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In this paper we test the performance of explicit simulations of groups of galaxies, (i.e. simulations in which each galaxy is treated as a mass point and the physics of the interactions is modelled by specific analand the physics of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Garcia-Gomez , E. Athanassoula , A. Garijo

Mergers of galaxies are extremely violent events shaping their evolution. Such events are thought to trigger starbursts and, possibly, black hole accretion. Nonetheless, it is still not clear how to know the fate of a galaxy pair from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-05 Hugo Pfister , Massimo Dotti , Clothilde Laigle , Yohan Dubois , Marta Volonteri

In this article, we propose a backpropagation-free approach to robotic control through the neuro-cognitive computational framework of neural generative coding (NGC), designing an agent built completely from powerful predictive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Alexander Ororbia , Ankur Mali

For problems in astrophysics, planetary science and beyond, numerical simulations are often limited to simulating fewer particles than in the real system. To model collisions, the simulated particles (aka superparticles) need to be inflated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 David Nesvorny , Andrew N. Youdin , Raphael Marschall , Derek C. Richardson

We use machine learning techniques to classify galaxy merger stages, which can unveil physical processes that drive the star formation and active galactic nucleus (AGN) activities during galaxy interaction. The sample contains 4,690…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-12 Yu-Yen Chang , Lihwai Lin , Hsi-An Pan , Chieh-An Lin , Bau-Ching Hsieh , Connor Bottrell , Pin-Wei Wang

Cooperative driving relies on communication among vehicles to create situational awareness. One application of cooperative driving is Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) that aims at enhancing highway transportation safety and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Sahand Mosharafian , Mahdi Razzaghpour , Yaser P. Fallah , Javad Mohammadpour Velni

It is estimated that 90% of crashes occur due to human error, mainly induced by poor judgement, distraction or lack of situation awareness. The development of systems that aim to increase road safety and to improve driving comfort is the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-12 Andrea Leo , Giacomo Reatti , Stefano Arrigoni , Michael Khayyat , Federico Cheli

With advances in scientific computing and mathematical modeling, complex scientific phenomena such as galaxy formations and rocket propulsion can now be reliably simulated. Such simulations can however be very time-intensive, requiring…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-29 Yi Ji , Simon Mak , Derek Soeder , J-F Paquet , Steffen A. Bass

In dynamic autonomous driving environment, Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC) technology can supplement vehicle perception and decision making by leveraging models' generative and predictive capabilities, and has the potential…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Jianan Zhang , Zhiwei Wei , Boxun Liu , Xiayi Wang , Yong Yu , Rongqing Zhang

We present a novel model to simulate real social networks of complex interactions, based in a granular system of colliding particles (agents). The network is build by keeping track of the collisions and evolves in time with correlations…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 M. C. Gonzalez , P. G. Lind , H. J. Herrmann

We present a new C++ code for collisional N-body simulations of star clusters. The code uses the Hermite fourth-order scheme with block time steps, for advancing the particles in time, while the forces and neighboring particles are computed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-08 Simos Konstantinidis , Kostas D. Kokkotas

Agama is a publicly available software library for a broad range of applications in the field of stellar dynamics. It provides methods for computing the gravitational potential of arbitrary analytic density profiles or N-body models; orbit…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-14 Eugene Vasiliev

Merging galaxy clusters may provide a unique window into the behavior of dark matter and the evolution of member galaxies. To interpret these natural collider experiments we must account for how much time has passed since pericenter passage…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 David Wittman

A method for determining the orbital parameters of interacting pairs of galaxies is presented and evaluated using artificial data. The method consists of a genetic algorithm which can search efficiently through the very large space of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Wahde

We present Jade, a differentiable physics engine for articulated rigid bodies. Jade models contacts as the Linear Complementarity Problem (LCP). Compared to existing differentiable simulations, Jade offers features including…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Gang Yang , Siyuan Luo , Lin Shao

Galaxy spectra are a rich source of kinematical information since the shapes of the absorption lines reflect the movement of stars along the line-of-sight. We present a technique to directly build a dynamical model for a galaxy by fitting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. De Rijcke , H. Dejonghe

Cooperative multi-agent systems require robust mechanisms for credit assignment under uncertainty. Here we introduce a variational framework, termed the Game-Theoretic Free Energy Principle (GT-FEP), that models coalition formation through…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Djamel Bouchaffra , Faycal Ykhlef , Mustapha Lebbah , Hanane Azzag

We have undertaken numerical simulations of galaxy interactions and mergers, coupling the dynamics with the star formation history and the chemical evolution. The self-gravity of stars and gas is taken into account through a tree-code…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Combes , A. L. Melchior

By sharing information across multiple agents, collaborative perception helps autonomous vehicles mitigate occlusions and improve overall perception accuracy. While most previous work focus on vehicle-to-vehicle and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yunhao Hou , Bochao Zou , Min Zhang , Ran Chen , Shangdong Yang , Yanmei Zhang , Junbao Zhuo , Siheng Chen , Jiansheng Chen , Huimin Ma

In this paper a new scalable hydrodynamic code GPUPEGAS (GPU-accelerated PErformance Gas Astrophysic Simulation) for simulation of interacting galaxies is proposed. The code is based on combination of Godunov method as well as on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-06 Kulikov Igor