Pneumatic soft robots have undergone significant advancements in recent ***,the majority of robot motion control still relies on electronic computers to regulate the valves and air *** the potential reduction in contr...
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Pneumatic soft robots have undergone significant advancements in recent ***,the majority of robot motion control still relies on electronic computers to regulate the valves and air *** the potential reduction in controller dependency by utilizing soft pneumatic oscillators,challenges such as low flow rates,complex manufacturing processes,and lack of adjustment ability *** by the geckos'spine,we propose a Spinal Bistable Oscillator(SBO)that operates without discrete components or electronic control hardware,achieving stable oscillatory motion under constant air *** oscillator employs a soft control valve and lagging pin,which can switch the direction of airflow conduction based on the oscillation angle of the *** types of actuators can be controlled using a series *** this study,the effective working range of the soft control valve,influence of the spring pretension force on the torque during oscillation,and effect of different throttle tube lengths on the oscillation frequency were ***,a self-crawling robot was *** results demonstrate that the robot can crawl at speeds ranging from 3.6 to 5.7 mm/s(or 3.1 to 4.9 body length/min)and overcome its own gravity(with a weight of 165 g)to climb *** SBO proposed in this study exhibits characteristics of lightweight,low cost,high oscillation torque,and tunable *** holds promise for application in joint control of future pneumatic soft robots.
A backward wave oscillator with parallel multiple beams and multi-pin slow-wave structure(SWS)operating at the frequency above 500 GHz is studied. Both the cold-cavity dispersion characteristics and CST Particle Studi...
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A backward wave oscillator with parallel multiple beams and multi-pin slow-wave structure(SWS)operating at the frequency above 500 GHz is studied. Both the cold-cavity dispersion characteristics and CST Particle Studio simulation results reveal that there are obvious mode competition problems in this kind of terahertz *** that the structure of the multi-pin SWS is similar to that of two-dimensional photonic crystals, we introduce the defects of photonic crystal with the property of filtering into the SWS to suppress high-order ***, a detailed study of the effect of suppressing higher-order modes is carried out in the process of changing location and arrangement pattern of the point defects. The stable, single-mode operation of the terahertz source is realized. The simulation results show that the ratio of the output peak power of the higher-order modes to that of the fundamental mode is less than 1.9%. Also, the source can provide the output peak power of 44.8 m W at the frequency of 502.2 GHz in the case of low beam voltage of 4.7 kV.
Graph processing has been widely used in many scenarios,from scientific computing to artificial *** processing exhibits irregular computational parallelism and random memory accesses,unlike traditional ***,running gra...
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Graph processing has been widely used in many scenarios,from scientific computing to artificial *** processing exhibits irregular computational parallelism and random memory accesses,unlike traditional ***,running graph processing workloads on conventional architectures(e.g.,CPUs and GPUs)often shows a significantly low compute-memory ratio with few performance benefits,which can be,in many cases,even slower than a specialized single-thread graph *** domain-specific hardware designs are essential for graph processing,it is still challenging to transform the hardware capability to performance boost without coupled software *** article presents a graph processing ecosystem from hardware to *** start by introducing a series of hardware accelerators as the foundation of this ***,the codesigned parallel graph systems and their distributed techniques are presented to support graph ***,we introduce our efforts on novel graph applications and hardware *** results show that various graph applications can be efficiently accelerated in this graph processing ecosystem.
he advance in Non-Volatile Memory(NVM)has changed the traditional *** to DRAM,NVM has the advantages of nonvolatility and large ***,as the read/write speed of NVM is still lower than that of DRAM,building DRAM/NVM-bas...
