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A Survey of Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network,Research Directions, and Open Challenges

The Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN) represents a transformative paradigm that redefines the construction, operation, and governance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure in the Web 3.0 era. DePIN integrates physical resources, such as networking equipment, storage, and computing power, with decentralized digital governance, forming a self-incentivized ecosystem that is collaboratively built, shared, and governed by the community. It provides a foundational framework for future communication networks, facilitating decentralized edge intelligence, efficient resource sharing, and trustworthy coordination among heterogeneous devices. Focusing on the feasibility of this emerging paradigm, this paper examines the technology landscape in the pre-DePIN era and gaps between existing methodologies and the forthcoming decentralized infrastructure for Web 3.0. It provides a systematic and comprehensive survey of the background, core characteristics, technical architecture, and applications of DePIN across various vertical domains. The paper analyzes the DePIN technology stack from six layers: physical infrastructure, blockchain, interaction, trust, incentive, and application, with special attention to their cross-layer feedback loops, implementation readiness, and deployment limitations. To further bridge conceptual analysis and practical deployment, we propose a DePIN feasibility assessment framework covering technical, governance, and economic dimensions. Moreover, we highlight promising research directions, providing insights and guidance for further exploration and deployment of DePIN.

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A Dry-Contact Ear-EEG System With Continuous Electrode-Skin Impedance Mismatch Monitoring for Motion Artifact Cancellation Using DRL Stimulus

Dry-contact ear-electroencephalography (Ear-EEG) enables wearable neural monitoring. However, motion induced electrode-skin impedance (ESI) mismatches between electrodes can severely degrade signal quality. To the best of our knowledge, this paper presents the first proof-of-concept dry-contact EarEEG system that uses a driven-right-leg (DRL) stimulus for continuous ESI mismatch monitoring, enabling online adaptive motion artifact cancellation. A 1 kHz sinusoidal stimulus is injected through the DRL electrode. The resulting response to the injected carrier is separated from the EEG using bandpass filtering and demodulation, and then used to extract the ESI mismatch information as the reference input for a normalized least-mean-square adaptive filter followed by a Hampel filtering stage. To evaluate artifact suppression and preservation of neural activity, alpha-band EEG activity was analyzed involving four healthy participants performing head nodding, electrode tapping, and jaw clenching. The system achieved artifact power reductions of 6.5, 12.6, and 9.0 dB (77.6%, 92.8%, and 86.4%, respectively) while alpha-band modulation remained clearly observable after processing. This demonstrates the feasibility of DRL-stimulusbased ESI mismatch monitoring for motion artifact cancellation in wearable dry-contact Ear-EEG.

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Bayesian thermal digital twin for a space habitat subjected to an impact event

Space habitats may experience disruptive events, such as micro-meteorite impacts, that can induce structural damage and thermal anomalies in the interior environment, requiring resilient Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS). Digital twins offer a promising paradigm for supporting resilience, onboard decision making, and uncertainty-aware autonomy. However, limited work has developed digital twins for the thermal aspects of ECLSS. This work develops a Bayesian thermal digital twin for a habitat cyber-physical testbed experiencing impact-induced thermal anomalies. We construct a coupled thermal resistance-capacitance network model representing the physical and cyber thermal subsystems and embed physics-based activation functions to automate model selection, enable adaptation, and facilitate health-state estimation. Offline Bayesian calibration is performed for the physical subsystem using experimental temperature data. For the cyber subsystem, reduction in structural protective layer thickness is identified as the impact-sensitive parameter. After fixing the physical parameters and insensitive parameters, Bayesian inference is performed continuously to estimate impact-relevant cyber parameters, enabling detection of impact location, timing, and severity. Synthetic studies examine hyperparameter selection, observability, and noise effects, and the final framework is validated using experimental testbed data. Results show that the proposed digital twin can detect impact-induced thermal anomalies, infer impact-relevant parameters with quantified uncertainty, generate informative temperature forecasts, and support time-to-critical estimation for autonomous habitat operation.

