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Soft robots enable safe, adaptive interaction with complex environments but remain difficult to sense and control due to their highly deformable structures. Architected soft materials such as helicoid lattices offer tunable stiffness and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Annan Zhang , Hanna Matusik , Miguel Flores-Acton , Emily R. Sologuren , Joshua Jacob , Daniela Rus

Movable antenna (MA) has been recently proposed as a promising candidate technology for the next generation wireless communication systems due to its significant capability of reconfiguring wireless channels via antenna movement. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Nianzu Li , Peiran Wu , Boyu Ning , Lipeng Zhu

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has emerged as a promising technology for fast wireless data aggregation by harnessing the superposition property of wireless multiple-access channels. This paper investigates a fluid antenna (FA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Deyou Zhang , Sicong Ye , Ming Xiao , Kezhi Wang , Marco Di Renzo , Mikael Skoglund

One of the uses of sensor arrays is for spatial filtering or beamforming. Current digital signal processing methods facilitate complex-weighted beamforming, providing flexibility in array design. Previous studies proposed the use of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-05 V. Tourbabin , M. Agmon , B. Rafaely , J. Tabrikian

In this letter, we consider a new type of flexible-antenna system, termed pinching-antenna, where multiple low-cost pinching antennas, realized by activating small dielectric particles on a dielectric waveguide, are jointly used to serve a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Yanqing Xu , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis

In this paper, we study the influence of the radius of a cylindrical supporting structure on radiation properties of a conformal millimeter-wave antenna array. Bent antenna array structures on cylindrical surfaces may have important…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-02-27 V. Semkin , A. Bisognin , M. Kyro , V-M. Kolmonen , C. Luxey , F. Ferrero , F. Devillers , A. V. Raisanen

We propose a hardware and software pipeline to fabricate flexible wearable sensors and use them to capture deformations without line of sight. Our first contribution is a low-cost fabrication pipeline to embed multiple aligned conductive…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Oliver Glauser , Daniele Panozzo , Otmar Hilliges , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Rotatable antenna (RA) technology can harness additional spatial degrees of freedom by enabling the dynamic three-dimensional orientation control of each antenna. Unfortunately, the hardware cost and control complexity of traditional RA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Ailing Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Ziyuan Zheng , Qiaoyan Peng , Yanze Zhu , Honghao Wang , Wen Chen , Guoying Zhang

Broadband beamforming is a technique to obtain the signal with a wide range of frequencies. It maintains the signal integrity and spatial selectivity over frequencies. This is important in several applications such as microphone array,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-03 Phan Le Son

In this study, we investigate and fabricate a superdirective antenna array composed of strip dipole elements operating at a frequency of 3.5 GHz. The spacing, dimensions, and phase difference of the elements are optimized to achieve a super…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Donal Patrick Lynch , Manos M. Tentzeris , Vincent Fusco , Stylianos D. Assimonis

The design and implementation of low-profile antennas has been analyzed in past decades from different perspectives while the purpose is to have a small size in the device, and an adequate electromagnetic behavior. This work pursues a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-25 Enrique Lizarraga , Walter Herrera

Consider a simple two-way relaying channel where two single-antenna sources exchange information via a multiple-antenna relay. To such a scenario, all the existing works which can achieve full diversity order are based on the antenna/relay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Zhongyuan Zhao , Zhiguo Ding , Mugen Peng , Wenbo Wang

Antenna behaviors such as mutual coupling, near-field propagation, and polarization cannot be neglected in signal and channel models for wireless communication. We present an electromagnetic-based array manifold that accounts for several…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-09 Miguel R. Castellanos , Robert W. Heath

The paper considers sparse array design for receive beamforming achieving maximum signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (MaxSINR) for both single point source and multiple point sources, operating in an interference active environment.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Syed A. Hamza , Moeness G. Amin

This paper presents a soft robot finger capable of adaptive-twist deformation to grasp objects by wrapping them. For a soft hand to grasp and pick-up one object from densely contained multiple objects, a soft finger requires the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Hiroki Ishikawa , Kyosuke Ishibashi , Ko Yamamoto

This letter addresses a multivariate optimization problem for linear movable antenna arrays (MAAs). Particularly, the position and beamforming vectors of the under-investigated MAA are optimized simultaneously to maximize the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Manh Kha Hoang , Tuan Anh Le , Kieu-Xuan Thuc , Tong Van Luyen , Xin-She Yang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Flexible-geometry arrays have garnered much attention in wireless communications, which dynamically adjust wireless channels to improve the system performance. In this paper, we propose a novel flexible-geometry array for a $360^\circ$…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-17 Songjie Yang , Jiahe Guo , Zilin He , Boyu Ning , Weidong Mei , Zhongpei Zhang , Chadi Assi , Chau Yuen

Six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) has emerged as a promising new technology for future wireless networks, which can adaptively adjust the three-dimensional (3D) positions and 3D rotations of antennas/antenna arrays for performance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yunli Li , Xiaoming Shi , Xiaodan Shao , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

Future wireless networks are expected to support increasingly high data rates and user densities, motivating advanced multi-antenna architectures capable of adapting to dynamic propagation environments. Movable antenna (MA) arrays have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Amna Irshad , Emil Björnson , Alva Kosasih , Vitaly Petrov

This paper proposes a novel multi-antenna architecture, termed ray antenna array (RAA), which practically enables flexible beamforming and also enhances wireless communication performance for high frequency systems in a cost-effective…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Zhenjun Dong , Zhiwen Zhou , Yong Zeng