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This study aims to predict the spatio-temporal evolution of physical quantities observed in multi-layered display panels subjected to the drop impact of a ball. To model these complex interactions, graph neural networks have emerged as…

Exoskeleton robots have become a promising tool in neurorehabilitation, offering effective physical therapy and recovery monitoring. The success of these therapies relies on precise motion control systems. Although computed torque control…

This paper proposes a physics-guided recurrent neural network model (PGRNN) that combines RNNs and physics-based models to leverage their complementary strengths and improve the modeling of physical processes. Specifically, we show that a…

Robust and accurate decoding of gesture from non-invasive surface electromyography (sEMG) is important for various applications including spatial computing, healthcare, and entertainment, and has been actively pursued by researchers and…

Rehabilitation exoskeletons have shown promising results in promoting recovery for stroke patients. Accurately and timely identifying the motion intentions of patients is a critical challenge in enhancing active participation during lower…

Human-machine interaction is gaining traction in rehabilitation tasks, such as controlling prosthetic hands or robotic arms. Gesture recognition exploiting surface electromyographic (sEMG) signals is one of the most promising approaches,…

This paper presents a scalable method for friction identification in robots equipped with electric motors and high-ratio harmonic drives, utilizing Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINN). This approach eliminates the need for dedicated…

Electromyography (EMG) is a way of measuring the bioelectric activities that take place inside the muscles. EMG is usually performed to detect abnormalities within the nerves or muscles of a target area. The recent developments in the field…

Accurate prediction of structural displacements under external loading is fundamental to structural health monitoring and seismic safety assessment. Although the finite element method (FEM) remains the prevailing approach because of its…

Recent progress in human-robot collaboration makes fast and fluid interactions possible, even when human observations are partial and occluded. Methods like Interaction Probabilistic Movement Primitives (ProMP) model human trajectories…

Scene representation networks (SRNs) have been recently proposed for compression and visualization of scientific data. However, state-of-the-art SRNs do not adapt the allocation of available network parameters to the complex features found…

Biomechanical modelling of soft tissue provides a non-data-driven method for constraining medical image registration, such that the estimated spatial transformation is considered biophysically plausible. This has not only been adopted in…

Physics-based simulations are often used to model and understand complex physical systems and processes in domains like fluid dynamics. Such simulations, although used frequently, have many limitations which could arise either due to the…

Seismic events, among many other natural hazards, reduce due functionality and exacerbate vulnerability of in-service buildings. Accurate modeling and prediction of building's response subjected to earthquakes makes possible to evaluate…

In this paper, we review physics- and data-driven reconstruction techniques for simultaneous positron emission tomography (PET) / magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems, which have significant advantages for clinical imaging of cancer,…

Lower limbs exoskeletons provide assistance during standing, squatting, and walking. Gait dynamics, in particular, implies a change in the configuration of the device in terms of contact points, actuation, and system dynamics in general. In…

Accurate finger force estimation is critical for next-generation human-machine interfaces. Traditional electromyography (EMG)-based decoding methods using deep learning require large datasets and high computational resources, limiting their…

Reliable estimation of neuromuscular activation is a key enabler for adaptive and personalized control in wearable robotics. However, surface electromyography (EMG) remains difficult to deploy robustly outside laboratory settings due to…

Structural data from Electronic Health Records as complementary information to imaging data for disease prediction. We incorporate novel weighting layer into the Graph Convolutional Networks, which weights every element of structural data…

Due to the increasing system stability issues caused by the technological revolutions of power system equipment, the assessment of the dynamic security of the systems for changing operating conditions (OCs) is nowadays crucial. To address…