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RISComputational Optimization and Experimental Evaluation of Grasp Quality for Tendon Driven Hands Subject to Design Constraints
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: The chief tasks of robotic and prosthetic hands are grasping and manipulating objects, and size and weight constraints are very influential in their design. In this study, we use computational modeling to both predict and ...
Drag Reduction in Aerated Chute Flow: Role of Bottom Air Concentration
Publisher: ASCE
Abstract: Wall shear stress modification in self-aerated flows has been observed in boundary layer–type flows mainly in the form of drag reduction. Due to its complexity, drag reduction has predominantly been studied using experimental ...
Vectrino Profiler Spatial Filtering for Shear Flows Based on the Mean Velocity Gradient Equation
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: A new methodology is proposed to spatially filter acoustic Doppler velocimetry data from a Vectrino profiler based on the differential mean velocity equation. Lower and upper bounds are formulated in terms of physically ...
Semantic 3D Reconstruction of Furnished Interiors Using Laser Scanning and RFID Technology
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) technology is increasingly used for the generation of accurate three-dimensional (3D) models of objects and scenes. But converting the acquired 3D point cloud data into a representative, ...
Thermoeconomic Diagnosis: Zooming Strategy Applied to Highly Complex Energy Systems. Part 1: Detection and Localization of Anomalies*
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: This paper presents a summary of our most recent advances in Thermoeconomic Diagnosis, developed during the last three years, and how they can be integrated in a zooming strategy oriented ...
Thermoeconomic Diagnosis: Zooming Strategy Applied to Highly Complex Energy Systems. Part 2: On the Choice of the Productive Structure*
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: The thermoeconomic diagnosis strategy introduced in the accompanying paper [Verda, V., Serra, L., Valero, A. 2004. Thermoeconomic Diagnosis: Zooming Strategy Applied to Highly Complex Energy Systems. Part 1: Detection...
Exergy Costs and Inefficiency Diagnosis of a Dual-Purpose Power and Desalination Plant
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Two applications of the thermoeconomic analysis technique have been performed to an interesting and complex system, which is an integrated dual plant composed of a steam power plant and a ...
Fundamentals of Exergy Cost Accounting and Thermoeconomics Part II: Applications
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Part II of this paper develops the mathematical formulations of three applications of the thermoeconomic analysis methodology described in Part I of the paper: the operation diagnosis study, ...
Fundamentals of Exergy Cost Accounting and Thermoeconomics. Part I: Theory
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: These two papers resume the theoretical background supporting the main ideas of the exergy cost accounting and the thermoeconomic approach followed by Valero and co-workers. Part I introduces the basic requirements...
A Validation of a Satellite Cloud Retrieval during ASTEX
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: An algorithm using NOAA-12 AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) solar reflectance measurements for retrieving cloud droplet size and optical thickness has been applied to a boundary layer stratocumulus cloud ...