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This paper presents the rotor design optimization for a reaction sphere (RS) actuator. The RS is a permanent-magnet synchronous spherical actuator whose rotor is magnetically levitated and can be accelerated about any desired axis. The RS is composed of an ...

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On the dynamics of human locomotion and co-design of lower limb assistive devices

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Recent developments in lower extremities wearable robotic devices for the assistance and rehabilitation of humans suffering from an impairment have led to several successes in the assistance of people who as a result regained a certain form of locomotive c ...

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Toward a Materials Genome Approach for Ionic Liquids: Synthesis Guided by Ab Initio Property Maps

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The Materials Genome Approach (MGA) aims to accelerate development of new materials by incorporating computational and data-driven approaches to reduce the cost of identification of optimal structures for a given application. Here, we use the MGA to guide ...

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Reduction and abstraction techniques have been proposed to address the state space explosion problem in verification. In this paper, we present reduction and abstraction techniques for component-based systems modeled in BIP (Behavior, Interaction and Prior ...

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Optimal design of a squeeze film actuator for friction feedback

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Christophe Winter

Sense of touch belongs to one of the five Human Senses. Whereas blind people largely use feeling in everyday life, sighted person mainly focus on hearing and vision. However, haptic interface started being introduced in customers applications, such as smar ...

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TURNUS: A design exploration framework for dataflow system design

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While research on the design of heterogeneous concurrent systems has a long and rich history, a unified design methodology and tool support has not emerged so far, and thus the creation of such systems remains a difficult, time-consuming and error-prone pr ...

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Model Adequacy for Real-Time Optimization

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Optimization is important in science and engineering as a way of finding ”optimal” situations, designs or operating conditions. Optimization is typically performed on the basis of a mathematical model of the process under investigation. In practice, optimi ...

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Piezoelectric Actuators Characterization

Pierre-André Farine, Alexis Boegli, Christian Robert, Patrick Stadelmann

This paper describes a system to drive piezoelectric actuators over more than one decade of voltages and one octave of frequencies, in order to perform high-speed complex impedance characterization at a user chosen voltage excitation level. This characteri ...

Ieee Computer Soc2012

Numerical Simulation and Optimization of the Alumina Distribution in an Aluminium Electrolysis Pot

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This thesis is about the numerical simulation and optimization of the alumina repartition in the bath of an aluminium electrolysis pot. A mathematical model is set up which contains the feeding of alumina particles to the bath, the dissolution of the parti ...

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A Combined Structural and Electromechanical FE Approach for Industrial Ultrasonic Devices Design

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Ultrasonic assistance is widely used in manufacturing, both for conventional (e. g. grinding, drilling) and non-conventional (e. g. EDM) processes. Ultrasonic machining is also used as a stand alone process for instance for micro-drilling. Industrial appli ...

Amer Inst Physics, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Ste 1No1 D, Melville, Ny 11747-4501 Usa2011