Publications related to Antikythera mechanism

Recent advances in Rh(I)-catalyzed enantioselective C-H functionalization

Nicolai Cramer, Yi Zhang, Shouguo Wang, Zhen Chen

Chiral carbon-carbon (C-C) and carbon-heteroatom (C-X) bonds are pervasive and very essential in natural products, bioactive molecules, and functional materials, and their catalytic construction has emerged as one of the hottest research fields in syntheti ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2024

On the physical mechanism of tip vortex cavitation hysteresis

Mohamed Farhat, Matthieu Dreyer, Ali Amini, Martino Reclari

Inception and desinence thresholds of tip vortex cavitation (TVC), generated by an elliptical NACA 16-020 hydrofoil, are measured at different flow conditions for various gas contents. It is observed that TVC often disappears at cavitation indices signific ...

SPRINGER2019

Programmable Multistable Mechanisms: Design, modeling, characterization and applications

Mohamed Gamal Abdelrahman Ahmed Zanaty

Multistable Mechanisms are mechanical devices having more than one stable state. Since these mechanisms can maintain different deformations with zero force, they are advantageous for low power environments such as wristwatches and medical devices. In this ...

EPFL2018

Higher-order continuation method for the rigid-body kinematic design of compliant mechanisms

Simon Nessim Henein, Lennart Rubbert

Compliant mechanisms are of great interest in precision engineering. In this paper we propose a higher order continuation method to help their rigid-body kinematic design. The method helps to investigate the choice of a mechanism configuration through the ...

2017

Phase-Shift Master-Slave Mechanisms for High Angular-Speed Wedge-Prism Systems

Reymond Clavel, Olivier Chappuis

Laser micro-machining requires high dynamic laser spot trajectory and accuracy to control the laser beam scanning. A well-known technique to scan a laser beam over a specimen is to use a pair of wedge-prisms. However, it is difficult to master-slave the ph ...

Taylor & Francis Inc2013

An Active Connection Mechanism for Soft Modular Robots

Dario Floreano, Ramon Pericet Camara, Jürg Markus Germann, Michael Dommer

To date, most modular robotic systems lack flexibility when increasing the number of modules due to their hard building blocks and rigid connection mechanisms. In order to improve adaptation to environmental changes, softness on the module level might be b ...

2012

Realization of the Conscience Mechanism in CMOS Implementation of Winner-Takes-All Self-Organizing Neural Networks

Rafal Tomasz Dlugosz

This paper presents a complementary metal–oxide– semiconductor (CMOS) implementation of a conscience mechanism used to improve the effectiveness of learning in the winnertakes- all (WTA) artificial neural networks (ANNs) realized at the transistor level. T ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2010

A Task Specific Kinematic Design Methodology With Application to a 4-DOF Haptic Interface

Hannes Bleuler, Ulrich Spälter

Task specific mechanism design for spatial linkages has remained a challenge. In this paper we present a kinematic design methodology, which combines the formalism of the Lie Group method with the effectiveness of creativity techniques from ’integrated pro ...

2007

Dynamics of torque control continuously variable transmissions

Robert Fuchs

With the increasing concerns in the impact of automotive emissions of CO2 and NOx on the environment combined with today's speculation on oil crude supply, the need to find solutions reducing the fuel consumption and emission of tomorrow's cars is more tha ...

EPFL2006