Abstract: A silicone-(meth) acrylate copolymer and methods for the preparation and use of the copolymer are provided. The copolymer is soluble in ethanol under ambient conditions. The copolymer, or homogeneous ethanol solution thereof, may be used as a film forming agent in a personal care composition, such as a foundation.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a fast multi-agent reinforcement learning (RL) pipeline that runs the full RL workflow end-to-end on a single GPU, using a single store of data for simulation roll-outs, inference, and training. Specifically, simulations and agents in each simulation are run in tandem, taking advantage of the parallel capabilities of the GPU. This way, the costly GPU-CPU communication and copying is significantly reduced, and simulation sampling and learning rates are in turn improved. In this way, a large number of simulations may be concurrently run on the GPU, thus largely improving efficiency of the RL training.

Abstract: A cathode is provided for electrolysis of water wherein the cathode material comprises a multi-principal element, transition metal dichalcogenide material that has four or more chemical elements and that is a single phase, solid solution. The pristine cathode material does not contain platinum as a principal (major) component. However, a cathode comprising a transition metal dichalcogenide having platinum (Pt) nanosized islands or precipitates disposed thereon is also provided.

Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include creating, by an artificial reality platform, a link configured to invite an invitee user to join an inviter user in an instance of an artificial reality application at a current location of the inviter user in the instance. The method may additionally include sharing the link, by the artificial reality platform, with the invitee user, and receiving, by the artificial reality platform, an indication of an activation of the link by the invitee user. The method may further include launching, by the artificial reality platform at least partly in response to receipt of the indication, the instance in an artificial reality device of the invitee user at the current location of the inviter user. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Abstract: A system for recommending a maximum quantity of work in process, in which one or more processors of a distributed storage device are configured to execute: acquiring at least part of production data stored in the distributed storage device, the production data includes quantity records and cycle time records of a production line in time periods, and the cycle time record of each time period includes a cycle time at each process station of the production line in said each time period; clustering the quantity records to obtain a plurality of initial classifications, each initial classification includes at least one quantity record; determining a portion of the initial classifications as preferred classifications; determining the maximum quantity of work in process at each process station; and a display device is configured to display the maximum quantity of work in process at each process station determined by an analysis device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process method for conformal processing of a cylindrical shell inner weld seam by a special mobile robot, a laser scanner is used to scan a cylindrical shell inner weld seam to obtain point cloud data of a contour of a weld seam area first. Weld seam feature identification is carried out to each generatrix, and misidentified generatrices are filtered out to obtain weld seam left and right boundaries. An ideal weld seam processing contour is generated conformally according to the appearance of the weld seam area, weld seam coarse grinding is carried out after correction and compensation, and weld seam contour information after coarse grinding is obtained by scanning after the coarse grinding is completed. Process parameters of the grinding are controlled according to an actual weld seam contour, and weld seam fine grinding is carried out to obtain a smooth weld seam contour.

Abstract: An imaging device may capture images of a scene, where the scene includes retroreflective materials. Where visual images and depth images are captured from a scene, and the depth images have ratios of supersaturated pixels that are less than a predetermined threshold, a location map of the scene is generated or updated based on the depth images. Where the ratios are greater than the predetermined threshold, the location map of the scene is generated or updated based on the visual images. Additionally, where each of a plurality of imaging devices detect concentrations of supersaturated pixels beyond a predetermined threshold or limit within their respective fields of view, an actor present on the scene may be determined to be wearing retroreflective material, or otherwise designated as a source of the supersaturation, and tracked with the scene based on coverage areas that are determined to have excessive ratios of supersaturated pixels.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for agent behavior prediction using keypoint data. One of the methods includes obtaining data characterizing a scene in an environment, the data comprising: (i) context data comprising data characterizing historical trajectories of a plurality of agents up to the current time point; and (ii) keypoint data for a target agent; processing the context data using a context data encoder neural network to generate a context embedding for the target agent; processing the keypoint data using a keypoint encoder neural network to generate a keypoint embedding for the target agent; generating a combined embedding for the target agent from the context embedding and the keypoint embedding; and processing the combined embedding using a decoder neural network to generate a behavior prediction output for the target agent that characterizes predicted behavior of the target agent after the current time point.

