Climate change is one of the most significant challenges we face together as a society. Creating awareness and educating policy makers the wide-ranging impact of climate change is an essential step towards a sustainable future. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Bard have shown impressive conversational abilities and excel in a wide variety of NLP tasks. While these models are close-source, recently alternative open-source LLMs such as Stanford Alpaca and Vicuna have shown promising results. However, these open-source models are not specifically tailored for climate related domain specific information and also struggle to generate meaningful responses in other languages such as, Arabic. To this end, we propose a light-weight Arabic Mini-ClimateGPT that is built on an open-source LLM and is specifically fine-tuned on a conversational-style instruction tuning curated Arabic dataset Clima500-Instruct with over 500k instructions about climate change and sustainability. Further, our model also utilizes a vector embedding based retrieval mechanism during inference. We validate our proposed model through quantitative and qualitative evaluations on climate-related queries. Our model surpasses the baseline LLM in 88.3% of cases during ChatGPT-based evaluation. Furthermore, our human expert evaluation reveals an 81.6% preference for our model's responses over multiple popular open-source models. Our open-source demos, code-base and models are available here https://github.com/mbzuai-oryx/ClimateGPT.

This paper introduces LLM-MARS, first technology that utilizes a Large Language Model based Artificial Intelligence for Multi-Agent Robot Systems. LLM-MARS enables dynamic dialogues between humans and robots, allowing the latter to generate behavior based on operator commands and provide informative answers to questions about their actions. LLM-MARS is built on a transformer-based Large Language Model, fine-tuned from the Falcon 7B model. We employ a multimodal approach using LoRa adapters for different tasks. The first LoRa adapter was developed by fine-tuning the base model on examples of Behavior Trees and their corresponding commands. The second LoRa adapter was developed by fine-tuning on question-answering examples. Practical trials on a multi-agent system of two robots within the Eurobot 2023 game rules demonstrate promising results. The robots achieve an average task execution accuracy of 79.28% in compound commands. With commands containing up to two tasks accuracy exceeded 90%. Evaluation confirms the system's answers on operators questions exhibit high accuracy, relevance, and informativeness. LLM-MARS and similar multi-agent robotic systems hold significant potential to revolutionize logistics, enabling autonomous exploration missions and advancing Industry 5.0.

Wind speed at sea surface is a key quantity for a variety of scientific applications and human activities. Due to the non-linearity of the phenomenon, a complete description of such variable is made infeasible on both the small scale and large spatial extents. Methods relying on Data Assimilation techniques, despite being the state-of-the-art for Numerical Weather Prediction, can not provide the reconstructions with a spatial resolution that can compete with satellite imagery. In this work we propose a framework based on Variational Data Assimilation and Deep Learning concepts. This framework is applied to recover rich-in-time, high-resolution information on sea surface wind speed. We design our experiments using synthetic wind data and different sampling schemes for high-resolution and low-resolution versions of original data to emulate the real-world scenario of spatio-temporally heterogeneous observations. Extensive numerical experiments are performed to assess systematically the impact of low and high-resolution wind fields and in-situ observations on the model reconstruction performance. We show that in-situ observations with richer temporal resolution represent an added value in terms of the model reconstruction performance. We show how a multi-modal approach, that explicitly informs the model about the heterogeneity of the available observations, can improve the reconstruction task by exploiting the complementary information in spatial and local point-wise data. To conclude, we propose an analysis to test the robustness of the chosen framework against phase delay and amplitude biases in low-resolution data and against interruptions of in-situ observations supply at evaluation time

In this paper, a novel artificial intelligence-based cyber-attack detection model for smart grids is developed to stop data integrity cyber-attacks (DIAs) on the received load data by supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). In the proposed model, first the load data is forecasted using a regression model and after processing stage, the processed data is clustered using the unsupervised learning method. In this work, in order to achieve the best performance, three load forecasting methods (i.e. extra tree regression (ETR), long short-term memory (LSTM) and bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM)) are utilized as regression models and their performance is compared. For clustering and outlying detection, the covariance elliptic envelope (EE) is employed as an unsupervised learning method. To examine the proposed model, the hourly load data of the power company of the city of Johor in Malaysia is employed and Two common DIAs, which are DIAs targeting economic loss and DIAs targeting blackouts, are used to evaluate the accuracy of detection methods in several scenarios. The simulation results show that the proposed EE-BiLSTM method can perform more robust and accurate compared to the other two methods.

