Abstract: A computer-implemented reconstruction method of discrete digital signals in noisy overloaded wireless communication systems that is characterized by a channel matrix of complex coefficients, the method including, receiving the signal from channel by a signal detector, measuring the noise power by a noise power estimator at the receiver, forwarding the detected signal and noise power estimation to a decoder that estimates the transmitted symbol, wherein the estimation of the decoder produces a symbol that could probably have been transmitted it is forwarded to a de-mapper, which outputs the bit estimates corresponding to the estimated transmit signal and the corresponding estimated symbol to a microprocessor for further processing.

Abstract: A robotic system, including: a robot having an arm with a multi-fingered soft gripper that is formed of a compliant material; an image sensor fixedly mounted on the arm to move with the multi-fingered soft gripper, and operable to capture image data of the multi-fingered soft gripper composed of a compliant material; and processor circuitry operable to generate a model of a state of the multi-fingered soft gripper by: controlling the arm to move in a predefined motion pattern while the image sensor captures the image data; deriving an optical flow based on the image data and consecutive arm kinematic and velocity frame states; and segmenting between a multi-fingered soft gripper portion and a background portion of the image data based on the optical flow, wherein static regions of the optical flow represent the multi-fingered soft gripper portion, dynamic regions of the optical flow represent the background portion, and non-coherent regions of the optical flow represent contour between the multi-fingered soft

Abstract: Various aspects of techniques, systems, and use cases may be used for probabilistic automatic determination of an action for a robotic device. A technique may include identifying a current context of a robotic device, determining from the current context, a set of actions performable by the robotic device corresponding to at least one object, the set of actions including one or more affordances generated from a basic skills library for the robotic device, and automatically selecting an action of the set of actions based on an acyclic graph describing action paths. The technique may include outputting control signals that, when executed, cause the robotic device to perform the action to interact with the at least one object.

Abstract: A component of an edge server, including: processor circuitry; and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by the processor circuitry, cause the processor circuitry to: distribute, to a client device, tokens that enable its end device to execute respective asynchronous adaptive motion primitives (A2MPs) of a task graph of a task, wherein an A2MP is a motion primitive of encoded motion factoring in motion updates from the end device; receive A2MP task execution status messages during execution of the A2MPs; and dynamically update the distribution of the token or the task graph based on the A2MP task execution status messages to modify a trajectory of the end device.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for managing processing order for a plurality of commands can include in response to receiving each command of a plurality of commands in a receipt order, assigning each respective command of the plurality of commands to a respective processing queue of a plurality of processing queues to be processed, and setting, for each of the plurality of commands and in the receipt order, an identifier based on the respective queue assigned to each of the plurality of commands, and managing, based on the identifiers for each of the plurality of commands in the receipt order, an order of processing of each of the plurality of commands from the respective processing queue of the plurality of processing queues. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to, inter alia, a weed control method. In one example, a method comprises applying to the locus a weed controlling amount of a pesticide composition comprising a FatA acyl-ACP thioesterase-inhibiting herbicide, wherein the crop plants are modified such that they comprise a FatA acyl-ACP thioesterase which provides the crop plant with tolerance against the FatA acyl-ACP thioesterase-inhibiting herbicide. Recombinant polynucleotides and suitable for use in the methods, and edited FatA acyl-ACP thioesterases are also disclosed.

Abstract: Various aspects of techniques, systems, and use cases for selecting grasping configurations for a robot are disclosed. Geometric primitives are generated to model the robot for grasping and manipulation by the robot. The geometric primitives are combined using various functions to determine which configuration to use. The instantaneous configuration is determined, as well as the forward kinematics and links to determine active geometric primitives of the gripper. The active geometric primitives are used to approximate an x, y, and z coordinate of each point of the primitives, a distance between the point and a grasping target, and an associated surface link. The configurations are ranked based on grasping metrics and one of the configurations selected to use accordingly.

Abstract: A movable shelf system is provided for a retail or grocery store. The system includes a movable shelf in a store location; an actuator for moving the movable shelf; a plurality of cameras in the store location, each of the plurality of cameras having a field of view; and a vision mesh network having a plurality of nodes in communication with each other, at least one of the plurality of cameras being a node within the plurality of nodes on the vision mesh network. The vision mesh network receives and processes information about the movable shelf and sends an instruction to the movable shelf based on the information.

Abstract: A head unit system for controlling motion of an object includes a secondary object sensor, shear thickening fluid (STF), and a chamber configured to contain a portion of the STF. The chamber further includes a front channel and a back channel. The head unit system further includes a piston housed at least partially radially within the piston compartment and separating the back channel and the front channel. The piston includes a first piston bypass and a second piston bypasses to control flow of the STF between opposite sides of the piston. The chamber further includes a set of fluid manipulation emitters to control the flow of the STF to cause selection of one of a variety of shear rates for the STF within the chamber.