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Identification of $dq$-Asymmetric Impedances as Complex Transfer Functions Using a Single Arbitrary Excitation

Cross-coupling between the $dq$ coordinates makes the identification of asymmetric grid impedances a challenging problem, particularly near the fundamental frequency where the asymmetric coupling is strongest. Existing schemes usually handle it either by perturbing the two coordinates sequentially, which lengthens the measurement, or by using a time-domain method with a global parametric model whose order must be tuned. This paper develops a single-shot active non-parametric frequency-domain method that avoids both. The equivalent impedance is parameterized by a pair of single-input single-output complex transfer functions. Each spectral line is fitted with a local rational model; the leakage and transient contributions are estimated, so that neither periodic steady-state excitation nor repeated excitation cycles are required. We give the exact finite-time discrete Fourier transform relation for the conjugate-coupled complex-signal model, and analyse the distortion that a stationary-frame filter placed ahead of the Park transform imposes on the identified pair. The method is validated on a controller hardware-in-the-loop platform against an analytically derived small-signal model, for a symmetric grid and for the same grid with an added grid-following converter that renders it asymmetric. Both complex transfer functions and all four real transfer functions of the $dq$ impedance are recovered over a wide band from a single one-second record of a random excitation, at 1 Hz resolution.

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Hierarchical Control for Continuous-time Systems via General Approximate Alternating Simulation Relations

This paper introduces a general approximate alternating simulation relation (\emph{$\varepsilon$-gAAS relation}) for continuous-time systems, which relaxes existing simulation relations to tolerate larger mismatches between abstract and concrete models. The definition of gAAS for continuous-time systems is first proposed, and its properties are investigated. Then, a control refinement method is developed to enable hierarchical control for the gAAS relation. Finally, case studies demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, highlighting its advantages over existing methods.

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Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous Sensor Selection in Maritime Surveillance

This paper presents an information-gain-guided reinforcement-learning sensor-selection framework for single-vessel tracking in heterogeneous maritime sensor networks. The proposed approach is motivated by information-theoretic sensor management: instead of activating all sensors or repeatedly performing computationally expensive online expected-information-gain evaluation, a learned policy selects one tracking-relevant sensor at each decision epoch. A Bayesian sequential Monte Carlo tracker estimates the vessel state from noisy measurements and provides a belief representation for scheduling under nonlinear and non-Gaussian conditions. A Proximal Policy Optimization agent selects one of five sensors in a georeferenced simulation of the CMMI Smart Marina testbed at Ayia Napa Marina, Cyprus. The policy is trained on the testbed's actual five-sensor configuration. The agent observes belief-state, detection-history, coverage, sensor-geometry, and realized-information-gain features. The reward is defined as a realized-information-gain term gated by an observability mask. Final-test simulations compare the proposed framework with random single-sensor selection, always-on sensing using all sensors simultaneously, and the expected-information-gain sensor-selection baseline proposed in our previous work. Results show that the learned policy achieves tracking performance close to always-on sensing while activating only one sensor per decision time step and avoiding the computationally expensive online entropy search required by expected-information-gain selection. Additional zero-shot evaluation without retraining on ten moderately perturbed versions of actual layout configuration showed broadly stable tracking, with any increase in positional tracking error remaining below 1 meter across all perturbations.

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Scaling WiFi Sensing for Ubiquitous Home Monitoring: Lessons from Real-World Deployment on Millions of Devices

WiFi-based home monitoring offers compelling advantages over traditional camera and sensor solutions by leveraging existing wireless infrastructure for contactless, privacy-preserving and through-the-wall detection. This paper presents insights from developing and deploying a WiFi-based human monitoring system across real-world residential environments, addressing the gap between academic research and practical deployment. Through a two-year study involving 280 edge devices across 15 homes in 11 U.S. states, collecting over 4 million motion samples, we identify and address four critical deployment challenges previously underexplored in academic settings: (1) false positives from non-human motion sources (pets, robots) that degrade system reliability, (2) hardware heterogeneity in commercial IoT devices causing inconsistent CSI quality, (3) signal interference in multi-user environments limiting individual tracking capabilities, and (4) computational and bandwidth constraints preventing real-time edge processing. The deployed system integrates a biomechanics-based classifier that reduces non-human false alarms from 63.1\% to 8.4\%, a multi-layer sensing quality metric validating device suitability without environment-specific calibration, proximity-based multi-user detection leveraging distributed IoT devices, and a hybrid edge-cloud architecture with ACF-based compression achieving 99.72\% data reduction. The integrated system achieves 92.61\% human motion detection accuracy across diverse uncontrolled home environments. We have successfully deployed home monitoring technology on millions of WiFi routers nationwide and smart IoT devices (e.g., bulbs, plugs) worldwide, demonstrating its viability for large-scale real-world applications. We share these findings to guide future research toward deployable WiFi sensing systems.

