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most citedSuccessful Kinetic Impact into an Asteroid for Planetary Defense

270 citations

159 papers

cs.LG2026

Energy-aware frugal Bayesian optimization

Gaston Plat, Paul Saves, Nathalie Bartoli +2

Modern design optimization frameworks aim first and foremost for models with the most accurate predictions without balancing computational overhead. It remains a reason why scaled…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 3 cited

A cosmic-ray loaded nascent outflow driven by a massive star cluster

Marianne Lemoine-Goumard, Lucia Härer, Lars Mohrmann +6

Cosmic rays are widely held to drive outflows from star-forming galaxies and profoundly influence galaxy evolution. Direct evidence for cosmic-ray carrying outflows is however lack…

cs.LO2026

Compressing ACAS-Xu Lookup Tables with Binary Decision Diagrams

Martin Boniol, Julien Brunel, Jean-Baptiste Chaudron +2

The Airborne Collision Avoidance System Xu (ACAS-Xu) relies on large certified Look-Up Tables (LUTs) that encode the exact decision logic used in operation. Neural-network-based ap…

cs.AI2026

Interpretable and Explainable Surrogate Modeling for Simulations: A State-of-the-Art Survey and Perspectives on Explainable AI for Decision-Making

Pramudita Satria Palar, Paul Saves, Muhammad Daffa Robani +6

The simulation of complex systems increasingly relies on sophisticated but fundamentally opaque computational black-box simulators. Surrogate models play a central role in reducing…

math.OC2026

Safe and wind-aware synchronous path planning for a fleet of fixed-wing constant speed aircraft

Maël Feurgard, Gautier Hattenberger, Nicolas Durand +1

Path planning for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles is a difficult task, and even more for a fleet of fixed-wing aircraft. One specific case is the transition to, or between, forma…

astro-ph.EP2026

An Open Database of Lunar Regolith and Simulants Properties

Léonie Gasteiner, Naomi Murdoch, Olfa D'Angelo

Lunar regolith, the layer of unconsolidated material covering the Moon's surface, is central to the science and technology developed for the Moon, notably related to in-situ scienc…

eess.SP2026

Real-Time Evaluation of an Ultra-Tight GNSS/INS Integration Based on Adaptive PLL Bandwidth

Gaël Pages, Priot Benoît, Guillaume Beaugendre

In this contribution, we propose a GNSS/INS ultra-tight coupling in which the GNSS receiver architecture is based on a vector tracking loop type architecture. In the proposed appro…

cs.RO2025★ 2 cited

Optimized Area Coverage in Disaster Response Utilizing Autonomous UAV Swarm Formations

Lampis Papakostas, Aristeidis Geladaris, Athanasios Mastrogeorgiou +4

This paper presents a UAV swarm system designed to assist first responders in disaster scenarios like wildfires. By distributing sensors across multiple agents, the system extends…

eess.SY2025

Robust H2/H-infinity control under stochastic requirements: minimizing conditional value-at-risk instead of worst-case performance

Ervan Kassarian, Francesco Sanfedino, Daniel Alazard +1

Conventional robust H2/H-infinity control minimizes the worst-case performance, often leading to a conservative design driven by very rare parametric configurations. To reduce this…

math.AP2025

PFEM-GP-dPHS : a finite element framework for combining Gaussian processes and infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems

Florian Courteville, Iain Henderson, Denis Matignon +1

In order to learn distributed port-Hamiltonian systems (dPHS) using Gaussian processes (GPs), the partitioned finite element method (PFEM) is combined with the Gp-dPHS method. By f…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

Global Sensitivity Analysis for Engineering Design Based on Individual Conditional Expectations

Pramudita Satria Palar, Paul Saves, Rommel G. Regis +4

Explainable machine learning techniques have gained increasing attention in engineering applications, especially in aerospace design and analysis, where understanding how input var…

cs.LG2025

Synthetic Data for Robust Runway Detection

Estelle Chigot, Dennis G. Wilson, Meriem Ghrib +2

Deep vision models are now mature enough to be integrated in industrial and possibly critical applications such as autonomous navigation. Yet, data collection and labeling to train…

cs.AI2025

System-of-systems Modeling and Optimization: An Integrated Framework for Intermodal Mobility

