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Olfaction -- how molecules are perceived as odors to humans -- remains poorly understood. Recently, the principal odor map (POM) was introduced to digitize the olfactory properties of single compounds. However, smells in real life are not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Gary Tom , Cher Tian Ser , Ella M. Rajaonson , Stanley Lo , Hyun Suk Park , Brian K. Lee , Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling

Odor visualization translates odor information and perception into visual outcomes and arouses the corresponding olfactory synesthesia, surpassing the spatial limitation that odors can only be perceived where they are present. Traditional…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Gang Yu , Yuchi Sun , Weining Yan , Xinyu Wang , Qi Lu

Predicting human trajectories is a challenging task due to the complexity of pedestrian behavior, which is influenced by external factors such as the scene's topology and interactions with other pedestrians. A special challenge arises from…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-31 Raphael Korbmacher , Huu-Tu Dang , Antoine Tordeux

1. Spatial memory plays a role in the way animals perceive their environments, resulting in memory-informed movement patterns that are observable to ecologists. Developing mathematical techniques to understand how animals use memory in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-17 Peter R. Thompson , Andrew E. Derocher , Mark A. Edwards , Mark A. Lewis

Arrays of bioinspired artificial hair-cell airflow velocity sensors can enable flight-by-feel of small, unmanned aircraft. Natural fliers - bats, insects, and birds - have hundred or thousands of velocity sensors distributed across their…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-25 Alex C. Hollenbeck , Ramana Grandhi , John H. Hansen , Alexander M. Pankonien

Lifelong development allows animals and machines to adapt to changes in the environment as well as in their own systems, such as wear and tear in sensors and actuators. An important use case of such adaptation is industrial odor-sensing.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-04-15 J. Warner , A. Devaraj , R. Miikkulainen

In research paper "Accurate estimation of the target location of object with energy constraint & Adaptive Update Algorithms to Save Data" one of the central issues in sensor networks is track the location, of moving object which have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-08-08 Vijay Bhaskar Semwal , K Susheel Kumar , Vinay S Bhaskar , Meenakshi Sati

Our sense of smell relies on sensitive, selective atomic-scale processes that are initiated when a scent molecule meets specific receptors in the nose. However, the physical mechanisms of detection are not clear. While odorant shape and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Jennifer C. Brookes , Filio Hartoutsiou , A. P. Horsfield , A. M. Stoneham

The application of deep learning techniques on aroma-chemicals has resulted in models more accurate than human experts at predicting olfactory qualities. However, public research in this domain has been limited to predicting the qualities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Laura Sisson , Aryan Amit Barsainyan , Mrityunjay Sharma , Ritesh Kumar

Benefitting from UAVs' characteristics of flexible deployment and controllable movement in 3D space, odor source localization with multiple UAVs has been a hot research area in recent years. Considering the limited resources and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Shan Wang , Sheng Sun , Min Liu , Bo Gao , Yuwei Wang

Consider a target moving at a constant velocity on a unit-circumference circle, starting at an arbitrary location. To acquire the target, any region of the circle can be probed to obtain a noisy measurement of the target's presence, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Yonatan Kaspi , Ofer Shayevitz , Tara Javidi

Autonomous odor source localization remains a challenging problem for aerial robots due to turbulent airflow, sparse and delayed sensory signals, and strict payload and compute constraints. While prior unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Kordel K. France , Ovidiu Daescu , Latifur Khan , Rohith Peddi

Marine organisms manipulate their surrounding flow through their swimming dynamics, which affects the transport of their own odor cues. We demonstrate by direct numerical simulations how a group of swimmers, moving at intermediate Reynolds…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-04 Martin James , Francesco Viola , Agnese Seminara

The olfactory system employs responses of an ensemble of odorant receptors (ORs) to sense molecules and to generate olfactory percepts. Here we hypothesized that ORs can be viewed as 3D spatial filters that extract molecular features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Sergey Shuvaev , Khue Tran , Khristina Samoilova , Cyrille Mascart , Alexei Koulakov

Context: Test smells are symptoms of sub-optimal design choices adopted when developing test cases. Previous studies have proved their harmfulness for test code maintainability and effectiveness. Therefore, researchers have been proposing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Valeria Pontillo , Dario Amoroso d'Aragona , Fabiano Pecorelli , Dario Di Nucci , Filomena Ferrucci , Fabio Palomba

Olfactory perception plays a critical role in both human and organismal interactions, yet understanding of its underlying mechanisms and influencing factors remain insufficient. Molecular structures influence odor perception through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 HongXin Xie , JianDe Sun , Yi Shao , Shuai Li , Sujuan Hou , YuLong Sun , Jian Wang

We present a set of metrics intended to supplement designer intuitions when designing swarm-robotic systems, increase accuracy in extrapolating swarm behavior from algorithmic descriptions and small test experiments, and lead to faster and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-26 John Harwell , Maria Gini

On the basis of the evident ability of neuronal olfactory systems to evaluate the intensity of an odorous stimulus and at the same time also recognise the identity of the odorant over a large range of concentrations, a few…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-29 Carlo Fulvi Mari

Navigation by scent is a capability in robotic systems that is rising in demand. However, current methods often suffer from ambiguities, particularly when robots misattribute odours to incorrect objects due to limitations in olfactory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Kordel K. France , Ovidiu Daescu

To achieve human-like behaviour during speech interactions, it is necessary for a humanoid robot to estimate the location of a human talker. Here, we present a method to optimize the parameters used for the direction of arrival (DOA)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Pranav Barot , Katja Mombaur , Ewen MacDonald