We study the spread of multi-competitive viruses over a (possibly) time-varying network of individuals accounting for the presence of shared infrastructure networks that further enables transmission of the virus. We e...
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We study the spread of multi-competitive viruses over a (possibly) time-varying network of individuals accounting for the presence of shared infrastructure networks that further enables transmission of the virus. We establish a sufficient condition for exponentially fast eradication of a virus for: 1) time-invariant graphs, 2) time-varying graphs with symmetric interactions between individuals and homogeneous virus spread across the network (same healing and infection rate for all individuals), and 3) directed and slowly varying graphs with heterogeneous virus spread (not necessarily same healing and infection rates for all individuals) across the network. Numerical examples illustrate our theoretical results and indicate that, for the time-varying case, violation of the aforementioned sufficient conditions could lead to the persistence of a virus.
This study proposes an anti-slip control system for electric trains based on the fuzzy logic theory, which prevents the wheels from slipping during the acceleration and simultaneously tracks the desired speed profile....
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A reinforcement learning (RL) enabled intelligent motion planning for collision-free autonomous docking manoeuvre explicitly designed for a robotic floating satellite emulation platform is presented in this article. T...
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A reinforcement learning (RL) enabled intelligent motion planning for collision-free autonomous docking manoeuvre explicitly designed for a robotic floating satellite emulation platform is presented in this article. The Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient-based RL algorithm involving deep neural network architecture in the actor-critic framework is considered to obtain the collision-free safe docking policy. The RL agents have been trained to perform a resilient target acquisition, ensuring its terminal position and velocity requirements while enabling the capability to avoid both static and dynamic obstacles. The resulting optimal policy is implemented as a feedback control law to enable computationally efficient onboard reactive motion planning for autonomous safe docking of the robotic floating satellite platform in a complex dense debris environment. The efficacy of the proposed motion planning scheme is validated with numerous simulation studies, where it is depicted that the trained RL-based planner has the potential to address the target acquisition with a sufficient degree of accuracy in the presence of both static and dynamic obstacle scenarios.
In this article, we introduce a novel strategy for robotic exploration in unknown environments using a semantic topometric map. As it will be presented, the semantic topometric map is generated by segmenting the grid ...
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Controlling 6 Degrees-of-Freedom (DoF) robotic manipulators in an online, model-free manner poses significant challenges due to their complex coupling, non-linearities, and the need to account for unmodeled dynamics. ...
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In swarm robotics, most of the control algorithms are inspired by the behaviors of animal swarms. The capability gap between robots and animals, however, hinders the reliability of these algorithms. Toward developing ...
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This paper presents a study of the energy consumption of a full electric bus charged at a fast-charging station with pantographs in the city of Maribor. The results of simulated and real tests on the PT line 6 are com...
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At present, it is still a great challenge to improve the observation accuracy of two-photon fluorescence microscope. A new method that using auxiliary microspheres as movable components on the sample is proposed to so...
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Local motion planning is an essential component of autonomous robot navigation systems as it involves generating collision-free trajectories for the robot in real-time, given its current position, the map of the envir...
Local motion planning is an essential component of autonomous robot navigation systems as it involves generating collision-free trajectories for the robot in real-time, given its current position, the map of the environment and a goal. Considering an a priori goal path, computed by a global planner or as the output of a mission planning approach, this paper proposes a Two-Stream Deep Reinforcement Learning strategy for local motion planning that takes as inputs a local costmap representing the robot’s surrounding obstacles and a local costmap representing the nearest goal path. The proposed approach uses a Double Dueling Deep Q-Network and a new reward model to avoid obstacles while trying to maintain the lateral error between the robot and the goal path close to zero. Our approach enables the robot to navigate through complex environments, including cluttered spaces and narrow passages, while avoiding collisions with obstacles. Evaluation of the proposed approach was carried out in an in-house simulation environment, in five scenarios. Double and Double Dueling architectures were evaluated; the presented results show that the proposed strategy can correctly follow the desired goal path and, when needed, avoid obstacles ahead and recover back to following the goal path.
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