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KnotDLO: Toward Interpretable Knot Tying
Holly Dinkel, Raghavendra Navaratna, Jingyi Xiang, Brian Coltin, Trey Smith, Timothy Bretl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22176

KnotDLO: Toward Interpretable Knot Tying
This work presents KnotDLO, a method for one-handed Deformable Linear Object (DLO) knot tying that is robust to occlusion, repeatable for varying rope initial configurations, interpretable for generating motion policies, and requires no human demonstrations or training. Grasp and target waypoints for future DLO states are planned from the current DLO shape. Grasp poses are computed from indexing the tracked piecewise linear curve representing the DLO state based on the current curve shape and a…

Impact of initial mass function on the chemical evolution of high-redshift galaxies
Boyuan Liu, Michela Mapelli, Volker Bromm, Ralf S. Klessen, Lumen Boco, Tilman Hartwig, Simon C. O. Glover, Veronika Lipatova, Guglielmo Costa, Marco Dall'Amico, Giuliano Iorio, Kendall Shepherd, Alessandro Bressan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.…

Impact of initial mass function on the chemical evolution of high-redshift galaxies
Star formation and metal enrichment in galaxies are regulated by supernova (SN) explosions and metal yields from massive stars, which are sensitive to the high-mass end of the initial mass function (IMF). Recent JWST observations have reached a consensus on an invariant relation between stellar mass, metallicity, and star formation rate up to $z\sim 8$ and its breakdown at higher redshifts. It is crucial to understand the underlying physics, especially the role played by the IMF. We explore the…