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Grasping is a fundamental skill for interacting with and manipulating objects in the environment. However, this ability can be challenging for individuals with hand impairments. Soft hand exoskeletons designed to assist grasping can enhance…

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Recent developments in Machine Learning approaches for modelling physical systems have begun to mirror the past development of numerical methods in the computational sciences. In this survey, we begin by providing an example of this with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Artur P. Toshev , Ludger Paehler , Andrea Panizza , Nikolaus A. Adams

Dynamic surface reconstruction of objects from point cloud sequences is a challenging field in computer graphics. Existing approaches either require multiple regularization terms or extensive training data which, however, lead to…

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We leverage physics-embedded differentiable graph network simulators (GNS) to accelerate particulate and fluid simulations to solve forward and inverse problems. GNS represents the domain as a graph with particles as nodes and learned…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 Krishna Kumar , Yongjin Choi

Breast compression simulation is essential for accurate image registration from 3D modalities to X-ray procedures like mammography. It accounts for tissue shape and position changes due to compression, ensuring precise alignment and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Hadeel Awwad , Eloy García , Robert Martí

Surrogate models for the rapid inference of nonlinear boundary value problems in mechanics are helpful in a broad range of engineering applications. However, effective surrogate modeling of applications involving the contact of deformable…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Vijay K. Dubey , Collin E. Haese , Osman Gültekin , David Dalton , Manuel K. Rausch , Jan N. Fuhg

Thin film processing by means of sputter deposition inherently depends on the interaction of energetic particles with a target surface and the subsequent particle transport. The length and time scales of the underlying physical phenomena…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Florian Krüger , Tobias Gergs , Jan Trieschmann

Accurate physics simulation is essential for robotic learning and control, yet analytical simulators often fail to capture complex contact dynamics, while learning-based simulators typically require large amounts of costly real-world data.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhenhao Huang , Siyuan Luo , Bingyang Zhou , Ziqiu Zeng , Jason Pho , Fan Shi

To help future mobile agents plan their movement in harsh environments,a predictive model has been designed to determine what areas would be favorable for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning. The model is able to predict…

Nonlinear finite element crash simulations are accurate but computationally expensive, limiting their use in iterative design optimisation. Machine-learning surrogate models based on graph neural networks (GNNs) offer a faster alternative.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Haoran Li , Tobias Lehrer , Yingxue Zhao , Haosu Zhou , Philipp Stocker , Tobias Pfaff , Nan Li

Delicate cloth simulations have long been desired in computer graphics. Various methods were proposed to improve engaged force interactions, collision handling, and numerical integrations. Deep learning has the potential to achieve fast and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Zhiwei Zhao

Deformable object manipulation presents a unique set of challenges in robotic manipulation by exhibiting high degrees of freedom and severe self-occlusion. State representation for materials that exhibit plastic behavior, like modeling clay…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Alison Bartsch , Charlotte Avra , Amir Barati Farimani

Graph neural networks trained to predict observable dynamics can be used to decompose the temporal activity of complex heterogeneous systems into simple, interpretable representations. Here we apply this framework to simulated neural…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-17 Cédric Allier , Larissa Heinrich , Magdalena Schneider , Stephan Saalfeld

Accurately simulating soft tissue deformation is crucial for surgical training, pre-operative planning, and real-time haptic feedback systems. While physics-based models such as the finite element method (FEM) provide high-fidelity results,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Madina Kojanazarova , Sidaty El Hadramy , Jack Wilkie , Georg Rauter , Philippe C. Cattin

Numerical simulators are essential tools in the study of natural fluid-systems, but their performance often limits application in practice. Recent machine-learning approaches have demonstrated their ability to accelerate spatio-temporal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-06 Mario Lino , Stathi Fotiadis , Anil A. Bharath , Chris Cantwell

Graph deep learning methods have become popular tools to process collections of correlated time series. Unlike traditional multivariate forecasting methods, graph-based predictors leverage pairwise relationships by conditioning forecasts on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Andrea Cini , Ivan Marisca , Daniele Zambon , Cesare Alippi

Modeling functions that are sequentially observed as functional time series is becoming increasingly common. In such models, it is often crucial to ensure data homogeneity. We investigate the sensitivity of graph-based change point…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-25 Jeremy VanderDoes , Shojaeddin Chenouri

We present an approach to robustly track the geometry of an object that deforms over time from a set of input point clouds captured from a single viewpoint. The deformations we consider are caused by applying forces to known locations on…

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Thermodynamics-informed neural networks employ inductive biases for the enforcement of the first and second principles of thermodynamics. To construct these biases, a metriplectic evolution of the system is assumed. This provides excellent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Alicia Tierz , Iciar Alfaro , David González , Francisco Chinesta , Elías Cueto

Currently it requires an artist to create 3D human avatars with realistic clothing that can move naturally. Despite progress on 3D scanning and modeling of human bodies, there is still no technology that can easily turn a static scan into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Qianli Ma , Jinlong Yang , Siyu Tang , Michael J. Black