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Parameter estimation in structural dynamics generally involves inferring the values of physical, geometric, or even customized parameters based on first principles or expert knowledge, which is challenging for complex structural systems. In…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mingyuan Zhou , Haoze Song , Wenjing Ye , Wei Wang , Zhilu Lai

Surrogate models provide fast alternatives to costly aerodynamic simulations and are extremely useful in design and optimization applications. This study proposes the use of a recent kernel-based neural surrogate, KHRONOS. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Apurba Sarker , Reza T. Batley , Darshan Sarojini , Sourav Saha

Identifying accurate dynamic models is required for the simulation and control of various technical systems. In many important real-world applications, however, the two main modeling approaches often fail to meet requirements: first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Manuel A. Roehrl , Thomas A. Runkler , Veronika Brandtstetter , Michel Tokic , Stefan Obermayer

Neuron models built from experimental data have successfully predicted observed voltage oscillations within and beyond training range. A tantalising prospect is the possibility of estimating the unobserved dynamics of ion channels which is…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-28 Ian Williams , Joseph D. Taylor , Alain Nogaret

Reliable long-horizon prediction remains a challenge for data-driven CFD surrogates, because offline-trained models accumulate autoregressive errors and lose accuracy when operating conditions change. This work develops a divergence-aware…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-26 Xiangrui Zou , Zhuoqun Zhao , Guillermo Barragán , Soledad Le Clainche

Aerial robotics for transporting suspended payloads as the form of freely-floating manipulator are growing great interest in recent years. However, the force/torque caused by payload and residual dynamics will introduce unmodeled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ao Jin , Chenhao Li , Qinyi Wang , Ya Liu , Panfeng Huang , Fan Zhang

The development of a reliable and robust surrogate model is often constrained by the dimensionality of the problem. For a system with high-dimensional inputs/outputs (I/O), conventional approaches usually use a low-dimensional manifold to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Xihaier Luo , Ahsan Kareem

Simulations of crystal growth are performed by using Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network surrogate models, trained on a dataset of time sequences computed by numerical integration of Allen-Cahn dynamics including faceting via kinetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-24 Matteo Rigoni , Daniele Lanzoni , Francesco Montalenti , Roberto Bergamaschini

Mesh-based numerical solvers are an important part in many design tool chains. However, accurate simulations like computational fluid dynamics are time and resource consuming which is why surrogate models are employed to speed-up the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Sebastian Strönisch , Maximilian Sander , Andreas Knüpfer , Marcus Meyer

This work proposes a new machine learning (ML)-based paradigm aiming to enhance the computational efficiency of non-equilibrium reacting flow simulations while ensuring compliance with the underlying physics. The framework combines…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Ivan Zanardi , Simone Venturi , Marco Panesi

This paper develops a surrogate model refinement approach for the simulation of dynamical systems and the solution of optimization problems governed by dynamical systems in which surrogates replace expensive-to-compute state- and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Jonathan R. Cangelosi , Matthias Heinkenschloss

This paper presents a methodology to learn surrogate models of steady state fluid dynamics simulations on meshed domains, based on Implicit Neural Representations (INRs). The proposed models can be applied directly to unstructured domains…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Giovanni Catalani , Siddhant Agarwal , Xavier Bertrand , Frederic Tost , Michael Bauerheim , Joseph Morlier

Neural reconstruction models for autonomous driving simulation have made significant strides in recent years, with dynamic models becoming increasingly prevalent. However, these models are typically limited to handling in-domain objects…

This paper presents a physics and data co-driven surrogate modeling method for efficient rare event simulation of civil and mechanical systems with high-dimensional input uncertainties. The method fuses interpretable low-fidelity physical…

Computation · Statistics 2024-05-10 Jianhua Xian , Ziqi Wang

Neural network surrogate models have emerged as a promising approach to model solution fields for a wide variety of boundary value problems encountered in physical modeling. Stochastic problems represent an area of particularly high…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-18 Noah Wade , Kirubel Teferra

We propose a deep neural network (DNN) as a fast surrogate model for local stress (and in principle strain) calculation in inhomogeneous non-linear material systems. We show that the DNN predicts the local stresses with about 3.8% mean…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-17 Jaber Rezaei Mianroodi , Nima H. Siboni , Dierk Raabe

Physics-based and data-driven models for remaining useful lifetime (RUL) prediction typically suffer from two major challenges that limit their applicability to complex real-world domains: (1) incompleteness of physics-based models and (2)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Manuel Arias Chao , Chetan Kulkarni , Kai Goebel , Olga Fink

Recent advances in autoregressive neural surrogate models have enabled orders-of-magnitude speedups in simulating dynamical systems. However, autoregressive models are generally prone to distribution drift: compounding errors in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Qi Liu , Laure Zanna , Joan Bruna

Hyper-redundant robots offer high dexterity, making them good at operating in confined and unstructured environments. To extend the reachable workspace, we built a multi-segment flexible rack actuated planar robot. However, the compliance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yuli Song , Wenbo Li , Wenci Xin , Zhiqiang Tang , Daniela Rus , Cecilia Laschi

Previous humanoid robot research works treat the robot as a bipedal mobile manipulation platform, where only the feet and hands contact the environment. However, we humans use all body parts to interact with the world, e.g., we sit in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Ziwen Zhuang , Hang Zhao