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Synaptic, dendritic and single-cell kinetics generate significant time delays that shape the dynamics of large networks of spiking neurons. Previous work has shown that such effective delays can be taken into account with a rate model…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-01-31 Alex Roxin , Ernest Montbrio

As autonomous vehicles have benefited the society, understanding the dynamic change of humans' trust during human-autonomous vehicle interaction can help to improve the safety and performance of autonomous driving. We designed and conducted…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Shili Sheng , Erfan Pakdamanian , Kyungtae Han , BaekGyu Kim , Prashant Tiwari , Inki Kim , Lu Feng

This paper identifies a property of delay-robustness in distributed supervisory control of discrete-event systems (DES) with communication delays. In previous work a distributed supervisory control problem has been investigated on the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Renyuan Zhang , Kai Cai , Yongmei Gan , W. M. Wonham

Our goal is to enable robots to \emph{time} their motion in a way that is purposefully expressive of their internal states, making them more transparent to people. We start by investigating what types of states motion timing is capable of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Allan Zhou , Dylan Hadfield-Menell , Anusha Nagabandi , Anca D. Dragan

Natural and artificial self-propelled systems must manage environmental interactions during movement. Such interactions, which we refer to as active collisions, are fundamentally different from momentum-conserving interactions studied in…

Use-dependent bias is a phenomenon in human sensorimotor behavior whereby movements become biased towards previously repeated actions. Despite being well-documented, the reason why this phenomenon occurs is not yet clearly understood. Here,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-19 Hokin Deng , Adrian Haith

This study investigated how wait time influences trust in and reliance on a robot. Experiment 1 was conducted as an online experiment manipulating the wait time for the task partner's action from 1 to 20 seconds and the anthropomorphism of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Akihiro Maehigashi , Seiji Yamada

We study the effects of noise on the dynamics of a system of coupled self-propelling particles in the case where the coupling is time-delayed, and the delays are discrete and randomly generated. Previous work has demonstrated that the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-10-08 Brandon Lindley , Luis Mier-y-Teran-Romero , Ira B. Schwartz

The exploration of high-speed movement by robots or road traffic agents is crucial for autonomous driving and navigation. Trajectory prediction at high speeds requires considering historical features and interactions with surrounding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yao Liu , Ruoyu Wang , Yuanjiang Cao , Quan Z. Sheng , Lina Yao

A group of cooperative aerial robots can be deployed to efficiently patrol a terrain, in which each robot flies around an assigned area and shares information with the neighbors periodically in order to protect or supervise it. To ensure…

In the future, service robots are expected to be able to operate autonomously for long periods of time without human intervention. Many work striving for this goal have been emerging with the development of robotics, both hardware and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Zhi Yan , Li Sun , Tomas Krajnik , Tom Duckett , Nicola Bellotto

We investigate the autonomous navigation of a mobile robot in the presence of other moving vehicles under time-varying uncertain environmental disturbances. We first predict the future state distributions of other vehicles to account for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Junhong Xu , Kai Yin , Lantao Liu

Feedback control plays a central role in active matter, yet it is inevitably accompanied by noise and finite perception--action delays. This Perspective reviews recent advances on active systems with delayed interactions, showing how time…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-19 Viktor Holubec , Frank Cichos

Time--delayed feedback is exploited for controlling noise--induced motion in coherence resonance oscillators. Namely, under the proper choice of time delay, one can either increase or decrease the regularity of motion. It is shown that in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. B. Janson , A. G. Balanov , E. Schoell

Social virtual reality is an emerging medium of communication. In this medium, a user's avatar (virtual representation) is controlled by the tracked motion of the user's headset and hand controllers. This tracked motion is a rich data…

Time delays due to signal latency, computational complexity, and sensor-denied environments, pose a critical challenge in both engineered and biological control systems. In this work, we investigate biologically inspired strategies to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 Thomas L. Mohren , Thomas L. Daniel , Steven L. Brunton

We investigate the effects of delayed interactions on the stationary distribution of the noisy voter model. We assume that the delayed interactions occur through the periodic polling mechanism and replace the original instantaneous…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-30 Aleksejus Kononovicius , Rokas Astrauskas , Marijus Radavičius , Feliksas Ivanauskas

This paper presents a guided tour of some specific problems encountered in the stability analysis of linear dynamical systems including delays in their systems' representation. More precisely, we will address the characterization of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Silviu-Iulian Niculescu , Islam Boussaada , Xu-Guang Li , Guilherme Mazanti , César-Fernando Méndez-Barrios

Self-stabilization is a versatile technique to withstand any transient fault in a distributed system. Mobile robots (or agents) are one of the emerging trends in distributed computing as they mimic autonomous biologic entities. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Lélia Blin , Maria Gradinariu Potop-Butucaru , Sébastien Tixeuil

Consensus control of multiagent systems arises in various robotic applications such as rendezvous and formation control. For example, to compute the control inputs of individual agents, the difference in the positions in aligned coordinate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Zhonggang Li , Changheng Li , Raj Thilak Rajan