This paper reviews the potentials of photovoltaic system technology as a viable alternative to the 100% use of imported fossil fuel for electricity generation in Northern Cyprus. It presents an experimental investigation of two installed 100Wp photovoltaic systems design in block A building of faculty of business in Cyprus International University. The fixed system was inclined at angle of 36 ̊ ...

We calculate the longitudinal impedance for small obstacles of arbitrary shape located on the surface of a round perfectly conducting pile. Calculations are carried out in a small{angle approximation that assumes a smallness of the angle between the surface of the obstacle and the unperturbed surface of the pipe. As an illustration of the accuracy of this approach, we compare the impedance of t...

To investigate the biomechanical strategy adopted by older adults with medial compartment knee osteoarthritis (OA) for successful obstacle crossing with the trailing limb, and to discuss its implications for fall-prevention, 15 older adults with bilateral medial compartment knee OA and 15 healthy controls were recruited to walk and cross obstacles of heights of 10%, 20%, and 30% of their leg le...

Microorganisms naturally move in microstructured fluids. Using the simulation method of multi-particle collision dynamics, we study in two dimensions an undulatory Taylor line swimming in a microchannel and in a cubic lattice of obstacles, which represent simple forms of a microstructured environment. In the microchannel the Taylor line swims at an acute angle along a channel wall with a clearl...

in this paper a robust road departure avoidance system based on a closed-loop driver decision estimator (dde) is presented. the main idea is that of incorporating the driver intent in the control of the vehicle. the driver decision estimator computes the vehicle look ahead lateral position based on the driver input and uses this position to establish the risk of road departure. to induce a risk...

Whether a task can be completed after a failure of one of the degrees-of-freedom of a redundant manipulator depends on the joint angle at which the failure takes place. It is possible to achieve fault tolerance by globally planning a trajectory that avoids unfavorable joint positions before a failure occurs. In this article, we present a trajectory planning algorithm that guarantees fault toler...

The article provides an analysis of the classical design apron conveyor, which revealed significant disadvantages. study is devoted to improvement plate conveyor design, would provide increase in speed and performance allow create conveyors any required length installation angle.

If uncorrected, the Coriolis force due to the rotation of the Earth causes significant aberration of images produced by large liquid-mirror telescopes. We show that this problem can be eliminated by a fixed compensating tilt of the liquidmirror rotation axis. The required tilt angle, which is a function of latitude and mirror rotation rate, is of order 10 arcsec for current telescopes. This res...

Position and angle errors are an obstacle to accurate, high-speed control of micro-robots in a robot soccer system. Systematic errors resulting from constraints on the global imaging system are identified, and their magnitude estimated. A full calibration procedure is proposed to minimise these errors that only uses information available from the soccer field. This calibration method has a resi...

Whether a task can be completed after a failure of one of the degrees-of-freedom of a redundant manipulator depends on the joint angle at which the failure takes place. It is possible to achieve fault tolerance by globally planning a trajectory that avoids unfavorable joint positions before a failure occurs. In this paper, we present a trajectory planning algorithm that guarantees fault toleran...