ASME Letters in Dynamic Systems and Control: Recent submissions
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A Plate-Like Sensor for the Identification of Sample Viscoelastic Properties Using Contact Resonance Atomic Force Microscopy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In this article, we present a new contact resonance atomic force microscopy-based method utilizing a square, plate-like microsensor to accurately estimate viscoelastic sample properties. A theoretical derivation, based on ... -
Reviewer’s Recognition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The Reviewers of the Year Award is given to reviewers who have made an outstanding contribution to the journal in terms of the quantity, quality, and turnaround time of reviews completed during the past 12 months. The prize ... -
Comparison of Response Amplitude Operator Curve Generation Methods for Scaled Floating Renewable Energy Platforms in Ocean Wave Basin
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Response amplitude operator (RAO) curves are commonly employed to assess the dynamic behavior of floating offshore structures in the frequency domain. There are multiple methods used to obtain RAOs for numerical models, ... -
Application of Goertzel Algorithm to Piezoresistive Pressure Sensing Fabric for Custom Fitting of Wheelchair Cushions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Pressure sores are a costly, painful problem for wheelchair users, caused by prolonged periods of mechanical loading. A common location of pressure sores in wheelchair users is the tissue between the ischial tuberosities ... -
Analytical Model for Enhanced Eigen-Mode Sensitivities in a Coupled Micro-Resonator Array for Ultra-Sensitive Mass Measurement
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Resonant sensors using coupled micro-cantilever array have applications in a wide range of areas including ultrasensitive mass detection of bio-molecules and chemical analytes. A target mass deposited on one of the cantilevers ... -
Hierarchical Robust Energy Management of Hybrid Electric Vehicles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This article proposes a hierarchical energy management strategy for power-split hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) in presence of driving cycle uncertainty. The proposed hierarchical controller exploits long-term and short-term ... -
Data-Driven Detection and Classification of Regimes in Chaotic Systems Via Hidden Markov Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Chaotic dynamical systems are essentially nonlinear and are highly sensitive to variations in initial conditions and process parameters. Chaos may appear both in natural (e.g., heartbeat rhythms and weather fluctuations) ... -
Modeling, Analysis, and Control of SLIP Running on Dynamic Platforms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The complex dynamic behaviors of legged locomotion on stationary terrain have been extensively analyzed using a simplified dynamic model called the spring-loaded inverted pendulum (SLIP) model. However, legged locomotion ... -
Multiple-Scale Analysis of a Tunable Bi-Stable Piezoelectric Energy Harvester
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper presents the theoretical modeling and multiple-scale analysis of a novel piezoelectric energy harvester composed of a metal cantilever beam, piezoelectric films, and an axial preload spring at the moveable end. ... -
Feasibility Study of Force Measurement for Multi-digit Unconstrained Grasping via Fingernail Imaging and Visual Servoing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)A fingernail imaging has been shown to be effective in estimating the finger pad forces along all three directions simultaneously in previous works. However, this method has never been used for the purpose of force measurement ... -
Combining Reachability Analysis and Importance Sampling for Accelerated Evaluation of Highway Automated Vehicles at Pedestrian Crossing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Highly automated vehicles (HAVs) must be rigorously evaluated before they are deployed on public roads. An accelerated evaluation framework was proposed in the literature to test HAVs more efficiently. However, running ... -
Magnetically Actuated Artificial Microswimmers as Mobile Microparticle Manipulators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Microscale swimming robots have been envisaged for many biomedical applications such as targeted drug delivery, where the microrobot will be expected to navigate in a fluid environment while carrying a payload. We show ... -
Thermodynamics-Inspired Macroscopic States of Bounded Swarms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The collective behavior of swarms is extremely difficult to estimate or predict, even when the local agent rules are known and simple. The presented work seeks to leverage the similarities between fluids and swarm systems ... -
Lifetime Optimization for a Grid-Friendly DC Fast Charge Station With Second Life Batteries
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Electrified vehicle (EV) batteries that have reached the automotive end of life are providing a low-cost energy storage solution for grid-connected systems, such as DC fast charge stations (DCFCs). There are several ... -
Statistical Determination of Decision-Making Regions for Branching Paths: An Algorithm With a Wheelchair Assistance Application
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Typically, mobile vehicles follow the same paths repeatedly, resulting in a common path bounded with some variance. These paths are often punctuated by branches into other paths based on decision-making in the area around ... -
Evaluation and Optimization of Dual-Arm Robot Path Planning for Human–Robot Collaborative Tasks in Smart Manufacturing Contexts
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In human–robot collaborative tasks, the performance of robot path planning has a direct impact on the robot-to-human hand-over process, or even the collaboration quality. In this work, we propose an evaluation study on ... -
Spatial Iterative Learning Control for Multi-material Three-Dimensional Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Iterative learning control (ILC) is a powerful technique to regulate repetitive systems. Additive manufacturing falls into this category by nature of its repetitive action in building three-dimensional structures in a ... -
Human Driver Modeling Based on Analytical Optimal Solutions: Stopping Behaviors at the Intersections
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Safe and energy-efficient driving of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) must be influenced by human-driven vehicles. Thus, to properly evaluate the energy impacts of CAVs in a simulation framework, a human driver model ... -
Compressive Sensing-Based Reconstruction of Lissajous-Like Nodding Lidar Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In this article, a compressive sensing-based reconstruction algorithm is applied to data acquired from a nodding multibeam Lidar system following a Lissajous-like trajectory. Multibeam Lidar systems provide 3D depth ... -
Control-Oriented Physics-Based NOX Emission Model for a Diesel Engine With Exhaust Gas Recirculation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Stringent NOX emission norm for heavy duty vehicles motivates the use of predictive models to reduce emissions of diesel engines by coordinating engine parameters and aftertreatment. In this paper, a physics-based ...