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Cooperative Pursuit with Multi-Pursuer and One Faster Free-moving Evader
This paper addresses a multi-pursuer single-evader pursuit-evasion game where
the free-moving evader moves faster than the pursuers. Most of the existing
works impose constraints on the faster evader such as limited moving area and
moving direction. When the faster evader is allowed to move freely without any
constraint, the main issues are how to form an encirclement to trap the evader
into the capture domain, how to balance between forming an encirclement and
approaching the faster evader, and what conditions make the capture possible.
In this paper, a distributed pursuit algorithm is proposed to enable pursuers
to form an encirclement and approach the faster evader. An algorithm that
balances between forming an encirclement and approaching the faster evader is
proposed. Moreover, sufficient capture conditions are derived based on the
initial spatial distribution and the speed ratios of the pursuers and the
evader. Simulation and experimental results on ground robots validate the
effectiveness and practicability of the proposed method
Exploring Communities in Large Profiled Graphs
Given a graph and a vertex , the community search (CS) problem
aims to efficiently find a subgraph of whose vertices are closely related
to . Communities are prevalent in social and biological networks, and can be
used in product advertisement and social event recommendation. In this paper,
we study profiled community search (PCS), where CS is performed on a profiled
graph. This is a graph in which each vertex has labels arranged in a
hierarchical manner. Extensive experiments show that PCS can identify
communities with themes that are common to their vertices, and is more
effective than existing CS approaches. As a naive solution for PCS is highly
expensive, we have also developed a tree index, which facilitate efficient and
online solutions for PCS
N′-(1-Phenylethylidene)isonicotinohydrazide
The title compound, C14H13N3O, was prepared from hypnone and isoniazid. The dihedral angle between the aromatic rings is 12.21 (2)°. In the crystal, N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the molecules into chains propagating in [001] and C—H⋯O interactions consolidate the packing
Controlling soliton interactions in Bose-Einstein condensates by synchronizing the Feshbach resonance and harmonic trap
We present how to control interactions between solitons, either bright or
dark, in Bose-Einstein condensates by synchronizing Feshbach resonance and
harmonic trap. Our results show that as long as the scattering length is to be
modulated in time via a changing magnetic field near the Feshbach resonance,
and the harmonic trapping frequencies are also modulated in time, exact
solutions of the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation can be
found in a general closed form, and interactions between two solitons are
modulated in detail in currently experimental conditions. We also propose
experimental protocols to observe the phenomena such as fusion, fission, warp,
oscillation, elastic collision in future experiments.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figure
Topological classification of intrinsic 3D superconductors using anomalous surface construction
Intrinsic topological superconductors have protected gapless Majorana modes,
bound and/or propagating, at the natural boundaries of the sample, without
requiring field, defect, or heterostructure. We establish the complete
classification/construction of intrinsic topological superconductors jointly
protected by point-group and time-reversal symmetries in three dimensions. This
is obtained from enumerating distinct ways for stacking th-order irreducible
building blocks, minimal anomalous surface states of th-order topological
superconductors. Particularly, our method provides a unified description of
possible surface anomalies away from high-symmetry points/lines in terms of the
homotopy group of the surface mass field.Comment: 43 pages, 9 figures, 4 table
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