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Digital Twins (DTs) are computational models that simulate the states and temporal dynamics of real-world systems, playing a crucial role in prediction, understanding, and decision-making across diverse domains. However, existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Samuel Holt , Tennison Liu , Mihaela van der Schaar

In the context of Industry 4.0, the physical and digital worlds are closely connected, and robots are widely used to achieve system automation. Digital twin solutions have contributed significantly to the growth of Industry 4.0. Combining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Lin Xie , Hanyi Li

Designers reportedly struggle with design optimization tasks where they are asked to find a combination of design parameters that maximizes a given set of objectives. In HCI, design optimization problems are often exceedingly complex,…

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Future communication networks are expected to achieve deep integration of communication, sensing, and computation, forming a tightly coupled and autonomously operating infrastructure system. However, current reliance on centralized control,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Gaosheng Zhao , Dong In Kim

With the rapid development of deep reinforcement learning technology, it gradually demonstrates excellent potential and is becoming the most promising solution in the robotics. However, in the smart manufacturing domain, there is still not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Matsive Ali , Sandesh Giri , Sen Liu , Qin Yang

Inspection of infrastructure using static sensor nodes has become a well established approach in recent decades. In this work, we present an experimental setup to address a binary inspection task using mobile sensor nodes. The objective is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Thiemen Siemensma , Bahar Haghighat

As an emerging technology in the era of Industry 4.0, digital twin is gaining unprecedented attention because of its promise to further optimize process design, quality control, health monitoring, decision and policy making, and more, by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Adam Thelen , Xiaoge Zhang , Olga Fink , Yan Lu , Sayan Ghosh , Byeng D. Youn , Michael D. Todd , Sankaran Mahadevan , Chao Hu , Zhen Hu

This paper explores the possibility of improving bilateral robot manipulation task performance through optimizing the robot morphology and configuration of the system through motion. To optimize the design for different scenarios, we select…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Lasitha Wijayarathne , Juan Vallejo , Anthony Barnum , Zachary Cloutier , Frank L. Hammond

This paper introduces an upper limb postural optimization method for enhancing physical ergonomics and force manipulability during bimanual human-robot co-carrying tasks. Existing research typically emphasizes human safety or manipulative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Chenzui Li , Yiming Chen , Xi Wu , Giacinto Barresi , Fei Chen

We consider the problem of cooperative intersection management. It arises in automated transportation systems for people or goods but also in multi-robots environment. Therefore many solutions have been proposed to avoid collisions. The…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-10-30 Jean Gregoire , Silvère Bonnabel , Arnaud de La Fortelle

This short paper represents a systematic literature review that sets the basis for the future development of a framework for digital twin-based decision support in the public sector, specifically for the smart city domain. The final aim of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Lucy Temple , Gabriela Viale Pereira , Lukas Daniel Klausner

This paper presents a novel methodological framework, called the Actor-Simulator, that incorporates the calibration of digital twins into model-based reinforcement learning for more effective control of stochastic systems with complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Hua Zheng , Wei Xie , Ilya O. Ryzhov , Keilung Choy

Human-robot collaborations have been recognized as an essential component for future factories. It remains challenging to properly design the behavior of those co-robots. Those robots operate in dynamic uncertain environment with limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Changliu Liu , Te Tang , Hsien-Chung Lin , Yujiao Cheng , Masayoshi Tomizuka

We propose a \textit{guided multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization} framework for data-efficient controller tuning that integrates corrected digital twin simulations with real-world measurements. The method targets closed-loop systems with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Mahdi Nobar , Jürg Keller , Alessandro Forino , John Lygeros , Alisa Rupenyan

Digital twins (DTs) are envisioned as a key enabler of the cyber-physical continuum in future wireless networks. However, efficient deployment and synchronization of DTs in dynamic multi-access edge computing (MEC) environments remains…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Hossam Farag , Cedomir Stefanovic

Foundation models are trained on a large amount of data to learn generic patterns. Consequently, these models can be used and fine-tuned for various purposes. Naturally, studying such models' use in the context of digital twins for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Shaukat Ali , Paolo Arcaini , Aitor Arrieta

Multi-robot systems are emerging as a promising solution to the growing demand for productivity, safety, and adaptability across industrial sectors. However, effectively coordinating multiple robots in dynamic and uncertain environments,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Min Deng , Bo Fu , Lingyao Li , Xi Wang

In this paper, we study a digital twin (DT)-empowered integrated sensing, communication, and computation network. Specifically, the users perform radar sensing and computation offloading on the same spectrum, while unmanned aerial vehicles…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-27 Bin Li , Wenshuai Liu , Wancheng Xie , Ning Zhang , Yan Zhang

Bayesian Optimization is a useful tool for experiment design. Unfortunately, the classical, sequential setting of Bayesian Optimization does not translate well into laboratory experiments, for instance battery design, where measurements may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Jose Pablo Folch , Robert M Lee , Behrang Shafei , David Walz , Calvin Tsay , Mark van der Wilk , Ruth Misener