Tin-vacancy centres in diamond are spin-photon interfaces with intrinsic environmental noise insensitivity. We reveal their high optical coherence in a nanostructured environment and generate single photons with a 99....
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(纸本)9781957171258
Tin-vacancy centres in diamond are spin-photon interfaces with intrinsic environmental noise insensitivity. We reveal their high optical coherence in a nanostructured environment and generate single photons with a 99.7% purity and an indistinguishability of 63(9)%. [1]
Flight is an energetically expensive task. While aerial insects can effortlessly fly through natural environments, achieving power autonomous flights in insect-scale robots remains a major challenge. In prior works, w...
Flight is an energetically expensive task. While aerial insects can effortlessly fly through natural environments, achieving power autonomous flights in insect-scale robots remains a major challenge. In prior works, we developed soft-actuated insect-scale aerial robots that demonstrated unique capabilities such as in-flight collision recovery and somersaults. However, the soft dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) have low efficiency (< 20%) and require a high driving voltage (>600 V). These properties represent formidable obstacles for soft aerial robots to achieve power autonomous flights. In this work, we developed a 127 mg boost circuit that can convert a 7.7 V DC input into a 600 V and 400 Hz output for driving a 120 mg DEA. It has an equivalent capacitance and resistance of 20 nF and 5 $\mathbf{k}\Omega$ , respectively. The DEA is assembled into a 158 mg aerial robot, which can demonstrate liftoff while carrying the boost circuit as a payload. Although the robot remains tethered to an off-board power supply, this result represents a first step towards achieving power autonomy in soft aerial robots.
Biomolecular systems can often be modeled by chemical reaction networks with unknown parameters. In many cases, the available data is constituted of samples from the stationary distribution, wherein each sample is giv...
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(数字)9781665467612
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(纸本)9781665467629
Biomolecular systems can often be modeled by chemical reaction networks with unknown parameters. In many cases, the available data is constituted of samples from the stationary distribution, wherein each sample is given by a cell in a population. In this work, we develop a framework to assess identifiability of parameters in such a situation. Working with the Linear Noise Approximation (LNA) we give an algebraic formulation of identifiability and use it to certify identifiability with Hilbert’s Nullstellensatz. We include applications to particular biomolecular systems, focusing on the identifiability of a sequestration-based motif and of a feedback arrangement based on it.
Aerial insects demonstrate fast and precise heading control when they perform body saccades and rapid escape maneuvers. While insect-scale micro-aerial-vehicles (IMAVs) have demonstrated early results on heading contr...
Aerial insects demonstrate fast and precise heading control when they perform body saccades and rapid escape maneuvers. While insect-scale micro-aerial-vehicles (IMAVs) have demonstrated early results on heading control, their flight endurance and heading angle tracking accuracy remain far inferior to that of natural fliers. In this work, we present a long endurance sub-gram aerial robot that can demonstrate effective heading control during hovering flight. Through using a tilted wing stroke-plane design, our robot demonstrates a 10-second flight where it tracks a desired yaw trajectory with maximum and root-mean-square (RMS) error of $\boldsymbol{14.2^{\circ}}$ and $\boldsymbol{5.8}^{\mathrm{o}}$ . The new robot design requires 7% higher lift forces for enabling heading angle control, which creates higher stress on wing hinges and adversely influences robot endurance. To address this challenge, we developed novel 3-layered wing hinges that exhibit 1.82 times improvement of lifetime. With the new wing hinges, our robot demonstrates a 40-second hovering flight - the longest among existing sub-gram IMAVs. These results represent substantial improvement of flight capabilities in soft-actuated IMAVs, showing the potential of operating these insect-like fliers in cluttered natural environments.
The natural flexibility of soft robotic grippers allows for versatile and compliant grasping. However, this same flexibility can restrict the gripper’s strength. Striking a balance between compliance and strength is ...
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(数字)9798350377705
ISBN:
(纸本)9798350377712
The natural flexibility of soft robotic grippers allows for versatile and compliant grasping. However, this same flexibility can restrict the gripper’s strength. Striking a balance between compliance and strength is essential for effective soft grippers. In this work, we present Flexible Robust Observant Gripper (FROG), a soft gripper that is both compliant and strong. We describe the mechanical design of the gripper, characterize the soft flexures used in the design, and analyze the grasp forces generated by the gripper. Utilizing the structure of the gripper, we develop feedforward grasp controllers and a classifier to distinguish between grasp types. Grasping experiments show that FROG can effectively grasp a variety of objects, including very soft or delicate items. Holding force tests show that our gripper can conform to the grasped object and exert large grasp forces.
This paper presents a comparison of three stator-permanent magnet (PM) motors, each with a different PM arrangement on the stator. These arrangements include tangential, radial, and tangential-radial directions of mag...
This paper presents a comparison of three stator-permanent magnet (PM) motors, each with a different PM arrangement on the stator. These arrangements include tangential, radial, and tangential-radial directions of magnetization for the PMs, which results in three main structures. The first and main motor structure contains two sets of PMs with tangential and radial magnetization directions, which introduces a new synthesized slot-PM flux reversal motor. The other two motors have only one PM arrangement (either tangential or radial). The simulation results under no-load and full-load states are derived with finite element method, which show that the dual-PM motor structure has higher torque density and smaller torque ripple compared to the other two motors. Additionally, all proposed topologies have demonstrated a robust overload capability with no significant drop in the torque-current curve.
Random jammers that overpower transmitted signals are a practical concern for many wireless communication protocols. As such, wireless receivers must be able to cope with standard channel noise and jamming (intentiona...
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Semantic Similarity, also known as Semantic Textual Similarity, is an NLP task that evaluates the relationship between texts using predefined metrics. It is crucial in domains like information retrieval and sentiment ...
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This article introduces a new estimator of average treatment effects under unobserved confounding in modern data-rich environments featuring large numbers of units and outcomes. The proposed estimator is doubly robust...
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We consider two-player zero-sum stochastic games and propose a two-timescale variant of Q-learning with function approximation that is payoff-based, convergent, rational, and symmetric between the two players. In two-...
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(纸本)9798400707049
We consider two-player zero-sum stochastic games and propose a two-timescale variant of Q-learning with function approximation that is payoff-based, convergent, rational, and symmetric between the two players. In two-timescale Q-learning, the fast-timescale iterates are updated in spirit to the stochastic gradient descent for minimizing a Bellman error variant and the slow-timescale iterates (which we use to compute the policies) are updated by taking a convex combination between its previous iterate and the latest fast-timescale iterate. In the special case of linear function approximation, we present, to the best of our knowledge, the first last-iterate finite-sample bound for payoff-based independent learning dynamics of these *** establish the results, we analyze our proposed algorithm using a two-timescale stochastic approximation framework, and derive the finite-sample bound through a Lyapunov-based approach. The key technical novelty lies in the construction of a valid Lyapunov function to capture the evolution of the slow-timescale iterates. Specifically, through a change of variable, we show that the update equation of the slow-timescale iterates resembles the classical smoothed best-response dynamics, where the regularized Nash gap serves as a valid Lyapunov function. This insight enables us to construct a valid Lyapunov function via a generalized variant of the Moreau envelope of the regularized Nash gap. The construction of our Lyapunov function might be of independent interest in studying the dynamics of general stochastic approximation *** full paper is publicly available at https://***/abs/2312.04905.
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