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Reinforcement learning for robot assembly
Published 2024“…Robotic systems are traditionally employed in manufacturing to automate repetitive tasks such as welding, painting, and pick-and-place. Despite tremendous progress in robotics research, the classical assembly skill remains a challenge. …”
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Modeling and Implementation of the U.S. Hydrogen Production Tax Credit
Published 2024“…Applying a macro-energy systems model to case studies of Texas and Florida, we show that divergent results in the literature, which presented a conundrum for regulators trying to pick between policy options, are explained by different interpretations of the proposed “additionality” requirement. …”
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Competitive intrinsically motivated agents for resource allocation
Published 2013“…In particular, agent’s behaviors in the pursuit of needs address each of the three questions individually: The need of competence drives agents to adapt to the dynamically changing environment, by a constant pursuit of good performance and new skills; The need of relatedness enables agents to provide reliable solutions from unevenly distributed information, by advocating collaborations with other agents to collect and synthesize information; The need of autonomy steers agents in systematically integrating various strategies and behaviors by encouraging them to make their own decisions proactively. …”
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Investigation of low coherence interferometry techniques for biomedical applications
Published 2014“…The results showed that there is sufficient resolution in the overall endoscopic OCT probe system to pick out sweat ducts beneath a human skin. The axial resolution of the OCT system depends on the bandwidth of the light source. …”
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Large-scale capacitive touch panels : sensor pattern design, sampling and interpolation
Published 2017“…We differentiate between touch panels and touch screens based on size, and steer the direction of this thesis towards touch panels after identifying three unanswered research questions that come up while designing large-scale capacitive touch panels. …”
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Export competitiveness in the context of Singapore
Published 2014“…This means that a currency appreciation policy (decline in nominal exchange rate) is appropriate as long as the relative price level is able to steer Singapore's exports to a more favorable position. …”
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南洋与没有历史的人民 : 苗秀小说中的底层华人= Nanyang and the people without history: a study of the lower-class Chinese people in Miao Xiu's novels
Published 2023“…The lower-class characters included the anti-Japanese fighters, pick pocketers, secret society members, prostitutes, and intellectuals. …”
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Sampling-based approaches for image and video matting
Published 2014“…A new objective function is used to force those foreground and background samples to be picked that are generated from well-separated distributions. …”
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四面楚歌下的同志再现:李碧华和陈凯歌对《霸王别姬》的改写 = Representations of the besieged “Comrade” : Li Bihua's and Chen Kaige's adaptations of the Peking Opera “Farewell My Concubine”...
Published 2013“…It was at the historical juncture when foreign gunboats shattered the Qing regime’s belief in China as the world’s center that the Peking Opera was picked and named as the quintessential representative of Chinese Culture. …”
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Neural abstractive summarization: improvements at the sequence-level
Published 2024“…We propose a new model named PromptSum, which steers output summaries given an input list of keywords, such as named entities. …”
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Transport phenomena of immiscible fluids in microchannels
Published 2021“…A custom-made external magnetic field was applied to steer the Janus droplet. Rapid rotation of the Janus particle under the magnetic field was studied and the relationship between the angular velocity of the Janus particle and the frequency of the applied magnetic field was revealed. …”
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Neural combinatorial optimization: from routing to integer programming
Published 2022“…The policy in MDP is trained as the destroy operator to pick a subset of variables at each LNS step, which is reoptimized by an IP solver as the repair operator. …”
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