This paper focuses on a critical component of the situational awareness (SA), the control of autonomous vertical flight for tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (TUAV). With the SA strategy, we proposed a two stage flight control procedure using two autonomous control subsystems to address the dynamics variation and performance requirement difference in initial and final stages of flight trajectory...

As combustion can widely vary between engine cycles if left uncontrolled, strict and robust control methodologies required to meet optimum performance at different operating conditions. Although the direct injection stratified charge engine development attempts started since 1920, lack of advanced instrumentation and robust real-time control techniques restricted its developments to common usag...

Single cells have the potential and the necessity to process the information they receive from their environment. In particular, they commonly need to process temporal information obtained simultaneously from multiple inputs. In addition, response to multiple temporally ordered inputs is evolvable under laboratory conditions, suggesting that genetic networks are constructed to enable organisms ...

With the advent of high-speed information age and explosive growth information, higher requirements have been placed on processing speed. In recent years, delay-based reservoir computing (RC) systems extensively investigated. Meanwhile, rate is improved mainly around replacement nonlinear nodes in system. Nevertheless, as most commonly used distributed feedback semiconductor (DFB) laser, many r...

Nasal cytology is a diagnostic method in the field rinology used to detect changes into the endonasal epithelium exposed to physical and/or chemical irritation, acute or chronic inflammation due to different angents (viral, bacterial, fungal or parasitic). Nasal cytology was born in 1889 thanks to H. Gollash who found many eosinophilic cells into the nasal secretions of a patient affected by as...

Under-actuated robot manipulator is a kinematic chain wherein total degree of the freedom of the mechanism is more than actuators. Under actuated manipulators are advantageous from the minimalism viewpoint in robotics where a task is performed with less energy consuming actuations. In fact dynamic of the mechanism is exploited instead of fighting it [1][2]. Moreover, studies on under-actuated c...