Automotive Conical Taper Corl Springs

Soft tissue modelling with conical springs.

This paper presents a new method for real-time modelling soft tissue deformation. It improves the traditional mass-spring model with conical springs to deal with nonlinear mechanical behaviours of soft tissues. A conical spring model is developed to predict soft tissue deformation with reference to deformation patterns. The model parameters are formulated according to tissue deformation pattern...

CORL: A Continuous-state Offset-dynamics Reinforcement Learner

Continuous state spaces and stochastic, switching dynamics characterize a number of rich, realworld domains, such as robot navigation across varying terrain. We describe a reinforcementlearning algorithm for learning in these domains and prove for certain environments the algorithm is probably approximately correct with a sample complexity that scales polynomially with the state-space dimension...

Optimal broadband antireflective taper.

We have solved the optimal taper design for minimizing reflection over a broad frequency band for a given tapered length. We believe this work will lead to significant improvement in developing broadband antireflective devices in many areas.

Wing Taper Considerations

Of the three wings, the most strongly tapered λ = 0.2 wing will have by far the smallest tip deflection ratio δ/b. This is mostly due to its larger root chord giving a greater local stiffness, although its smaller root bending moment factor of 0.100 also contributes. Such inherent stiffness allows the strongly tapered wing to have a larger span than the others, giving it a potentially lower ind...

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