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How Much Training is Needed with a Digital Twin?

The following paper addresses how much pilot training is needed when a digital twin (DT) of the wireless radio channel is available to aid a wireless communication system with a channel estimation task. The DT of a wireless channel is widely expected to reduce the pilot overhead of channel estimation, following the informal rule that \emph{``the more accurate the twin, the fewer pilots are needed.''} This trade-off, however, has only ever been demonstrated empirically and never quantified. We close this gap by treating the DT as a complementary measurement of the channel that the receiver fuses with its pilot observations in the physical world. Consequently, fusing the physical and digital worlds through the best linear unbiased estimator, we derive a DT-aided Cramér-Rao bound, and from it a \emph{pilot-equivalence law} that converts DT fidelity into an equivalent number of training symbols. For a biased twin unknown to the estimator, we obtain the exact mismatch threshold beyond which trusting the DT is worse than ignoring it. We quantify how much training is needed with the DT to attain a desired mean square error on channel estimation. Particular cases are discussed to tell when training in the physical world can be completely bypassed. We finally translate these results into a block-fading achievable rate whose optimal training length is the unique root of a single equation, and identify the DT fidelity above which pilot training can be dispensed with altogether. Extensive numerical results corroborate closed-form expression and reveal that the value of a DT is largest at finite signal-to-noise ratio and vanishes in both the low- and high-SNR limits.

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Deep Learning Approach to Bearing and Induction Motor Fault Diagnosis via Data Fusion

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are used to evaluate accelerometer and microphone data for bearing and induction motor diagnosis. A Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) recurrent neural network is used to combine sensor information effectively, highlighting the benefits of data fusion. This approach encourages researchers to focus on multi model diagnosis for constant speed data collection by proposing a comprehensive way to use deep learning and sensor fusion and encourages data scientists to collect more multi-sensor data, including acoustic and accelerometer datasets.

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A Kalman Filter-Based Tracking Loop Design for Real-Time Aerospace GNSS Applications with Minimum Pull-Out Probability

Kalman filter-based (KF-based) tracking loops are a powerful alternative to traditional phase-locked loops (PLLs) for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) signal tracking. The primary advantage of the KF is its ability to incorporate high-fidelity models for receiver dynamics and clock errors, allowing the loop to adapt optimally to signal conditions. However, this theoretical optimality is often compromised in practice by the processing delays inherent in real-time systems with hardware correlators, which existing KF formulations typically neglect. This paper introduces a Modified Kalman filter (mKF) that overcomes this limitation specifically for hardware-based architectures. By reformulating the measurement update to be consistent with the processing delays, the proposed mKF maintains optimality in a practical implementation. We further present a systematic method for tuning both the process noise covariance matrix and the correlation time, based on an analytical expression for the pull-out probability (POP), which is validated through Monte Carlo simulation. The mKF is then validated with a GNSS signal simulator, both by post-processing baseband samples and on a real-time GPS receiver with hardware correlators. A direct equivalence between the mKF and a one-delay Digital PLL (DPLL) is established entirely in the digital domain. At equal noise bandwidth, the mKF matches the DPLL's phase error variance while achieving lower error in the higher-order states. Moreover, the mKF sustains lock at bandwidths inaccessible to the optimal one-delay DPLL under the same dynamic stress, positioning the proposed architecture as a robust and noise-efficient solution for high-dynamic aerospace GNSS applications.

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Comment on "Event-Triggered Stabilization of Linear Time-Delay Systems via Halanay-Type Inequality"

This comment revisits Lemma 1 in [1], which plays a central role in the event-triggered stabilization analysis developed therein. We identify technical gaps in the proof of the lemma and provide a corrected argument. In particular, careful treatment of the exponentially decaying term shows that its decay rate must be retained in the resulting convergence estimate. The statement of the original lemma, with the exponential decay rate determined by the minimum of the characteristic decay rate and the decay rate of this term, remains valid.

