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Analytical investigations of laminar separations using the ''Crocco-Lees mixing parameter'' method
Analytical studies of laminar separations using Crocco-Lees mixing parameter metho
An Experimental Evaluation of Bayesian Optimization on Bipedal Locomotion
© 2014 IEEE.The design of gaits and corresponding control policies for bipedal walkers is a key challenge in robot locomotion. Even when a viable controller parametrization already exists, finding near-optimal parameters can be daunting. The use of automatic gait optimization methods greatly reduces the need for human expertise and time-consuming design processes. Many different approaches to automatic gait optimization have been suggested to date. However, no extensive comparison among them has yet been performed. In this paper, we present some common methods for automatic gait optimization in bipedal locomotion, and analyze their strengths and weaknesses. We experimentally evaluated these gait optimization methods on a bipedal robot, in more than 1800 experimental evaluations. In particular, we analyzed Bayesian optimization in different configurations, including various acquisition functions
Experiments and a model for pilot dynamics with visual and motion inputs
Multimodality pilot model for visual and motion feedbacks derived from simulator progra
Low and high intensity velocity selective coherent population trapping in a two-level system
An experimental investigation is made of sub-recoil cooling by velocity
selective coherent population trapping in a two-level system in Sr. The
experiment is carried out using the narrow linewidth intercombination line at
689 nm. Here, the ratio between the recoil shift and the linewidth is as high
as 0.64. We show that, on top of a broader momentum profile, subrecoil features
develop, whose amplitude is strongly dependent on the detuning from resonance.
We attribute this structure to a velocity selective coherent population
trapping mechanism. We also show that the population trapping phenomenon leads
to complex momentum profiles in the case of highly saturated transitions,
displaying a multitude of subrecoil features at integer multiples of the recoil
momentum.Comment: 6 pages and 7 figure
On the nonlinear deformation geometry of Euler-Bernoulli beams
Nonlinear expressions are developed to relate the orientation of the deformed beam cross section, torsion, local components of bending curvature, angular velocity, and virtual rotation to deformation variables. The deformed beam kinematic quantities are proven to be equivalent to those derived from various rotation sequences by identifying appropriate changes of variable based on fundamental uniqueness properties of the deformed beam geometry. The torsion variable used is shown to be mathematically analogous to an axial deflection variable commonly used in the literature. Rigorous applicability of Hamilton's principle to systems described by a class of quasi-coordinates that includes these variables is formally established
Hingeless helicopter rotor with improved stability
Improved stability was provided in a hingeless helicopter rotor by inclining the principal elastic flexural axes and coupling pitching of the rotor blade with the lead-lag bending of the blade. The primary elastic flex axes were inclined by constructing the blade of materials that display non-uniform stiffness, and the specification described various cross section distributions and the resulting inclined flex axes. Arrangements for varying the pitch of the rotor blade in a predetermined relationship with lead-lag bending of the blade, i.e., bending of the blade in a plane parallel to its plane of rotation were constructed
New design of hingeless helicopter rotor improves stability
Cantilever blades are attached directly to rotor hub, thereby substantially reducing cost and complexity and increasing reliability of helicopter rotor. Combination of structural flap-lag coupling and pitch-lag coupling provides damping of 6 to 10%, depending on magnitude of coupling parameters
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