Optical wireless communications (OWCs) provide a promising alternative to spectrum‐congested microwave wireless communications. Recently, the use of metasurfaces with sub‐wavelength features for dynamic beam steering, beam manipulation, and spatial or optical‐angular‐momentum mode generation, conversion, and multiplexing in OWCs is proposed and ...
Ke Wang+7 more
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Detection of cyber attacks in electric vehicle charging systems using a remaining useful life generative adversarial network. [PDF]
Tanyıldız H+7 more
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Poka: A Necro‐Robot Beetle with a Measured Payload Ratio of 6847%
Here, Poka, a necro‐robot beetle with the ability to carry more than 68 times its own weight, is introduced, making it also a walking robot with the highest payload ratio measured to date. This paper is concerned with the design, manufacture and validation of ‘Poka', a novel millimetre‐scale necro‐robot aimed at bridging the performance gap between ...
Yordan Tsvetkov, Parvez Alam
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Optimizing power grids: A valley-filling heuristic for energy-efficient electric vehicle charging. [PDF]
Souza GG, Santos RRD, Godoy RB.
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Vision‐Assisted Avocado Harvesting with Aerial Bimanual Manipulation
This work outlines the design and implementation of a bimanual aerial robot that employs visual perception and learning to detect, reach, and harvest avocados. A new gripper and fixer arm assembly is used to harvest avocados, while visual perception enables the detection of avocados and estimation of their position and orientation for determining ...
Zhichao Liu+3 more
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A one-stage anchor-free keypoints detection model for fast electric vehicle charging port detection and pose extraction. [PDF]
Hou F, Meng Q, Fan X, Wang Y.
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Recent Advances in Variable‐Stiffness Robotic Systems Enabled by Phase‐Change Materials
Phase‐change materials (PCMs), such as shape memory alloys, hydrogels, shape memory polymers, liquid crystal elastomers, and low‐melting‐point alloys, are driving advancements in stiffness‐tunable robotic systems across a wide range of applications. This review highlights recent progress in PCM‐enabled robotics, focusing on their underlying mechanisms,
Sukrit Gaira+5 more
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Electric vehicle path optimization research based on charging and switching methods under V2G. [PDF]
Liu H, Zhang A.
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Fast response, zero‐power, text or image sensors utilizing light transmission or reflection, and no unfavorable color change judgments, are fabricated using printed nematic liquid crystals patterned on reactive alignment layers, permit ppt‐ to ppb‐level sensitivity, and were field‐tested with active firefighters.
Ryan A. Williams+9 more
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Erratum: Data-driven evaluation of electric vehicle energy consumption for generalizing standard testing to real-world driving. [PDF]
Yuan X+10 more
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