of Thesis Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science CONTROL OF MICRO AIR VEHICLES USING WING MORPHING By Helen Michelle Garcia December 2003 Chair: Richard C. Lind, Jr. Major Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering A micro air vehicle (MAV) is typically defined to have a wingspan of 6 in ...

In nature, plant tendrils can produce two fundamental motion modes, bending and chiral twisting (helical curling) distortions, under the stimuli of sunlight, humidity, wetting or other atmospheric conditions. To date, many artificial plant-like mechanical machines have been developed. Although some previously reported materials could realize bending or chiral twisting through tailoring the samp...

Theoretical considerations, observations, and simulations have shown that the By component of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) may cause twisting of the magnetotail. However, the fundamental issues, the temporal and spatial responses of the magnetotail in the twisting process, are still unresolved. We report unique multipoint observations of the response of the magnetotail to the variati...

conclusions results suggest that these methods cannot be interchanged, and vvi showed significantly lower lv peak twist, peak twisting rate and peak untwisting rate. however, when lv twist and lv twisting rates were normalized to lv length, values were comparable for both imaging techniques. results twist degree was significantly lower in the vvi group than in the tdi group (p = 0.008, r = 0.56...

this paper presents a new control scheme for a class of nonlinear systems. in the proposed method, an adaptive neural network observer with rise feedback controller are applied to realize sensorless control scheme. this observer is tuned online and no exact information of nonlinear term of plant is required. so, this characteristic can compensate mismodeling phenomena. also, a new controller ca...

We introduce the concept of pseudotwistor (with particular cases called twistor and braided twistor) for an algebra (A,μ, u) in a monoidal category, as a morphism T : A⊗ A → A ⊗ A satisfying a list of axioms ensuring that (A,μ ◦ T, u) is also an algebra in the category. This concept provides a unifying framework for various deformed (or twisted) algebras from the literature, such as twisted ten...

The scenery of the nucleus The nucleoplasm is no less dense, even though it contains neither membrane nor rigid filament. However, it contains one remarkable type of filament, the DNA, which, for a mammalian cell with a small nucleus, can account for close to 10% (100 mg m1-1) of the nuclear mass (including water). This is a very high concentration much higher than that generally used for exper...

We develop a formalism that describes the bending and twisting of axoneme-like filament bundles. We obtain general formulas to determine the relative sliding between any arbitrary filaments in a bundle subjected to unconstrained deformations. Particular examples for bending, twisting, helical and toroidal shapes, and combinations of these are discussed. Resulting equations for sliding and trans...

We show that certain twisting deformations of a family of supersolvable groups are simple as Hopf algebras. These groups are direct products of two generalized dihedral groups. Examples of this construction arise in dimensions 60 and pq, for prime numbers p, q with q|p − 1. We also show that certain twisting deformation of the symmetric group is simple as a Hopf algebra. On the other hand, we p...