Design and Control of a Bipedal Robotic Character

Kavli Affiliate: David Muller | First 5 Authors: Ruben Grandia, Espen Knoop, Michael A. Hopkins, Georg Wiedebach, Jared Bishop | Summary: Legged robots have achieved impressive feats in dynamic locomotion in challenging unstructured terrain. However, in entertainment applications, the design and control of these robots face additional challenges in appealing to human audiences. This work […]


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CorrDiff: Adaptive Delay-aware Detector with Temporal Cue Inputs for Real-time Object Detection

Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Xiang Zhang, Chenchen Fu, Yufei Cui, Lan Yi, Yuyang Sun | Summary: Real-time object detection takes an essential part in the decision-making process of numerous real-world applications, including collision avoidance and path planning in autonomous driving systems. This paper presents a novel real-time streaming perception method named […]


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Time-reversal symmetry breaking fractional quantum spin Hall insulator in moiré MoTe2

Kavli Affiliate: Jie Shan | First 5 Authors: Kaifei Kang, Yichen Qiu, Bowen Shen, Kihong Lee, Zhengchao Xia | Summary: Twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors, which support flat Chern bands with enhanced interaction effects, realize a platform for fractional Chern insulators and fractional quantum spin Hall (FQSH) insulators. A recent experiment has reported the […]


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Time-reversal symmetry breaking fractional quantum spin Hall insulator in moiré MoTe2

Kavli Affiliate: Jie Shan | First 5 Authors: Kaifei Kang, Yichen Qiu, Bowen Shen, Kihong Lee, Zhengchao Xia | Summary: Twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors, which support flat Chern bands with enhanced interaction effects, realize a platform for fractional Chern insulators and fractional quantum spin Hall (FQSH) insulators. A recent experiment has reported the […]


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Time-reversal symmetry breaking fractional quantum spin Hall insulator in moiré MoTe2

Kavli Affiliate: Jie Shan | First 5 Authors: Kaifei Kang, Yichen Qiu, Bowen Shen, Kihong Lee, Zhengchao Xia | Summary: Twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors, which support flat Chern bands with enhanced interaction effects, realize a platform for fractional Chern insulators and fractional quantum spin Hall (FQSH) insulators. A recent experiment has reported the […]


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ROLO-SLAM: Rotation-Optimized LiDAR-Only SLAM in Uneven Terrain with Ground Vehicle

Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Yinchuan Wang, Bin Ren, Xiang Zhang, Pengyu Wang, Chaoqun Wang | Summary: LiDAR-based SLAM is recognized as one effective method to offer localization guidance in rough environments. However, off-the-shelf LiDAR-based SLAM methods suffer from significant pose estimation drifts, particularly components relevant to the vertical direction, when passing […]


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Heitler effect and resonance fluorescence in quantum magnonics

Kavli Affiliate: Ya M. Blanter | First 5 Authors: Enes Ilbuğa, V. V. Dobrovitski, Ya. M. Blanter, , | Summary: We consider a coupled system of a qubit and a magnon mode in which the qubit is weakly driven. We demonstrate that the spectral steady-state responses of both the qubit and the magnon show, in […]


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Single-image reflection removal via self-supervised diffusion models

Kavli Affiliate: Feng Wang | First 5 Authors: Zhengyang Lu, Weifan Wang, Tianhao Guo, Feng Wang, | Summary: Reflections often degrade the visual quality of images captured through transparent surfaces, and reflection removal methods suffers from the shortage of paired real-world samples.This paper proposes a hybrid approach that combines cycle-consistency with denoising diffusion probabilistic models […]


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Emittance Minimization for Aberration Correction I: Aberration correction of an electron microscope without knowing the aberration coefficients

Kavli Affiliate: David A. Muller | First 5 Authors: Desheng Ma, Steven E. Zeltmann, Chenyu Zhang, Zhaslan Baraissov, Yu-Tsun Shao | Summary: Precise alignment of the electron beam is critical for successful application of scanning transmission electron microscopes (STEM) to understanding materials at atomic level. Despite the success of aberration correctors, aberration correction is still […]


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Emittance Minimization for Aberration Correction II: Physics-informed Bayesian Optimization of an Electron Microscope

Kavli Affiliate: David A. Muller | First 5 Authors: Desheng Ma, Steven E. Zeltmann, Chenyu Zhang, Zhaslan Baraissov, Yu-Tsun Shao | Summary: Aberration-corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) has become an essential tool in understanding materials at the atomic scale. However, tuning the aberration corrector to produce a sub-{AA}ngstr"om probe is a complex and time-costly […]


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