Aeronáutica y espacio

Scalable Open-Source Visuotactile Sensor for 6-Axis Contact Wrench Estimation in Tensegrity Robots

- This paper presents a scalable, open-source visuotactile sensing system for tensegrity robots that enables six-axis wrench estimation and contact detection. The proposed endcap sensor integrates an...

Power from Potential: A Survey of Electrostatic Actuators for Haptics

- As haptic interfaces integrate more seamlessly into wearables and everyday environments, they increasingly require actuators that are soft, thin, silent, and energy efficient. However, conventional...

Towards Knitted Textile Electromechanical Systems

- E-textiles and wearable sensing technologies enable flexible, customizable interfaces for human-computer interaction, with capacitive sensing offering precise touch and pressure detection. While...

Gradient-Enhanced NSGA-II Algorithm Complex Permittivity Extraction of Polymer Materials Using

- This paper presents gradient-enhanced non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (G-NSGA-II) to address the challenges of local optima and solution non-uniqueness in the complex permittivity...

Machine Learning-Based Battery State-of-health Prediction for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Predictive Maintenance

- Battery state-of-health (SoH) prediction aims to estimate the remaining capacity by modeling battery degradation through its life cycle. Machine learning (ML)-based SoH models can accurately predict...

Counting and Sampling Anti-Ferromagnetic Potts Models on Random Regular Bipartite Graphs in the Non-uniqueness Regime

- The anti-ferromagnetic multi-state Potts model, a generalization of the Ising model, is one of the most fundamental models in statistical physics. It was conjectured by Kotecký (Phys.~Rev.~B, 1985)...

Ultrathin polymer membranes with locked intrinsic microporosity for hydrocarbon fractionation

18/06/2026

Shape Sensing of Continuum Robots using Direct Laser Writing

- Continuum robots offer a promising approach for minimally invasive and natural-orifice surgical procedures due to their inherent compliance and dexterity. However, this flexibility also makes...

Automatic ply-specific analyses of CFRP micrographs using shortest-path-based ply distinction

- We present an automated approach to distinguish between ply instances in semantic segmentation masks of high-resolution carbon-fiber reinforced polymer micrographs. Interpreting the segmentation mask...

A Multi-Level Architecture for Reusable Materials Ontologies -- The OntoCrafter Ceramics Ontology (OCO) as Reference Implementation

- The Materials Science and Engineering ontology landscape is fragmented along multiple axes simultaneously. Horizontally: a recent survey identified 94 ontologies of which over 40 are structurally...

Physics of anticipatory active matter, with application to crowd dynamics

- Statistical Physics has traditionally dealt with entities that interact merely based on the present, and possibly past, configurations. This reactive framework is inefficient in many situations...

Design and Fabrication of a Spin Coater with In-Situ Optical Measurement for Soft Thin Films

- Spin coating is widely used for fabrication of thin polymer and elastomer films, yet reliable thickness verification of highly compliant materials remains challenging due to deformation from...

Range-Aware Bayesian Optimization for Discovering Diverse Designs within Target Property Windows

- In many materials and product design problems, desirable candidates exhibit properties that fall within an acceptable range rather than achieve a single optimum. Recovering multiple, distinct...

Coupling Complementary Simulations for Combined Performance and Energy Optimization

- Polymer simulations are among the most computationally demanding workloads in soft-matter research, often requiring days of execution and high energy consumption to achieve physically meaningful...

Bridging nanoparticle morphology and viscoelastic behavior in epoxy nanocomposites: A coarse-grained simulation-informed constitutive model

- Accurate prediction of the material behavior of polymer nanocomposites under various thermomechanical loading conditions is increasingly demanded for engineering applications. This study proposes an...

Detective scaffolding for within-session reasoning development: a three-phase framework evaluated in polymer engineering and pre-university outreach

- This paper presents a detective scaffolding framework -- a three-phase instructional sequence (Hypothesis Activation -> Evidence Structuring -> Causal Integration) in which engineering students...

Fast and perfect sampling of subgraphs and polymer systems

- We give an efficient perfect sampling algorithm for weighted, connected induced subgraphs (or graphlets) of rooted, bounded degree graphs. Our algorithm utilizes a vertex-percolation process with a...

Decision-Aware Evaluation of Physics-Informed Surrogates

- Physics-informed machine learning is often assessed by curve error, although engineering use depends on downstream decisions: ranking candidates, avoiding infeasible designs and limiting regret. We...

Multi-Scale Feature Attention Network for Polymer Classification using THz Dual-Comb Spectroscopy

- Reliable polymer identification is essential for ensuring the quality and safety of recycled plastics, yet conventional sorting and spectroscopic techniques often struggle to deliver robust...

Mechanophore cross-linking enhances ballistic energy dissipation of polymers

03/06/2026

Learning Permutation-invariant Macroscopic Dynamics

- Accurately modeling the macroscopic dynamics of high-dimensional microscopic systems is of broad interest across the sciences. Many data-driven approaches learn a low-dimensional latent state through...