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2022-06-01
Pao, Wing Yi, Li, Long, Agelin-Chaab, Martin
Modern vehicles are equipped with Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) that rely heavily on a variety of sensors such as LiDAR, RADAR, SONAR, and camera to capture surrounding traffic data. Sensor performance has been observed to degrade during adverse weather conditions as the signals are...
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Wild salmon sustain the effectiveness of parasite control on salmon farms: Conservation implications from an evolutionary ecosystem service
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Kreitzman, Maayan, Ashander, Jaime, Driscoll, John, Bateman, Andrew W., Chan, Kai M.A., Lewis, Mark A., Krkošek, Martin
Rapid evolution can increase or maintain the provision of ecosystem services, motivating the conservation of wild species and communities. We detail one such contemporary evosystem service by synthesizing theoretical evidence that rapid evolution can sustain parasiticide efficacy in salmon...
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2005-01-01
Fagan, William F., Lewis, Mark A., Neubert, Michael G., Aumann, Craig, Apple, Jennifer L., Bishop, John G.
Here we study the spatial dynamics of a coinvading consumer‐resource pair. We present a theoretical treatment with extensive empirical data from a long‐studied field system in which native herbivorous insects attack a population of lupine plants recolonizing a primary successional landscape...
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2022-06-01
Chaudhry, Muhammad Salman, Czekanski, Aleksander
This work presents a methodology for the visual detection and robotic tracking of an uncooperative target. This article presents a closed-loop visual feedback-based control strategy combined with the Kalman filtering technique for autonomous tracking of the target object. The framework is based...
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Vision-based Impedance Control of a 7-DOF Robotic Manipulator for Pick-and-Place Tasks in Grasping Fruits
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Chen, Qiguang, Wan, Lucas, Ravichadran, Prabahar, Pan, Ya-Jun, Chang, Young Ki
A vision-based impedance control method is applied to a 7-degree-of-freedom (7-DOF) Franka Emika (FE) Panda robotic manipulator to complete pick-and-place tasks with human-like grasping of fruits. The interfaces between different hardware and the controller are developed using robotic operating...
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2022-06-01
Kehoe, P., Gibb, K., Hurley, J., Chan, A., Green, J., Langlois, R., Greenwood, K., Aubertin, C., Ibey, A., Redpath, S.
Neonatal infants in need of advanced care, often require transportation via road ambulance to neonatal intensive care units. The ambulance exposes these vulnerable infants to potentially harmful noise and vibration. To better understand the levels of vibration, this paper maps the magnitude of...
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Vibration Characteristics of a Ring Under General Boundary Conditions using Euler-Bernoulli and Timoshenko Theories
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Javad, Abedinilaksar Mohmmad, Jianming, Yang
Ring vibration analysis is more challenging than straight beams analysis. In straight beams, the structural deformations depend on rotational and translational displacements; however, in rings, in addition to these, they also depend on the coupled tangential displacement caused by the curvature...
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2018-10-23
Ma, Y., Flynn, M.R. and B.R. Sutherland
We experimentally investigate the behaviour of a line-source plume falling through a finite two-layer stratified ambient where the depth of the upper ambient layer increases in time. Laboratory observations suggest one of two possible flow regimes depending on the value of 𝜆 , which represents...
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Validation of a Numerical Model for Reciprocating Thermodynamic Machines by Examining Heat Transfer in a Low Temperature Difference Stirling Engine
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Lottmann, Matthias, Nobes, David S.
A third order two-dimensional numerical model for reciprocating thermodynamic machines is validated using a low temperature difference Stirling engine with 15 Watt shaft power and source and sink temperatures of 150 °C and 5 °C. The work is limited to the thermodynamic model at steady state. The...