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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design Method for Facility Location and Freight Flow Allocation of China Railway Highspeed Express
China Railway Highspeed Express (CRH Express) is in the stage of mode exploration and technological innovation. This paper takes CRH Express as the research object, studies the operation and organization mode ...
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Design and Analysis of a New Compliant Monolithic Motion Reverser
Compliant motion reverser plays a significant role in the field of micro-electromechanical systems, micro-measurement, and biological engineering. Traditional motion reverser is designed based on topology opti...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Optimizing the Post-disaster Resource Allocation with Q-Learning: Demonstration of 2021 China Flood
Reasonable and efficient allocation plan of emergency resources is key to successful disaster response. The Q-learning algorithm may provide a new approach to the resource allocation problem, which can take a ...
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From “Clothing Standard” to “Chemometrics”
This paper reviews Prof. Kai-Tai Fang’s contributions in data mining. Since the 1970s, Prof. Fang has been committed to applying statistical ideas and methods to deal with large amounts of data in practical pr...
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Neural Networks-Based PID Precision Motion Control of a Piezo-Actuated Microinjector
Piezoelectric actuators are widely employed in the field of micro-/nanomanipulation
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The Application of Oligosaccharides in Breeding Industry
As the increasing demand for antibiotic substitution at home and abroad, animal husbandry will face serious challenges. How to ensure the healthy growth of breeding animals in the post-antibiotic era has becom...
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Design, Analysis, and Development of a Piezoelectric Microsyringe Pump
This chapter presents the design, analysis, and testing of a microsyringe pump for delivering the liquid inside a tiny tube precisely. To facilitate precision actuation of the microsyringe, a uniaxial micromot...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Effects of Ce Addition on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Accident-Tolerance Fe-Cr-Al Fuel Cladding Materials
Fe-Cr-Al alloys are promising materials for accident-tolerance fuel cladding applications due to their excellent performance of oxidation and corrosion resistance under elevated temperature. In this study, eff...
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Visual Servo Control with Force Regulation for Microinjection
In this chapter, a microinjection system has been developed by integrating dual cameras and microforce . Experimental study on microinjection of zebrafish with visual servo and force has been conducted ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Influence of Hot Rolling on Mechanical Behavior and Strengthening Mechanism in Boron Carbide Reinforced Aluminum Matrix Composites
Boron carbide reinforced aluminum matrix composites are widely used as neutron absorption materials. Here we report that mechanical alloying has been successfully employed to synthesize metal matrix composite ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Influence of Austenitizing Temperature and Time on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of an YP460 Grade Crack Arrest Steel
The influence of austenitizing temperature and austenitizing holding time on the microstructure and mechanical properties of a YP460 grade crack arrest steel was investigated. The first group specimens were au...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Effects of Matrix Microstructure on the Nanoscale Precipitation and Precipitation Strengthening in an Ultra-high Strength Steel
Matrix microstructure and nanoscale clusters are the two main factors influencing the mechanical properties of nanocluster strengthened steels. Here, an ultra-high strength steel with a tensile strength of ~1....
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Introduction
This chapter provides an introduction of biological micromanipulation using various types of micromachines. A brief survey of both tethered and untethered micromachines with different working principles is giv...
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Design, Fabrication, and Testing of a Microforce Sensor for Microinjection
In this chapter, a novel one-degree-of-freedom (1-DOF) microforce sensor is designed by adopting macrofiber composite (MFC) and polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) films. The films function as fixed-guided beams an...
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Design, Fabrication, and Testing of a Constant-Force Microinjector
This chapter presents the design and testing of a flexure-based with constant force output dedicated to biological cell micromanipulation. The microinjector offers a constant force without adopting a force c...
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Design and Development of a Flexure-Based Compact Constant-Force Robotic Gripper
This chapter presents the design of a novel flexure-based compliant gripper with constant grip** force and compact structure size for cell micromanipulation applications. The gripper removes the use of force...
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Review of Microinjection Systems
Cell microinjection plays an important role in genetics, transgenics, molecular biology, drug discovery, reproductive studies, and other biomedical fields. Robotic cell microinjection has been popularly applie...
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Design and Control of a Piezoelectric-Driven Microinjector
This chapter presents the design, fabrication, and testing of a piezo-driven cell microinjection system with force sensing and control. By using piezoresistive sensors for measuring the cell penetration force ...
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Design, Modeling, and Control of a Constant-Force Microgripper
This chapter proposes the design, modeling, and control of a compliant gripper with a passive-type constant-force mechanism. The constant force output is enabled by combining a positive-stiffness mechanism and...
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Design and Implementation of a Force-Sensing MEMS Microgripper
This chapter presents the design, simulation, fabrication, and testing processes of a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) microgripper, which integrates an electrostatic actuator and a capacitive force senso...
