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Tech Xplore / New 'bandit' algorithm uses light for better bets
How does a gambler maximize winnings from a row of slot machines? This is the inspiration for the "multi-armed bandit problem," a common task in reinforcement learning in which "agents" make choices to earn rewards. Recently, ...
Tech Xplore / Predicting portable power: New machine learning model identifies battery charge and health using minimal data
Lithium ion batteries are the go-to power source for many of our favorite devices like cell phones and laptops, and their presence will continue to expand as electric vehicles become the new standard, replacing gasoline-powered ...
Tech Xplore / Improving EV batteries with real-world driving data
Most electric vehicles are equipped with an electronic brain that manages day-to-day battery performance and safety. This battery management system, or BMS, includes software that uses algorithms to monitor the overall health ...
Tech Xplore / Research shows zinc-air batteries could be the future of powering electric vehicles
Zinc-air batteries have emerged as a better alternative to lithium in a recent Edith Cowan University (ECU) study into the advancement of sustainable battery systems.
Tech Xplore / Researchers develop new carbon-capture solution for a cleaner, more energy-dense fuel source
Over the past three centuries, especially since the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th and 19th centuries, human activities have significantly increased greenhouse gas levels in the Earth's atmosphere. The main culprits ...
Tech Xplore / US can cut building emissions by up to 91%, saving $100 billion a year in energy-related costs, modeling study shows
The US has committed to reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. To accomplish this goal, large cuts in emissions are necessary, especially in high-emission sectors like the building industry.
Tech Xplore / Optimizing pacer formations in front of marathon runners to reduce run times
A team of mechanical engineers at Ecole Centrale de Lyon has found that long-distance runners using pacers to reduce drag can improve their run times by running in particular formations. In their study, reported in the journal ...
Tech Xplore / Analysis reveals benefits of hydropower for grid-scale energy storage
Closed-loop pumped storage hydropower systems rank as having the lowest potential to add to the problem of global warming for energy storage when accounting for the full impacts of materials and construction, according to ...
Tech Xplore / Monitoring wind, gas density and temperatures together can better predict mine disasters
Greater monitoring of wind, gas density and temperatures in coal mines can help reduce the risk of disasters, according to a new joint study with Charles Darwin University (CDU) and University Technology Sydney (UTS).
Tech Xplore / New program takes us one step closer to autonomous robots
We've watched the remarkable evolution of robotics over the past decade with models that can walk, talk and make gestures like humans, undertake tasks from moving heavy machinery to delicately manipulating tiny objects, and ...
Tech Xplore / An open-source and Python-based platform for the 2D simulation of Robocup soccer
RoboCup is an international annual event designed to showcase advances in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). At this event, different teams of humanoid robots play soccer against each other,
Tech Xplore / Researchers develop bioinspired geolocation method based on daytime sky polarization
The first guy on Earth who ever got lost probably said to himself, "I could really use a set of geographic coordinates expressed as latitude and longitude right about now." Time passed, neocortexes evolved, and eventually, ...