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The physical design of a robot and the policy that controls its motion are inherently coupled, and should be determined according to the task and environment. In an increasing number of applications, data-driven and learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Charles Schaff , David Yunis , Ayan Chakrabarti , Matthew R. Walter

Learning to perform perfect tracking tasks based on measurement data is desirable in the controller design of systems operating repetitively. This motivates the present paper to seek an optimization-based design approach for iterative…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-08 Deyuan Meng , Jingyao Zhang

We demonstrate that embedding physics-driven constraints into machine learning process can dramatically improve accuracy and generalizability of the resulting model. Physics-informed learning is illustrated on the example of analysis of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-16 Abantika Ghosh , Mohannad Elhamod , Jie Bu , Wei-Cheng Lee , Anuj Karpatne , Viktor A Podolskiy

Machine learning (ML) strategies are opening the door to faster computer simulations, allowing us to simulate more realistic colloidal systems. Since the interactions in colloidal systems are often highly many-body, stemming from e.g.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-09 Rinske M. Alkemade , Rastko Sknepnek , Frank Smallenburg , Laura Filion

The preparation of highly entangled many-body systems is one of the central challenges of both basic and applied science. The complexity of interparticle interaction and environment coupling increases rapidly with the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-20 Felix Platzer , Florian Mintert , Andreas Buchleitner

Amphiphilic molecules spontaneously form self-assembled structures of various shapes depending on their molecular structures, the temperature, and other physical conditions. The functionalities of these structures are dictated by their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-18 Takeo Sudo , Satoki Ishiai , Yuuki Ishiwatari , Takahiro Yokoyama , Kenji Yasuoka , Noriyoshi Arai

Recent advances in robot learning have enabled robots to become increasingly better at mastering a predefined set of tasks. On the other hand, as humans, we have the ability to learn a growing set of tasks over our lifetime. Continual robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Muhammad Burhan Hafez , Stefan Wermter

In this paper we study a Pontryagin type stochastic maximum principle for the optimal control of a system, where the state dynamics satisfy a stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) driven by a two-parameter (time-space) Brownian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-03 Nacira Agram , Bernt Øksendal , Frank Proske , Olena Tymoshenko

With the development of state-of-art deep reinforcement learning, we can efficiently tackle continuous control problems. But the deep reinforcement learning method for continuous control is based on historical data, which would make…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Xi Xiong , Jianqiang Wang , Fang Zhang , Keqiang Li

Biological machines harness targeted deformations that can be actuated by Brownian fluctuations. However, while synthetic micromachines can similarly leverage targeted deformations they are too stiff to be driven by thermal fluctuations and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-24 Julio Melio , Martin van Hecke , Silke E. Henkes , Daniela J. Kraft

We propose a systematic methodology to identify the topological phase transition through a self-supervised machine learning model, which is trained to correlate system parameters to the non-local observables in time-of-flight experiments of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-09-01 Chi-Ting Ho , Daw-Wei Wang

When an external field drives a colloidal system out of equilibrium, the ensuing colloidal response can be very complex and obtaining a detailed physical understanding often requires case-by-case considerations. In order to facilitate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-13 Daniel de las Heras , Johannes Renner , Matthias Schmidt

The aim of this work is to control the longitudinal position of an autonomous vehicle with an internal combustion engine. The powertrain has an inherent dead-time characteristic and constraints on physical states apply since the vehicle is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-15 André Kempf , Markus Herrmann-Wicklmayr , Steffen Müller

Optimal control of stochastic nonlinear dynamical systems is a major challenge in the domain of robot learning. Given the intractability of the global control problem, state-of-the-art algorithms focus on approximate sequential optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Joe Watson , Hany Abdulsamad , Jan Peters

Automated driving systems require monitoring mechanisms to ensure safe operation, especially if system components degrade or fail. Their runtime self-representation plays a key role as it provides a-priori knowledge about the system's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Richard Schubert , Marvin Loba , Jasper Sünnemann , Torben Stolte , Markus Maurer

The use of rehabilitation robotics in clinical applications gains increasing importance, due to therapeutic benefits and the ability to alleviate labor-intensive works. However, their practical utility is dependent on the deployment of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Samuel Tesfazgi , Armin Lederer , Johannes F. Kunz , Alejandro J. Ordóñez-Conejo , Sandra Hirche

We use Machine Learning (ML) and system identification validation approaches to estimate neural network models of large-scale Deformable Mirrors (DMs) used in Adaptive Optics (AO) systems. To obtain the training, validation, and test data…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-19 Aleksandar Haber

Accurate classification of medical device risk levels is essential for regulatory oversight and clinical safety. We present a Transformer-based multimodal framework that integrates textual descriptions and visual information to predict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Yu Han , Aaron Ceross , Jeroen H. M. Bergmann

Humans and animals developed a sophisticated motor control apparatus and there is much evidence that it has a modular structure. The modularity offers a range of benefits, e.g. ability to learn dissociable motion styles without interference…

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