This paper describes the conceptual design and validation of an Air Traffic Management concept and the role the safety and human factors played in this design and validation process. The Free Flight concept is characterized by being a direct route concept where the pilots, instead of the air traffic controller, are responsible for the airborne separation assurance. Moving this task to the cockp...

The vortical structures in the rear separation and wake region produced by a micro-ramp that immersed in a supersonic turbulent boundary layer are investigated. The small scale separation was reveled close to the trailing edge and confirms the previous experimental observation. Between the reverse region and surrounding fast moving flow, a three-dimensional shear layer was formed, where vortice...

Are you using micro-implants in your practice for orthodontic anchorage? Hopefully, the answer is yes, but if not, why not? This presentation will suggest some clinical applications in which the use of temporary anchorage devices (TADs) is becoming increasingly common. As our techniques continue to improve, orthodontists can place TADs themselves. This gives orthodontists the ability to determi...

The design and control of untethered microrobotic agents has drawn a lot of attention in recent years. This technology truly possesses the potential to revolutionize the field of minimally invasive surgery and microassembly. However, miniaturization and reliable actuation of micro-fabricated grippers are still challenging at sub-millimeter scale. In this study, we design, manufacture, character...

Dexterous robotic manipulation refers to the coordination of multiple fingers or manipulators grasp and manipulate a target object. In past decades, various achievements have been established in dexterous physical world. However, such ability is rarely found nano/micro manipulation, which mainly due difficulty developing actuators sensors at nano/micro-scale, as well dependence on properties ob...

When modeling time series data using autoregressive-moving average processes, it is a common practice to presume that the residuals are normally distributed. However, sometimes we encounter non-normal residuals and asymmetry of data marginal distribution. Despite widespread use of pure autoregressive processes for modeling non-normal time series, the autoregressive-moving average models have le...

Despite the recent interest in droplet-based microfluidics using electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD), fundamental understanding of the fluid dynamics remains limited to two-dimensional (2D) reduction of the Navier-Stokes equation. Experimental data are in dire need to verify the predictions and advance the field. We report an investigation of the flow inside droplets actuated by EWOD in air usi...

The determination of functional parameters of miniaturized electromechanical components, e.g. micro relays, is a crucial task in production process. For actuators like relays the positions of moving parts and the forces during travel and at the end positions, respectively, are very important quantities. Today, a direct method using a mechanical sensing device is widely used to determine these q...