Intelligent indoor robotics is expected to rapidly gain importance in crucial areas of our modern society such as at-home health care and factories. Yet, existing mobile robots are limited in their ability to perceive...
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Intelligent indoor robotics is expected to rapidly gain importance in crucial areas of our modern society such as at-home health care and factories. Yet, existing mobile robots are limited in their ability to perceive and respond to dynamically evolving complex indoor environments because of their inherently limited sensing and computing resources that are, moreover, traded off against their cruise time and payload. To address these formidable challenges, here we propose intelligent indoor metasurface robotics(I2MR),where all sensing and computing are relegated to a centralized robotic brain endowed with microwave perception; and I2MR's limbs(motorized vehicles, airborne drones, etc.) merely execute the wirelessly received instructions from the brain. The key aspect of our concept is the centralized use of a computation-enabled programmable metasurface that can flexibly mold microwave propagation in the indoor wireless environment, including a sensing and localization modality based on configurational diversity and a communication modality to establish a preferential high-capacity wireless link between the I2MR's brain and limbs. The metasurface-enhanced microwave perception is capable of realizing low-latency and high-resolution three-dimensional imaging of humans, even around corners and behind thick concrete walls, which is the basis for action decisions of the I2MR's brain. I2MR is thus endowed with real-time and full-context awareness of its operating indoor environment. We implement, experimentally, a proof-of-principle demonstration at ~2.4 GHz, in which I2MR provides health-care assistance to a human inhabitant. The presented strategy opens a new avenue for the conception of smart and wirelessly networked indoor robotics.
Neuromorphic computing offers significant advantages in addressing data redundancy and enhancing system energy efficiency. Although extensive research has been conducted on pulsed neural networks and bionic sensors, t...
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Neuromorphic computing offers significant advantages in addressing data redundancy and enhancing system energy efficiency. Although extensive research has been conducted on pulsed neural networks and bionic sensors, the development of artificial electronic afferent neurons for low-energy information transfer remains limited. This study introduces an artificial afferent neuron comprising a vanadium dioxide(VO2)device, capacitor and resistor. The VO2devices exhibit stable electrically induced metal-insulator transition(MIT). Leveraging the MIT of this device, we develop an artificial afferent neuron to transform constant or sinusoidal analog signals into pulsed voltage signals. The output frequency increases with the increase of the input voltage, mimicking the faster pulse outputs of biological afferent neurons in response to stronger stimuli.
Polyethylene-based ionomers (PE ionomers) are polymers featuring polyethylene as the main chain structure with a small fraction of ionic functional groups pendant to the polyethylene backbone. Due to this combination ...
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We present a stochastic trust-region model-based framework in which its radius is related to the probabilistic ***,we propose a specific algorithm termed STRME,in which the trust-region radius depends linearly on the ...
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We present a stochastic trust-region model-based framework in which its radius is related to the probabilistic ***,we propose a specific algorithm termed STRME,in which the trust-region radius depends linearly on the gradient used to define the latest *** complexity results of the STRME method in nonconvex,convex and strongly convex settings are presented,which match those of the existing algorithms based on probabilistic *** addition,several numerical experiments are carried out to reveal the benefits of the proposed methods compared to the existing stochastic trust-region methods and other relevant stochastic gradient methods.
This paper is concerned with consensus of a secondorder linear time-invariant multi-agent system in the situation that there exists a communication delay among the agents in the network.A proportional-integral consens...
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This paper is concerned with consensus of a secondorder linear time-invariant multi-agent system in the situation that there exists a communication delay among the agents in the network.A proportional-integral consensus protocol is designed by using delayed and memorized state *** the proportional-integral consensus protocol,the consensus problem of the multi-agent system is transformed into the problem of asymptotic stability of the corresponding linear time-invariant time-delay *** that the location of the eigenvalues of the corresponding characteristic function of the linear time-invariant time-delay system not only determines the stability of the system,but also plays a critical role in the dynamic performance of the *** this paper,based on recent results on the distribution of roots of quasi-polynomials,several necessary conditions for Hurwitz stability for a class of quasi-polynomials are first *** allowable regions of consensus protocol parameters are *** necessary and sufficient conditions for determining effective protocol parameters are *** designed protocol can achieve consensus and improve the dynamic performance of the second-order multi-agent ***,the effects of delays on consensus of systems of harmonic oscillators/double integrators under proportional-integral consensus protocols are ***,some results on proportional-integral consensus are derived for a class of high-order linear time-invariant multi-agent systems.