Paul Saves, Jasper Bussemaker, Rémi Lafage +4

For developing innovative systems architectures, modeling and optimization techniques have been central to frame the architecting process and define the optimization and modeling p…

eess.SY2025

Load Limiting Control for Component Life Extension

Chams Eddine Mballo, Robert Walters, Jonnalagadda V. R. Prasad

This paper presents the development of a novel life-extending control scheme for critical helicopter components subjected to significant fatigue loading. The primary objective is t…

cs.LG2025

NeurIPS 2024 ML4CFD Competition: Results and Retrospective Analysis

Mouadh Yagoubi, David Danan, Milad Leyli-Abadi +15

The integration of machine learning (ML) into the physical sciences is reshaping computational paradigms, offering the potential to accelerate demanding simulations such as computa…

cond-mat.soft2025

Granular clogging across gravities: a unified scaling

Oliver Gaida, Olfa D'Angelo, Jonathan E. Kollmer

Lacking a universal law for granular flows across gravitational environments, fundamental processes such as hopper discharge remain vulnerable to failure in low gravity environment…

cs.CV2025★ 12 cited

Style Transfer with Diffusion Models for Synthetic-to-Real Domain Adaptation

Estelle Chigot, Dennis G. Wilson, Meriem Ghrib +1

Semantic segmentation models trained on synthetic data often perform poorly on real-world images due to domain gaps, particularly in adverse conditions where labeled data is scarce…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

Multi-objective Bayesian Optimization With Mixed-categorical Design Variables for Expensive-to-evaluate Aeronautical Applications

Nathalie Bartoli, Thierry Lefebvre, Rémi Lafage +8

This work aims at developing new methodologies to optimize computational costly complex systems (e.g., aeronautical engineering systems). The proposed surrogate-based method (often…

stat.ME2025★ 9 cited

Bayesian optimization for mixed variables using an adaptive dimension reduction process: applications to aircraft design

Paul Saves, Nathalie Bartoli, Youssef Diouane +5

Multidisciplinary design optimization methods aim at adapting numerical optimization techniques to the design of engineering systems involving multiple disciplines. In this context…

cs.LG2025★ 11 cited

Regularized infill criteria for multi-objective Bayesian optimization with application to aircraft design

Robin Grapin, Youssef Diouane, Joseph Morlier +4

Bayesian optimization is an advanced tool to perform ecient global optimization It consists on enriching iteratively surrogate Kriging models of the objective and the constraints b…

eess.SP2025

Caract{é}risation d'une Source Diffuse {à} partir des Moments de sa Densit{é} de Puissance en Tomographie SAR

Colin Cros, Laurent Ferro-Famil

This paper presents a method for estimating the characteristics of a diffuse source from interferometric measurements in the context of SAR tomography. The proposed method is based…

cs.LG2025

SMT-EX: An Explainable Surrogate Modeling Toolbox for Mixed-Variables Design Exploration

Mohammad Daffa Robani, Paul Saves, Pramudita Satria Palar +2

Surrogate models are of high interest for many engineering applications, serving as cheap-to-evaluate time-efficient approximations of black-box functions to help engineers and pra…

cs.CE2025★ 1 cited

Numerical optimization of aviation decarbonization scenarios: balancing traffic and emissions with maturing energy carriers and aircraft technology

Ian Costa-Alves, Nicolas Gourdain, François Gallard +3

Despite being considered a hard-to-abate sector, aviation's emissions will play an important role in long-term climate mitigation of transportation. The introduction of low-carbon…

math.NA2025★ 3 cited

A linearly-implicit energy-momentum preserving scheme for geometrically nonlinear mechanics based on non-canonical Hamiltonian formulations

Andrea Brugnoli, Denis Matignon, Joseph Morlier

This work presents a novel formulation and numerical strategy for the simulation of geometrically nonlinear structures. First, a non-canonical Hamiltonian (Poisson) formulation is…