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Bai, Chengchao (author), Yan, Peng (author), Piao, Haiyin (author), Pan, W. (author), Guo, Jifeng (author)This article explores deep reinforcement learning (DRL) for the flocking control of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms. The flocking control policy is trained using a centralized-learning-decentralized-execution (CTDE) paradigm, where a centralized critic network augmented with additional information about the entire UAV swarm is utilized...journal article 2024
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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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Pan, J. (author), Ferreira, Carlos (author), van Zuijlen, A.H. (author)To investigate the effect of force distributions of each turbine component on the power performance of the Darrieus–Savonius combined vertical axis wind turbine (hybrid VAWT), the hybrid VAWT is modeled as idealized turbine under various force distributions. The goal of idealization is to simplify the intricate interactions between the...journal article 2024
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Liu, Y. (author), Pan, W. (author)Machine learning can be effectively applied in control loops to make optimal control decisions robustly. There is increasing interest in using spiking neural networks (SNNs) as the apparatus for machine learning in control engineering because SNNs can potentially offer high energy efficiency, and new SNN-enabling neuromorphic hardware is being...journal article 2023
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Tang, Z. (author), Pan, S. (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author)BJT-based temperature sensors are widely used because they can achieve excellent accuracy after 1-point calibration. However, they typically dissipate mu textWs of power and require supply voltages above 1V [1]. Although sensors based on DTMOSTs [2], [3], capacitively biased (CB) diodes and BJTs [4,5] have demonstrated sub-1V operation, this...conference paper 2023
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Toth, N.G. (author), Tang, Z. (author), Someya, T. (author), Pan, S. (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author)BJT-based temperature sensors are widely used due to their high accuracy over a wide temperature range with a low-cost 1-point trim. Although resistor-based sensors can achieve better energy efficiency, they typically require a 2-point trim to achieve comparable accuracy, while thermal-diffusivity based sensors achieve superior accuracy at...conference paper 2023
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An, X. (author), Pan, S. (author), Jiang, H. (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author)CMOS frequency references based on RC oscillators are usually preferred over bulky crystals in loT applications [1-5]. However, due to the process spread and finite temperature coefficient (TC) of most on-chip resistors, RC oscillators require trimming and temperature compensation to achieve decent accuracy. Enabled by high-resolution...conference paper 2023
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Pan, S. (author), An, Xiaomeng (author), Yu, Zheru (author), Jiang, H. (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author)This article presents the design and implementation of a compact CMOS RC frequency reference. It consists of a frequency-locked loop (FLL) that locks the period of a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) to the time an RC network takes to charge to a reference voltage. Conventionally, an RC time constant with a near-zero temperature coefficient...journal article 2023
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Wu, C. (author), Pan, W. (author), Staa, Rick (author), Liu, Jianxing (author), Sun, Guanghui (author), Wu, Ligang (author)This paper investigates the deep reinforcement learning based secure control problem for cyber–physical systems (CPS) under false data injection attacks. We describe the CPS under attacks as a Markov decision process (MDP), based on which the secure controller design for CPS under attacks is formulated as an action policy learning using data....journal article 2023
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Wang, Feifei (author), Hua, Yulin (author), Pan, Jiazheng (author), Zhou, Jie (author), Hea, Chiquan (author), Hofman, J.A.M.H. (author), Chu, Wenhai (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)In drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs), the widely used biological activated carbon filters (BACFs), as the last barrier before disinfection, can remove dissolved organic matter (DOM) known as precursors of disinfection by-products (DBPs). Whether phosphate addition can improve water purification and DBP control of BACFs is still...journal article 2023
