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Design of robotic fish based on hydrodynamics is presented and Lighthill's Large Amplitude Elongated Body Theory (LAEBT) is used for modeling of the robotic fish in linear path. A PID controller for control of speed in linear path is designed and simulations are presented which shows its effectiveness for speed control of the robotic fish. It has been shown that in perspective of used approximate LAEBT model, the used control law maintains kinematic parameters and therefore, the associated efficiency will be maintained  

This paper addresses the issues of energy efficiency in robotic fish design by use of hydrodynamic models. The use of LighthilPs small-amplitude elongated body theory for designing of robotic fish, obtaining optimal kinematics and dynamic analysis with emphasis on compliant mechanism is presented. Simulation results for a sample case have demonstrated the importance of proposed approach in robotic fish design. Copyright © 2008 by ASME  

Here, we develop two quantum-computational schemes for supervised and unsupervised classification tasks in a quantum world by employing the quantum information-geometric tools of quantum fidelity and quantum search algorithm. Presuming that pure states of a set of given quantum systems (or objects) belong to one of two known classes, the objective here is to decide to which of these classes each system belongs—without knowing its state. The supervised binary classification algorithm is based on having a training sample of quantum systems whose class memberships are already known. The unsupervised binary classification algorithm, however, uses a quantum oracle which knows the class membership... 

One of the equivalent formulations of the Kadison–Singer problem which was resolved in 2013 by Marcus, Spielman and Srivastava, is the “paving conjecture”. In this paper, we first extend this result to real stable polynomials. We prove that for every multi-affine real stable polynomial satisfying a simple condition, it is possible to partition its set of variables to a small number of subsets such that the “restriction” of the polynomial to each subset has small roots. Then, we derive a probabilistic interpretation of this result. We show that there exists a partition of the underlying space of every strongly Rayleigh process into a small number of sets such that the restriction of the point... 

Evolution of renewable energies in the era of the modernized world has been strongly tied up to the incessant development of high-performance energy storage systems benefiting from both high energy and power densities. In the present work, binder-free positive electrodes are fabricated via a facile electrochemical deposition route in which copper oxide nanorods (CuO NRs) directly grown onto the copper foam (CF) are decorated with bimetallic cobalt-zinc sulfide nanoarrays (Co-Zn-S NAs). The fabricated Co-Zn-S@CuO-CFs represent promising specific capacity of 317.03 C.g−1 at 1.76 A.g−1, along with superior cyclic stability (113% retention after 4500 cycles). Negative electrodes were further... 

Evolution of renewable energies in the era of the modernized world has been strongly tied up to the incessant development of high-performance energy storage systems benefiting from both high energy and power densities. In the present work, binder-free positive electrodes are fabricated via a facile electrochemical deposition route in which copper oxide nanorods (CuO NRs) directly grown onto the copper foam (CF) are decorated with bimetallic cobalt-zinc sulfide nanoarrays (Co-Zn-S NAs). The fabricated Co-Zn-S@CuO-CFs represent promising specific capacity of 317.03 C.g−1 at 1.76 A.g−1, along with superior cyclic stability (113% retention after 4500 cycles). Negative electrodes were further... 

Developing high-performance supercapacitors is of great significance in the area of renewable energies by virtue of having both high energy and power densities. In this work, an innovative strategy is employed for the fabrication of binder-free binary nickel–cobalt-sulfide (NCS) nanosheets (NSs) directly decorated onto the hydrothermal nickel-sulfide (Ni3S2) nanowires (NWs) as the positive electrodes. The NCS/Ni3S2-nickel foam (NF) positive electrodes rendered superior specific capacity of 499.1 mAh.g−1 at 6 A.g−1. Encapsulated iron into the carbon sphere hosts (Fe-HTCSs) are used as the negative counterparts, exhibiting remarkable specific capacitance of 336.6 F.g−1 (at 0.1 A.g−1). The... 

Abstract: In this research, photocatalytic conversion of CO2 to methanol was investigated under ultraviolet (UV-A) light. For this purpose, a number of the metal–organic framework photocatalysts, including MIL-101(Fe), graphene oxide (GO), GO–iron oxide (Fe3O4), MIL-101(Fe)–GO–Fe3O4 5, 10, and 20% were synthesized and characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Raman spectroscopy (RAMAN), scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy/map (EDS/map), Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface area analysis and Barrett–Joyner–Halenda (BJH), UV–Vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy... 

A novel method for direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is proposed. This technique employs the excellent performance of Bartlett method in coherent environments as well as high resolution and low computational complexity of Beamspace MUSIC. Simulation results show that the use of Beamspace MUSIC with Bartlett yields significantly improved performance compared to the original MUSIC especially in highly correlated situations. © 2008, Electromagnetics Academy. All rights reserved  

Increasing competition in the transport commercial market has resulted in many changes in the aircraft design process. There is a great tendency to include economic factors such as "affordability" In the design process. On the other hand, the so-called market dynamics are also getting complicated and a design team has to deal with many uncertainties as far as the business environment is concerned. This leads to the need for new decision-making tools in the early stages of the design process. This paper introduces a decision-making algorithm based on fuzzy logic systems which provides a structured approach to deal with uncertainties in the aircraft preliminary design. The developed tool leads... 

Central composite orthogonal design was applied to quantify relations of xylanase production, loss of dry matter and change of pH with four critical variables during solid state fermentation of a mixture of wheat bran and wheat straw on which Aspergillus niger CCUG 33991 was cultivated. The studied variables included the percentage of wheat straw, wheat bran, temperature, moisture content, and fermentation time. The second-order quadratic model predicted the xylanase activity at a suitable set of conditions namely 29°C, 55% moisture content, and 50 hours of fermentation to be 1465 U/g of fermented dry matter which differed less than 6% from measured value at this set of conditions....