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Improved modelling of a monomorph piezoelectric actuator for linear self-sensing applications

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The use of soft and stretchable materials allows the development of adaptive robotic systems and human-machine interfaces that are more natural and comfortable to interact with. One of the application fields that benefits the most from these compliant mate ...

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Experimental Validation of a Unified and Linear State Estimation Method for Hybrid AC/DC Microgrids

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This paper presents the experimental validation of a linear recursive state estimation (SE) process for hybrid AC/DC microgrids proposed in the authors' previous work. The SE uses a unified and linear measurement model that relies on the use of synchronize ...

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Lifetime of dielectric elastomer actuators under DC electric fields

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Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are interesting soft actuators compared to other actuation technologies owing to large achievable actuation strains, high energy density and fast actuation. However, because DEAs need to be operated under high electric ...

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VL4Pose: Active Learning Through Out-Of-Distribution Detection For Pose Estimation

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Advances in computing have enabled widespread access to pose estimation, creating new sources of data streams. Unlike mock set-ups for data collection, tapping into these data streams through on-device active learning allows us to directly sample from the ...

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Perturbation theory models for LSST-era galaxy clustering: Tests with subpercent mock catalog measurements in Fourier and configuration space

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We analyze the clustering of galaxies using the z = 1.006 snapshot of the CosmoDC2 simulation, a high-fidelity synthetic galaxy catalog designed to validate analysis methods for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). We prese ...

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Statistical Emulation of Neural Simulators: Application to Neocortical L2/3 Large Basket Cells

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Many scientific systems are studied using computer codes that simulate the phenomena of interest. Computer simulation enables scientists to study a broad range of possible conditions, generating large quantities of data at a faster rate than the laboratory ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Filtered data and eigenfunction estimators for statistical inference of multiscale and interacting diffusion processes

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We study the problem of learning unknown parameters of stochastic dynamical models from data. Often, these models are high dimensional and contain several scales and complex structures. One is then interested in obtaining a reduced, coarse-grained descript ...

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Design and modelling of a tubular dielectric elastomer actuator with constrained radial displacement as a cardiac assist device

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Wireless Electrohydrodynamic Actuators for Propulsion and Positioning of Miniaturized Floating Robots

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Energy Analysis of a Cardiac Assist Device based on Dielectric Elastomer Actuator through an Equivalent Electrical Circuit

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Lumped parameter model and mock circulation loop are two tools commonly used in biomedical research to simulate cardiac system in order to study different assist devices. In this paper, a lumped parameter model is proposed to simulate a circulation loop. T ...

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Neuroscience incorporates knowledge from a range of scales, from single molecules to brain wide neural networks. Modeling is a valuable tool in understanding processes at a single scale or the interactions between two adjacent scales and researchers use a ...

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Automated Design: A Journey Across Modelling, Optimization, and Education

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Flow Path Optimization for Soft Pneumatic Actuators: Towards Optimal Performance and Portability

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Soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) are highly desirable for interactive robotics applications owing to their unconventional properties like high compliance, safe human-machine interaction and adaptable design space. The SPA dynamic behaviour is governed by pn ...

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Modelling the Intracellular Environment under Uncertainty, from Post-translational Modification to Metabolic Networks

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A data-driven perspective on the colours of metal-organic frameworks

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Optimal Adversarial Policies in the Multiplicative Learning System With a Malicious Expert

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We consider a learning system based on the conventional multiplicative weight ( MW) rule that combines experts' advice to predict a sequence of true outcomes. It is assumed that one of the experts is malicious and aims to impose the maximum loss on the sys ...

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Fast Bayesian estimation of spatial count data models

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Spatial count data models are used to explain and predict the frequency of phenomena such as traffic accidents in geographically distinct entities such as census tracts or road segments. These models are typically estimated using Bayesian Markov chain Mont ...

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Sensorless Quasi-static Piezoelectric Actuator for Micro-Robotics

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Research interest into the miniaturisation of micro-robots has soared in recent years due to the availability of suitable integrated actuators. The reduction in size of these components is achieved through the implementation of Self-Sensing Actuation (SSA) ...

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Identification of material parameters of a tubular dielectric elastomer actuator for a cardiac assist device

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Jonathan André Jean-Marie Chavanne, Thomas Guillaume Martinez

The recent development of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEA) requires a new approach to the description of hyperelastic material when the architectures are more complex than a film of material. In this paper, we propose a new technique of identification ...

2020