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What Selects, What Reconstructs: Repairing Exemplar-Based Complex-Spectrum Separation

Exemplar methods separate a mixture by picking one learned spectrum per source and deforming it until it explains the observation, making one deformation class both reconstructor and selector. We show that the second role is empty as soon as the class can interpolate: the rule then ranks candidates on its regulariser, a choice made before the data, and the estimates sum back to the mixture whichever candidate wins. The condition is a parameter count, so the diagnosis runs before any experiment. On free per-bin deformation of complex spectra it explains the observed pathologies at once: a criterion that ranks candidates by their loudness, and half an output that is a mask on the mixture rather than an exemplar. The same theorem prescribes the repair, a selection class poorer than the reconstruction class: one complex gain and one pure delay rank the candidates, and a local combination of the best-aligned atoms, fitted jointly in closed form, rebuilds them. On MUSDB18 against the exact ceiling of the masking class, the distance between the criterion and an oracle inside its own candidate pool falls under the rigid selector from 6.2-7.7 to 0.5-2.8 dB, though only 0.9-1.2 dB of that reaches the output, and the per-frame latency of the deployed rule by a factor of 47 to 806. One lock remains, quantified: atoms are scored against the mixture, so the score carries a term for the other source that absorbs the capacity the reconstruction class gains, leaving the output 10.0 dB under the ceiling. Ranking hypotheses by the residual of a fit free enough to interpolate ranks them on the regulariser alone.

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Locating Power System Oscillation Sources by Extracting Interharmonics from Synchrophasor Data

Recent studies have shown that oscillating phasors arise from beating waves caused by interharmonics. This finding has led to an interharmonic-based oscillation source-location method. But waveform data needed for the method are less available than PMU synchrophasor data. This paper investigates whether interharmonics can be extracted directly from phasor data for similar applications. The results show that, for certain oscillation phenomena, phasor data can support interharmonic extraction and oscillation source location. Sensitivity studies have identified the requirements, and a cloud-based software tool is developed for PMU-based source location.

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Learning neural controllers for nonlinear systems from data

This article addresses the problem of designing neural feedback controllers for unknown nonlinear systems. We propose an indirect data-driven framework that uses offline data to identify the system dynamics, upon which a neural feedback controller and a neural Lyapunov function are jointly synthesized. Input constraints are enforced by integrating a hard-saturation structure into the controller architecture. Robust synthesis conditions are derived to account for data perturbations during identification. Formal stability is certified by combining SMT verification with local Lyapunov analysis near the equilibrium. Numerical examples validate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.

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When are selector control strategies optimal for constrained monotone systems?

This paper considers optimal control problems defined by a monotone dynamical system, a monotone cost, and monotone constraints. We identify families of such problems for which the optimal solution is bang-ride, i.e., that it always operates on the constraint boundaries and switches between a finite number of state-feedback controllers. This motivates the use of simpler policies, such as selector control, that can be designed without perfect models and full state measurements. The approach is successfully applied to several variations of the health-aware fast charging problem for lithium-ion batteries.

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Model-free fast charging of lithium-ion batteries by online gradient descent

A data-driven solution is provided for the fast-charging problem of lithium-ion batteries with multiple safety and aging constraints. The proposed method optimizes the charging current based on the observed history of measurable battery quantities, such as the input current, terminal voltage, and temperature. The proposed method does not need any detailed battery model or full-charging training episodes. The theoretical convergence is proven under mild conditions and is validated numerically on several linear and nonlinear battery models, including single-particle and equivalent-circuit models.

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Sample Complexity of Linear Quadratic Regulator Without Initial Stability

Inspired by REINFORCE, we introduce a novel receding-horizon algorithm for the Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) problem with unknown dynamics. Unlike prior methods, our algorithm avoids reliance on two-point gradient estimates while maintaining the same order of sample complexity. Furthermore, it eliminates the restrictive requirement of starting with a stable initial policy, broadening its applicability. Beyond these improvements, we introduce a refined analysis of error propagation through the contraction of the Riccati operator under the Riemannian distance. This refinement leads to a better sample complexity and ensures improved convergence guarantees.

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