Boucle à phase asservieUne boucle à phase asservie, ou boucle à verrouillage de phase ou BVP (en anglais, phase-locked loop, ou PLL), est un montage électronique permettant d'asservir la phase ou la fréquence de sortie d'un système sur la phase ou la fréquence du signal d'entrée. Elle peut aussi asservir une fréquence de sortie sur un multiple de la fréquence d'entrée. L'invention de la boucle à verrouillage de phase est attribuée à un ingénieur français, Henri de Bellescize, en 1932.
Bird flightBird flight is the primary mode of locomotion used by most bird species in which birds take off and fly. Flight assists birds with feeding, breeding, avoiding predators, and migrating. Bird flight is one of the most complex forms of locomotion in the animal kingdom. Each facet of this type of motion, including hovering, taking off, and landing, involves many complex movements. As different bird species adapted over millions of years through evolution for specific environments, prey, predators, and other needs, they developed specializations in their wings, and acquired different forms of flight.
Overconstrained mechanismIn mechanical engineering, an overconstrained mechanism is a linkage that has more degrees of freedom than is predicted by the mobility formula. The mobility formula evaluates the degree of freedom of a system of rigid bodies that results when constraints are imposed in the form of joints between the links. If the links of the system move in three-dimensional space, then the mobility formula is where N is the number of links in the system, j is the number of joints, and fi is the degree of freedom of the ith joint.
