inspired image segmentation methods, contextualizing them within the broader evolution of segmentation research by categorizing existing approaches, analyzing their computational principles and challenges, and identifying current trends and future directions in the field.

Marie Gogolin, Yannick Werner, Alexander Geng, Paul Lukowicz, Ali Moghiseh, Maximilian Kiefer-Emmanouilidis2026-09-14