Abstract: Global soil moisture (SM) mapping at high spatial and temporal resolution contributes significantly to various hydrologic and meteorological researches. This work presents an algorithm for ...

Abstract: Sliding mode control (SMC) algorithms in engineering applications necessitate the design of a sliding manifold to guide system motion. However, finding the optimal sliding manifold parameter ...

LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, has been called the most precise ruler in the world for its ability to measure motions more than 10,000 times smaller than the width of a ...

SCE-UA is a lightweight Python package implementing the Shuffled Complex Evolution (SCE-UA) algorithm for global optimization. Designed primarily for hydrological model calibration, it leverages NumPy ...

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A new algorithm has been designed to enable robots to make safer decisions around humans. In a factory setting, robots and humans can form strong teams. The robot handles repetitive tasks like ...

I often wake up before dawn, ahead of my wife and kids, so that I can enjoy a little solitary time. I creep downstairs to the silent kitchen, drink a glass of water, and put in my AirPods. Then I ...