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Molecular dynamics is one of the most commonly used approaches for studying the dynamics and statistical distributions of many physical, chemical, and biological systems using atomistic or coarse-grained models. It is often the case,…
This paper proposes Mode-Aware Probabilistic Scheduling (MAPS), a novel adaptive control framework tailored for DC motor systems experiencing varying friction. MAPS uniquely integrates an Interacting Multiple Model (IMM) estimator with a…
Standard battery management systems treat the control and state estimation problems as decoupled objectives, relying on certainty equivalence controllers that are blind to the varying observability induced by nonlinear open-circuit voltage…