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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
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An Ultrasonic Ridge-Tracking Method Based on Limiter Sliding Window Filter and Fuzzy Pure Pursuit Control for Ridge Transplanter

Agriculture
There are various types of fruits and vegetables that need to be planted on ridges. In order to allow for seedlings with a certain row space and seedling space, the ridge transplanter should be able to track along the ridge.
Wei Liu, Jinhao Zhou, Yutong Liu, Tengfei Zhang, Meng Yan, Ji Chen, Chunjian Zhou, Jianping Hu, Xinxin Chen   +8 more
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Optimal Path Tracking Control of Autonomous Vehicle: Adaptive Full-State Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) Control

IEEE Access, 2019
In practice, many autonomous vehicle developers put a tremendous amount of time and efforts in tuning and calibrating the path tracking controllers in order to achieve robust tracking performance and smooth steering actions over a wide range of vehicle ...
Kibeom Lee, Seungmin Jeon, Heegwon Kim, Dongsuk Kum   +3 more
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Increasing Inter‐Micellar Connectivity Toughens and Imparts Cooling‐Induced Shape Memory in Micellar Hydrogels

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Oligomerizing Pluronic triblock copolymers provides a processing strategy for tuning the mechanical properties and stimuli‐responsive behaviors of micellar hydrogels. Varying oligomer fraction produces hydrogels spanning brittle to highly extensible responses; maintaining micellar architectures enables cooling‐induced reverse thermal shape memory and ...
Gourav Kumbhojkar, Eric Yang, Arman Moussavi, EunBi Oh, Haeji Kim, Wei Chen, Junsoo Kim, Sinan Keten, Ryan L. Truby   +8 more
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3DOF Adaptive Line-Of-Sight Based Proportional Guidance Law for Path Following of AUV in the Presence of Ocean Currents

Applied Sciences, 2019
In order to achieve high-precision path following of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in the horizontal plane, a three degrees-of-freedom adaptive line-of-sight based proportional (3DOFAPLOS) guidance law is proposed.
Fengxu Liu, Yue Shen, Bo He, Junhe Wan, Dianrui Wang, Qingqing Yin, Ping Qin   +6 more
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Functionalizing Micro‐to‐Mesoscopic Electrode Architectures for Regulating Electron Transfer Behaviors in Electrocatalysis

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A systematic review is conducted to assess the influence of electrode architecture across micro‐ to mesoscopic length scales on electron‐transfer pathways in electrocatalysis. We discuss the structure‐activity relationships in electrocatalytic applications, including resource recovery and environmental remediation, and provide cost‐effective, efficient
Manshu Zhao, Jiaojiao Zhang, Shideng Yuan, Xinmeng Yu, Keming Wan, Xiaoguang Duan, Zhining Wang   +6 more
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Intelligent Orthopedics: Machine Learning in Diagnosis of Bone Disease, Implants, and Bone Health Monitoring

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Efficient recovery from traumatic or degenerative diseases is a great challenge, even after all the advancements in bone and cartilage regeneration. Machine learning (ML) algorithms have presented opportunities to enhance these aspects by accurately analyzing imaging data.
Maryam Kamaei, Hesam Mohammadi, Shamim Golafshan, Mojtaba Alehosseini, Mahsa Mohammadzadeh, Atefeh Golshirazi, Nasim Golafshan, Tatiane Eufrásio‐da‐Silva, Alireza Dolatshahi‐Pirouz, Gorka Orive   +9 more
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Rapid Fabrication of Self‐Propelled and Steerable Magnetic Microcatheters for Precision Medicine

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A rapid Joule heating fabrication method for the production of self‐propelling, adaptive microcatheters, with tunable stiffness and integrated microfluidic channels is presented. Demonstrated through three microrobotic designs, including a steerable guiding catheter, an untethered wave‐crawling TubeBot, and a distal‐end propelled microcatheter, it was ...
Zhi Chen, Boris Rivkin, David Castellanos‐Robles, Ivan Soldatov, Lukas Beyer, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez   +5 more
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Experimental Evaluation of Path-Following Performance in a Scaled Autonomous Vehicle: Effects of Localization, Path Geometry, Speed, and Pure Pursuit Look-Ahead Distance

Applied Sciences
Reliable execution of a planned path is essential for autonomous mobile robots and vehicle-like robot platforms. This study experimentally evaluates the path-following performance of a scaled Ackermann-steered autonomous vehicle under different ...
Piotr Szeląg, Sebastian Dudzik, Patryk Gałuszkiewicz, Gabriela Gic-Grusza   +3 more
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Thermodynamic Limits to Molecular Doping in Conjugated Polymers: A Perspective on Phase Behavior and Miscibility

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Molecular doping of conjugated polymers is fundamentally constrained by thermodynamic phase behavior. This Perspective reframes doping efficiency and stability in terms of miscibility limits, binodals, and solvus boundaries, highlighting the role of effective interaction parameters and charge transfer.
Somayeh Kashani, Justin Neu, Sung‐Joo Kwon, Runqio Song, Zixuan Chen, Tajah Trapier, Paschalis Gkoupidenis, David Ginger, Wei You, Jasper J. Michels, Harald Ade   +10 more
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