| Derivative-Free Output Feedback Adaptive Control for Vehicles |
- New Derivative-Free Output Feedback Adaptive Control for Vehicles improves adaptive control stabilization and tracking performance while achieving a simpler architectural model.
- Innovation allows for faster adaptation and can be used for aircrafts, missiles, spacecrafts, industrial process, automotives, and airframes.
- Novel technology uses generalization of assumptions to reduce modeling error while maintaining robustness and improving performance.
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| A Brayton Electrochemical Refrigerator/Air-Conditioner |
- The Brayton Electrochemical Refrigerator/AC is a new, electrochemistry-based method of highly efficient cooling.
- Based on the Brayton cycle, the process provides continuous cooling while also providing near-zero global warming potential (GWP) refrigeration.
- This technology is highly efficient with a measured coefficient of performance that exceeds 8 as well as a non-flammable and non-toxic technology.
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| Predictive Maintenance System for Large-Scale Operations Offers Potential for Significant Cost Savings |
- Consistent workflow improvements: Offers repeatable and consistent enterprise-level improvements to the maintenance workflow.
- Proactive readiness: Improves maintenance scheduling, allowing for improved logistics, scheduling, virtual kitting, and part/component availability.
- Customizable: Customers can build and tailor their PMx solutions according to their needs, providing increased data control and an alternative to costly and limited solutions.
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| Expandable Back Drive–Resistant Wedge Improves Payload Support and Security in Satellite and Other Limited-Access Applications |
- This expandable wedge designed to resist back drive creates a more predictable load path for limited-access payloads, such as small satellite installations.
- The design reduces the likelihood of payload damage caused by sudden shock loading that can occur due to the higher stresses of cantilevered loads.
- Two offset, spring-activated pawls make the cartridge resistant to vibration by holding the wedge in place once proper contact has been established.
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| Versatile Continuum Robots with Variable Stiffness Control for Improved Positioning and Manipulation |
- Continuum robot design offers stiffness control continuously along the length of a guidewire or at variable discrete locations along the structure’s length.
- Versatile design is not restricted to one actuator type along the length of the guidewire, and elements can be placed along any section of the guidewire body.
- With better control of the wire positioning within a patient’s anatomy, it may be possible to improve treatment outcomes.
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| High-Precision, Hands-Free Remote Control of Complex Robotic Systems Via Eye Movements |
- This two-camera eye-tracking system (TCES) integrates a commercial eye tracker with machine-learning technology for continuous real-time classification of gaze and eye directions for robotic arm control.
- The system provides highly accurate classification for four directions of eye movement and has achieved 99.99% accuracy in studies.
- Using simple eye movement, the TCES offers low-cost, high-precision control of external devices/hardware for people with disabilities, surgery robots, warehouse systems, construction tools, and more.
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| Artificial Neural Network (ANN) with Unique Input Design that Significantly Reduces Computational Costs of Complex Engineering Systems |
- Neural network’s novel input can utilize first-order schemes and local patches and allows for discontinuities to be reflected accurately and with greater resolution than existing products.
- This adaptable ANN can be adopted by commercial and scientific research as a stand-alone solution or in conjunction with existing software.
- Lower costs for running complex and repetitive computations can be achieved by implementing this neural network with an input system that processes low-cost numerical solution patches arising from two or more converging solutions.
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| Quantitative, Performance-Driven Framework for Optimal Desalination Architectures and Energy Subsystems |
- Incorporate and simultaneously compare attributes of multiple types of both desalting systems and energy subsystems for optimal system architectures
- Assess parameters that impact overall cost to discover complete architectures that would not have been discoverable using traditional methods.
- Focus on renewable energy subsystems such as solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, and others to create complete desalination architectures that are cleaner and more water efficient than their conventional counterparts.
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| Enhanced Cybersecurity for Networked Motion Control Systems with Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption |
- Increase cybersecurity with expression rewrite rules for encrypted dynamic control schemes that reduce the multiplicative depth of somewhat homomorphic encryption and improve numerical stability.
- New approach generates motion commands to servo systems without creating a security hole.
- Information decryption and control signal calculation can be performed and executed inside the plant, while all sensitive system information outside of the plant is always encrypted.
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