Distributed Formation Control for Heterogeneous Robot Systems Based on Competitive Mechanism
CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents an adaptive formation control method for a heterogeneous robot swarm, utilising a multilevel formation task tree to model various types of formation tasks and a single‐state distributed k‐winner‐take‐all (S‐DKWTA) algorithm to address the MRTA problem.
Zhenghui Cui, Xiaoyi Gu, Ning Tan
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A Composite Material Repair Structure: For Defect Repair of Branch Pipe Fillet Welds in Oil and Gas Pipelines. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Zhao L +13 more
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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A smart manufacturing paradigm for robotic welding process optimization through machine learning. [PDF]
Sci RepSathick J, Khan AAA.
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Australia and the Path Not Taken: The Declining Independence and Influence of Middle Powers
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australian foreign policy has famously been distinguished by the search for ‘great and powerful friends’. However, Australia's relationship with its current notional protector and key ally—the United States—has generally had more costs than benefits and, I argue, has consequently not been in Australia's much‐invoked ‘national interest ...
Mark Beeson
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American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract For millions of working‐class Mexicans, property has turned into rent. This transformation has fundamentally dislocated social reproduction in Mexico by eroding households’ ability to envision themselves as holders of patrimony and as lasting social formations. To understand how and to what effect property turned into rent, we must look to the
Inés Escobar González
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Prediction of Mechanical Properties of Injection-Molded Weld Lines of Glass Fiber-Reinforced Composites. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel)Bao Z +5 more
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Mobile Work: Handcart and Bicycle Workers Across the Urban Economy of Greater Accra Region
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This article explores the role of handcart and bicycle workers—mobile workers—in the urban economy of Accra and Tema, Ghana. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork, it shows how their practices of food vending, e‐waste collection and mobile trade exemplify a form of relational infrastructure that sustains urban life through improvisation ...
Kauê Lopes dos Santos +1 more
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Enhancing mechanical attributes and tribological performance of titanium friction stir welded joints through nanoparticle reinforcement. [PDF]
Sci RepGiridharan K +5 more
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Fatigue &Fracture of Engineering Materials &Structures, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The newly introduced high manganese high strength (C + N) steel Printdur HSA was developed for the additive manufacturing process PBF‐LB/M. It consists of a fully austenitic grain structure. This study aims to evaluate the cyclic plastic material behavior of this (C + N) steel.
Jakob Blankenhagen +6 more
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