The development of new space missions with novel high-performance and very sensitive payloads for Earth observation or scientific missions has imposed considerably tougher requirements in terms of the satellite's pointing accuracy and stability, and thus o ...
Runaway electrons can be generated in tokamak plasmas if the accelerating force from the toroidal electric field exceeds the collisional drag force owing to Coulomb collisions with the background plasma. In ITER, disruptions are expected to generate runawa ...
We aim at implementing a swarm of Micro-Air-Vehicles for creating communication networks (SMAVNETs) in disaster areas. For this purpose, we propose strategies for steering flying robots using only communication hardware (e.g. WiFi module or radio modem) an ...
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One of the challenges of minimally invasive surgery is the dexterous manipulation and precise control of small diameter continuum surgical instruments. In this paper, a magnetic continuum device with variable stiffness (VS) is presented, whose tip can be p ...
Magnetite (Fe3O4) is the first magnetic material discovered by mankind. Despite thousands of years of applications, from the magnetic compass to data storage, and decades of basic research, it remains among the most fascinating materials for physicis ...
This thesis is motivated by one of the largest markets: aviation. This market, in which competition and investments are extraordinary, requires constant technical improvements in order to increase its competitiveness. Jet engines have an important influenc ...
