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For autonomous quadruped robot navigation in various complex environments, a typical SOTA system is composed of four main modules -- mapper, global planner, local planner, and command-tracking controller -- in a hierarchical manner. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Yunho Kim , Chanyoung Kim , Jemin Hwangbo

Non-smooth and non-convex global optimization poses significant challenges across various applications, where standard gradient-based methods often struggle. We propose the Ball-Proximal Point Method, Broximal Point Method, or Ball Point…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Kaja Gruntkowska , Hanmin Li , Aadi Rane , Peter Richtárik

With the path integral approach, the thermal average in a multi-electronic-state quantum systems can be approximated by the ring polymer representation on an extended configuration space, where the additional degrees of freedom are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Xiaoyu Lei , Zhennan Zhou

We construct a pathwise integration theory, associated with a change of variable formula, for smooth functionals of continuous paths with arbitrary regularity defined in terms of the notion of $p$-th variation along a sequence of time…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-07 Rama Cont , Nicolas Perkowski

An effective method for optimizing path planning for a specific model of a 6-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) robot manipulator is presented as part of the motion planning of the manipulator using computer algebra. We assume that we are given a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Takumu Okazaki , Akira Terui , Masahiko Mikawa

Methods to extract information from the tracking of mobile objects/particles have broad interest in biological and physical sciences. Techniques based on simple criteria of proximity in time-consecutive snapshots are useful to identify the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-03-13 M. Chertkov , L. Kroc , F. Krzakala , M. Vergassola , L. Zdeborová

The core of this thesis is the path-integral formulation of quantum field theory and its ability to describe strongly-coupled quantum many-body systems of finite size. Collective behaviors can be efficiently described in such systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-17 Kilian Fraboulet

Active collision avoidance system plays a crucial role in ensuring the lateral safety of autonomous vehicles, and it is primarily related to path planning and tracking control algorithms. In particular, the direct yaw-moment control (DYC)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Sungjin Lim , Bilal Sadiq , Yongsik Jin , Sangho Lee , Gyeungho Choi , Kanghyun Nam , Yongseob Lim

Recently, data-driven trajectory prediction methods have achieved remarkable results, significantly advancing the development of autonomous driving. However, the instability of single-vehicle perception introduces certain limitations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Kangyu Wu , Jiaqi Qiao , Ya Zhang

In this paper we introduce a new procedure on precise analysis of various physical manifestations in superconducting Qubits using the concept of Feynman path integral in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. Three specific problem are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-27 Ali Izadi Rad , Hesam Zandi , Mehdi Fardmanesh

We investigate the analytic continuation of wave equations into the complex position plane. For the particular case of electromagnetic waves we provide a physical meaning for such an analytic continuation in terms of a family of closely…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 S. A. R. Horsley , C. G. King , T. G. Philbin

The semiclassical approximation of coherent state path integrals is employed to study the dynamics of the Jaynes-Cummings model. Decomposing the Hilbert space into subspaces of given excitation quanta above the ground state, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Adrian Alscher , Hermann Grabert

Sampling-based approaches are widely used in systems without analytic models to estimate risk or find optimal control. However, gathering sufficient data in such scenarios can be prohibitively costly. On the other hand, in many situations,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Zhuoyuan Wang , Takashi Tanaka , Yongxin Chen , Yorie Nakahira

Path integrals represent a powerful route to quantization: they calculate probabilities by summing over classical configurations of variables such as fields, assigning each configuration a phase equal to the action of that configuration.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-13 Seth Lloyd , Olaf Dreyer

We find that real and complex Bohmian quantum trajectories resulting from well-localized Klauder coherent states in the quasi-Poissonian regime possess qualitatively the same type of trajectories as those obtained from a purely classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-28 Sanjib Dey , Andreas Fring

We briefly review a hamiltonian path integral formalism developed earlier by one of us. An important feature of this formalism is that the path integral quantization in arbitrary co-ordinates is set up making use of only classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 A. K. Kapoor , Pankaj Sharan

The diffusion approximation (DA) is widely used in the analysis of stochastic population dynamics, from population genetics to ecology and evolution. DA is an uncontrolled approximation that assumes the smoothness of the calculated quantity…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-04 Jayant Pande , Nadav M. Shnerb

Periodic classical trajectories are of fundamental importance both in classical and quantum physics. Here we develop path integral techniques to investigate such trajectories in an arbitrary, not necessarily energy conserving hamiltonian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Antti J. Niemi

Stochastic trajectory optimization methods like STOMP enable planning with non-differentiable costs, offering substantial flexibility over gradient-based approaches. We show that STOMP implicitly minimizes the KL divergence from a Boltzmann…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Hongzhe Yu , Zinuo Chang , Yongxin Chen

Accurate prediction of cancer progression remains a challenge due to the high heterogeneity of molecular omics data across patients. While biologically informed models have improved the interpretability of these predictions, a persistent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Koushik Howlader , Md Tauhidul Islam , Wei Le