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Stein Variational Ergodic Search

Darrick Lee, Cameron Lerch, Fabio Ramos, Ian Abraham · 2024

Exploration requires that robots reason about numerous ways to cover a space in response to dynamically changing conditions. However, in continuous domains there are potentially infinitely many option…

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L-SFAN: Lightweight Spatially-focused Attention Network for Pain Behavior Detection

Jorge Ortigoso-Narro, Fernando Diaz-de-Maria, Mohammad Mahdi Dehshibi, Ana Tajadura-Jimenez · 2024

Chronic Low Back Pain (CLBP) afflicts millions globally, significantly impacting individuals' well-being and imposing economic burdens on healthcare systems. While artificial intelligence (AI) and dee…

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Intelligent energy management of steam generators

Ahmed S. Hussein, Noha H. El-Amary, Loai Saad El-din Nasrat, Ali Selim · 2024

This paper introduces a smart model for intelligent energy management of steam generators which are utilized for steam generator and controlling the air to fuel ratio for steam generator all over the …

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MegaParticles: Range-based 6-DoF Monte Carlo Localization with GPU-Accelerated Stein Particle Filter

Kenji Koide, Shuji Oishi, Masashi Yokozuka, Atsuhiko Banno · 2024

This paper presents a 6-DoF range-based Monte Carlo localization method with a GPU-accelerated Stein particle filter. To update a massive amount of particles, we propose a Gauss-Newton-based Stein var…

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Spline-Interpolated Model Predictive Path Integral Control with Stein Variational Inference for Reactive Navigation

Takato Miura, Naoki Akai, Kohei Honda, Susumu Hara · 2024

This paper presents a reactive navigation method that leverages a Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) control enhanced with spline interpolation for the control input sequence and Stein Variational …

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Collision Avoidance Safety Filter for an Autonomous E-Scooter using Ultrasonic Sensors

Robin Strasser, Marc Seidel, Felix Brandle, David Meister, Raffaele Soloperto, David Hambach Ferrer, Frank Allgower · 2024

In this paper, we propose a collision avoidance safety filter for autonomous electric scooters to enable safe operation of such vehicles in pedestrian areas. In particular, we employ multiple low-cost…

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Google Scholar is manipulatable

Hazem Ibrahim, Fengyuan Liu, Yasir Zaki, Talal Rahwan · 2024

Citations are widely considered in scientists' evaluation. As such, scientists may be incentivized to inflate their citation counts. While previous literature has examined self-citations and citation …

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Simulation Framework for Vehicle and Electric Scooter Interaction

Zhitong He, Lingxi Li · 2024

The number of shared micro-mobility services such as electric scooters (e-scooters) has an increasing trend due to the advantages of high efficiency and low cost in short-range travel in urban areas. …

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Cantera-Based Python Computer Program for Solving Steam Power Cycles with Superheating

Osama A. Marzouk · 2024

One of the main sources of electricity generation is power plants that use water (steam) to rotate turbines, which drive large electric generators. The steam can be generated from renewable or non-ren…

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Cool-Chic: Perceptually Tuned Low Complexity Overfitted Image Coder

Theo Ladune, Pierrick Philippe, Gordon Clare, Felix Henry, Thomas Leguay · 2024

This paper summarises the design of the Cool-Chic candidate for the Challenge on Learned Image Compression. This candidate attempts to demonstrate that neural coding methods can lead to low complexity…

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A Computationally Efficient Maximum A Posteriori Sequence Estimation via Stein Variational Inference

Min-Won Seo, Solmaz S. Kia · 2023

State estimation in robotic systems presents significant challenges, particularly due to the prevalence of multimodal posterior distributions in real-world scenarios. One effective strategy for handli…

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SEFGAN: Harvesting the Power of Normalizing Flows and GANs for Efficient High-Quality Speech Enhancement

Martin Strauss, Nicola Pia, Nagashree K. S. Rao, Bernd Edler · 2023

This paper proposes SEFGAN, a Deep Neural Network (DNN) combining maximum likelihood training and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for efficient speech enhancement (SE). For this, a DNN is train…

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Stein Variational Belief Propagation for Multi-Robot Coordination

Jana Pavlasek, Joshua Jing Zhi Mah, Ruihan Xu, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Fabio Ramos · 2023

Decentralized coordination for multi-robot systems involves planning in challenging, high-dimensional spaces. The planning problem is particularly challenging in the presence of obstacles and differen…

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STAMP: Differentiable Task and Motion Planning via Stein Variational Gradient Descent

Yewon Lee, Andrew Z. Li, Philip Huang, Eric Heiden, Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula, Fabian Damken, Kevin Smith, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Fabio Ramos, Florian Shkurti · 2023

Planning for sequential robotics tasks often requires integrated symbolic and geometric reasoning. TAMP algorithms typically solve these problems by performing a tree search over high-level task seque…

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Stein Variational Guided Model Predictive Path Integral Control: Proposal and Experiments with Fast Maneuvering Vehicles

Kohei Honda, Naoki Akai, Kosuke Suzuki, Mizuho Aoki, Hirotaka Hosogaya, Hiroyuki Okuda, Tatsuya Suzuki · 2023

This paper presents a novel Stochastic Optimal Control (SOC) method based on Model Predictive Path Integral control (MPPI), named Stein Variational Guided MPPI (SVG-MPPI), designed to handle rapidly s…

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Stein Variational Gradient Descent-based Detection For Random Access With Preambles In MTC

Xin Zhu, Hongyi Pan, Salih Atici, Ahmet Enis Cetin · 2023

Traditional preamble detection algorithms have low accuracy in the grant-based random access scheme in massive machine-type communication (mMTC). We present a novel preamble detection algorithm based …

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STERN: Simultaneous Trajectory Estimation and Relative Navigation for Autonomous Underwater Proximity Operations

Aldo Teran Espinoza, Antonio Teran Espinoza, John Folkesson, Clemens Deutsch, Niklas Rolleberg, Peter Sigray, Jakob Kuttenkeuler · 2023

Due to the challenges regarding the limits of their endurance and autonomous capabilities, underwater docking for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) has become a topic of interest for many academic…

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Constrained Stein Variational Trajectory Optimization

Thomas Power, Dmitry Berenson · 2023

We present Constrained Stein Variational Trajectory Optimization (CSVTO), an algorithm for performing trajectory optimization with constraints on a set of trajectories in parallel. We frame constraine…

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Alzheimer's Disease Detection from Spontaneous Speech and Text: A review

Vrindha M. K., Geethu V., Anurenjan P. R., Deepak S., Sreeni K. G. · 2023

In the past decade, there has been a surge in research examining the use of voice and speech analysis as a means of detecting neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. Many studies have shown th…

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A Hierarchical Architecture for Optimal Unit Commitment and Control of an Ensemble of Steam Generators

Stefano Spinelli, Marcello Farina, Andrea Ballarino · 2023

A hierarchical architecture for the optimal management of an ensemble of steam generators is presented. The subsystems are coordinated by a multilayer scheme for jointly sustaining a common load. The …

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