Results are presented from searches for the standard model Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at root s = 7 and 8 TeV in the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the LHC, using data samples corresponding to integrated luminosities of up to 5.1 fb(-1) at 7 TeV and 5.3 fb(-1) at 8 TeV. The search is performed in five decay modes: gamma gamma, ZZ, W+W-, tau(+)tau(-), and b (b) over bar. An excess of events is observed above the expected background, with a local significance of 5.0 standard deviations, at a mass near 125 GeV, signalling the production of a new particle. The expected significance for a standard model Higgs boson of that mass is 5.8 standard deviations. The excess is most significant in the two decay modes with the best mass resolution, gamma gamma and ZZ; a fit to these signals gives a mass of 125.3 +/- 0.4(stat.) +/- 0.5(syst.) GeV. The decay to two photons indicates that the new particle is a boson with spin different from one. (C) 2012 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Soft robots (SRs) represent one of the most significant recent evolutions in robotics. Designed to embody safe and natural behaviors, they rely on compliant physical structures purposefully designed to embody desirable and sometimes variable impedance characteristics. This article discusses the problem of controlling SRs. We start by observing that most of the standard methods of robotic control-e.g., high-gain robust control, feedback linearization, backstepping, and active impedance control-effectively fight against or even completely cancel the physical dynamics of the system, replacing them with a desired model. This defeats the purpose of introducing physical compliance. After all, what is the point of building soft actuators if we then make them stiff by control
Despite the classic nature of the problem, trajectory tracking for soft robots, i.e., robots with compliant elements deliberately introduced in their design, still presents several challenges. One of these is to design controllers which can obtain sufficiently high performance while preserving the physical characteristics intrinsic to soft robots. Indeed, classic control schemes using highgain feedback actions fundamentally alter the natural compliance of soft robots effectively stiffening them, thus de facto defeating their main design purpose. As an alternative approach, we consider here using a low-gain feedback, while exploiting feedforward components. In order to cope with the complexity and uncertainty of the dynamics, we adopt a decentralized, iteratively learned feedforward action, combined with a locally optimal feedback control. The relative authority of the feedback and feedforward control actions adapts with the degree of uncertainty of the learned component. The effectiveness of the method is experimentally verified on several robotic structures and working conditions, including unexpected interactions with the environment, where preservation of softness is critical for safety and robustness.
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