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Cao, Jianpeng (author), Zhang, Hang (author), Pan, Bo (author), Soman, R. K. (author), Savov, Anton (author), Hall, Daniel M. (author)Design for manufacturing and assembly (DfMA) is an engineering methodology which aims to increase ease of manufacture and efficiency of assembly by considering manufacturing and assembly constraints in the design process. However, current DfMA approaches in the construction sector are not automated enough to identify the design features that...conference paper 2024
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Wang, Ningzhen (author), Baferani, Mohamadreza Arab (author), Daniels, Robert (author), Wu, Chao (author), Huo, Jindong (author), van Turnhout, J. (author), Sotzing, Gregory A. (author), Gerhard, Reimund (author), Cao, Yang (author)Multi-layer ferroelectrets consisting of fluoroethylenepropylene (FEP) copolymer and open-porous expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) films exhibit stable internal electret charges, high piezoelectric coefficients and heat resistance, making them promising candidates for wearable sensors or nanogenerators in body-area networks. Here,...journal article 2024
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Yue, Dongdong (author), Baldi, S. (author), Cao, Jinde (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)This article describes an extension of the well-known model reference adaptive control (MRAC) approach. The extension relies on explicitly involving the tracking error in the feedback control law: it is shown that including this term along with its appropriate extra adaptive gain allows one to handle possibly unstable reference dynamics....journal article 2024
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Morawska, Lidia (author), Allen, Joseph (author), Bahnfleth, William (author), Bennett, Belinda (author), Bluyssen, P.M. (author), Boerstra, A.C. (author), Buonanno, Giorgio (author), Cao, Junji (author), Dancer, Stephanie J. (author)People living in urban and industrialized societies, which are expanding globally, spend more than 90% of their time in the indoor environment, breathing indoor air (IA). Despite decades of research and advocacy, most countries do not have legislated indoor air quality (IAQ) performance standards for public spaces that address concentration...journal article 2024
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Cao, Chengtai (author), Chen, Xinhong (author), Wang, J. (author), Song, Q. (author), Tan, Rui (author), Li, Yung Hui (author)Autonomous driving systems rely on precise trajectory prediction for safe and efficient motion planning. Despite considerable efforts to enhance prediction accuracy, inherent uncertainties persist due to data noise and incomplete observations. Many strategies entail formalizing prediction outcomes into distributions and utilizing variance to...journal article 2024
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Kovačević, K. (author), Zhao, Y. (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Cao, L. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Isabella, O. (author)The fabrication process of interdigitated-back-contacted silicon heterojunction (IBC-SHJ) solar cells has been significantly simplified with the development of the so-called tunnel-IBC architecture. This architecture utilizes a highly conductive (p)-type nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si:H) layer deposited over the full substrate area comprising...journal article 2024
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Lv, Maolong (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author), Cao, Jinde (author), Baldi, S. (author)Practical tracking results have been reported in the literature for high-order odd-rational-power nonlinear dynamics (a chain of integrators whose power is the ratio of odd integers). Asymptotic tracking remains an open problem for such dynamics. This note gives a positive answer to this problem in the framework of prescribed performance...journal article 2023
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Čustović, I. (author), Cao, Jianpeng (author), Hall, Daniel M. (author)More widespread use of industrialized construction (IC) is hampered by the high capital cost of advanced production facilities paired with low profit margins. A novel service-oriented cloud manufacturing (CMfg) model could in theory increase utilization and profitability of distributed production facilities. However, little research has...journal article 2023
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Wen, Weijie (author), Lyu, Rui (author), Li, Botong (author), Cao, Hong (author), Yu, Jiali (author), Li, Bin (author), Popov, M. (author)For the black start-up of DC micro-grids, three-phase charging resistors are required to limit the uncontrollable surge current. The main drawback of this start-up method is the difficulty in determining the appropriate resistance value to achieve a rapid start-up and limit the surge current with the change of grid parameters. To address this...journal article 2023
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Yue, Dongdong (author), Baldi, S. (author), Cao, Jinde (author)We revisit distributed sampled-data consensus problems from a scalability point of view. Existing solutions in the literature for estimating the maximum sampling interval that preserves stability rely on the Lyapunov functional method. With this method, the overall closed-loop system (i.e. the overall network of agents) is treated as a time...journal article 2023
