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Woven Baskets Are Sturdier and More Resilient than Stiff Containers. This Could Change How We Design Materials

People have been using flat, ribbonlike materials, such as reed strips, to make woven baskets for thousands of years. This ...

Woven baskets aren’t just aesthetically pleasing – materials science research finds they’re sturdier and more resilient than stiff containers

D woven baskets are geometrically sophisticated, with some incredible properties that engineers can use to design materials ...
IEEE

Scalable Coverage Path Planning for Cleaning Robots Using Rectangular Map Decomposition on Large Environments

Abstract: The goal of coverage path planning is to create a path that covers the entire free space in a given environment. Coverage path planning is the most important component of cleaning robot ...
Times Series

London's RAF Museum aerospace themed half term events

Children can dance to intergalactic beats, explore aircraft cockpits, build robots, and enjoy rocket building at the RAF Museum London this half term. Jet & Space Week 2025, which kicks off on ...
IEEE

EM-Patroller: Entropy Maximized Multi-Robot Patrolling With Steady State Distribution Approximation

Abstract: This letter investigates the multi-robot patrolling (MuRP) problem in a discrete environment with the objective of achieving uniform node coverage probability distribution by the robot team.
GitHub

MPPI Obstacles Critic: Inaccurate Distance Calculation for Non-Circular Robots

The MPPI controller's ObstaclesCritic incorrectly calculates distance-to-obstacle when using footprint-based collision checking. The issue is that it always uses the inscribed radius when converting ...