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Re-design warehouse plant layout for a food company [PDF]

, 2004
Plan BThis research paper presents a comprehensive look at the issues involved in increasing production by expanding the number of operating lines within a food company at Eau-Claire, Wisconsin. Nestle was the company specifically selected for this study,
Vetencourt Stull, Rolando Jose
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Hybrid Continuum Robot Designs and Architectures for Healthcare Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Hybrid continuum robots represent an emerging class of flexible manipulators that blend materials, structures, and actuation concepts from the established fields of soft and continuum robotics. This review introduces an accessible framework to distinguish key hybridization approaches, surveys current designs aimed at complex clinical applications, and ...
Burak Ozdemir, Muhammad A. Khalid, Manish Chauhan, Pietro Valdastri, James H. Chandler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Research progress on methods for determining the permeability coefficient of coal seams

Meitan kexue jishu
The permeability coefficient of coal seams serves as a crucial indicator for evaluating the difficulty of gas extraction, the effectiveness of pressure relief in protective layers to enhance permeability, and the severity of coal and gas outburst hazards.
Xuexi CHEN, Jingyi MA, Jiaying HU, Peixue HAN, Ruiqing BI, Jihong SUN, Zijian LIU   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Optimal design and application of heliostat field based on radial staggered radiation grid layout

Highlights in Science, Engineering and Technology
To meet the actual requirements and maximize economy and efficiency, the size of heliostats is designed, and efficiency optimization is achieved through a reasonable layout. In this study, linear and nonlinear programming models are constructed. With the objective function of minimizing the shadow occlusion between heliostats, the optimal size and ...
Tai Huang, Yuanxiang Tang, Jiaxin Cui
openaire   +1 more source

Modular, Textile‐Based Soft Robotic Grippers for Agricultural Produce Handling

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This article introduces textile‐based pneumatic grippers that transform simple textiles into robust bending actuators. Detailed experiments uncover how cut geometry and fabric selection shape performance. Successful handling of fragile agricultural items showcases the potential of textile robotics for safe, scalable automation in food processing and ...
Zeyu Hou, Eran Beeri Bamani, Joao Buzzatto, Bryan Busby, Lucas Ferrari Gerez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Competitive Genetic Algorithm for Single Row Facility Layout [PDF]

The single row facility layout is the NP-Hard problem of arranging facilities with given lengths on a line, so as to minimize the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities.
Kothari, Ravi, Ghosh, Diptesh
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3D‐Printing Aided Rapid Prototyping of Pretensioned Tensegrity Structures for Robotic Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Printing, injection molding, and assembly (PMA) is a method for rapid prototyping mesoscale, topologically complex, and tensioned tensegrity structures. In combination with PMA method, two mold design strategies: modular mold and compact channel layout, enable efficiency and scalability for tensegrity fabrication.
Yi Sun, Jan Petrš, Omar Aloui, Dario Floreano   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Study on the Mitigation of Back-EMF Imbalance in Axial Flux Motors with PCB Stators

Energies
As the electrification of the automotive industry accelerates, the importance of small-scale motors used in applications such as HVAC systems and water pumps is growing.
Min-Su Youn, Min-Ki Hong, Seung-Hoon Ko, Dong-Woo Nam, Won-Ho Kim   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Grey-box radial basis function modelling

, 2011
A fundamental principle in data modelling is to incorporate available a priori information regarding the underlying data generating mechanism into the modelling process.
Xia Hong, Hong, Xia, Sheng Chen, Chris J. Harris, Chen, Sheng, Harris, Chris J., Harris, Chris   +6 more
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Cross‐Scale Hierarchical Targeted Delivery System Based on Small‐Scale Magnetic Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This article reviews a cross‐scale hierarchical targeted delivery system that integrates magnetic continuum robots and magnetic microrobots. By combining rapid long‐range navigation with precise microscale targeting, the system overcomes key limitations of single‐scale approaches.
Junjian Zhou, Zhiqiang Chen, Yuanbiao Ma, Zhiqiang Tang, Qianqian Wang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source