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The penalization method is used to take account of obstacles, such as the limiter, in a tokamak. Because of the magnetic confinement of the plasma in a tokamak, the transport occurs essentially in the direction parallel to the magnetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Philippe Angot , Thomas Auphan , Olivier Guès

We study the formation control problem for a group of mobile agents in a plane, in which each agent is modeled as a kinematic point and can only use the local measurements in its local frame. The agents are required to maintain a geometric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Chen Wang , Shuai Li , Weiguo Xia , Jinan Sun , Guangming Xie

The novel Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVSs) gained a great amount of attention recently as they are superior compared to RGB cameras in terms of latency, dynamic range and energy consumption. This is particularly of interest for autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Katharina Bendig , René Schuster , Didier Stricker

Precise patient positioning is fundamental to successful removal of malignant tumors during treatment of head and neck cancers. Errors in patient positioning have been known to damage critical organs and cause complications. To better…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Olalekan Ogunmolu , Adwait Kulkarni , Yonas Tadesse , Xuejun Gu , Steve Jiang , Nicholas Gans

Defects in extrusion additive manufacturing remain common despite its prevalent use. While numerous AI-driven approaches have been proposed to improve quality assurance, the inherently dynamic nature of the printing process poses persistent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Xiaohan Li , Sebastian Pattinson

Dynamic metabolic control allows key metabolic fluxes to be modulated in real time, enhancing bioprocess flexibility and expanding available optimization degrees of freedom. This is achieved, e.g., via targeted modulation of metabolic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-03 Sebastián Espinel-Ríos , River Walser , Dongda Zhang

While recent flow-based image editing models demonstrate general-purpose capabilities across diverse tasks, they often struggle to specialize in challenging scenarios -- particularly those involving large-scale shape transformations. When…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Zeqian Long , Mingzhe Zheng , Kunyu Feng , Xinhua Zhang , Hongyu Liu , Harry Yang , Linfeng Zhang , Qifeng Chen , Yue Ma

One of the main challenges concerning next generation tokamaks (such as DEMO) will be the development of a heat and power exhaust system able to withstand the large loads expected in the divertor region. A dedicated Divertor Tokamak Test…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 E. Acampora , R. Ambrosino , A. Castaldo , R. Iervolino

Feedback stabilization of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes is studied in a cylindrical model for a tokamak with resistivity, viscosity and toroidal rotation. The control is based on a linear combination of the normal and tangential…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-06-23 D. P. Brennan , J. M. Finn

Atomic-scale modeling has advanced rapidly through integration of machine learning, yet a key bottleneck remains. Even with an accurate potential energy surface and a clear target material, we still lack a practical atomistic dynamics…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-18 Wonseok Jeong , Francesca Tavazza , Brian DeCost

Precise shape control of Deformable Linear Objects (DLOs) is crucial in robotic applications such as industrial and medical fields. However, existing methods face challenges in handling complex large deformation tasks, especially those…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Zhaowei Liang , Song Wang , Zhao Jin , Shirui Wu , Dan Wu

A lumped parameter model for tokamak plasma current and inductance time evolution as function of plasma resistance, non-inductive current drive sources and boundary voltage or poloidal field (PF) coil current drive is presented. The model…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-03-28 J. A. Romero , JET-EFDA Contributors

We present the FreeGSNKE Pulse Design Tool (FPDT), an open-source, Python-based computational framework that enables in silico testing and predictive design of tokamak plasma scenarios and control strategies. The FPDT couples the FreeGSNKE…

We introduce SoftMimic, a framework for learning compliant whole-body control policies for humanoid robots from example motions. Imitating human motions with reinforcement learning allows humanoids to quickly learn new skills, but existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Gabriel B. Margolis , Michelle Wang , Nolan Fey , Pulkit Agrawal

Robotic perception in unstructured environments remains challenging despite the zero-shot capabilities of foundation models such as SAM. This work attributes performance degradation to non-uniform representation shifts across transformer…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Wenhui Chu

We derive a reduced model for the electrostatic turbulence in a Tokamak edge, when dealing with a resistive plasma and neglecting the spatial gradient of the background density which triggers the linear drift wave response. The obtained…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 Giovanni Montani , Nakia Carlevaro

Knowledge of 3-D object shape is of great importance to robot manipulation tasks, but may not be readily available in unstructured environments. While vision is often occluded during robot-object interaction, high-resolution tactile sensors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Sudharshan Suresh , Zilin Si , Joshua G. Mangelson , Wenzhen Yuan , Michael Kaess

The main objective of this article is to develop scalable dynamic anomaly detectors when high-fidelity simulators of power systems are at our disposal. On the one hand, mathematical models of these high-fidelity simulators are typically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Kaikai Pan , Peter Palensky , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

We address the problem of 3D shape completion from sparse and noisy point clouds, a fundamental problem in computer vision and robotics. Recent approaches are either data-driven or learning-based: Data-driven approaches rely on a shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 David Stutz , Andreas Geiger

A Doppler backscattering (DBS) diagnostic has recently been installed on the Tokamak \`a Configuration Variable (TCV) to facilitate the study of edge turbulence and flow shear in a versatile experimental environment. The dual channel V-band…