Flapping-wing robotic insects are small, highly maneuverable flying robots inspired by biologicalinsects and useful for a wide range of tasks, including exploration, environmental monitoring, searchand rescue, and surveillance. Recently, robotic insects driven by piezoelectric actuators have achievedthe important goal of taking off with external power; however, fully autonomous operation requir...

Deer antlers can be developed into multiple novel models to study growth and development of tissues for biomedical research. To facilitate this process, we have invented and further refined five custom-built tools through three decades of antler research. These are: 1. Pedicle growth detector to pinpoint the timing when pedicle growth is initiated, thus stimuli for pedicle and first antler form...

The typical loads in the commercial buildings comprise of many single phase and three phase loads which includes non-linear loads. These loads are highly sensitive for any input variations in voltage. The performance of the electrical equipment gets worsened if they are supplied with polluted or distorted voltage. This paper presents modeling and analysis of custom power devices. SAPF based UPQ...

Domain-oriented knowledge-acquisition tools provide efficient support for the design of knowledge-based systems. However, the cost of developing such tools is high, especially when their restricted scope is taken into account. Developers can use metalevel tools to generate domain-oriented knowledge-acquisition tools that are custom tailored for a small group of experts, with considerably less e...

This paper presents the custom power devices to improve the power quality by using a Distribution Static Compensator (DSTATCOM). Custom power is a technology driven product and service solution which embraces a family devices such as DSTATCOM. It describes the techniques of correcting the supply voltage sag in a distribution system by DSTATCOM. The steady state performance of system with or wit...

Domain-oriented knowledge-acquisition tools provide e cient support for the design of knowledge-based systems. However, the cost of developing such tools is high, especially when their restricted scope is taken into account. Developers can use metalevel tools to generate domain-oriented knowledge-acquisition tools that are custom tailored for a small group of experts, with considerably less eff...

This article presents a library of cells enabling the realization of constant-power cryptoprocessors, natively protected against side-channel attacks. The proposed methodology uses a full-custom balanced quasi-delay insensitive (QDI) cell library, called “SecLib”. It is suitable for a shielded routing method derived from the “backend duplication”, using legacy CAD tools for the backend steps. T...