To reduce the effects of global warming, there is an increasing need for renewable energy sources. Several studies have been carried out on photovoltaic (PV) systems to maximize their potential as an alternative elect...
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With increasingly challenging applications for quadrotors, higher requirements are emerging for tracking accuracy and safety. While high accuracy is a prerequisite for complex tasks, safety is ensured through toleranc...
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Fish mortality assessments for turbine passages are currently performed by live-animal testing with up to a hundred thousand fish per year in Germany.A propelled sensor device could act as a fish *** this context,the ...
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Fish mortality assessments for turbine passages are currently performed by live-animal testing with up to a hundred thousand fish per year in Germany.A propelled sensor device could act as a fish *** this context,the study presented here investigates the state of the art via a thorough literature review on propulsion systems for aquatic *** evaluation of propulsion performance,weight,size and complexity of the motion achievable allows for the selection of an optimal concept for such a fish mimicking device carrying the *** the second step,the design of a bioinspired soft robotic fish driven by an unconventional drive system is *** is based on piezoceramic actuators,which allow for motion with five degrees of freedom(DOF)and the creation of complex bio-mimicking body motions.A kinematic model for the motion’s characteristics is developed,to achieve accurate position feedback with the use of strain *** measurements validate the complex deformation of the body and deliver the basis for the calibration of the kinematic ***,it can be shown,that the calibrated model presented allows the tracking of the deformation of the entire body with an accuracy of 0.1 mm.
This article proposed ultra-thin square ring-shaped metamaterial absorber nano-architectures for optical and near-infrared regime (NIR). The absorber structure comprises three layers of nickel-polyimide-nickel (Ni–Pi...
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Controlling the tissue temperature rise during retinal laser therapy is essential for predictable outcomes,especially at non-damaging *** demonstrate a method for determining the temperature rise in the retina using p...
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Controlling the tissue temperature rise during retinal laser therapy is essential for predictable outcomes,especially at non-damaging *** demonstrate a method for determining the temperature rise in the retina using phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography(pOCT)in *** based on the thermally induced optical path length changes(ΔOPL)in the retina during a 10-ms laser pulse allow detection of the temperature rise with a precision less than 1 ℃,which is sufficient for calibration of the laser power for patient-specific non-damaging *** observed a significant difference in confinement of the retinal deformations between the normal and the degenerate retina:in wild-type rats,thermal deformations are localized between the retinal pigment epithelium(RPE)and the photoreceptors' inner segments(IS),as opposed to a deep penetration of the deformations into the inner retinal layers in the degenerate *** implies the presence of a structural component within healthy photoreceptors that dampens the tissue expansion induced by the laser heating of the RPE and pigmented *** hypothesize that the thin and soft cilium connecting the inner and outer segments(IS,OS)of photoreceptors may absorb the deformations of the OS and thereby preclude the tissue expansion further *** difference in the confinement of the retinal deformations induced by a laser pulse in healthy and degenerate retina may be used as a biomechanical diagnostic tool for the characterization of photoreceptors degeneration.
In the machine learning(ML)paradigm,data augmentation serves as a regularization approach for creating ML *** increase in the diversification of training samples increases the generalization capabilities,which enhance...
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In the machine learning(ML)paradigm,data augmentation serves as a regularization approach for creating ML *** increase in the diversification of training samples increases the generalization capabilities,which enhances the prediction performance of classifiers when tested on unseen *** learning(DL)models have a lot of parameters,and they frequently ***,to avoid overfitting,data plays a major role to augment the latest improvements in ***,reliable data collection is a major limiting ***,this problem is undertaken by combining augmentation of data,transfer learning,dropout,and methods of normalization in *** this paper,we introduce the application of data augmentation in the field of image classification using Random Multi-model Deep Learning(RMDL)which uses the association approaches of multi-DL to yield random models for *** present a methodology for using Generative Adversarial Networks(GANs)to generate images for data *** experiments,we discover that samples generated by GANs when fed into RMDL improve both accuracy and model *** across both MNIST and CIAFAR-10 datasets show that,error rate with proposed approach has been decreased with different random models.
Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation plays a vital role in human mobility prediction within Location-based Social Networks (LSBN), assisting individuals to decide on their next destination. However, traditional...
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This article introduces the notion of danger awareness in the context of human-robot interaction, which decodes whether a human is aware of the existence of the robot, and illuminates whether the human is willing to e...
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Weed plants are the unwanted plants which grow in crop fields where their growth is not wanted. They consume all the nutrients which are necessary for growth of crop plants. Therefore, their removal is mandatory for p...
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We demonstrate microring resonator (MRR) optical switch using phase change material Ge2Sb2Te3Se2 (GSTS). With negligible optical absorption in amorphous GSTS, the MRR maintains its Q-factor after GSTS integration. Suc...
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