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Yao, Z. (author), Yang, G. (author), Han, C. (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Özkol, E. (author), Yan, J. (author), Zhao, Y. (author), Cao, L. (author), van Swaaij, R.A.C.M.M. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Passivating contacts are crucial for realizing high-performance crystalline silicon solar cells. Herein, contact formation by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) followed by an annealing step is focused on. Poly-SiO<sub>x</sub> passivating contacts by combining plasma-assisted N<sub>2</sub>O-based oxidation of silicon (PANO-SiO...journal article 2023
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Zhao, Y. (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Han, C. (author), Cao, L. (author), Yang, G. (author), Özkol, E. (author), Alcañiz, Alba (author), Kovačević, K. (author), Limodio, G. (author), Santbergen, R. (author), Smets, A.H.M. (author), Weeber, A.W. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells have achieved a record efficiency of 26.81% in a front/back-contacted (FBC) configuration. Moreover, thanks to their advantageous high V<sub>OC</sub> and good infrared response, SHJ solar cells can be further combined with wide bandgap perovskite cells forming tandem devices to enable efficiencies well...journal article 2023
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Nadeem, A. (author), Vos, D.A. (author), Cao, C.S. (author), Pajola, Luca (author), Dieck, S. (author), Baumgartner, R. (author), Verwer, S.E. (author)Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) aims to improve the transparency of machine learning (ML) pipelines. We systematize the increasingly growing (but fragmented) microcosm of studies that develop and utilize XAI methods for defensive and offensive cybersecurity tasks. We identify 3 cybersecurity stakeholders, i.e., model users, designers,...conference paper 2023
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Zhu, Man (author), Tian, Kang (author), Wen, Yuan Qiao (author), Cao, Ji Ning (author), Huang, L. (author)This study contributes to addressing the challenge of quickly obtaining an effective and accurate nonparametric model for describing ship maneuvering motion in three degrees of freedom (3-DOF). To achieve this, an intelligent ship dynamics nonparametric modeling method named improved PER-DDPG is proposed. This method leverages the deep...journal article 2023
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Wang, Hucheng (author), Fu, Xiaoming (author), Gu, Guanyao (author), Bai, Shengyu (author), Li, Runlai (author), Zhong, Weimin (author), Guo, Xuhong (author), Eelkema, R. (author), van Esch, J.H. (author), Cao, Zhixing (author), Wang, Yiming (author)Living organisms are capable of dynamically changing their structures for adaptive functions through sophisticated reaction-diffusion processes. Here we show how active supramolecular hydrogels with programmable lifetimes and macroscopic structures can be created by relying on a simple reaction-diffusion strategy. Two hydrogel precursors ...journal article 2023
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Zhang, Rongkai (author), Zhang, Cong (author), Cao, Zhiguang (author), Song, Wen (author), Tan, Puay Siew (author), Zhang, Jie (author), Wen, Bihan (author), Dauwels, J.H.G. (author)We propose a manager-worker framework (the implementation of our model is publically available at: https://github.com/zcaicaros/manager-worker-mtsptwr) based on deep reinforcement learning to tackle a hard yet nontrivial variant of Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP), i.e. multiple-vehicle TSP with time window and rejections (mTSPTWR), where...journal article 2023
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Gabanyi, K.E. (author), Belladitta, S. (author), Frey, S. (author), Orosz, G. (author), Gurvits, L. (author), Rozgonyi, Krisztina (author), An, T. (author), Cao, H (author), Paragi, Z (author), Perger, Krisztina (author)Active galactic nuclei (AGN) have been observed as far as redshift. They are crucial in investigating the early Universe as well as the growth of supermassive black holes at their centres. Radio-loud AGN with their jets seen at a small viewing angle are called blazars and show relativistic boosting of their emission. Thus, their apparently...journal article 2023
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Mai, Zhijian (author), Cao, Nengjie (author), Cheng, Erzhuo (author), Zeng, Zhiwen (author), Feng, Yancong (author), Wang, Yao (author), French, P.J. (author), Lee, Yi Kuen (author), Yang, Haihong (author)To develop multifunctional small-molecule prodrugs is highly desirable for cancer treatment but remains challenging in intrinsic traceability. As an acid-cleavable linkage, a Schiff bases benefiting from its distinctive fluorescence quenching ability was selected to prepare a small-molecule prodrug with cancer-targeted and self-indicating. In...journal article 2023
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Yue, Dongdong (author), Baldi, S. (author), Cao, Jinde (author), Li, Qi (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)This paper addresses distributed adaptive optimal resource allocation problems over weight-balanced digraphs. By leveraging state-of-the-art adaptive coupling designs for multiagent systems, two adaptive algorithms are proposed, namely a directed-spanning-tree-based algorithm and a node-based algorithm. The benefits of these algorithms are...journal article 2023
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van Ewijk, Stijn (author), Ashton, Weslynne S. (author), Berrill, Peter (author), Cao, Zhi (author), Chertow, Marian (author), Chopra, Shauhrat S. (author), Fishman, Tomer (author), Fitzpatrick, Colin (author), Sprecher, Benjamin (author)This white paper presents 10 insights into the circular economy from the field of industrial ecology. Industrial ecology is a scientific field that takes a systems perspective to explore the society-wide use of materials and energy and address the related impacts on the natural environment. The circular economy is a framework for sustainable...report 2023