Fault-tolerant quantum computing: Novel protocol efficiently reduces resource cost

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could soon outperform classical computers on some complex computational problems. These computers rely on ...
Hackaday

Tying Up Loose Ends On A Rope-based Robot Actuator

One of the perennial challenges of building robots is minimizing the size and weight of drive systems while preserving power.

Tokamak experiments exceed plasma density limit, offering new approach to fusion ignition

Researchers working on China's fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have experimentally ...
IEEE

A Constraint-Handling Technique for Decomposition-Based Constrained Many-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms

Abstract: To solve the constrained many-objective optimization problems (CMaOPs), the tradeoff among convergence, diversity, and feasibility is a crucial and challenging task. This article proposes a ...
IEEE

Enforcing Temporal and Spatial Separation Constraints in Multi-Vehicle Trajectory Generation Problems Using a Bernstein Relaxation and Refinement Method

Abstract: Satisfying collision-avoidance constraints at all time instances along vehicles' trajectories is crucial to the success of a multi-vehicle mission. A common approach to handling ...
CBS News

Tennessee executes man for 1988 rape and murder of college student Karen Pulley

Tennessee executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection Thursday in Nashville for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old student at Chattanooga State University. Nichols, 64, had ...