Teaching robots to manipulate objects with humanlike dexterity has long been one of robotics' toughest challenges. Tasks such as rotating an object in-hand or coordinating two robot arms to maneuver a ...

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The concept of this toolbox is a hierachy of dynamic system objects, from the most generic representation (any non-linear differential equations) to more system specific representations such as ...

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Evolutionary biologists have long been interested in studying the tempo and mode of emergence and extinction of species. One widely used approach to study rates of speciation and extinction is the ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a rapidly-exploring random trees (RRT) algorithm to solve the motion planning problem for hybrid systems. At each iteration, the proposed algorithm, called HyRRT, ...

Today’s society is characterized by change, and sometimes the constant changes come at a rate difficult to assimilate. We have very little time to reorganize our cognitive schemes and adapt our ...

The inability of glasses to find their lowest-energy configurations is often attributed to their potential energy landscapes: rugged, barrier-filled surfaces in high-dimensional space that seem ...