The design of high-precision sensing devises becomes ever more difficult and expensive. At the same time, the need for precise calibration of these devices (ranging from tiny sensors to space telescopes) manifests itself as a major roadblock in many scientific and technological endeavors. To achieve optimal performance of advanced high-performance sensors one must carefully calibrate them, whic...

Ionic electromechanically active polymers (IEAP) are laminar composites that can be considered attractive candidates for soft actuators. Their outstanding properties such as low operating voltage, easy miniaturization, and noiseless operation are, however, marred by issues related to the repeatability in the production and operation of these materials. Implementing closed-loop control for IEAP ...

In the living cell, proteins are able to organize space much larger than their dimensions. In return, changes of intracellular space can influence biochemical reactions, allowing cells to sense their size and shape. Despite the possibility to reconstitute protein self-organization with only a few purified components, we still lack knowledge of how geometrical boundaries affect spatiotemporal pr...

Cognitive Radio (CR) is a self-monitoring wireless communication system. It can utilize the radio frequency spectrum efficiently. The CR user can opportunistically use those idle spectrum bands without causing harmful interference to the licensed/primary user. There are several spectrum sensing techniques which can serve the purpose. In this paper, non-cooperative spectrum sensing is performed ...

In-band spectrum sensing is an effective method of avoiding harmful interference with primary users in cognitive radio. The optimal NoQP Sensing is firstly discussed. Towards a general NoQP Sensing(In-band sensing method without quiet period) problem, we proved that the weighted energy detector is the optimal detector under Neyman-Pearson criterion. The performance of the general NoQP Sensing a...