The Eu:CROPIS Mass Property Campaign: Trimming a Spin-Stabilized Compact Satellite for a Long-Term Artificial Gravity Experiment by Fabian Orlowski-Feldhusen, Sebastian Kottmeier, Ansgar Heidecker, Olaf Mierheim, Oliver Kolakowski, Robert Klöpper

“…The satellite’s primary payload Eu:CROPIS features a biological experiment in the context of closed loop coupled life support systems. The Eu:CROPIS satellite mission uses spin stabilization along its Z-axis to provide defined acceleration levels for the primary and secondary payloads to simulate either a Moon or Mars gravity environment. …”
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Cascade Delayed Controller Design for a Class of Underactuated Systems by G. Ochoa-Ortega, R. Villafuerte-Segura, A. Luviano-Juárez, M. Ramírez-Neria, N. Lozada-Castillo

“…The proposal is based on the implementation of the tangent linearization technique, differential flatness, and a study of the σ-stabilization of the characteristic equation of the closed-loop system. The tangent linearization technique allows obtaining a local controllability property for the analyzed class of systems. …”
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A 70-MHz Bandwidth Time-Interleaved Noise-Shaping SAR-Assisted Delta-Sigma ADC With Digital Cross-Coupling in 28-nm CMOS by Lucas Moura Santana, Ewout Martens, Jorge Lagos, Piet Wambacq, Jan Craninckx

“…A novel technique to implement the noise coupling mid-quantization is presented to relax the timing bottleneck by parallelizing the operations needed for coupling. The loop filter is implemented using power-efficient, no hold-phase ring amplifiers, with an input capacitor reset presampling to reduce kickback noise in the input network. …”
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Applying a Self-Made Automobile Heterodyne Interferometer to Measure the Parameters of Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal by Shinn-Fwu Wang, Pei-Cheng Ke, Wesley Lai, Hao Ma, Yi-Zhan Su, Jyh-Shyan Chiu

“…A self-made automobile heterodyne interferometer with a closed control loop is presented. In addition, we will apply the self-made automobile heterodyne interferometer to measure the parameters of optically compensated twisted nematic liquid crystal (TN LC). …”
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Dual Circularly Polarized Patch Antenna with Improved Interport Isolation for S-Band Satellite Communication by Haq Nawaz, Ahmad Umar Niazi, Mansoor Ahmad

“…The employed single-tap SIC circuit/loop attains the high interport isolation through signal inversion mechanism. …”
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Online Algebraic Estimation of Parameters and Disturbances in Brushless DC Motors by David Marcos-Andrade, Francisco Beltran-Carbajal, Alexis Castelan-Perez, Ivan Rivas-Cambero, Jesús C. Hernández

“…In utilizing the mathematical model of a BLDC motor, a set of equations is derived to enable parameter estimation, assuming the availability of input and output measurements in open loop. Moreover, unknown load torque is estimated by approximating the disturbance over a short time window using Taylor series expansion polynomials. …”
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Nonlinear and Robust Control Strategy Based on Chemotherapy to Minimize the HIV Concentration in Blood Plasma by Ricardo Aguilar-López, Rigel Valentín Gómez-Acata, Gerardo Lara-Cisneros, Ricardo Femat

“…The proposed controller contains a nonlinear feedback PI structure of bounded functions of the regulation error. The closed-loop stability of the system is analyzed via Lyapunov technique, in which robustness against system disturbances is demonstrated. …”
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Multifunctional Photonic Reservoir Computing Based on Semiconductor Laser With Optical Feedback by Liyue Zhang, Weijie Hong, Songsui Li, Wei Pan, Lianshan Yan, Bin Luo, Xihua Zou

“…Finally, our results are experimentally demonstrated using semiconductor lasers with a time-delay feedback loop.…”
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Explainable correlation-based anomaly detection for Industrial Control Systems by Ermiyas Birihanu, Imre Lendák

“…The method is evaluated on the Secure Water Treatment (SWaT), Hardware-in-the-loop-based augmented ICS security (HIL-HAI), and Internet of Things Modbus dataset using precision, recall, and F-1 score metrics. …”
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A Model Predictive Control Framework for Combining Energy Arbitrage and Power Quality Applications From Energy Storage Systems by Ujjwol Tamrakar, Niranjan Bhujel, Tu A. Nguyen, Raymond H. Byrne, Babu Chalamala

