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Bizarre flapless X-65 diamond-wing aircraft comes together

DARPA's X-65, that replaces conventional aircraft flight controls with puffs of air, is coming together at Boeing subsidiary ...
IEN.eu

Sliding Gate Valves Help to Reduce Operating Costs and CO₂ Emissions

At the start we always have to do some convincing, says Selcuk Aslan, Energify Project Manager at CFT. Our system is highly ...
IEEE

Active Modeling and Control of the Ring-Shaped Pneumatic Actuator: An Experimental Study

Abstract: A soft ring-shaped pneumatic actuator (RPA) that contracts radially plays a key role in biomimicking the contractions of the digestive system. However, the modeling and control of the RPA ...
IEEE

Displacement Control of Piezoelectric Actuators Using Current and Voltage

Abstract: This paper introduces a feedforward charge control scheme, which controls the velocity of a piezoelectric actuator by the current fed to the actuator. The velocity-current relation, however, ...