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Exploiting POSS–Sorbitol Interactions: Issues of Reinforcement of Isotactic Polypropylene Spun Fibers by Roy, Sayantan, Lee, Byoung J, Kakish, Zahi M, Jana, Sadhan C

“…This study investigates the issues involving reinforcement of isotactic polypropylene (iPP) spun fibers by molecular adducts originating from the synergistic…”
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Effectiveness of Warm-Start PPO for Guidance with Highly Constrained Nonlinear Fixed-Wing Dynamics by Coletti, Christian T., Williams, Kyle A., Lehman, Hannah C., Kakish, Zahi M., Whitten, Daniel, Parish, Julie J.

“…Reinforcement learning (RL) may enable fixedwing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) guidance to achieve more agile and complex objectives than typical methods…”
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Controllability and Stabilization for Herding a Robotic Swarm Using a Leader: A Mean-Field Approach by Elamvazhuthi, Karthik, Kakish, Zahi, Shirsat, Aniket, Berman, Spring

“…In this article, we introduce a model and a control approach for herding a swarm of "follower" agents to a target distribution among a set of states using a…”
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Information Correlated Lévy Walk Exploration and Distributed Mapping Using a Swarm of Robots by Ramachandran, Ragesh K., Kakish, Zahi, Berman, Spring

“…In this article, we present a novel distributed method for constructing an occupancy grid map of an unknown environment using a swarm of robots with global…”
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Heterogeneous Policy Networks for Composite Robot Team Communication and Coordination by Seraj, Esmaeil, Paleja, Rohan, Pimentel, Luis, Lee, Kin Man, Wang, Zheyuan, Martin, Daniel, Sklar, Matthew, Zhang, John, Kakish, Zahi, Gombolay, Matthew

“…High-performing human-human teams learn intelligent and efficient communication and coordination strategies to maximize their joint utility. These teams…”
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Robotic Swarm Control Using Deep Reinforcement Learning Strategies Based on Mean-Field Models by Kakish, Zahi

“…As technological advancements in silicon, sensors, and actuation continue, the development of robotic swarms is shifting from the domain of science fiction to…”
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Machine learning at the edge to improve in-field safeguards inspections by Shoman, Nathan, Williams, Kyle, Balsara, Burzin, Ramakrishnan, Adithya, Kakish, Zahi, Coram, Jamie, Honnold, Philip, Rivas, Tania, Smartt, Heidi

“…Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are near-ubiquitous in day-to-day life; from cars with automated driver-assistance, recommender systems,…”
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Mean-Field Stabilization of Markov Chain Models for Robotic Swarms: Computational Approaches and Experimental Results by Deshmukh, Vaibhav, Elamvazhuthi, Karthik, Biswal, Shiba, Kakish, Zahi, Berman, Spring

“…In this letter, we present two computational approaches for synthesizing decentralized density-feedback laws that asymptotically stabilize a strictly positive…”
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CrazySim: A Software-in-the-Loop Simulator for the Crazyflie Nano Quadrotor by Llanes, Christian, Kakish, Zahi, Williams, Kyle, Coogan, Samuel

“…In this work we develop a software-in-the-loop simulator platform for Crazyflie nano quadrotor drone fleets. One of the challenges in maintaining a large fleet…”
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Towards Decentralized Human-Swarm Interaction by Means of Sequential Hand Gesture Recognition by Kakish, Zahi, Vedartham, Sritanay, Berman, Spring

“…In this work, we present preliminary work on a novel method for Human-Swarm Interaction (HSI) that can be used to change the macroscopic behavior of a swarm of…”
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Using Reinforcement Learning to Herd a Robotic Swarm to a Target Distribution by Kakish, Zahi M, Elamvazhuthi, Karthik, Berman, Spring

“…In this paper, we present a reinforcement learning approach to designing a control policy for a "leader" agent that herds a swarm of "follower" agents, via…”
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Information correlated Levy walk exploration and distributed mapping using a swarm of robots by Ramachandran, Ragesh K, Kakish, Zahi, Berman, Spring

“…IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2020 In this work, we present a novel distributed method for constructing an occupancy grid map of an unknown environment using a…”
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Adaptive synergy control of a dexterous artificial hand to rotate objects in multiple orientations via EMG facial recognition by Kent, Benjamin A., Kakish, Zahi M., Karnati, Nareen, Engeberg, Erik D.

“…An adaptive synergy controller is presented which allows a dexterous artificial hand to unscrew and screw an object using facial expressions derived from…”
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