ASME Letters in Dynamic Systems and Control: Recent submissions
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Extended Physics-Based Reduced-Order Capacity Fade Model for Lithium-Ion Battery Cells1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Aging models are necessary to accurately predict the state of health (SOH) evolution in lithium-ion battery systems when performing durability studies under realistic operations, specifically considering time-varying ... -
Angular Velocity Control of Pneumatic Soft Robotic Digits
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The paper presents an angular velocity controller for the pneumatic soft robotic gloves which are applied to medical hand rehabilitation and performance augmentation. In order to configure the reliable control parameters, ... -
A Stochastic Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Algorithm for Dynamic Load Prioritization in Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Increasing deployment of advanced sensing, controls, and communication infrastructure enables buildings to provide services to the power grid, leading to the concept of grid-interactive efficient buildings. Since occupant ... -
Design of a Xenia Coral Robot Using a High-Stroke Compliant Linear Electromagnetic Actuator
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Electromagnetic actuators provide fast speed, large forces, high strokes, and wide bandwidths. Most designs, however, are constructed from rigid components, making these benefits inaccessible for many soft robotics ... -
An Improved Model of Height Profile for Drop-On-Demand Print of Ultraviolet Curable Ink
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper proposes an improved model of height profile for drop-on-demand printing of ultraviolet curable ink. Unlike previous model, the proposed model propagates volume and covered area based on height difference between ... -
Data-Driven Feedforward Control Design and Input Shaping Techniques for Multi Actuator Drives
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The multi actuator drive technology was unveiled by Seagate in December 2017, a breakthrough that can almost double the data performance of the future generation hard disk drives. This technology will equip drives with ... -
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 ...