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RAFL: Generalizable Sim-to-Real of Soft Robots with Residual Acceleration Field Learning

Dong Heon Cho, Boyuan Chen · 2026

Differentiable simulators enable gradient-based optimization of soft robots over material parameters, control, and morphology, but accurately modeling real systems remains challenging due to the sim-t…

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Vibration Damping in Underactuated Cable-suspended Artwork -- Flying Belt Motion Control

Martin Goubej, Lauria Clarke, Martin Hrabacka, David Tolar · 2025

This paper presents a comprehensive refurbishment of the interactive robotic art installation Standards and Double Standards by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. The installation features an array of belts suspen…

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COVID-19 Detection Based on Blood Test Parameters using Various Artificial Intelligence Methods

Kavian Khanjani, Seyed Rasoul Hosseini, Hamid Taheri, Shahrzad Shashaani, Mohammad Teshnehlab · 2024

In 2019, the world faced a new challenge: a COVID-19 disease caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. The virus rapidly spread across the globe, leading to a high rate of mortality, which prompted…

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Continuous Jumping of a Parallel Wire-Driven Monopedal Robot RAMIEL Using Reinforcement Learning

Kento Kawaharazuka, Temma Suzuki, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba · 2024

We have developed a parallel wire-driven monopedal robot, RAMIEL, which has both speed and power due to the parallel wire mechanism and a long acceleration distance. RAMIEL is capable of jumping high …

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C3: High-performance and low-complexity neural compression from a single image or video

Hyunjik Kim, Matthias Bauer, Lucas Theis, Jonathan Richard Schwarz, Emilien Dupont · 2023

Most neural compression models are trained on large datasets of images or videos in order to generalize to unseen data. Such generalization typically requires large and expressive architectures with a…

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RAMIEL: A Parallel-Wire Driven Monopedal Robot for High and Continuous Jumping

Temma Suzuki, Yasunori Toshimitsu, Yuya Nagamatsu, Kento Kawaharazuka, Akihiro Miki, Yoshimoto Ribayashi, Masahiro Bando, Kunio Kojima, Yohei Kakiuchi, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba · 2023

Legged robots with high locomotive performance have been extensively studied, and various leg structures have been proposed. Especially, a leg structure that can achieve both continuous and high jumps…

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Heuristic Search for Path Finding with Refuelling

Shizhe Zhao, Anushtup Nandy, Howie Choset, Sivakumar Rathinam, Zhongqiang Ren · 2023

This paper considers a generalization of the Path Finding (PF) problem with refuelling constraints referred to as the Gas Station Problem (GSP). Similar to PF, given a graph where vertices are gas sta…

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Predicting Tuberculosis from Real-World Cough Audio Recordings and Metadata

George P. Kafentzis, Stephane Tetsing, Joe Brew, Lola Jover, Mindaugas Galvosas, Carlos Chaccour, Peter M. Small · 2023

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis and primarily affects the lungs, as well as other body parts. TB is spread through the air when an infecte…

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A parameter refinement method for Ptychography based on Deep Learning concepts

Francesco Guzzi, George Kourousias, Fulvio Bille, Roberto Pugliese, Alessandra Gianoncelli, Sergio Carrato · 2021

X-ray Ptychography is an advanced computational microscopy technique which is delivering exceptionally detailed quantitative imaging of biological and nanotechnology specimens. However coarse parametr…

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Simultaneous Detection of Multiple Appliances from Smart-meter Measurements via Multi-Label Consistent Deep Dictionary Learning and Deep Transform Learning

Vanika Singhal, Jyoti Maggu, Angshul Majumdar · 2019

Currently there are several well-known approaches to non-intrusive appliance load monitoring rule based, stochastic finite state machines, neural networks and sparse coding. Recently several studies h…

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Appointment scheduling model in healthcare using clustering algorithms

Niloofar Yousefi, Farhad Hasankhani, Mahsa Kiani, Nooshin Yousefi · 2019

In this study, we provided a scheduling procedure which is a combination of machine learning and mathematical programming that minimizes the waiting time of higher priority outpatients. Outpatients wh…

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An Exact Algorithm for a Fuel-Constrained Autonomous Vehicle Path Planning Problem

Kaarthik Sundar, Saravanan Venkatachalam, Sivakumar Rathinam · 2016

This paper addresses a fuel-constrained, autonomous vehicle path planning problem in the presence of multiple refueling stations. We are given a set of targets, a set of refueling stations, and a depo…

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Stochastic Collection and Replenishment (SCAR) Optimisation for Persistent Autonomy

Andrew W. Palmer, Andrew J. Hill, Steven J. Scheding · 2016

Robots have a finite supply of resources such as fuel, battery charge, and storage space. The aim of the Stochastic Collection and Replenishment (SCAR) scenario is to use dedicated agents to refuel, r…

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