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Md Najib Alam, Vineet Kumar
Polymer composite materials have emerged as a key class of advanced materials with robust properties. These features are due to their ability to combine the inherent flexibility, lightweight nature, and processability of polymers . They also exhibit superior mechanical, electrical, or thermal properties inherited from…
Vineet Kumar, Md Najib Alam
Recently, polymer composites have evolved from simple polymeric materials into advanced engineering systems capable of delivering multiple functionalities simultaneously . This evolution has given rise to the concept of multifunctionality in polymer composite materials. They refer to the integration of diverse…
Matteo Cianchetti
The soft robotics community is currently wondering what the future of soft robotics is. Therefore, it is very important to identify the directions in which the community should focus its efforts to consolidate its impact. The identification of convincing applications is a priority, especially to demonstrate that some…
Stuart C. Burgess, Damien Chablat, Poramate Manoonpong, Julien R Serres + 1 more
'Julien R Serres' 'Swaminath Venkateswaran'] This paper reviews how multifunctioning joints produce highly agile limbs in animals with lessons for robotics. One of the key reasons why animals are so fast and agile is that they have multifunctioning joints in their limbs. The multifunctioning joints lead to a high…
Zhonggui Fang, Yige Wu, Yinyin Su, Juan Yi + 2 more
Earthworms have entirely soft bodies mainly composed of circular and longitudinal muscle bundles but can handle the complexity of unstructured environments with exceptional multifunctionality. Soft robots are naturally appropriate for mimicking soft animal structures thanks to their inherent compliance. Here, we…
Isaac Oscar Gariano, Marco Servetto
Multi-methods are a straightforward extension of traditional (single) dynamic dispatch, which is the core of most object oriented languages. With multi-methods, a method call will select an appropriate implementation based on the values of multiple arguments, and not just the first/receiver. Language support for both…
Smitha Maretvadakethope, Içvara Aor, Matthias M. Fischer, Àngela Pantebre Pedrosa + 2 more
Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) govern processes such as cell fate, patterning, and adaptation. While multistability and oscillations are both common GRN dynamics in cell biology, they are typically studied and engineered in isolation. Here, we challenge this separation using the AC–DC circuit, a minimal three- gene…
Bassel Arafat, Caroline Nettekoven, Jinkang Derrick Xiang, Jörn Diedrichsen
Functional brain mapping is an important tool to understand the organization of the human brain, both at the group level, but also to an increasing degree at the level of the individual. There are currently two main approaches to do so. Resting-state fMRI relies on inter-regional correlations of random fluctuations of…
Christian Capezza, Giovanna Capizzi, Fabio Centofanti, Antonio Lepore + 1 more
'Antonio Lepore' 'Biagio Palumbo'] In many modern industrial scenarios, the measurements of the quality characteristics of interest are often required to be represented as functional data or profiles. This motivates the growing interest in extending traditional univariate statistical process monitoring (SPM) schemes to…
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Multi-material 3D printing concerns the use of two or more 3D printable materials within a single printed part. The result is a composite that benefits from the combined properties of the individual 3D printed materials. Typically, a distinct differentiation between material properties can only be achieved using…
Ralf Stetter, Omprakash Kaiwartya
Researchers around the globe have contributed for many years to the research field of fault-tolerant control; the importance of this field is ever increasing as a consequence of the rising complexity of technical systems, the enlarging importance of electronics and software as well as the widening share of…
Bradley Brown, Christian Atallah, James Alastair McLaughlin, Göksel Misirli + 8 more
Synthetic biology aims to improve the development of biological systems and in-crease their reproducibility through the use of engineering principles, such as stan-dardisation and modularisation. It is important that these systems can be represented and shared in a standard way to ensure they are easily understood…
Jonathan Fine, Anand Rasjashekar, Gaurav Chopra
We present a deep learning method for identifying all the functional groups of unknown compounds using a combination of FTIR and MS spectra without the use of any database, pre-established rules, procedures, or peak-matching methods. We derive patterns and correlations directly from spectral data representing multiple…
Agamemnon Krasoulis, Kianoush Nazarpour
The ultimate goal of machine learning-based myoelectric control is simultaneous and independent control of multiple degrees of freedom (DOFs), including wrist and digit artificial joints. For prosthetic finger control, regression-based methods are typically used to reconstruct position/velocity trajectories from…
Shannon Bonke, Giovanni Trezza, Luca Bergamasco, Hongwei Song + 4 more
The sunlight-driven reduction of CO2 into fuels and platform chemicals is a promising approach to enable a circular economy. However, established optimisation approaches are poorly suited to multi-variable multi-metric photocatalytic systems because they aim to optimise one performance metric while sacrificing the…
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Curried functions provide a systematic way of transforming multi-argument functions into nested singleargument functions. This transformation allows partial application and supports many central principles of functional programming. Their extension, called curried 𝑘-ary functions, naturally generalizes the familiar…
Giorgos Minas, Dan J. Woodcock, Louise Ashall, Claire V. Harper + 2 more
We consider how a signalling system can act as an information hub by multiplexing information arising from multiple signals. We formally define multiplexing, mathematically characterise which systems can multiplex and how well they can do it. While the results of this paper are theoretical, to motivate the idea of…
Minghui Sun, Zhaoyang Chen, Georgios Bakirtzis, Hassan Jafarzadeh + 1 more
'Cody Fleming'] The design of complex systems is typically uncertain and ambiguous at early stages. Set-Based Design is a promising approach to complex systems design as it supports alternative exploration and gradual uncertainty reduction. When designing a complex system, functional requirements decomposition is a…
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This comprehensive review examines the evolution of autonomous materials synthesis laboratories that integrate artificial intelligence with advanced robotics to accelerate discovery. Traditional materials development pipelines typically require 10-20 years, but self-driving laboratories (SDLs) and Materials…
Monetti, Fabio Marco, Lundström, Adam + 6 more
Modular product design has become a strategic enabler for companies seeking to balance product variety, operational efficiency, and market responsiveness, making the alignment between modular architecture and manufacturing considerations increasingly critical. Modular Function Deployment (MFD) is a widely adopted…
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The choice of exchange-correlation functional and dispersion correction significantly influences the adsorption energies obtained from dispersion-corrected density functional theory (DFT) methods. Several studies have employed different approaches to calculate the adsorption energy of small (and a few large) molecules…
P. Balasubramanian, Nikos E. Mastorakis
* School of Computer Engineering Nanyang Technological University 50 Nanyang Avenue Singapore 639798 E-mail: balasubramanian@ntu.edu.sg § Department of Computer Science Military Institutes of University Education Hellenic Naval Academy Piraeus 18539, Greece E-mail: mastor@hna.gr ¶ Department of Industrial Engineering…
Shelvin Chand, David Howard
Multi-level evolution is a bottom-up robotic design paradigm which decomposes the design problem into layered sub-tasks that involve concurrent search for appropriate materials, component geometry and overall morphology. Each of the three layers operate with the goal of building a library of diverse candidate solutions…