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    Clinical ophthalmic ultrasound improvements

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    The use of digital synthetic aperture techniques to obtain high resolution ultrasound images of eye and orbit was proposed. The parameters of the switched array configuration to reduce data collection time to a few milliseconds to avoid eye motion problems in the eye itself were established. An assessment of the effects of eye motion on the performance of the system was obtained. The principles of synthetic techniques are discussed. Likely applications are considered

    Telecommunications system design for the Mariner Mars 1971 spacecraft

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    The configuration of the Mariner Mars 1971 spacecraft telecommunications system is detailed, with particular attention to modifications performed to accommodate the orbital mission. The analysis and planning for launching are also discussed

    Riccati parameter modes from Newtonian free damping motion by supersymmetry

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    We determine the class of damped modes \tilde{y} which are related to the common free damping modes y by supersymmetry. They are obtained by employing the factorization of Newton's differential equation of motion for the free damped oscillator by means of the general solution of the corresponding Riccati equation together with Witten's method of constructing the supersymmetric partner operator. This procedure leads to one-parameter families of (transient) modes for each of the three types of free damping, corresponding to a particular type of %time-dependent angular frequency. %time-dependent, antirestoring acceleration (adding up to the usual Hooke restoring acceleration) of the form a(t)=\frac{2\gamma ^2}{(\gamma t+1)^{2}}\tilde{y}, where \gamma is the family parameter that has been chosen as the inverse of the Riccati integration constant. In supersymmetric terms, they represent all those one Riccati parameter damping modes having the same Newtonian free damping partner modeComment: 6 pages, twocolumn, 6 figures, only first 3 publishe

    A High-Fidelity Realization of the Euclid Code Comparison NN-body Simulation with Abacus

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    We present a high-fidelity realization of the cosmological NN-body simulation from the Schneider et al. (2016) code comparison project. The simulation was performed with our Abacus NN-body code, which offers high force accuracy, high performance, and minimal particle integration errors. The simulation consists of 204832048^3 particles in a 500 h−1Mpc500\ h^{-1}\mathrm{Mpc} box, for a particle mass of 1.2×109 h−1M⊙1.2\times 10^9\ h^{-1}\mathrm{M}_\odot with $10\ h^{-1}\mathrm{kpc}splinesoftening.Abacusexecuted1052globaltimestepsto spline softening. Abacus executed 1052 global time steps to z=0in107hoursononedual−Xeon,dual−GPUnode,forameanrateof23millionparticlespersecondperstep.WefindAbacusisingoodagreementwithRamsesandPkdgrav3andlesssowithGadget3.Wevalidateourchoiceoftimestepbyhalvingthestepsizeandfindsub−percentdifferencesinthepowerspectrumand2PCFatnearlyallmeasuredscales,with in 107 hours on one dual-Xeon, dual-GPU node, for a mean rate of 23 million particles per second per step. We find Abacus is in good agreement with Ramses and Pkdgrav3 and less so with Gadget3. We validate our choice of time step by halving the step size and find sub-percent differences in the power spectrum and 2PCF at nearly all measured scales, with <0.3\%errorsat errors at k<10\ \mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}h.Onlargescales,Abacusreproduceslineartheorybetterthan. On large scales, Abacus reproduces linear theory better than 0.01\%$. Simulation snapshots are available at http://nbody.rc.fas.harvard.edu/public/S2016 .Comment: 13 pages, 8 figures. Minor changes to match MNRAS accepted versio

    Closed-Loop Control of Constrained Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles

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    Micro air vehicles are vehicles with a maximum dimension of 15 cm or less, so they are ideal in confined spaces such as indoors, urban canyons, and caves. Considerable research has been invested in the areas of unsteady and low Reynolds number aerodynamics, as well as techniques to fabricate small scale prototypes. Control of these vehicles has been less studied, and most control techniques proposed have only been implemented within simulations without concern for power requirements, sensors and observers, or actual hardware demonstrations. In this work, power requirements while using a piezo-driven, resonant flapping wing control scheme, Bi-harmonic Amplitude and Bias Modulation, were studied. In addition, the power efficiency versus flapping frequency was studied and shown to be maximized while flapping at the piezo-driven system\u27s resonance. Then prototype hardware of varying designs was used to capture the impact of a specific component of the flapping wing micro air vehicle, the passive rotation joint. Finally, closed-loop control of different constrained configurations was demonstrated using the resonant flapping Bi-harmonic Amplitude and Bias Modulation scheme with the optimized hardware. This work is important in the development and understanding of eventual free-flight capable flapping wing micro air vehicle
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