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Typically, control strategies for legged robots have been developed to adapt their leg movements to deal with complex terrain. When the legs are extended in search of ground contact to support the robot body, this can result in the center of gravity (CoG) being raised higher from the ground and can lead to unstable locomotion if it deviates from the support polygon. An alternative approach is body adaptation, inspired by millipede/centipede locomotion behavior, which can result in low ground clearance and stable locomotion.

For Internet-based service companies, anomaly detection on data streams is critical in troubleshooting, seeking to maintain service quality and reliability. Most of known detection methods have an underlying assumption that the data are always continuous. In practical applications, however, we learn that many real-world data are sporadic. It incurs particular challenges for the task of anomaly detection, for which the common preprocessing of downsampling on sporadic data can omit potential anomalies and delay alarms. 

Precise event sampling benchmarks

A contiguous area cartogram is a geographic map in which the area of each region is proportional to numerical data (e.g., population size) while keeping neighboring regions connected. In this study, we investigated whether value-to-area legends (square symbols next to the values represented by the squares' areas) and grid lines aid map readers in making better area judgments. We conducted an experiment to determine the accuracy, speed, and confidence with which readers infer numerical data values for the mapped regions.