Abstract: An indicator circuit for an emergency light, including: a charging circuit, in connection with a positive terminal of a lithium battery and configured to charge the lithium battery; a battery protection circuit, in connection with a negative terminal of the lithium battery and configured to provide protection against overvoltage and overcurrent of an electrical signal output by the lithium battery; a main control circuit, in connection with the negative terminal of the lithium battery and configured to compare the electrical signal output by the lithium battery with a reference voltage signal and output a control signal; and a drive circuit, in connection with the main control circuit and an indicator light, and configured to drive the indicator light to illuminate according to the control signal and turn off the indicator light in case of abnormal conditions.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may receive, from a first electronic device associated with a first user, a first request to generate a link associated with an artificial reality application and an action to be performed by the artificial reality application. The computing system may then generate a link to instructions that are executable on an artificial reality device to cause the artificial reality device to launch the artificial reality application and perform the action. The computing system may then receive, from a second electronic device associated with a second user, an indication that the second user activated the link on the second electronic device, and send the instructions associated with the link to an artificial reality device associated with the second user to cause the artificial reality device associated with the second user to launch the artificial reality application and perform the action.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for preparing a aqueous dispersion of copolymer particles comprising structural units of a) an acrylate monomer; b) an acid monomer; and c) a siloxane acrylate monomer of formula I: where R, R1, R2, Y and x are defined herein. The method also requires the use of special classes on anionic and nonionic surfactants as described herein. The aqueous dispersion prepared by the method of the present invention is useful in a variety of applications ranging from architectural coatings to personal care products.

Abstract: A human identifying device includes a temperature sensing module, a temperature pattern recognizing module and a human body identifying module. The temperature sensing module senses temperature distribution within the target area. The temperature pattern recognizing module determines at least one matching region out of the target area based on a human-resembling temperature feature within the temperature distribution. The temperature pattern recognizing module identifies at least one matching temperature sensor that corresponds to the at least one matching region. The human body identifying module determines if distribution of the at least one matching temperature sensor resembles at least one part of a human body contour.

Abstract: The present invention is a composition comprising an aqueous dispersion of copolymer particles comprising structural units of a) an acrylate monomer; b) an acid monomer; and c) a siloxane-acrylate monomer of formula I: where R, R1, R2, Y and x are defined herein. The composition, which also comprises a nonionic and anionic surfactant as described herein, is useful in a variety of applications ranging from architectural coatings to personal care products.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium that determine yield behavior for an autonomous vehicle, and can include identifying an agent that is in a vicinity of an autonomous vehicle navigating through a scene at a current time point. Scene features can be obtained and can include features of (i) the agent and (ii) the autonomous vehicle. An input that can include the scene features can be processed using a first machine learning model that is configured to generate (i) a crossing intent prediction that includes a crossing intent score that represents a likelihood that the agent intends to cross a roadway in a future time window after the current time, and (ii) a crossing action prediction that includes a crossing action score that represents a likelihood that the agent will cross the roadway in the future time window after the current time.

Abstract: A cathode is provided for electrolysis of water wherein the cathode material comprises a multi-principal element, transition metal dichalcogenide material that has four or more chemical elements and that is a single phase, solid solution. The pristine cathode material does not contain platinum as a principal (major) component. However, a cathode comprising a transition metal dichalcogenide having platinum (Pt) nanosized islands or precipitates disposed thereon is also provided.

Abstract: Provided are a method for transferring a compound semiconductor single crystal thin film layer and a method for preparing a single crystal GaAs—OI composite wafer, including: preparing a graphite transition layer on a first substrate; growing the compound semiconductor single crystal thin film layer on the graphite transition layer; preparing a first dielectric layer on the compound semiconductor single crystal thin film layer; preparing a second dielectric layer on a second substrate; combining the first substrate and the second substrate by bonding the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer; applying a lateral external pressure, such that the compound semiconductor single crystal thin film layer and the first substrate are transversely split at the graphite transition layer, and the compound semiconductor single crystal thin film layer is transferred to the second substrate.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may receive, from a first electronic device associated with a first user, a first request to generate a link associated with an artificial reality application and an action to be performed by the artificial reality application. The computing system may then generate a link to instructions that are executable on an artificial reality device to cause the artificial reality device to launch the artificial reality application and perform the action. The computing system may then receive, from a second electronic device associated with a second user, an indication that the second user activated the link on the second electronic device, and send the instructions associated with the link to an artificial reality device associated with the second user to cause the artificial reality device associated with the second user to launch the artificial reality application and perform the action.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for defect analysis is provided. The computer-implemented method includes calculating a plurality of weight-of-evidence (WOE) scores respectively for a plurality of device operations with respect to detects occurred during a fabrication period, a higher WOE score indicating a higher correlation between a defect and a device operation; and ranking the plurality of WOE scores to obtain a list of selected device operations highly correlated with the defects occurred during the fabrication period, device operations in the list of selected device operations having a WOE score greater than a first threshold score. A respective one of the plurality of device operations is a respective device defined by a respective operation site at which the respective device perform a respective operation.

Abstract: A cleaning and protectant composition and a method for using the composition on an article such as a touch screen or screen protector for a mobile device, computer, or other electronic device. The composition comprises a polymeric film former. The polymeric film former is an oxazoline homopolymer or an extended or a modified polymer based on an oxazoline homopolymer. The polymeric film former forms a retention coating to retain components within the composition for an extended period of time. The composition is also present in a kit with an application device.