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The role of physical models in the validation and calibration of numerical models -- The example of the Lilleb{\ae}lt Bridge

Paula Apollonia Wunderlich, Gledson Rodrigo Tondo, Guido Morgenthal · 2026

With the rapid advancement of computer technologies enabling fast calculations of complex structures, numerical methods have become a central tool in engineering sciences, while physical models have i…

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TopoCut: Learning Multi-Step Cutting with Spectral Rewards and Discrete Diffusion Policies

Liquan Wang, Jiangjie Bian, Eric Heiden, Animesh Garg · 2025

Robotic manipulation tasks involving cutting deformable objects remain challenging due to complex topological behaviors, difficulties in perceiving dense object states, and the lack of efficient evalu…

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Data-driven Smile Design: Personalized Dental Aesthetics Outcomes Using Deep Learning

Marcus Lin, Jennifer Lai · 2025

A healthy smile plays a significant role in functional as well as esthetic considerations, improving confidence. It is difficult for dental professionals to strike a balance between esthetic requireme…

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Besondere Anforderungen des automatisierten Fahrens an den Entwurf

Robert Graubohm, Markus Maurer · 2025

The development of automated vehicles and automated driving functions is an exceptionally complex task that requires the integration of numerous, sometimes conflicting interests and various constraint…

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The Search for Squawk: Agile Modeling in Bioacoustics

Vincent Dumoulin, Otilia Stretcu, Jenny Hamer, Lauren Harrell, Rob Laber, Hugo Larochelle, Bart van Merrienboer, Amanda Navine, Patrick Hart, Ben Williams, Timothy A.C. Lamont, Tries B. Razak, Mars Coral Restoration Team, Sheryn Brodie, Brendan Doohan, Phil Eichinski, Paul Roe, Lin Schwarzkopf, Tom Denton · 2025

Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) has shown great promise in helping ecologists understand the health of animal populations and ecosystems. However, extracting insights from millions of hours of audio…

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Finding Conditions for Target Controllability under Christmas Trees

Marco Peruzzo, Giacomo Baggio, Francesco Ticozzi · 2025

This paper presents new graph-theoretic conditions for structural target controllability of directed networks. After reviewing existing conditions and highlighting some gaps in the literature, we intr…

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Nutzung von Massespeichern zur Flexibilisierung des Energieverbrauchs: Kosteneffizienter Anlagenbetrieb durch Anpassung an Marktpreise

Lukas Peter Wagner, Lasse Matthias Reinpold, Maximilian Kilthau, Felix Gehlhoff, Christian Derksen, Nils Loose, Julian Jepsen, Alexander Fay · 2024

The increasing share of renewable energy sources and necessitate new concepts for energy flexible operation of industrial production resources. In this paper, we demonstrate the potential of mass stor…

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End-to-End Speech Recognition with Pre-trained Masked Language Model

Yosuke Higuchi, Tetsuji Ogawa, Tetsunori Kobayashi, Shinji Watanabe · 2024

We present a novel approach to end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) that utilizes pre-trained masked language models (LMs) to facilitate the extraction of linguistic information. The proposed…

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Measure Preserving Flows for Ergodic Search in Convoluted Environments

Albert Xu, Bhaskar Vundurthy, Geordan Gutow, Ian Abraham, Jeff Schneider, Howie Choset · 2024

Autonomous robotic search has important applications in robotics, such as the search for signs of life after a disaster. When \emph{a priori} information is available, for example in the form of a dis…

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Physics-Guided Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning for Swimming in Turbulence

Christopher Koh, Laurent Pagnier, Michael Chertkov · 2024

Turbulent diffusion causes particles placed in proximity to separate. We investigate the required swimming efforts to maintain an active particle close to its passively advected counterpart. We explor…

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Identifikation ausl\"osender Umst\"ande von SOTIF-Gef\"ahrdungen durch systemtheoretische Prozessanalyse

Robert Graubohm, Marvin Loba, Marcus Nolte, Markus Maurer · 2024

Developers have to obtain a sound understanding of existing risk potentials already in the concept phase of driverless vehicles. Deductive as well as inductive SOTIF analyses of potential triggering c…

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Examination Minutes Measurement of Single-Antenna-Element Beamforming

Nils L. Johannsen, Lukas Grundmann · 2024

This document shall provide all knowledge gained in conjunction and preparation with the conducted measurements in the antenna measurement chamber of the Institute of Microwave and Wireless Systems (I…

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Enhancing 3T Retinotopic Maps Using Diffeomorphic Registration

Negar Jalili-Mallak, Yanshuai Tu, Zhong-Lin Lu, Yalin Wang · 2024

Retinotopic mapping aims to uncover the relationship between visual stimuli on the retina and neural responses on the visual cortical surface. This study advances retinotopic mapping by applying diffe…

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Leveraging cough sounds to optimize chest x-ray usage in low-resource settings

Alexander Philip, Sanya Chawla, Lola Jover, George P. Kafentzis, Joe Brew, Vishakh Saraf, Shibu Vijayan, Peter Small, Carlos Chaccour · 2024

Chest X-ray is a commonly used tool during triage, diagnosis and management of respiratory diseases. In resource-constricted settings, optimizing this resource can lead to valuable cost savings for th…

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Personalized Dynamic Pricing Policy for Electric Vehicles: Reinforcement learning approach

Sangjun Bae, Balazs Kulcsar, Sebastien Gros · 2024

With the increasing number of fast-electric vehicle charging stations (fast-EVCSs) and the popularization of information technology, electricity price competition between fast-EVCSs is highly expected…

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Nash equilibria of the pay-as-bid auction with K-Lipschitz supply functions

Martina Vanelli, Giacomo Como, Fabio Fagnani · 2023

We model a system of n asymmetric firms selling a homogeneous good in a common market through a pay-as-bid auction. Every producer chooses as its strategy a supply function returning the quantity S(p)…

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Convolutional Filtering on Sampled Manifolds

Zhiyang Wang, Luana Ruiz, Alejandro Ribeiro · 2022

The increasing availability of geometric data has motivated the need for information processing over non-Euclidean domains modeled as manifolds. The building block for information processing architect…

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BECTRA: Transducer-based End-to-End ASR with BERT-Enhanced Encoder

Yosuke Higuchi, Tetsuji Ogawa, Tetsunori Kobayashi, Shinji Watanabe · 2022

We present BERT-CTC-Transducer (BECTRA), a novel end-to-end automatic speech recognition (E2E-ASR) model formulated by the transducer with a BERT-enhanced encoder. Integrating a large-scale pre-traine…

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Ein Beitrag zur durchg\"angigen, formalen Verhaltensspezifikation automatisierter Stra{\ss}enfahrzeuge

Nayel Fabian Salem, Veronica Haber, Matthias Rauschenbach, Marcus Nolte, Jan Reich, Torben Stolte, Robert Graubohm, Markus Maurer · 2022

Assuring safety of automated vehicles (SAE Level 3+) requires specifying and validating the behavior of such a vehicle in its operational environment. In order to argue and support assumptions that ar…

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Geometry-aware Bayesian Optimization in Robotics using Riemannian Mat\'ern Kernels

Noemie Jaquier, Viacheslav Borovitskiy, Andrei Smolensky, Alexander Terenin, Tamim Asfour, Leonel Rozo · 2021

Bayesian optimization is a data-efficient technique which can be used for control parameter tuning, parametric policy adaptation, and structure design in robotics. Many of these problems require optim…

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