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Hybrid Physics-AI Framework of Body Center of Mass Dynamics from Wrist-Worn Sensors

arXiv:2609.12304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wrist-worn IMU has been widely used for daily-life health monitoring. Yet, it does not fully represent whole-body dynamics, for which the body center of mass (COM) is considered the physiological reference standard. Therefore, this work proposes a simplified kinematic model (KM), which is designed to map the wrist IMU to the COM acceleration. It is built upon several reductive assumptions that enable the solvability of the dynamic equations based on wrist IMU measurements alone. This work further proposes three types of hybrid AI modeling methods, namely human kinematic model-based neural network (HKM-NN) models, to leverage the power of both grey-box and black-box modeling. The HKM-NN methods include serial learning (ser-) and two approaches of simultaneous learning (sim1- and sim2-). The proposed models are trained and tested using our dataset, which includes wrist IMU measurements and ground-truth COM measurements from 10 healthy volunteers during six gait activities and sit-to-stand (SS) transitional movement. The results demonstrate the feasibility of estimating COM acceleration from wrist IMU measurements. Our KM model yields satisfactory results, with an error ranging from 6.7% to 12.5% for gait activities and 5.6% for the SS. In comparison with the KM model, our HKM-NN models significantly enhance the performance, achieving 5.3% to 9.3% errors for gait activities, and the best error of 3.9% for the SS. In addition, the HKM-NN models demonstrate distinct robustness characteristics under noisy test conditions, with sim1-/sim2- generally maintaining greater robustness under Gaussian perturbations, while the KM model exhibits comparatively strong robustness under salt-and-pepper noise. These findings highlight the importance of combining biomechanical structure with data-driven learning for wearable sensing applications operating under imperfect and noisy measurement conditions.

RF-VoID: Towards Bandwidth-Efficient Exterior Tile Void Detection via Narrowband Radio-Frequency Representation Learning

arXiv:2609.12388v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hidden debonding behind exterior ceramic tiles is a falling-tile hazard, and millimeter-wave radar offers a non-contact way to find it. Conventional interpretation first reconstructs a range profile, so its reliability is bounded by the available bandwidth, yet bandwidth is what sets the cost, the acquisition time, and the regulatory footprint of a deployed system. This work asks whether that bandwidth can be traded for computation. A 4-40 GHz stepped-frequency system scans twelve exterior-wall specimens containing 0.5-1.0 mm air voids at different depths and interfaces, and the bandwidth dependence of A-scan, B-scan, and C-scan interpretation is analyzed to establish the resolution bound. RF-VoID is then proposed, which decides directly on the narrowband complex response: the sub-band is kept in its measured frequency order with amplitude and phase alongside the in-phase and quadrature channels, a dual-branch encoder reads it along the physical frequency axis using relative position encoding and a distance-dependent locality bias, and an inspection-oriented objective handles the class imbalance and the asymmetric error cost of facade screening. Under a mixed-sample protocol the method attains 98.61% accuracy and a 95.84% F1-score with 0.5 GHz of bandwidth, a seventy-two-fold reduction relative to the full sweep, without range-profile reconstruction, deconvolution, or depth-slice selection; on specimens held out entirely from training it remains the strongest of the compared models, with a mean macro F1-score of 62.12% at 0.5 GHz that rises to 68.57% at 1 GHz.

The Vienna 4G/5G Drive-Test Dataset

arXiv:2603.02638v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine learning for mobile network analysis, planning, and optimization is often limited by the lack of large, comprehensive real-world datasets. This paper introduces the Vienna 4G/5G Drive-Test Dataset, a city-scale open dataset of georeferenced Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G New Radio (NR) measurements collected across Vienna, Austria. The dataset combines passive wideband scanner observations with active handset logs, providing complementary network-side and user-side views of deployed radio access networks. The measurements cover diverse urban and suburban settings and are aligned with time and location information to support consistent evaluation. For a representative subset of base stations (BSs), we provide inferred deployment descriptors, including estimated BS locations, sector azimuths, and antenna heights. The release further includes high-resolution building and terrain models, enabling geometry-conditioned learning and calibration of deterministic approaches such as ray tracing. To facilitate practical reuse, the data are organized into scanner, handset, estimated cell information, and city-model components, and the accompanying documentation describes the available fields and intended joins between them. The dataset enables reproducible benchmarking across environment-aware learning, propagation modeling, coverage analysis, and ray-tracing calibration workflows.
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