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A Novel Feedforward Youla Parameterization Method for Avoiding Local Minima in Stereo Image Based Visual Servoing Control
Rongfei Li, Francis Assadian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10252

A Novel Feedforward Youla Parameterization Method for Avoiding Local Minima in Stereo Image Based Visual Servoing Control
In robot navigation and manipulation, accurately determining the camera's pose relative to the environment is crucial for effective task execution. In this paper, we systematically prove that this problem corresponds to the Perspective-3-Point (P3P) formulation, where exactly three known 3D points and their corresponding 2D image projections are used to estimate the pose of a stereo camera. In image-based visual servoing (IBVS) control, the system becomes overdetermined, as the 6 degrees of fre…

Measurement of the photosphere oblateness of $\gamma$ Cassiopeiae via Stellar Intensity Interferometry with the VERITAS Observatory
A. Archer, J. P. Aufdenberg, P. Bangale, J. T. Bartkoske, W. Benbow, J. H. Buckley, Y. Chen, N. B. Y. Chin, J. L. Christiansen, A. J. Chromey, A. Duerr, M. Escobar Godoy, S. Feldman, Q. Feng, S. Filbert, L. Fortson, A. Furniss, W. Hanlon, O. Hervet, C. E. Hinrichs, J. Holder, Z. Hughes, T. B. Humensky, W. Jin, M. N. Johnson, M. Kertzman, M. Kherlakian, D. …

Measurement of the photosphere oblateness of $γ$ Cassiopeiae via Stellar Intensity Interferometry with the VERITAS Observatory
We use the stellar intensity interferometry system implemented with the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) at Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO) as a light collector to obtain measurements of the rapid rotator star $γ$ Cassiopeiae, at a wavelength of 416 nm. Using data from baselines sampling different position angles, we extract the size, oblateness, and projected orientation of the photosphere. Fitting the data with a uniform ellipse model yields a minor-…

After moving my homelab cluster from microk8s to Talos, I've written a new blog post outlining the cluster build:
Setting up a Talos kubernetes cluster with talhelper
https://www.beyondwatts.com/posts/setting-up-a-talos-kubernetes…

Några tänkvärda poänger av Guillou, särskilt det där med ammunitionen. https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/kolumnister/a/EyrW8G/polisen-i-orebro-ville-ha-ett-opolitiskt-massmord

Polisen i Örebro ville ha ett opolitiskt massmord
Utredningen av Rickard Anderssons, 35, massmord på Campus Risbergska i Örebro är klar. Den kan därmed läggas till handlingarna och glömskan med polisens diffusa

Holy shit. Incredible story, obviously still developing.
Russian Strategic Bombers Destroyed In Unprecedented Wide-Scale Drone Attack (Updated) https://www.twz.com/news-features/russian-strategic-bombers-destroyed-in-u…

Russian Strategic Bombers Destroyed In Unprecedented Wide-Scale Drone Attack
The attacks that went after the heart of Russia's strategic aviation capabilities and one arm of its nuclear deterrent should serve as a global wake-up call.

COSMOS-Web: Estimating Physical Parameters of Galaxies Using Self-Organizing Maps
Fatemeh Abedini, Ghassem Gozaliasl, Akram Hasani Zonoozi, Atousa Kalantari, Maarit Korpi-Lagg, Olivier Ilbert, Hollis B. Akins, Natalie Allen, Rafael C. Arango-Toro, Caitlin M. Casey, Nicole E. Drakos, Andreas L. Faisst, Carter Flayhart, Maximilien Franco, Santosh Harish, Hossein Hatamnia, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Ali Ahmad Khostovan, Anton M. Koekemoer, Vasily Kokorev, Rebecca L. Larson, Gavin Leroy, Daizho…

COSMOS-Web: Estimating Physical Parameters of Galaxies Using Self-Organizing Maps
The COSMOS-Web survey, with its unparalleled combination of multiband data -- particularly near-infrared imaging from JWST's NIRCam (F115W, F150W, F277W, and F444W), provides a transformative dataset reaching down to approximately 28th magnitude (F444W) for studying galaxy evolution. In this work, we employ Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs), an unsupervised machine learning method, to estimate key physical parameters of galaxies, redshift, stellar mass, star formation rate (SFR), specific SFR (sSFR),…