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Barrier Function Inspired Reward Shaping in Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has progressed from simple control tasks to complex real-world challenges with large state spaces. During initial iterations of training in most Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms, agents ... -
Interaction of hnRNPK with RNA and characterization of its phase separation behavior
Heterogenous ribonucleoproteins (hnRNPs) are a class of proteins initially discovered to protect the nascent transcripts before they develop into primary mRNAs. They are involved in almost all the stages of mRNA metabolism, ... -
Wave Propagation in Bio-inspired Inhomogeneous Waveguides for Impact Mitigation Applications
Decades of research aim to shield structures and people from impact and shock, mitigating damage and traumatic brain injuries. The development of novel structures to absorb energy and reduce stress waves in structures ... -
Bearings-Only Quadrotor Guidance in Gap Traversal Scenarios
In autonomous missions, quadrotors are often required to safely fly through gaps or openings. Designing traversal guidance strategies becomes crucial in such scenarios, especially when the quadrotor relies on the information ... -
Studies on Flexural Fatigue Behaviour of Plain Concrete – Mechanisms of Crack Growth, Effect of Loading Amplitude, Frequency and Notch Size
Concrete structures such as bridges, pavements and off shore structures are subjected to fluctuating loading throughout their service life. These fluctuating loads cause progressive internal damage to structures leading ... -
Modelling capture efficiency of microbots
Micro-robotics is one of the fast-growing research domains in the interdisciplinary field of cyber-physical systems. They have immense potential in a plethora of applications like targeted medicine, environmental remediation, ... -
Functionalized Low-Dimensional Nanomaterials in Antibacterial Activity and Drug Delivery
The rise in multi-drug-resistant bacterial infections is a major health concern of the 21st-century. Overuse of traditional antibiotics in medical, agricultural, and veterinary practices has led to numerous drug-resistant ... -
Military applications of Fiber Bragg Gratings
Fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) are widely used in sensing technologies due to their compact size, distributed sensing capability, immunity to electromagnetic interference, and ability to measure various physical parameters. ... -
Low-Symmetric Water-Soluble Molecular Hosts for Molecular Separation and Optical Modulation
Nature employs the strategy of self-assembly in a remarkable way at every scale to construct numerous functional architectures. Various noncovalent interactions, such as hydrogen bonding, 𝜋-𝜋 stacking, and electrostatic ... -
Spectral Efficiency and Energy-efficiency Trade-off in Spectrum Sharing and RIS-based Wireless Systems
Spectral efficiency (SE) and energy-efficiency (EE) are the two key performance indicators for next-generation wireless systems. The SE specifies how much information can be communicated by the system per unit time and ... -
Existence and implications of positively curved metrics on holomorphic vector bundles
This thesis is divided into two parts. In the first part, we study interpolating and uniformly flat hypersurfaces in complex Euclidean space. The study of interpolation and sampling in the Bargmann-Fock spaces on the complex ... -
Determinants of protein stability and function inferred from saturation mutagenesis and next-generation sequencing
Proteins play a central role in all biological processes. Despite a similar underlying composition, they exhibit immense diversity in structures and functions, a subject of great interest. The research presented in this ... -
Studies on Iron and Cobalt Complexes for Cellular Imaging and Photodynamic Therapy
Redox-active transition metal-based prodrug complexes hold great promise as drug delivery systems (DDS) to circumvent drug related toxicity and enhance the overall efficacy of the cytotoxic agents. In this context, ... -
Comparison of Additive and Multiplicative Kinematics in Large Deformation Plasticity
The most widely used plasticity model in commercial finite element analysis software packages is the additive plasticity model. One of the more well-known alternatives to additive plasticity is multiplicative plasticity. ... -
Simulation of complex plastic flows in metal sliding and cutting
Metal manufacturing encompasses a broad range of mechanical transformation processes that shape native metal into useful forms. These processes generally involve the interaction of a hard tool with a specimen / workpiece, ... -
Plasticity Paradigms: Navigating Protein Conformational Dynamics and Phenotypic Variability in Biological Systems
The complex dynamics and responses of biological systems to environmental cues are shaped by their inherent plasticity and adaptability. This biological plasticity, operational at multiple levels - ranging from the molecular ... -
Design and Optimization of Cell-Free Systems: Channel Estimation, Duplexing Scheme, and Synchronization
Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems, where multiple access points (APs) jointly and coherently serve a large number of user-equipments (UEs) in a geographical area, offer multi-fold improvement ... -
Dynamics of Leidenfrost droplets on microtextured substrates
A liquid droplet placed on a heated substrate at temperatures significantly higher than the saturation temperature of the liquid levitates over a thin film of vapor and is termed as a Leidenfrost (LF) droplet. Leidenfrost ... -
First-principles Based Investigation of the Adsorption and Optoelectronic Properties of Polymorphic Borophene
The discovery of graphene has prompted interest in other two-dimensional materials, especially borophene, which is a single layer of boron atoms that forms a variety of crystal shapes. Borophene, the lightest member of the ... -
Deep mutational scanning to enhance immunogenicity and map antibody responses to HIV-1
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