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Mechanical rectifier
A mechanical rectifier is a device for converting alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) by means of mechanically operated switches. The…
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2017
2017
Dynamical Model and Optimal Turning Gait for Mechanical Rectifier Systems
Saba Kohannim
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T. Iwasaki
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
2017
Corpus ID: 37799271
Animal locomotion can be viewed as mechanical rectification due to the dynamics that convert periodic body movements to a…
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2014
2014
Optimal turning gait for mechanical rectifier systems with three dimensional motion
Saba Kohannim
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T. Iwasaki
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
2014
Corpus ID: 6744130
This paper presents a method for finding the optimal turning gait of a robotic locomotor, which rectifies periodic motion of the…
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2012
2012
Optimal turning gait for undulatory locomotion
Saba Kohannim
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T. Iwasaki
American Control Conference
2012
Corpus ID: 29194519
This paper addresses the optimal turning gait of a robotic locomotion system traveling in a curved path. The optimal gait problem…
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2012
2012
Natural Oscillation Control of Prototype Mechanical Rectifiers
Md. Nurul Islam
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Zhiyong Chen
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
2012
Corpus ID: 10250557
For a typical biologically inspired multi-segmental mechanical system, the system's locomotion behavior is rectified from the…
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2012
2012
Control of flapping-wing rectifier systems in natural oscillation
Lijun Zhu
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Zhiyong Chen
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
2012
Corpus ID: 9117639
A mechanical rectifier system is referred to as a class of multi-segmental mechanical structures whose locomotion results from…
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2011
Highly Cited
2011
Optimal Gaits for Mechanical Rectifier Systems
Justin Blair
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T. Iwasaki
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
2011
Corpus ID: 5992811
The essential mechanism underlying animal locomotion can be viewed as mechanical rectification that converts periodic body…
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2009
2009
A further result on the optimal harmonic gait for locomotion of mechanical rectifier systems
Justin Blair
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T. Iwasaki
American Control Conference
2009
Corpus ID: 43654
This paper first formally defines a general class of three dimensional rectifier systems which capture the essential aspects of…
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2008
2008
Mechanical rectifier for micro electric generators
S. Nagasawa
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T. Suzuki
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Y. Takayama
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K. Tsuji
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H. Kuwano
IEEE 21st International Conference on Micro…
2008
Corpus ID: 2499067
In this paper we propose a mechanical rectifier for micro electric generators. Since micro electric generators usually produce…
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2007
2007
Near-infrared photodetectors based on mercury indium telluride single crystals
Xiaolei Zhang
,
Wei-guo Sun
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+4 authors
Guoqing Yan
SPIE/COS Photonics Asia
2007
Corpus ID: 135522607
Attempt to form the Schottky barrier on mercury indium telluride (MIT) surface by deposition transparent conducting electrode…
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2004
2004
Feedback control with central pattern generator for decentralized coordination of prototype mechanical rectifier
T. Iwasaki
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B. Liu
Proceedings of the American Control Conference
2004
Corpus ID: 150486
This paper proposes a prototype mechanical rectifier (PMR) that captures essential dynamics underlying animal locomotion by a…
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