The 'Great Unified Microscope' can see both micro and nanoscale structures

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have built a microscope that can detect a signal over an intensity range 14 times ...

Robust 'Huber mean' for geometric data protects against noise and outliers

In an era driven by complex data, scientists are increasingly encountering information that doesn't lie neatly on flat, ...

Adam Grant on lessons from the pandemic, datum versus data, and how abstract numbers can lead to very real human outcomes

In this excerpt from the new book 'Speak Data,' the Wharton professor and best-selling author shares his thoughts on how we ...
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Output Tracking Control for Nonlinear Affine Systems With Relative Degree Two Based on Control Barrier Functions

Abstract: Nonlinear affine systems with relative degree two widely exist in the control field, and the unified output tracking control approach of these systems is still an open problem. This paper ...
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Convex Co-Design of Mixed-Relative Degree Control Barrier Functions and Feedback Controllers for Linear Systems

Abstract: Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) have been proposed as an efficient tool for safe control design. Given an initial set, a safe set and system dynamics, designing a candidate CBF is known to ...