Simulation

Legged robot is a common type of robot, which usually consist one or few flexible legs with motors to control them, mimicking the muscles and joints of biological legs. The SLIP (Spring-Loaded Inverted Pendulum) model, a classic model for legged robot legs, has become a foundation for many research of…

The process of developing a scientific workflow often contains the following basic outline: Develop and validate a parameterized model. Develop post-processing scripts for visualization. Look for speed-up and improvement opportunities. Run parameter study. This article shows impressive ways in which ChatGPT (or other language models) can assist, apart from doing…

Theory of Mind (ToM) is the ability to understand and predict other people’s mental states, such as beliefs and intentions, which is essential for successful social interaction and communication. ToM is used in everyday situations, such as passing someone in a narrow train passage and understanding sarcastic comments in emails…

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation (DLA) can be explained as a random walk process (particles due to random movement walk away from the place where they started) due to the Brownian motion (see also one of my previous articles). The random motion behavior affects that the particle can be grouped in clusters which…

This is an partial English translation of the following Japanese text (as of March 19, 2023). The Japanese text will be added as appropriate. DNNは世界を表現するという事｜ぼやーじゅ｜note ※この文章は書きかけで、特に応用例などは今後考えていきたいと思います。この記事に追加するか、別の記事にするかは思案中です。…note.com There have been remarkable changes and improvements in our lives based on DNNs, such as image generation and ChatGPT, but I have been thinking about the…

Today im my post I want to concentrate on a less technical topic (at least to start with 😄). We will discuss solving the following classic puzzle: You are given a 1 meter long rod. Someone cuts it in n places. The locations of the cuts are picked independently uniformly…

In our previous part of this blog series we have talked about the challenges we faced developing our very first Warehouse Control System (WCS). This system orchestrates flows of groceries over 30 miles of conveyor in our automated fulfillment center (FC) in the Dutch city of Utrecht. Here, thousands of…

An objective look at the 2023 NCAA Men’s Tournament Bracket As far as analytics go, March Madness is perhaps the favorite time of year for those who love sports and data. It always feels like a long wait, but it’s finally here and in full swing. The play-ins have begun (We see you, Texas A&M CC and Pitt). …