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Coordinated PSO-PID based longitudinal control with LPV-MPC based lateral control for autonomous vehicles
Yassine Kebbati, Naima Ait-Oufroukh, Vincent Vigneron, Dalil Ichalal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19529

Coordinated PSO-PID based longitudinal control with LPV-MPC based lateral control for autonomous vehicles
Autonomous driving is achieved by controlling the coupled nonlinear longitudinal and lateral vehicle dynamics. Longitudinal control greatly affects lateral dynamics and must preserve lateral stability conditions, while lateral controllers must take into account actuator limits and ride comfort. This work deals with the coordinated longitudinal and lateral control for autonomous driving. An improved particle swarm optimized PID (PSO-PID) is proposed to handle the task of speed tracking based on …

Lateral disorder in Langmuir monolayers: theoretical derivations and grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction
L. R. Muftakhova, K. V. Nikolaev, A. V. Rogachev, N. N. Novikova, B. I. Ostrovskii, S. N. Yakunin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20130

Lateral disorder in Langmuir monolayers: theoretical derivations and grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction
Recent studies of the self-assembly of Langmuir monolayers have revealed novel forms of lateral molecular ordering. Such studies typically involve the use of grazing-incidence synchrotron radiation scattering, and the lateral order manifests itself as distinct diffraction patterns. The more intricate the molecular organization, the more complicated the corresponding diffraction pattern is. To the point where standard analysis, i.e., identifying peak positions and solving the crystal structure, …

This will be hilarious when they come to Seattle - downtown's full of one-way streets
Trump’s Military Occupation of DC Crashes Into Reality—Literally – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/trumps-military-occupation-of-dc-crashes-into-reality-literally/

today in "Rob Pike thinks you are literally too stupid and will personally make Go worse because of it" https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2024-12-20-collection-functions-in-go-1-23/

I'm still learning #OpenSCAD. This part, the lower knuckle for the four-bar linkage of the #Tricycle, isn't as smooth and aerodynamic as I'd like. But it's good enough, certainly for now.
The blue colour is just to make it easier to work with; the finished part will probably be c…

So what, are the US armed forces a mercenary force working for a billionaire now? Are they literally potus and friends’ private army, navy, air force, coast guard and space force?
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @schakowsky.house.gov you rep me. How is this anywhere near legal?

Pentagon accepts anonymous $130M gift for payroll amid shutdown
The Pentagon has confirmed it's accepted an anonymous $130 million gift to help pay members of the military during the government shutdown. The announcement Friday raises ethical questions after President Donald Trump had said a friend offered the gift to defray any shortfalls. While large and unusual, the gift amounts to a small contribution toward the billions needed to cover service member paychecks. The Trump administration told Congress last week that it used $6.5 billion to make payroll. …

The Eight-Legged Groove Machine was one of those records that I literally played so much I wore out the groove. Ironic. #TOTP

I recently saw a news story (CHEK News, Victoria, Porter Air) about a couple denied boarding because they could not produce the credit card used to book the flight.
According to experts, this was illegal in Canadian law. The airline's “tariff" — the actual contract between air carrier and passenger — had no such requirement.
The Canadian Transportation Agency lists the tariffs for 116 airlines. Might be worth having one literally in your back pocket when you fly.
https://otc-cta.gc.ca/eng/air-carrier-tariffs-posted-websites

Waldo is lying on top of my & has looked up, literally wanting to know why I stopped rubbing his belly. I have no answer.
#dogs

py360tool: Um framework para manipula\c{c}\~ao de v\'ideo 360$^\circ$ com ladrilhos
Henrique Domingues Garcia, Marcelo Menezes de Carvalho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17428 h…

py360tool: Um framework para manipulação de vídeo 360$^\circ$ com ladrilhos
Streaming 360$^\circ$ videos for virtual reality demands a lot of bandwidth. To optimize this transmission, videos are divided into "tiles" and selectively distributed to the user based on what they are looking at. This interactive approach makes it difficult to assess quality and user experience. To solve this, the paper presents py360tools, a Python library that automates client-side tasks like video reconstruction, tile selection, and viewport extraction. This facilitates the reproduction, s…