University research papers on autonomous parking system and fractional calculus released

Brunel University in the United Kingdom has published a paper describing "U-Parking," a distributed Ultra‑Wideband‑assisted autonomous parking system that combines large‑language‑model planning with robust localization and trajectory tracking. The system was demonstrated in indoor environments and the source code has been made publicly available.

The University of Aveiro in Portugal released a study presenting fractional Euler–Lagrange equations for variational problems with periodic and antiperiodic boundary conditions, extending the theory to Caputo‑type derivatives and offering new transversality conditions.

Both papers were issued in 2026 and contribute to their respective fields of autonomous vehicle technology and fractional calculus.