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Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) is a critical tool for imaging the properties of materials and biological specimens at atomic scale, yet our understanding of relevant electron beam damage mechanisms is incomplete. Recent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Amir Javadi Rad , Amirafshar Moshtaghpour , Dongdong Chen , Angus I. Kirkland

Tactile sensing is critical for robotic grasping and manipulation of objects under visual occlusion. However, in contrast to simulations of robot arms and cameras, current simulations of tactile sensors have limited accuracy, speed, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Yashraj Narang , Balakumar Sundaralingam , Miles Macklin , Arsalan Mousavian , Dieter Fox

Contact forces introduce discontinuities into robot dynamics that severely limit the use of simulators for gradient-based optimization. Penalty-based simulators such as MuJoCo, soften contact resolution to enable gradient computation.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Anselm Paulus , A. René Geist , Pierre Schumacher , Vít Musil , Simon Rappenecker , Georg Martius

Realistic and interactive scene simulation is a key prerequisite for autonomous vehicle (AV) development. In this work, we present SceneDiffuser, a scene-level diffusion prior designed for traffic simulation. It offers a unified framework…

The industrial insertion of flexible flat cables (FFCs) into receptacles presents a significant challenge owing to the need for submillimeter precision when handling the deformable cables. In manufacturing processes, FFC insertion with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Jeongwoo Park , Seabin Lee , Changmin Park , Wonjong Lee , Changjoo Nam

Continuum robots offer high flexibility and multiple degrees of freedom, making them ideal for navigating narrow lumens. However, accurately modeling their behavior under large deformations and frequent environmental contacts remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hao Chen , Jian Chen , Xinran Liu , Zihui Zhang , Yuanrui Huang , Zhongkai Zhang , Hongbin Liu

This work presents a deep learning surrogate model for the fast simulation of high-dimensional frequency selective surfaces. We consider unit-cells which are built as multiple concatenated stacks of screens and their design requires the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Lucas Polo-López , Luc Le Magoarou , Romain Contreres , María García-Vigueras

One of the major issues in the computational mechanics is to take into account the geometrical complexity. To overcome this difficulty and to avoid the expensive mesh generation, geometrically unfitted methods, i.e. the numerical methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Stephane Cotin , Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Alexei Lozinski , Killian Vuillemot

Generating physically plausible human motion is crucial for applications such as character animation and virtual reality. Existing approaches often incorporate a simulator-based motion projection layer to the diffusion process to enforce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Akihisa Watanabe , Jiawei Ren , Li Siyao , Yichen Peng , Erwin Wu , Edgar Simo-Serra

We propose a new microscopy simulation system that can depict atomistic models in a micrograph visual style, similar to results of physical electron microscopy imaging. This system is scalable, able to represent simulation of electron…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-27 Ngan Nguyen , Feng Liang , Dominik Engel , Ciril Bohak , Peter Wonka , Timo Ropinski , Ivan Viola

Design of robots at the small scale is a trial-and-error based process, which is costly and time-consuming. There are few dynamic simulation tools available to accurately predict the motion or performance of untethered microrobots as they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Jiayin Xie , Chenghao Bi , David J. Cappelleri , Nilanjan Chakraborty

Accurate lesion segmentation in whole-body PET/CT scans is crucial for cancer diagnosis and treatment planning, but limited datasets often hinder the performance of automated segmentation models. In this paper, we explore the potential of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Lap Yan Lennon Chan , Chenxin Li , Yixuan Yuan

Foundation models have emerged as powerful tools across various domains including language, vision, and multimodal tasks. While prior works have addressed unsupervised image segmentation, they significantly lag behind supervised models. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Paul Couairon , Mustafa Shukor , Jean-Emmanuel Haugeard , Matthieu Cord , Nicolas Thome

Discrete choice models are essential for modelling various decision-making processes in human behaviour. However, the specification of these models has depended heavily on domain knowledge from experts, and the fully automated but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Fumiyasu Makinoshima , Tatsuya Mitomi , Fumiya Makihara , Eigo Segawa

We present a differentiable dynamics solver that is able to handle frictional contact for rigid and deformable objects within a unified framework. Through a principled mollification of normal and tangential contact forces, our method…

Soft robots, particularly magnetic soft robots, require specialized simulation tools to accurately model their deformation under external magnetic fields. However, existing platforms often lack dedicated support for magnetic materials,…

Differentiable programming has emerged as a structural prerequisite for gradient-based inverse problems and end-to-end hybrid physics--machine learning in computational fluid dynamics. However, existing differentiable CFD platforms are…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Pan Du , Yongqi Li , Mingqi Xu , Jian-Xun Wang

We introduce a general differentiable solver for time-dependent deformation problems with contact and friction. Our approach uses a finite element discretization with a high-order time integrator coupled with the recently proposed…

Many parallel and distributed computing research results are obtained in simulation, using simulators that mimic real-world executions on some target system. Each such simulator is configured by picking values for parameters that define the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Jesse McDonald , Maximilian Horzela , Frédéric Suter , Henri Casanova

We present a differentiable pipeline for simulating the motion of objects that represent their geometry as a continuous density field parameterized as a deep network. This includes Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), and other related models.…