Salter's duck,an asymmetrical wave energy converter(WEC)device,showed high efficiency in extracting energy from 2D regular waves in the past;yet,challenges remain for fluctuating wave *** can potentially be addres...
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Salter's duck,an asymmetrical wave energy converter(WEC)device,showed high efficiency in extracting energy from 2D regular waves in the past;yet,challenges remain for fluctuating wave *** can potentially be addressed by adopting a negative stiffness mechanism(NSM)in WEC devices to enhance system efficiency,even in highly nonlinear and steep 3D waves.A weakly nonlinear model was developed which incorporated a nonlinear restoring moment and NSM into the linear formulations and was applied to an asymmetric WEC using a time domain potential flow *** model was initially validated by comparing it with published experimental and numerical computational fluid dynamics *** current results were in good agreement with the published *** was found that the energy extraction increased in the range of 6%to 17%during the evaluation of the effectiveness of the NSM in regular *** irregular wave conditions,specifically at the design wave conditions for the selected test site,the energy extraction increased by 2.4%,with annual energy production increments of approximately *** findings highlight the potential of NSM in enhancing the performance of asymmetric WEC devices,indicating more efficient energy extraction under various wave conditions.
With the development of materials science and micro-nano fabrication techniques,miniature soft robots at millimeter or submillimeter size can be manufactured and actuated *** small-scaled robots have the unique capabi...
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With the development of materials science and micro-nano fabrication techniques,miniature soft robots at millimeter or submillimeter size can be manufactured and actuated *** small-scaled robots have the unique capability to access hard-to-reach regions in the human body in a noninvasive *** date,it is still challenging for miniature robots to accurately move in the diverse and dynamic environments in the human body(e.g.,in blood flow).To effectively locomote in the vascular system,miniature swimmers with upstream swimming capability are ***,we design and fabricate a miniature robotic swimmer capable of performing ultrafast swimming in a fluidic *** maximum velocity of the swimmer in water is 30 cm/s,which is 60 body ***,in a tubular environment,the swimmer can still obtain a swimming velocity of 17 cm/*** swimmer can also perform upstream swimming in a tubular environment with a velocity of 5 cm/s when the flow speed is 10 cm/*** ultrasound-guided navigation of the swimmer in a phantom mimicking a blood vessel is also *** work gives insight into the design of agile undulatory milliswimmers for future biomedical applications.
This study proposes designing and applying a video stabilization algorithm using LIDAR-inertial odometry (LIO). The performance of the video stabilization function was validated in narrow, low-light environments using...
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The emergence of microfluidics as one of the most viable technologies for making various microfluidic devices has greatly enhanced miniaturization in several areas. The utilization of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) fo...
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Aiming at the problem that the combination of self-play (SP) and deep reinforcement learning (DRL) only involves two-party games and the policy learning of each party is limited, a multi-party asymmetric self-play alg...
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Copper is one of the ductile materials which is difficult to machine, but extensively used in variety of applications such as electrical, thermal and nuclear. Turning is one of the predominantly used lathe operation, ...
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Active locomotion of capsule endoscopes has become a prominent progress in minimally invasive diagnostic procedures. Utilizing external magnetic fields for this purpose enables contactless actuation and enhanced maneu...
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Soft robotic grippers and hands offer adaptability, lightweight construction, and enhanced safety in human–robot interactions. In this study, we introduce vacuum-actuated soft robotic finger joints to overcome their ...
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Electric vehicles (EVs) have gained immense popularity in recent times owing to the decrease in conventional energy resource reserves and the concurrent threat to the environment caused from the harmful discharge of I...
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Hand Gesture Recognition (HGR) is a form of perceptual computing with applications in human-machine interaction, virtual/augmented reality, and human behavior analysis. Within the HGR domain, several frameworks have b...
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