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Mechanoreceptive soft robotic molluscoids made of granular hydrogel-based organoelectronics

Esther Amstad, Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Nana Obayashi, Lorenzo Lucherini, Francesca Bono

The viscoelasticity of many soft polymers renders flexible sensors susceptible to hysteresis and signal drift that limit their accuracy. To reduce the impact of viscoelasticity on the signal without compromising the softness of the material, we introduce e ...

2025

A data-efficient and general-purpose hand–eye calibration method for robotic systems using next best view

Sichao Liu

Calibration between robots and cameras is critical in automated robot vision systems. However, conventional manually conducted image-based calibration techniques are often limited by their accuracy sensitivity and poor adaptability to dynamic or unstructur ...

2025

DiffCheck: A scan-CAD evaluation tool for digital manufacturing and assembly processes in timber construction

Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Stefana Parascho, Andrea Settimi, Marianthi Eririni Kladeftira, Eleni Maria Skevaki, Damien Lambert Alain Félicien Gilliard

In digital timber construction, scanning technologies and point cloud data are widely used due to the accessibility of affordable 3D sensors, photogrammetry, and userfriendly CAD tools. While typically not employed for accuracy checks in timber fabrication ...

CRC Press2025

Closed-Loop Control and Disturbance Mitigation of an Underwater Multi-Segment Continuum Manipulator

Kyle Liam Walker

The use of soft and compliant manipulators in marine environments represents a promising paradigm shift for subsea inspection, with devices better suited to tasks owing to their ability to safely conform to items during contact. However, limitations driven ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2025

Magnetic structure of a single-crystal thin film of EuCd2Sb2

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Jian Rui Soh

We investigate the magnetic order in single crystalline EuCd2Sb2 thin films using a combined theoretical and experimental approach. Resonant elastic x-ray scattering experiments reveal a sharp magnetic peak at q=(0,0,12) below TN=7.2 K, indicative of inter ...

2024

Study of Ionized Particles in a Gyrotron Using a Full Gyrotron Simulation Model

Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémy Genoud

The ionization of the residual gas in gyrotrons causes the generation of positively charged ions and negatively charged electrons. Using the electron optics code Ariadne, it was possible to simulate the behavior of these electrons in the overall gyrotron g ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Multimodal Approach Reveals the Symmetry-Breaking Pathway to the Broken Helix in EuIn2As2

Jian Rui Soh

Understanding and manipulating emergent phases, which are themes at the forefront of quantummaterials research, rely on identifying their underlying symmetries. This general principle has been particularly prominent in materials with coupled electronic and ...

American Physical Society2024

Magnetism of Single Surface Adsorbed Atoms Studied with Radio-Frequency STM

Clément Marie Soulard

This thesis investigates the magnetic properties of single atoms and molecules adsorbed on thin magnesium oxide decoupling layers, grown on a silver single crystal. To address these systems experimentally, we use a low temperature scanning tunneling micros ...

EPFL2024

Magneto-optical response of the magnetic semiconductors EuCd2X2 (X =P, As, Sb)

Killian David Rigaux, Ivica Zivkovic, Jan Hugo Dil, Michele Puppin, Fei Guo

In this study, we identify EuCd2X2 (for X = P, As, Sb) as a series of magnetic semiconductors. We examine how the band gap of the series responds to X changing from phosphorus (P), to arsenic (As), and finally antimony (Sb). We characterize the samples usi ...

2024

Design of a Beam Separator for FLASH Electron Therapy Facilities

Mike Seidel, Vera Korchevnyuk

A promising modality of radiation therapy is FLASH: a technique in which the full radiation dose is delivered in just 1/10th of a second. This modality has been proven successful in destroying cancerous cells while sparing healthy tissues. The aim is to de ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2024

Enabling Faster Locomotion of Planetary Rovers With a Mechanically-Hybrid Suspension

David Rodriguez Martinez

The exploration of the lunar poles and the collection of samples from the martian surface are characterized by shorter time windows demanding increased autonomy and speeds. Autonomous mobile robots must intrinsically cope with a wider range of disturbances ...

2024

Quantum Spin Dynamics Due to Strong Kitaev Interactions in the Triangular-Lattice Antiferromagnet CsCeSe2

Andreas Martin Läuchli Herzig

The extraordinary properties of the Kitaev model have motivated an intense search for new physics in materials that combine geometrical and bond frustration. In this Letter, we employ inelastic neutron scattering, spin wave theory, and exact diagonalizatio ...

American Physical Society (APS)2024

Investigation of Electro-Nuclear Spin States in LiHoF4 Using Cavity-Magnon-Polariton Technique

Yikai Yang

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("Re" stands for the rare-earth element) and their doped derivatives have long been recognized as a family of compounds that exhibit rich phenomena in quantum magnetism, drawing wide attention to them from both fundamental researchers and industr ...

EPFL2023

Understanding unconventional magnetic order in a candidate axion insulator by resonant elastic x-ray scattering

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Frédéric Mila, Jian Rui Soh

Magnetic topological insulators and semimetals are a class of crystalline solids whose properties are strongly influenced by the coupling between non-trivial electronic topology and magnetic spin configurations. Such materials can host exotic electromagnet ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Magnetic fields do not suppress global star formation in low metallicity dwarf galaxies

Robin Gopala Tress

Many studies concluded that magnetic fields suppress star formation in molecular clouds and Milky Way like galaxies. Ho we ver, most of these studies are based on fully developed fields that have reached the saturation level, with little work on investigat ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023

A machine-learning-based tool for last closed-flux surface reconstruction on tokamaks

Olivier Sauter, Alessandro Pau

Tokamaks allow to confine fusion plasma with magnetic fields. The prediction/reconstruction of the last closed-flux surface (LCFS) is one of the primary challenges in the control of the magnetic configuration. The evolution in time of the LCFS is determine ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Identifying important sensory feedback for learning locomotion skills

Auke Ijspeert, Guillaume Denis Antoine Bellegarda, Milad Shafiee Ashtiani

Robot motor skills can be acquired by deep reinforcement learning as neural networks to reflect state-action mapping. The selection of states has been demonstrated to be crucial for successful robot motor learning. However, because of the complexity of neu ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

KCo2As2: A new portal for the physics of high-purity metals

Lin Yang

High-quality single crystals of KCo2As2 with the body-centered tetragonal ThCr2Si2 structure were grown using KAs self flux. Structural, magnetic, thermal, and electrical transport properties were investigated. No clear evidence for any phase transitions w ...

2022

Magnetic force microscopy contrast formation and field sensitivity

Marcos Penedo Garcia, Johannes Schwenk

The magnetic force microscope (MFM) is an established experimental tool for imaging stray fields with high spatial resolution and sensitivity. The MFM contrast can however contain contributions from the sample topography, variations in the surface Kelvin p ...

2022

Sharp turning maneuvers with avian-inspired wing and tail morphing

Dario Floreano, Valentin Wüest, Enrico Ajanic

Flight in dense environments, such as forests and cities requires drones to perform sharp turns. Although fixed-wing drones are aerodynamically and energetically more efficient than multicopters, they require a comparatively larger area to turn and thus ar ...

2022