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he advance in Non-Volatile Memory(NVM)has changed the traditional *** to DRAM,NVM has the advantages of nonvolatility and large ***,as the read/write speed of NVM is still lower than that of DRAM,building DRAM/NVM-based hybrid memory systems is a feasible way of adding NVM into the current computer *** paper aims to optimize the well-known B^(+)-tree for hybrid *** novelty of this study is ***,we observed that the space utilization of internal nodes in B^(+)-tree is generally below 70%.Inspired by this observation,we propose to maintain hot keys in the free space within internal nodes,yielding a new index named HATree(Hotness-Aware Tree).The new idea of HATree is to use the unused space of the parent of leaf nodes(PLNs)as the hotspot data ***,no extra space is needed,and the in-node hotspot cache can efficiently improve query ***,to further improve the update performance of HATree,we propose to utilize the eADR technology supported by the third-generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors to enhance HATree with instant log persistence,which results in the new HATree-Log *** conduct extensive experiments on real hybrid memory architecture involving DRAM and Intel Optane Persistent Memory to evaluate the performance of HATree and *** state-of-the-art indices for hybrid memory,namely NBTree,LBTree,and FPTree,are included in the experiments,and the results suggest the efficiency of HATree and HATree-Log.
Localizing discriminative object parts(e.g.,bird head)is crucial for fine-grained classification tasks,especially for the more challenging fine-grained few-shot *** work always relies on the learned object parts in a ...
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Localizing discriminative object parts(e.g.,bird head)is crucial for fine-grained classification tasks,especially for the more challenging fine-grained few-shot *** work always relies on the learned object parts in a unified manner,where they attend the same object parts(even with common attention weights)for different few-shot episodic *** this paper,we propose that it should adaptively capture the task-specific object parts that require attention for each few-shot task,since the parts that can distinguish different tasks are naturally *** for a few-shot task,after obtaining part-level deep features,we learn a task-specific part-based dictionary for both aligning and reweighting part features in an ***,part-level categorical prototypes are generated based on the part features of support data,which are later employed by calculating distances to classify query data for *** retain the discriminative ability of the part-level representations(i.e.,part features and part prototypes),we design an optimal transport solution that also utilizes query data in a transductive way to optimize the aforementioned distance calculation for the final *** experiments on five fine-grained benchmarks show the superiority of our method,especially for the 1-shot setting,gaining 0.12%,8.56%and 5.87%improvements over state-of-the-art methods on CUB,Stanford Dogs,and Stanford Cars,respectively.
Industrial cyber-physical systems closely integrate physical processes with cyberspace, enabling real-time exchange of various information about system dynamics, sensor outputs, and control decisions. The connection b...
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Industrial cyber-physical systems closely integrate physical processes with cyberspace, enabling real-time exchange of various information about system dynamics, sensor outputs, and control decisions. The connection between cyberspace and physical processes results in the exposure of industrial production information to unprecedented security risks. It is imperative to develop suitable strategies to ensure cyber security while meeting basic performance *** the perspective of control engineering, this review presents the most up-to-date results for privacy-preserving filtering,control, and optimization in industrial cyber-physical systems. Fashionable privacy-preserving strategies and mainstream evaluation metrics are first presented in a systematic manner for performance evaluation and engineering *** discussion discloses the impact of typical filtering algorithms on filtering performance, specifically for privacy-preserving Kalman filtering. Then, the latest development of industrial control is systematically investigated from consensus control of multi-agent systems, platoon control of autonomous vehicles as well as hierarchical control of power systems. The focus thereafter is on the latest privacy-preserving optimization algorithms in the framework of consensus and their applications in distributed economic dispatch issues and energy management of networked power systems. In the end, several topics for potential future research are highlighted.
Growth and electronic properties of ultrathin Ga films on Cd(0001) are investigated by low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy(STM) and density functional theory(DFT) calculations. It is found that Ga films exhi...
