Published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Introduction Soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) play a pivotal role in soft robotics due to their unique characteristics of compliance, flexibility, and adaptability. There are plenty of approaches that examine the modeling parameters of SPAs, aiming to optimize their design and, thus, achieve the most advantageous responses. Current optimization meth...
Published in Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering
The complexity of mechatronic systems has increased with the significant advancements of technology in their components which makes their design more challenging. This is due to the need for incorporating expertise from different domains as well as the increased number and complexity of components integrated into the product. To alleviate the burde...
Published in Frontiers in Neuroscience
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been studied extensively for its potential to enhance human cognitive functions in healthy individuals and to treat cognitive impairment in various clinical populations. However, little is known about how tDCS modulates the neural networks supporting cognition and the complex interplay with mediati...
Published in E3S Web of Conferences
To decarbonize Europe achieving almost zero emissions in 2050, more stringent regulations are going to be applied. Particularly, Europe is investing in the emissions’ re-duction of buildings (existing and new ones), and strong improvements in energy performance of building are expected according to novel energy performance of building directive (at...
Published in Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
This paper proposes an efficient nonlinear one-dimensional (1D) compact mass-damper-spring model to predict the dynamic response of electrostatic resonant micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) mirrors with cascaded structures. The time-dependent damping moment due to viscous shear and pressure drag is computed using semi-empirical analytical equat...
Floating treatment wetlands (FTWs) have the potential to improve the quality of wastewater discharges, yet design basics are unavailable tosize these systems. This study investigates the effect of FTWs’ coverage ratio and hydraulic retention time on agri-food wastewater treatment.This was studied in a pilot-scale experiment comprising four lagoons ...
Published in Nuclear Fusion
High temperature superconductors (HTSs) expand the design space of stellarator power-plants (PPs) toward high magnetic fields B, enabling compact major radii R. The present paper scans the space of B, R and other design parameters, finding solutions that are promising from a physics and engineering standpoint, while minimizing the capital cost of t...
Published in Frontiers in Energy Research
Heat exchanger modeling has been widely employed in recent years for performance calculation, design optimizations, real-time simulations for control analysis, as well as transient performance predictions. Among these applications, the model’s computational speed and robustness are of great interest, particularly for the purpose of optimization stu...
editorial reviewed / Imaging Earth-like planets around sun-like stars has become one of the main science drivers for future space telescope missions. High-contrast imaging using a vortex coronagraph has proven to be a promising approach for achieving this goal. However, at the huge contrast levels required for future space-based telescopes the vect...
Published in Biometrical journal. Biometrische Zeitschrift
Recently, the use of mobile technologies in ecological momentary assessments (EMAs) and interventions has made it easier to collect data suitable for intraindividual variability studies in the medical field. Nevertheless, especially when self-reports are used during the data collection process, there are difficulties in balancing data quality and t...
