Legged robots that operate in the real world are inherently subject to stochasticity in their dynamics and uncertainty about the terrain. Due to limited energy budgets and limited control authority, these “disturbances” cannot always be canceled out with high-gain feedback. Minimally-actuated walking machines subject to stochastic disturbances no longer satisfy strict conditions for limit-cycle...

The model of a DC glow discharge with metastable argon atoms and dust particles based on the Boltzmann equation for electron energy distribution function (EEDF), particle charging, balance is presented. processes direct stepwise impact ionization, metastable-metastable collisions, recombination electrons ions surface tube wall are taken into account. results show that densities in strong correl...

STEVO K. JAĆIMOVSKI, VJEKOSLAV D. SAJFERT, DEJAN I. RAKOVIĆ, JOVAN P. ŠETRAJČIĆ Academy of Criminalistic and Police Studies, Belgrade, Serbia University of Novi Sad, Technical Faculty ,,M. Pupin”, Zrenjanin, Vojvodina – Serbia University of Belgrade, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Serbia University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Physics, Vojvodina – Serbia Academy of Scienc...

We construct a model with long-lived metastable vacua in which all the relevant parameters, including the supersymmetry breaking scale, are generated dynamically by dimensional transmutation. The metastable vacua appear along a pseudo-runaway direction near a point of enhanced symmetry as a result of a balance between non-perturbative and perturbative quantum effects. We show that metastable su...

A recently introduced thermodynamic model of amphiphilic molecules in solution has yielded under certain realistic conditions a significant presence of metastable aggregates well below the critical micelle concentration-a phenomenon that has been reported also experimentally. The theory is extended in two directions pertaining to the experimental and technological relevance of such premicellar ...

Recent experimental work has shown that activity in living neural networks can propagate as a critical branching process that revisits many metastable states. Neural network theory suggests that attracting states could store information, but little is known about how a branching process could form such states. Here we use a branching process to model actual data and to explore metastable states...

The production of helium 2 1S singlet metastable atoms has been investigated using a hollow cathode discharge and a Penning discharge, under dc discharge conditions. The density of metastable atoms was measured by atomic absorption using the 2 1S–3 1P transition (501.57 nm). A range of plasma currents, varying from 16 to 180 mA, and a range of pressures, from 100 mTorr to 5 Torr, were investiga...