Abstract: B-spline surfaces are widely used in engineering practices as a flexible and efficient mathematical model for product design, analysis, and assessment. In this paper, we propose a new sequential ...

Abstract: sing multiple datasets and a partial correlation method, the authors analyze the different impacts of eastern Pacific (EP) and central Pacific (CP) El Niño on East Asian climate, focusing on the features from El Niño ...

Abstract: This paper presents a new adaptive controller designed for rigid-body robots including motor dynamics. Recently, the effects of motor dynamics have attracted attention from a number of researchers. ...

Abstract: The impedance of a passive noise control device is strictly positive real, if the device is installed in noise fields with weak mean flows. Passive noise control devices are, therefore, more ...

Abstract: Active control is applicable to resonators to improve noise control performance. Many active resonators depend on transfer functions from secondary sources to sensors to generate destructive ...

Abstract: The cold-water event along the southeast coast of the United States in the summer of 2003 is studied using satellite data combined with in situ observations. The analysis suggests that the cooling is produced by wind-driven ...

Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of leader-following consensus control of general linear multi-agent systems (MASs) with diverse time-varying input delays under the integral quadratic constraint (IQC) framework. A novel ...

Abstract: Horizontal cracks occur at the web of prestressed bridge girder ends during prestress release due to the spalling force, which is produced by the transfer of the prestressing force to the concrete. To avoid using a ...