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Shilei Cao, Man Yang and Jian Liu
Due to its advantages of easy deployment and high stiffness-to-mass ratio, the utilization of truss structures for constructing large satellites presents an appealing solution for modern space missions, including Earth observation and astronomy. However,...
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Lin Yang, Yansong Wang, Lei Wei and Yao Chen
The spaceborne solar observation system is crucial for the study of space phenomena such as solar flares, which requires high tracking accuracy. This study presents a coupling model that integrates mechanical, electrical, and control models to investigat...
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Xuan Zhang, Minglu Zhang, Shilong Jiao, Lingyu Sun and Manhong Li
At present, numerous wall-climbing robots have been developed, and applied in ship manufacturing for weld detection to ensure safe navigation. Limited by rigid mechanical structure and complex detection, mostly existing robots are hardly to complete weld...
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Yilin Qu, Xiao Xie, Shucheng Zhang, Cheng Xing, Yong Cao, Yonghui Cao, Guang Pan and Baowei Song
The manta ray, exemplifying an agile swimming mode identified as the median and paired fin (MPF) mode, inspired the development of underwater robots. Robotic manta typically comprises a central rigid body and flexible pectoral fins. Flexible fins provide...
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José Azinheira, Reginaldo Carvalho, Ely Paiva and Rafael Cordeiro
This paper proposes a new kind of airship actuator configuration for surveillance and environmental monitoring missions. We present the design and application of a six-propeller electrical airship (Noamini) with independent tilting propellers, allowing i...
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Xu Yang, Yingsi Wu, Lihe Wang, Fei Liu, Xuan Zhao, Hongbin Bai, Wenxue Dong, Xiang Kong, Hengtong Hu, Wendong Zhong, Dezheng Xuan, Ao Yang and Yutao Ma
To address problems encountered in current potato harvesting machines, such as potato damage, poor adaptability, and low operational efficiency, a new towed potato picking and bagging machine (4UJ-180A) equipped with a soil-digging axis, flexible conveyi...
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Stanislav Kirpichenko, Lev Utkin, Andrei Konstantinov and Vladimir Muliukha
A method for estimating the conditional average treatment effect under the condition of censored time-to-event data, called BENK (the Beran Estimator with Neural Kernels), is proposed. The main idea behind the method is to apply the Beran estimator for e...
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Hamza Alkuime, Emad Kassem, Khaled A. Alshraiedeh, Manaf Bustanji, Ahmad Aleih and Fawzi Abukhamseh
This study aims to develop a framework to incorporate Waste Cooking Oil (WCO) into asphalt mixtures. Such a framework utilizes a Balanced Mix Design (BMD) approach to ensure adequate resistance to cracking and rutting. Transportation agencies can use the...
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Luisa Boni, Marco Bassetto and Alessandro A. Quarta
Photonic solar sails are a class of advanced propellantless propulsion systems that use thin, large, lightweight membranes to convert the momentum of light from the Sun into thrust for space navigation. The conceptually simple nature of such a fascinatin...
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Lakshmi Narayana Phaneendra Peri, Antonella Ingenito and Paolo Teofilatto
The goal of this paper is to investigate the aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic behavior of the Schiaparelli capsule after the deployment of a supersonic disk-gap-band (DGB) parachute during its re-entry phase into the Martian atmosphere. The novelty of t...
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