Newly identified 'saprotropism' helps roots avoid decaying plant matter—but not animal decay

Decaying matter shapes life in soil, but it can also create hostile zones for growing roots. Professor Jiří Friml of the ...
IGN

Root Board Game Review

Root belongs to a small but burgeoning subgenre of tabletop board games where players immerse themselves in the woodland worlds of mice, racoons and other wild critters. For the most part, these are ...
IEEE

Prescribed Performance Motion Control: A Control Barrier Function Approach

Abstract: Prescribed performance control (PPC) has been widely applied in motion control systems due to its ability to regulate both transient and steady-state performance through well-defined ...
IEEE

Safety-Critical Control With Control Barrier Function Based on Disturbance Observer

Abstract: In this article, we investigate the continuous and sampled-data safety-critical control problems with control barrier functions in the presence of time-varying disturbances. To this end, a ...