Offshore wind farms represent a renewable energy source with a significant global growth trend, and their monitoring is strategic for territorial and environmental planning. This study's primary objective is to detect offshore wind plants at an instance level using semantic segmentation models and Sentinel-1 time series. The secondary objectives are: (a) to develop a database consisting of labeled data and S-1 time series; (b) to compare the performance of five deep semantic segmentation architectures (U-Net, U-Net++, Feature Pyramid Network - FPN, DeepLabv3+, and LinkNet); (c) develop a novel augmentation strategy that shuffles the positions of the images within the time series; (d) investigate different dimensions of time series intervals (1, 5, 10, and 15 images); and (e) evaluate the semantic-to-instance conversion procedure. LinkNet was the top-performing model, followed by U-Net++ and U-Net, while FPN and DeepLabv3+ presented the worst results. The evaluation of semantic segmentation models reveals enhanced Intersection over Union (IoU) (25%) and F-score metrics (18%) with the augmentation of time series images. The study showcases the augmentation strategy's capability to mitigate biases and precisely detect invariant targets. Furthermore, the conversion from semantic to instance segmentation demonstrates its efficacy in accurately isolating individual instances within classified regions - simplifying training data and reducing annotation effort and complexity.

This paper presents a safety-critical approach to the coordination of robots in dynamic environments. To this end, we leverage control barrier functions (CBFs) with the forward reachable set to guarantee the safe coordination of the robots while preserving a desired trajectory via a layered controller. The top-level planner generates a safety-ensured trajectory for each agent, accounting for the dynamic constraints in the environment. This planner leverages high-order CBFs based on the forward reachable set to ensure safety-critical coordination control, i.e., guarantee the safe coordination of the robots during locomotion. The middle-level trajectory planner employs single rigid body (SRB) dynamics to generate optimal ground reaction forces (GRFs) to track the safety-ensured trajectories from the top-level planner. The whole-body motions to adhere to the optimal GRFs while ensuring the friction cone condition at the end of each stance leg are generated from the low-level controller. The effectiveness of the approach is demonstrated through simulation and hardware experiments.

We propose reinforcement learning to control the dynamical self-assembly of the dodecagonal quasicrystal (DDQC) from patchy particles. The patchy particles have anisotropic interactions with other particles and form DDQC. However, their structures at steady states are significantly influenced by the kinetic pathways of their structural formation. We estimate the best policy of temperature control trained by the Q-learning method and demonstrate that we can generate DDQC with few defects using the estimated policy. The temperature schedule obtained by reinforcement learning can reproduce the desired structure more efficiently than the conventional pre-fixed temperature schedule, such as annealing. To clarify the success of the learning, we also analyse a simple model describing the kinetics of structural changes through the motion in a triple-well potential. We have found that reinforcement learning autonomously discovers the critical temperature at which structural fluctuations enhance the chance of forming a globally stable state. The estimated policy guides the system toward the critical temperature to assist the formation of DDQC.

The influx of massive amounts of data from current and upcoming cosmological surveys necessitates compression schemes that can efficiently summarize the data with minimal loss of information. We introduce a method that leverages the paradigm of self-supervised machine learning in a novel manner to construct representative summaries of massive datasets using simulation-based augmentations. Deploying the method on hydrodynamical cosmological simulations, we show that it can deliver highly informative summaries, which can be used for a variety of downstream tasks, including precise and accurate parameter inference. We demonstrate how this paradigm can be used to construct summary representations that are insensitive to prescribed systematic effects, such as the influence of baryonic physics. Our results indicate that self-supervised machine learning techniques offer a promising new approach for compression of cosmological data as well its analysis.

This work focuses on pose-following, a variant of path-following in which the goal is to steer the system's position and attitude along a path with a moving frame attached to it. Full body motion control, while accounting for the additional freedom to self-regulate the progress along the path, is an appealing trade-off. Towards this end, we extend the well-established dual quaternion-based pose-tracking method into a pose-following control law. Specifically, we derive the equations of motion for the full pose error between the geometric reference and the rigid body in the form of a dual quaternion and dual twist. Subsequently, we formulate an almost globally asymptotically stable control law. The global attractivity of the presented approach is validated in a spatial example, while its benefits over pose-tracking are showcased through a planar case-study.

A nuclear reactor based on MIT BEAVRS benchmark was used as a typical power generating Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR). The PARCS v3.2 nodal-diffusion core simulator was used as a full-core reactor physics solver to emulate the operation of a reactor and to generate training, and validation data for the ANN. The ANN was implemented with dedicated Python 3.8 code with Google's TensorFlow 2.0 library. The effort was based to a large extent on the process of appropriate automatic transformation of data generated by PARCS simulator, which was later used in the process of the ANN development. Various methods that allow obtaining better accuracy of the ANN predicted results were studied, such as trying different ANN architectures to find the optimal number of neurons in the hidden layers of the network. Results were later compared with the architectures proposed in the literature. For the selected best architecture predictions were made for different core parameters and their dependence on core loading patterns. In this study, a special focus was put on the prediction of the fuel cycle length for a given core loading pattern, as it can be considered one of the targets for plant economic operation. For instance, the length of a single fuel cycle depending on the initial core loading pattern was predicted with very good accuracy (>99%). This work contributes to the exploration of the usefulness of neural networks in solving nuclear reactor design problems. Thanks to the application of ANN, designers can avoid using an excessive amount of core simulator runs and more rapidly explore the space of possible solutions before performing more detailed design considerations.