Abstract: A robotic manipulation planning system, including at least one processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to: process perception data to detect known, familiar, and unknown objects to generate manipulation candidates; filter manipulation candidates against constraints to reduce the manipulation candidates; and determine quality metrics for the reduced manipulation candidates using a soft-body simulation technique.

Abstract: A system includes a feedthrough cap having a guide funnel configured to extend about a tree body of a well system. The feedthrough cap includes a landing body configured to extend into the tree body and land on a hanger. The feedthrough cap includes a feedthrough line configured to extend through the feedthrough cap to the hanger.

Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: processing one or more text based document defining a maturity model, wherein the maturity model defines a plurality of domains, and for at least one domain of the second plurality of domains, capabilities are associated to respective different maturity levels of the at least one domain, wherein the processing the one or more text based document includes applying natural language processing to extract from the one or more text based document a parameter value dataset.

Abstract: Method for Modeling Visible Clusters and Non-stationarities in XL-MIMO systems configuring a plurality of transmit antennas to each represent an in-phase spatial constellation symbol within an in-phase spatial constellation, and a quadrature spatial constellation symbol within a quadrature spatial constellation, mapping source data to the in-phase spatial constellation symbols and the quadrature spatial constellation symbols represented by the plurality of transmit antennas, wherein the Matérn-cluster point process, which models randomly located clusters within a given area defines the area, where antenna arrays are embedded.

Abstract: A computer-implemented decoding method of configuring a plurality of transmit antennas to each represent an in-phase spatial constellation symbol within an in-phase spatial constellation and a quadrature spatial constellation symbol within a quadrature spatial constellation, and mapping source data to the in-phase spatial constellation symbols and the quadrature spatial constellation symbols represented by the plurality of transmit antennas, wherein the notion of applying sparse detection, compressed sensing algorithms to decode SM signals is proceeded.

Abstract: A method of using a processing computer comprising a memory comprising a hash index table and an array index table is disclosed. The method includes receiving an initial request message comprising a plurality of data fields with data elements for a transaction, and creating service request messages, where each service request message comprises a transaction key and data elements. The method includes transmitting the service request messages to server computers, which process them and generate service response messages, each service response message having the transaction key and response data. The method includes receiving the service response messages. The method includes for each of the service response messages: accessing the hash index table and determining a row address identifier for a row in the array index table based on the transaction key, and accessing data in the row of the array index table associated with the row address identifier.

Abstract: A method predicts the trajectory of an ego vehicle travelling in a main lane. A lane change by the ego vehicle from the main lane to an adjacent lane is determined according to an estimate of the dynamic behavior of a group of vehicles travelling in the adjacent lane. The group of vehicles includes at least one main vehicle which is located near the ego vehicle and a secondary vehicle which is located behind the ego vehicle.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user device, a base station, and data transmission and reception methods to be performed by a user device and a base station in a communications system. The user device comprises circuitry which, in operation, receives paging occasion configuration from the base station, including at least one parameter for configuring a predefined time-domain pattern for receiving paging occasion within a paging cycle; and performs reception of paging signal in the paging occasions within the predefined time-domain pattern configured according to the received paging occasion configuration.

Abstract: A computer-implemented decoding method configures a plurality of transmit antennas to each represent an in-phase spatial constellation symbol within an in-phase spatial constellation, and a quadrature spatial constellation symbol within a quadrature spatial constellation, and maps source data to the in-phase spatial constellation symbols and the quadrature spatial constellation symbols represented by the plurality of transmit antennas, wherein the method constructs the set which has equal multiplicities of the transmit antenna activation, which ensures maximum possible transmit diversity.

Abstract: Scalable space-time quadrature spatial modulation for multidimensional wireless systems is performed by configuring a plurality of transmit antennas to each represent an in-phase spatial constellation symbol within an in-phase spatial constellation, and a quadrature spatial constellation symbol within a quadrature spatial constellation, mapping source data to the in-phase spatial constellation symbols and the quadrature spatial constellation symbols represented by the plurality of transmit antennas, wherein the method constructs the set which has equal multiplicities of the transmit antenna activation, which ensures maximum possible transmit diversity and reduces the required complexity, making this feasible for larger number of antennas.

Abstract: Configuring a plurality of transmit antennas to each represent an in-phase spatial constellation symbol within an in-phase spatial constellation, and a quadrature spatial constellation symbol within a quadrature spatial constellation, mapping source data to the in-phase spatial constellation symbols and the quadrature spatial constellation symbols represented by the plurality of transmit antennas, wherein the method is applying an optimal and scalable quadrature spatial modulation scheme (OS-QSM) resulting in a maximum possible coding gain in the resultant quadrature spatial modulation.