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The aim of this work is to efficiently and robustly solve the statistical inverse problem related to the identification of the elastic properties at both macroscopic and mesoscopic scales of heterogeneous anisotropic materials with a…

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Soft parallel robots with their manipulation safety and low commercial cost show a promising future for delicate operations and safe human-robot interactions. However, promoting the use of electroactive polymers (EAPs) is still challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Jung-Che Chang , Xi Wang , Dragos Axinte , Xin Dong

Soft robots are robotic systems made of deformable materials and exhibit unique flexibility that can be exploited for complex environments and tasks. However, their control problem has been considered a challenging subject because they are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Tongjia Zheng , Qing Han , Hai Lin

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a powerful imaging modality widely used in medical diagnostics, industrial monitoring, and environmental studies. The EIT inverse problem is about inferring the internal conductivity distribution of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Alexander Denker , Fabio Margotti , Jianfeng Ning , Kim Knudsen , Derick Nganyu Tanyu , Bangti Jin , Andreas Hauptmann , Peter Maass

Dynamic control of a soft-body robot to deliver complex behaviors with low-dimensional actuation inputs is challenging. In this paper, we present a computational approach to automatically generate versatile, underactuated control policies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Yitong Deng , Yaorui Zhang , Xingzhe He , Shuqi Yang , Yunjin Tong , Michael Zhang , Daniel DiPietro , Bo Zhu

When solving inverse problems, one has to deal with numerous potential sources of model inexactnesses, like object motion, calibration errors, or simplified data models. Regularized Sequential Subspace Optimization (ReSeSOp) allows to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-15 Mathias S. Feinler , Bernadette N. Hahn

Spinodal metamaterials, with architectures inspired by natural phase-separation processes, have presented a significant alternative to periodic and symmetric morphologies when designing mechanical metamaterials with extreme performance.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Prakash Thakolkaran , Michael A. Espinal , Somayajulu Dhulipala , Siddhant Kumar , Carlos M. Portela

We propose a direct imaging method based on the reverse time migration to reconstruct extended obstacles in the half space with finite aperture elastic scattering data at a fixed frequency. We prove the resolution of the reconstruction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Zhiming Chen , Shiqi Zhou

Linear reduced-order modeling (ROM) is widely used for efficient simulation of deformation dynamics, but its accuracy is often limited by the fixed linearization of the reduced mapping. We propose a new adaptive strategy for linear ROM that…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yutian Tao , Maurizio Chiaramonte , Pablo Fernandez

Inverse design (ID) is a computational method that systematically explores a design space to find optimal device geometries based on specific performance criteria. In silicon photonics, ID often leads to devices with design features that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Shaheer Khan , Mustafa Hammood , Nicolas A. F. Jaeger , Lukas Chrostowski

Learning the inverse dynamics of soft continuum robots remains challenging due to high-dimensional nonlinearities and complex actuation coupling. Conventional feedback-based controllers often suffer from control chattering due to corrective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Hang Yang , Fangju Yang , Yangming Zhang , Ibrahim Alsarraj , Yuhao Wang , Zhenye Luo , Zixi Chen , Ke Wu

Metasurfaces are subwavelength-structured artificial media that can shape and localize electromagnetic waves in unique ways. The inverse design of these devices is a non-convex optimization problem in a high dimensional space, making global…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 Jiaqi Jiang , Jonathan A. Fan

We consider optimal experimental design (OED) for Bayesian nonlinear inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) under model uncertainty. Specifically, we consider inverse problems in which, in addition to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Alen Alexanderian , Ruanui Nicholson , Noemi Petra

The (modern) arbitrary derivative (ADER) approach is a popular technique for the numerical solution of differential problems based on iteratively solving an implicit discretization of their weak formulation. In this work, focusing on an ODE…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-15 Maria Han Veiga , Lorenzo Micalizzi , Davide Torlo

This paper considers the non-linear inverse problem of reconstructing an electric conductivity distribution from the interior power density in a bounded domain. Applications include the novel tomographic method known as acousto-electric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-29 B. J. Adesokan , Kim Knudsen , Venkateswaran P. Krishnan , Souvik Roy

Improving robustness to uncertainty and rejection of external disturbances represents a significant challenge in aerial robotics. Nonlinear controllers based on Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion (INDI), known for their ability in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Mohamad Hachem , Clément Roos , Thierry Miquel , Murat Bronz

We present a scalable and efficient framework for the inference of spatially-varying parameters of continuum materials from image observations of their deformations. Our goal is the nondestructive identification of arbitrary damage,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Joseph Kirchhoff , Dingcheng Luo , Thomas O'Leary-Roseberry , Omar Ghattas

Composite materials often exhibit mechanical anisotropy owing to the material properties or geometrical configurations of the microstructure. This makes their inverse design a two-fold problem. First, we must learn the type and orientation…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Asghar A. Jadoon , Karl A. Kalina , Manuel K. Rausch , Reese Jones , Jan N. Fuhg

In order to obtain a metasurface structure capable of filtering the light of a specific wavelength in the visible band, traditional method usually traverses the space consisting of possible designs, searching for a potentially satisfying…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Xiao Han , Ziyang Fan , Chao Li , Zeyang Liu , L. Jay Guo

Inverse design, where we seek to design input variables in order to optimize an underlying objective function, is an important problem that arises across fields such as mechanical engineering to aerospace engineering. Inverse design is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Tailin Wu , Takashi Maruyama , Long Wei , Tao Zhang , Yilun Du , Gianluca Iaccarino , Jure Leskovec