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Liu, Chun Xiao (author), Pan, Haining (author), Setiawan, F. (author), Wimmer, M.T. (author), Sau, Jay D. (author)In a recent breakthrough experiment [Nature (London) 614, 445 (2023)10.1038/s41586-022-05585-1], signatures of Majorana zero modes have been observed in tunnel spectroscopy for a minimal Kitaev chain constructed from coupled quantum dots. However, as Ising anyons, Majoranas' most fundamental property of non-Abelian statistics is yet to be...journal article 2023
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Pan, J. (author), Ferreira, Carlos (author), van Zuijlen, A.H. (author)To investigate power losses of a Darrieus-Savonius combined vertical axis wind turbine (hybrid VAWT) associated with the interaction between blades and wake, it is crucial to understand the flow phenomena around the turbine. This study presents a two-dimensional numerical analysis of vortex dynamics for a hybrid VAWT. The integration of a...journal article 2023
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de Jong, M.N. (author), Campana, Francesca Cala (author), Li, Pengfei (author), Pan, Qiuwei (author), Giordano, G. (author)In 2022, worldwide mpox outbreaks have called attention to mpox virus infection and treatment opportunities using the drugs cidofovir and tecovirimat, which target different stages of in-host viral proliferation, respectively production and shedding. We propose a new model of in-host viral infection dynamics that distinguishes between the two...journal article 2023
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Pan, Y. (author), Guo, Hui (author), Guan, Wei (author), Zhao, Yongli (author)Rutting is one of the most common distresses in early damage to asphalt pavements. It can raise the risk of ride safety issues, accelerate pavement deterioration, and increase maintenance costs. To investigate the factors that affect the rutting resistance of asphalt mixtures, internal factors (such as aggregate gradation, asphalt content,...journal article 2023
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Du, D. (author), Han, S. (author), Qi, Naiming (author), Ammar, Haitham Bou (author), Wang, Jun (author), Pan, W. (author)Reinforcement learning (RL) exhibits impressive performance when managing complicated control tasks for robots. However, its wide application to physical robots is limited by the absence of strong safety guarantees. To overcome this challenge, this paper explores the control Lyapunov barrier function (CLBF) to analyze the safety and reachability...conference paper 2023
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Tang, Z. (author), Pan, S. (author), Grubor, M. (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author)This article presents a sub-1 V bipolar junction transistor (BJT)-based temperature sensor that achieves both high accuracy and high energy efficiency. To avoid the extra headroom required by conventional current sources, the sensor’s diode-connected BJTs are biased by precharging sampling capacitors to the supply voltage and then discharging...journal article 2023
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Tang, Y. (author), Zhu, H. (author), Potters, Susan (author), Wisse, M. (author), Pan, W. (author)This letter addresses the problem of pushing manipulation with nonholonomic mobile robots. Pushing is a fundamental skill that enables robots to move unwieldy objects that cannot be grasped. We propose a stable pushing method that maintains stiff contact between the robot and the object to avoid consuming repositioning actions. We prove that...journal article 2023
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Pan, Tanbo (author), Zheng, Yonglai (author), Zhou, Y. (author), Luo, Wenbin (author), Xu, Xubing (author), Hou, Chenyu (author), Zhou, Yujue (author)This study presents a damage pattern recognition approach for corroded steel beams strengthened by CFRP anchorage system based on acoustic emission clustering analysis. The proposed method includes four steps: acoustic emission signal acquisition, feature extraction, clustering analysis, and damage pattern recognition. Four corroded beams...journal article 2023
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Jiang, Bo (author), Qian, Z. (author), Gu, D. (author), Pan, Jinlong (author)Aimed at realizing the effective strengthening and durable repair of concrete structures, particularly in emergencies like traffic interruption triggered by broken roads and damaged bridges, nine groups of specimens were designed and tested in this paper to develop the high-early-strength Engineered Cementitious Composites (HES-ECC) featured...journal article 2023
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Wu, Chengwei (author), Yao, Weiran (author), Luo, Wensheng (author), Pan, W. (author), Sun, Guanghui (author), Xie, Hui (author), Wu, Ligang (author)The problem of learning-based control for robots has been extensively studied, whereas the security issue under malicious adversaries has not been paid much attention to. Malicious adversaries can invade intelligent devices and communication networks used in robots, causing incidents, achieving illegal objectives, and even injuring people....journal article 2023