Zhu, Yi Tian, Fang-Bao Young, John Liao, James C. Lai, Joseph C. S.
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Scientific Reports
Fish adaption behaviors in complex environments are of great importance in improving the performance of underwater vehicles. This work presents a numerical study of the adaption behaviors of self-propelled fish in complex environments by developing a numerical framework of deep learning and immersed boundary–lattice Boltzmann method (IB–LBM). In th...
Cao, Wenhan Alsharif, Nourin Huang, Zhongjie White, Alice E. Wang, YuHuang Brown, Keith A.
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Nature Communications
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) provides high resolution, but is limited to small areas. Here, the authors introduce a massively parallel AFM approach with >1000 probes in a cantilever-free probe architecture, and present an optical method for detecting probe–sample contact with sub-10 nm vertical precision.
Liang, Xiaoling Zhang, Yuexin Yang, Guotao
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Scientific Reports
Vessel train formation as a new trend has been raised in cooperative control for multiple vessels. This paper addresses formation control design for a group of unmanned surface vehicles platoon considering input delay. To account for connectivity-preserving and collision-avoiding, Barrier Lyapunov function is incorporated into the constraints desig...
Babanezhad, Meisam Behroyan, Iman Nakhjiri, Ali Taghvaie Marjani, Azam Rezakazemi, Mashallah Heydarinasab, Amir Shirazian, Saeed
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Scientific Reports
Herein, a reactor of bubble column type with non-equilibrium thermal condition between air and water is mechanistically modeled and simulated by the CFD technique. Moreover, the combination of the adaptive network (AN) trainer with the fuzzy inference system (FIS) as the artificial intelligence method calling ANFIS has already shown potential in th...
Vieira, Eduardo da Rosa Biehl, Luciano Volcanoglo Medeiros, Jorge Luis Braz Costa, Vagner Machado Macedo, Rodrigo Jorge
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Scientific Reports
Quench hardening aims at the microstructural transformation of steels in order to improve hardness and mechanical strength. The aim phase is, in most cases, the martensite. It is necessary to heat the material until it obtains its austenitization and quenching by immersion in a fluid. Currently, it is common to use watery polymeric solutions in thi...
Liu, Xingchen Behdinan, Kamran
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Scientific Reports
The front-end accessory drive belt drive system is a critical component in the vehicle engine. To avoid thermal deterioration under static state operating conditions, the thermal distribution for the belt drive system at each condition must be determined in an efficient manner. Due to the numerical approach is not feasible to address this concern b...
Wang, Yaxi Xu, Qingsong
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Scientific Reports
Wrist rehabilitation is needed to help post-stroke and post-surgery patients recover from wrist fracture or injury. Traditional rehabilitation training is conducted by a therapist in a hospital, which hinders timely treatment due to the corresponding time and space constraints. This paper presents the design and implementation of a soft parallel ro...
Velichko, Alexander Villaverde, Eduardo Lopez Croxford, Anthony J.
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Scientific Reports
Ultrasonic imaging is a widely used tool for detection, localisation and characterisation of material inhomogeneities with important applications in many fields. This task is particularly challenging when imaging in a complex medium, where the ultrasonic wave is scattered by the material microstructure, preventing detection and characterisation of ...
Kim, Deukha Chung, Youngbeen Yeon, Yeji Cho, Hyunsoo Lim, Han Woong Park, Junhong Lee, Won June
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Scientific Reports
The present study aimed to identify vibroacoustic properties associated with intraocular pressure (IOP) changes and to suggest a new way to measure the IOP based on these properties. Ten ex vivo porcine eyeballs were used in this study. Each eyeball was fixated in a central hole of a Styrofoam block, and vibration applied to the Styrofoam block was...
Moheimani, Reza Aliahmad, Nojan Aliheidari, Nahal Agarwal, Mangilal Dalir, Hamid
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Scientific Reports
Wearable sensing platforms have been rapidly advanced over recent years, thanks to numerous achievements in a variety of sensor fabrication techniques. However, the development of a flexible proximity sensor that can perform in a large range of object mobility remains a challenge. Here, a polymer-based sensor that utilizes a nanostructure composite...
