The field of self-healing materials is growing dramatically due to the obvious in- centive of having structural materials with the ability to repair damage. Some polymers have demonstrated the ability to heal from damage ...

Obstacle avoidance is one of the core problems in the field of autonomous navigation. An obstacle avoidance approach is developed for the navigation task of a reconfigurable multi-robot system named STORM, which stands for ...

Eukaryotic cell chemotaxis, or directed cell migration in response to a chemoeffector gradient, plays a central role in many important biological process such as wound healing, cancer metastasis, and embryogenesis. In vivo, ...

This thesis paper presents a simultaneous 3D mapping and geolocation of road surface technique that combines local road surface mapping and global camera localization. The local road surface is generated by structure from ...

<p>Two experiments were conducted to study the active control of acoustic radiation due to discontinuities on thin beams. One experiment investigated the radiation from a clamped end condition and the other investigated ...

<p>This study investigates the transition from static to kinetic friction for structural polymers and continues previous research conducted by Dr. N. S. Eiss, B. McCann, and R. Molique. A new test apparatus which simultaneously ...

This study evaluates the dynamic interaction between rail vehicles and the track on which they travel. The measurements were analyzed in the time and frequency domain. The effects of external parameters such as the vehicle ...

A three-dimensional CFD program was used to predict the flow field that would enter a downstream fan or compressor rotor under the influence of an upstream thermal distortion. Two distortion generation techniques were ...

An ionic polymer actuator consists of a thin Nafion-117 sheet plated with gold or platinum on both sides. An ionic polymer actuator undergoes large deformation in the presence of low applied voltage across its thickness ...