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ABSTRACT This paper presents a novel cable‐climbing mechanism: the Collaborative Climbing Robot Squad (CCRobot‐S), a variant of Reconfigurable Cable‐Driven Parallel Robots (R‐CDPR), specifically designed for the inspection and maintenance of stay cables.
Zhenliang Zheng +4 more
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Virtual Elastic Tether: A New Approach for Multi‐Agent Navigation in Confined Aquatic Environments
ABSTRACT Underwater navigation is a challenging area in the field of mobile robotics due to inherent constraints in self‐localization and communication in underwater environments. Some of these challenges can be mitigated by using collaborative multi‐agent teams.
Kanzhong Yao +5 more
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Key Technical Fields and Future Outlooks of Space Manipulators: A Survey
This paper systematically reviews the technological development of space manipulators, emphasizing the unique challenges posed by space environments. It examines four areas: structural design, modeling, planning, and control, while introducing typical ground test platforms.
Gang Chen +12 more
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estar: An R package to measure ecological stability
Abstract Assessing ecological stability is a key task in biodiversity monitoring and conservation. Quantifying stability is not trivial because its different aspects can be measured with various properties. However, to date, no software enables measuring different stability properties on ecological time‐series data.
Ludmilla Figueiredo +6 more
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Unraveling authoritarian reform decision‐making: A metacognitive–subcognitive model
Abstract Recent research indicates that state reforms in East and Southeast Asia have been predominantly top‐down and authoritarian‐led. However, this significant observation implicitly relies on important assumptions about authoritarian decision‐making behavior and psychology that remains understudied.
Eugene Yu Ji
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A tutorial for understanding SEM using R: Where do all the numbers come from?
Abstract Structural equation modeling (SEM) is often seen as a complex and difficult method, especially for those who want to understand how the numbers in SEM software output are actually computed. Although many open‐source SEM tools are now available—especially in the R programming environment—looking into their source code to understand the ...
Yves Rosseel, Marc Vidal
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An extension of the basic local independence model to multiple observed classifications
Abstract The basic local independence model (BLIM) is appropriate in situations where populations do not differ in the probabilities of the knowledge states and the probabilities of careless errors and lucky guesses of the items. In some situations, this is not the case. This work introduces the multiple observed classification local independence model
Pasquale Anselmi +8 more
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Detecting Critical Change in Dynamics Through Outlier Detection with Time‐Varying Parameters
Abstract Intensive longitudinal data are often found to be non‐stationary, namely, showing changes in statistical properties, such as means and variance‐covariance structures, over time. One way to accommodate non‐stationarity is to specify key parameters that show over‐time changes as time‐varying parameters (TVPs). However, the nature and dynamics of
Meng Chen +2 more
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Asymptotic standard errors for reliability coefficients in item response theory
Abstract In a recent review, Liu et al. (Psychological Methods, 2025b) classified reliability coefficients into two types: classical test theory (CTT) reliability and proportional reduction in mean squared error (PRMSE). This article focuses on quantifying the sampling variability of these coefficients under item response theory (IRT) models.
Youjin Sung, Yang Liu
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Computing Skinning Weights via Convex Duality
We present an alternate optimization method to compute bounded biharmonic skinning weights. Our method relies on a dual formulation, which can be optimized with a nonnegative linear least squares setup. Abstract We study the problem of optimising for skinning weights through the lens of convex duality.
J. Solomon, O. Stein
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