In this paper,we develop a new sixth-order WENO scheme by adopting a convex combina-tion of a sixth-order global reconstruction and four low-order local *** the classical WENO schemes,the associated linear weights of ...
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In this paper,we develop a new sixth-order WENO scheme by adopting a convex combina-tion of a sixth-order global reconstruction and four low-order local *** the classical WENO schemes,the associated linear weights of the new scheme can be any positive numbers with the only requirement that their sum equals ***,a very simple smoothness indicator for the global stencil is *** new scheme can achieve sixth-order accuracy in smooth *** tests in some one-and two-dimensional bench-mark problems show that the new scheme has a little bit higher resolution compared with the recently developed sixth-order WENO-Z6 scheme,and it is more efficient than the classical fifth-order WENO-JS5 scheme and the recently developed sixth-order WENO6-S scheme.
Federated learning is a promising learning paradigm that allows collaborative training of models across multiple data owners without sharing their raw *** enhance privacy in federated learning,multi-party computation ...
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Federated learning is a promising learning paradigm that allows collaborative training of models across multiple data owners without sharing their raw *** enhance privacy in federated learning,multi-party computation can be leveraged for secure communication and computation during model *** survey provides a comprehensive review on how to integrate mainstream multi-party computation techniques into diverse federated learning setups for guaranteed privacy,as well as the corresponding optimization techniques to improve model accuracy and training *** also pinpoint future directions to deploy federated learning to a wider range of applications.
In recent years,ultra-wide bandgap β-Ga_(2)O_(3) has emerged as a fascinating semiconductor material due to its great potential in power and photoelectric *** semiconductor industrial,thermal treatment has been widel...
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In recent years,ultra-wide bandgap β-Ga_(2)O_(3) has emerged as a fascinating semiconductor material due to its great potential in power and photoelectric *** semiconductor industrial,thermal treatment has been widely utilized as a convenient and effective approach for substrate property modulation and device ***,a thorough summary of β-Ga_(2)O_(3) substrates and devices behaviors after high-temperature treatment should be *** this review,we present the recent advances in modulating properties of β-Ga_(2)O_(3) substrates by thermal treatment,which include three major applications:(ⅰ)tuning surface electrical properties,(ⅱ)modifying surface morphology,and(ⅲ)oxidating ***,regulating electrical contacts and handling with radiation damage and ion implantation have also been discussed in device *** each category,universal annealing conditions were speculated to figure out the corresponding problems,and some unsolved questions were proposed *** review could construct a systematic thermal treatment strategy for various purposes and applications of β-Ga_(2)O_(3).
Neural network methods have been widely used in many fields of scientific research with the rapid increase of computing *** physics-informed neural networks(PINNs)have received much attention as a major breakthrough i...
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Neural network methods have been widely used in many fields of scientific research with the rapid increase of computing *** physics-informed neural networks(PINNs)have received much attention as a major breakthrough in solving partial differential equations using neural *** this paper,a resampling technique based on the expansion-shrinkage point(ESP)selection strategy is developed to dynamically modify the distribution of training points in accordance with the performance of the neural *** this new approach both training sites with slight changes in residual values and training points with large residuals are taken into *** order to make the distribution of training points more uniform,the concept of continuity is further introduced and *** method successfully addresses the issue that the neural network becomes ill or even crashes due to the extensive alteration of training point *** effectiveness of the improved physics-informed neural networks with expansion-shrinkage resampling is demonstrated through a series of numerical experiments.
With the widespread use of network infrastructures such as 5G and low-power wide-area networks,a large number of the Internet of Things(IoT)device nodes are connected to the network,generating massive amounts of ***,i...
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With the widespread use of network infrastructures such as 5G and low-power wide-area networks,a large number of the Internet of Things(IoT)device nodes are connected to the network,generating massive amounts of ***,it is a great challenge to achieve anonymous authentication of IoT nodes and secure data *** present,blockchain technology is widely used in authentication and s data storage due to its decentralization and ***,Fan et *** a secure and efficient blockchain-based IoT authentication and data sharing *** studied it as one of the state-of-the-art protocols and found that this scheme does not consider the resistance to ephemeral secret compromise attacks and the anonymity of IoT *** overcome these security flaws,this paper proposes an enhanced authentication and data transmission scheme,which is verified by formal security proofs and informal security ***,Scyther is applied to prove the security of the proposed ***,it is demonstrated that the proposed scheme achieves better performance in terms of communication and computational cost compared to other related schemes.
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