“…A controller-hardware-in-the-loop (CHIL) study of the proposed framework is also performed to demonstrate the practical feasibility of the framework.…”
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Polar Metric-Weighted Norm-Based Scan Matching for Robot Pose Estimation by Guanglei Huo, Lijun Zhao, Ke Wang, Ruifeng Li, Jianqiang Li

“…The results show that the proposed approach outperforms PSM and Mb-ICP in terms of accuracy, efficiency, and loop closure error of mapping.…”
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M-Sec promotes the accumulation of intracellular HTLV-1 Gag puncta and the incorporation of Env into viral particles. by Masateru Hiyoshi, Youssef M Eltalkhawy, Randa A Abdelnaser, Akira Ono, Kazuaki Monde, Yosuke Maeda, Reem M Mahmoud, Naofumi Takahashi, Yasuyoshi Hatayama, Akihide Ryo, Satoshi Nozuma, Hiroshi Takashima, Ryuji Kubota, Shinya Suzu

“…Since the expression of M-Sec is mediated by HTLV-1 Tax protein, M-Sec appears to function in a positive feedback loop that ensures efficient HTLV-1 transmission.…”
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Application of a Short-Term Hydrological Forecast System by Gökçen Uysal, Aynur Şensoy, A. Arda Şorman, M. Cansaran Ertaş

“…Hindcast simulations for the past period are implemented with a closed-loop structure on the Delft-FEWS platform, and performance evaluation is conducted by comparing them with streamflow observations. …”
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CKF-Based Visual Inertial Odometry for Long-Term Trajectory Operations by Trung Nguyen, George K. I. Mann, Andrew Vardy, Raymond G. Gosine

“…Some advanced techniques such as global pose graph optimization and loop closure demand relatively high computation and processing time to execute the optimization procedure for the entire trajectory and may not be feasible to be implemented in a low-cost robotic platform. …”
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An Over-Actuated Hexacopter Tilt-Rotor UAV Prototype for Agriculture of Precision: Modeling and Control by Gabriel Oliveira Pimentel, Murillo Ferreira dos Santos, José Lima, Paolo Mercorelli, Fernanda Mara Fernandes

“…The employed control architecture consists of cascaded proportional (P)-proportional, integral and derivative (PID) controllers using the successive loop closure (SLC) method on the five controlled degrees of freedom (DoFs). …”
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Design, Fabrication, and Efficiency Study of a Novel Solar Thermal Water Heating System: Towards Sustainable Development by M. Z. H. Khan, M. R. Al-Mamun, S. Sikdar, P. K. Halder, M. R. Hasan

“…This paper investigated a novel loop-heat-pipe based solar thermal heat-pump system for small scale hot water production for household purposes. …”
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A Reading Range- and Frequency-Reconfigurable Antenna for Near-Field and Far-Field UHF RFID Applications by Chenyang Song, Zhipeng Wu

“…By deploying the CRLH-TL operating at zeroth-order resonance, a loop antenna with in-phase radiating current is obtained, which contributes to a strong and uniform H-field and a horizontally polarized omnidirectional radiation pattern. …”
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Optimization strategies for multi‐block structured CFD simulation based on Sunway TaihuLight by Xiaojing Lv, Wenhao Leng, Zhao Liu, Chengsheng Wu, Fang Li, Jiuxiu Xu

“…The results showed that our parallel implementation provides high load balance and efficiency, achieving a speedup of 8× + for one loop step, and a speed up of 2× + for strong correlation kernels.…”
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Structural Safety Analysis Based on Seismic Service Conditions for Butterfly Valves in a Nuclear Power Plant by Sang-Uk Han, Dae-Gyun Ahn, Myeong-Gon Lee, Kwon-Hee Lee, Seung-Ho Han

“…The structural integrity of valves that are used to control cooling waters in the primary coolant loop that prevents boiling within the reactor in a nuclear power plant must be capable of withstanding earthquakes or other dangerous situations. …”
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New SEPIC Derived Semi-Bridgeless PFC Converter for Battery Charging Application by Manish Kumar Dwivedi, R. Jayapragash

“…This novel circuit structure also eliminates the requirement of additional closed loop control algorithm for PFC. To validate the proposed concept, a prototype converter of 100W/53V is developed and tested. …”
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