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Recently, a novel linear model predictive control algorithm based on a physics-informed Gaussian Process has been introduced, whose realizations strictly follow a system of underlying linear ordinary differential equations with constant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Adrian Lepp , Jörn Tebbe , Andreas Besginow

Physics-informed neural networks have gained growing interest. Specifically, they are used to solve partial differential equations governing several physical phenomena. However, physics-informed neural network models suffer from several…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Diab W. Abueidda , Seid Koric , Erman Guleryuz , Nahil A. Sobh

In fluid physics, data-driven models to enhance or accelerate solution methods are becoming increasingly popular for many application domains, such as alternatives to turbulence closures, system surrogates, or for new physics discovery. In…

The goal of this work is to train a neural network which approximates solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations across a region of parameter space, in which the parameters define physical properties such as domain shape and boundary…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Christopher J Arthurs , Andrew P King

Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) is a set of methods and tools that systematically integrate machine learning (ML) algorithms with physical constraints and abstract mathematical models developed in scientific and engineering…

The study of plasma physics under conditions of extreme temperatures, densities and electromagnetic field strengths is significant for our understanding of astrophysics, nuclear fusion and fundamental physics. These extreme physical systems…

Boundary constraints in physical, environmental and engineering models restrict smooth states such as temperature to follow known physical laws at the edges of their spatio-temporal domain. Examples include fixed-state or fixed-derivative…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-05 Yue Ma , Oksana A. Chkrebtii , Stephen R. Niezgoda

We use physics-informed neural networks for solving the shallow-water equations for tsunami modeling. Physics-informed neural networks are an optimization based approach for solving differential equations that is completely meshless. This…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Rüdiger Brecht , Elsa Cardoso-Bihlo , Alex Bihlo

We propose a generative approach to physics-based motion capture. Unlike prior attempts to incorporate physics into tracking that assume the subject and scene geometry are calibrated and known a priori, our approach is automatic and online.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Micha Livne , Leonid Sigal , Marcus A. Brubaker , David J. Fleet

Several physical systems in condensed matter have been modeled approximating their constituent particles as hard objects. The hard spheres model has been indeed one of the cornerstones of the computational and theoretical description in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Cristiano De Michele

This tutorial paper focuses on safe physics-informed machine learning in the context of dynamics and control, providing a comprehensive overview of how to integrate physical models and safety guarantees. As machine learning techniques…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Jan Drgona , Truong X. Nghiem , Thomas Beckers , Mahyar Fazlyab , Enrique Mallada , Colin Jones , Draguna Vrabie , Steven L. Brunton , Rolf Findeisen

This work presents a physics-informed neural network (PINN) based framework to model the strain-rate and temperature dependence of the deformation fields in elastic-viscoplastic solids. To avoid unbalanced back-propagated gradients during…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-24 Rajat Arora , Pratik Kakkar , Biswadip Dey , Amit Chakraborty

Machine learning continues to emerge as an important tool to be utilised within structural engineering and structural health monitoring, due to its ability to accurately and quickly perform both regression and classification tasks. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Daisy R Bradley , Elizabeth J Cross

We introduce tree linear cascades, a class of linear structural equation models for which the error variables are uncorrelated but need not be Gaussian nor independent. We show that, in spite of this weak assumption, the tree structure of…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-16 Nicholas C. Landolfi , Sanjay Lall

The combination of machine learning and physical laws has shown immense potential for solving scientific problems driven by partial differential equations (PDEs) with the promise of fast inference, zero-shot generalisation, and the ability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Nacime Bouziani , David A. Ham , Ado Farsi

Given that observational and numerical climate data are being produced at ever more prodigious rates, increasingly sophisticated and automated analysis techniques have become essential. Deep learning is quickly becoming a standard approach…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-12 A. Rupe , J. P. Crutchfield , K. Kashinath , Prabhat

Physically-inspired latent force models offer an interpretable alternative to purely data driven tools for inference in dynamical systems. They carry the structure of differential equations and the flexibility of Gaussian processes,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jacob D. Moss , Felix L. Opolka , Bianca Dumitrascu , Pietro Lió

A key ingredient to achieving intelligent behavior is physical understanding that equips robots with the ability to reason about the effects of their actions in a dynamic environment. Several methods have been proposed to learn dynamics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-24 David Millard , Eric Heiden , Shubham Agrawal , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

This paper introduces a linear state-space model with time-varying dynamics. The time dependency is obtained by forming the state dynamics matrix as a time-varying linear combination of a set of matrices. The time dependency of the weights…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-06 Jaakko Luttinen , Tapani Raiko , Alexander Ilin

Robotic manipulation involves actions where contacts occur between the robot and the objects. In this scope, the availability of physics-based engines allows motion planners to comprise dynamics between rigid bodies, which is necessary for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-31 M Muhayyuddin , Aliakbar Akbari , Jan Rosell