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Growth and electronic properties of ultrathin Ga films on Cd(0001) are investigated by low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy(STM) and density functional theory(DFT) calculations. It is found that Ga films exhibit the epitaxial growth with the pseudomorphic 1×1 lattice. The Ga islands deposited at 100 K show a ramified shape due to the suppressed edge diffusion and corner crossing. Furthermore, the majority of Ga islands reveal flat tops and a preferred height of three atomic layers, indicating the electronic growth at low temperature. Annealing to room temperature leads to not only the growth mode transition from electronic growth to conventional Stranski–Krastanov growth, but also the shape transition from ramified islands to smooth compact islands. Scanning tunneling spectroscopy(STS) measurements reveal that the Ga monolayer exhibits metallic behavior. DFT calculations indicate that all the interfacial Ga atoms occupy the energetically favorable hcp-hollow sites of the substrate. The charge density difference analysis demonstrates that the charge transfer from the Cd substrate to the Ga atoms is negligible, and there is weak interaction between Ga atoms and the Cd substrate. These results shall shed important light on fabrication of ultrathin Ga films on metal substrates with novel physical properties.
Software-defined networking decouples the control plane from the data plane to enable centralized flow-level network management, while requiring periodically collecting traffic statistics from the data plane to enforc...
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Software-defined networking decouples the control plane from the data plane to enable centralized flow-level network management, while requiring periodically collecting traffic statistics from the data plane to enforce optimal management. As one of the most important traffic measurement tasks, heavy flow detection has received wide attention for its providing fundamental statistics in various practical applications. Existing studies have proposed sketch-based detection solutions to address the mismatch problem between massive traffic and limited high-speed memory resources for measurement in the data plane. However,they overlook the potential of integrating the flow table, where each entry simultaneously enforces forwarding rules for specific flows and records flow statistics into the sketch design, leading to redundant measurement between the flow table and sketch and being unable to utilize their statistics to jointly enhance estimation accuracy. We propose flow entries assisted sketch(FEA-Sketch) in this work, which employs a differentiated flow recording strategy to record flow statistics jointly using the flow table and sketch for memory-efficient and computationally efficient heavy flow detection. We also propose an optimization-based estimation algorithm to accurately recover per-flow sizes for the flows that only have aggregated statistics due to the sharing of entries in the table(or counters in the sketch). We extend the FEA-Sketch to the distributed measurement setting with a hop-based collaborative measurement strategy, which reduces the measurement workload on switches across the network by avoiding redundant measurements. The experimental results on real Internet traces show that the accuracy of heavy flow detection is improved up to 1.95 times, and the bias of flow size estimation is improved up to 2.99 times, demonstrating that integrating flow entries can significantly improve the performance of heavy flow detection.
This paper examines fault-tolerant quantized control for neural networks under persistent dwell-time switching, considering the presence of actuator faults and dynamic output quantization. The dynamic scaling factor (...
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The proliferation of deep learning(DL)has amplified the demand for processing large and complex datasets for tasks such as modeling,classification,and ***,traditional DL methods compromise client privacy by collecting...
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The proliferation of deep learning(DL)has amplified the demand for processing large and complex datasets for tasks such as modeling,classification,and ***,traditional DL methods compromise client privacy by collecting sensitive data,underscoring the necessity for privacy-preserving solutions like Federated Learning(FL).FL effectively addresses escalating privacy concerns by facilitating collaborative model training without necessitating the sharing of raw *** that FL clients autonomously manage training data,encouraging client engagement is pivotal for successful model *** overcome challenges like unreliable communication and budget constraints,we present ENTIRE,a contract-based dynamic participation incentive mechanism for *** ensures impartial model training by tailoring participation levels and payments to accommodate diverse client *** approach involves several key ***,we examine how random client participation impacts FL convergence in non-convex scenarios,establishing the correlation between client participation levels and model ***,we reframe model performance optimization as an optimal contract design challenge to guide the distribution of rewards among clients with varying participation *** balancing budget considerations with model effectiveness,we craft optimal contracts for different budgetary constraints,prompting clients to disclose their participation preferences and select suitable contracts for contributing to model ***,we conduct a comprehensive experimental evaluation of ENTIRE using three real *** results demonstrate a significant 12.9%enhancement in model performance,validating its adherence to anticipated economic properties.
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