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Nanostructured electroadhesive and electrofrictive surfaces for dexterous grasping and manipulation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)
Robots will become commonplace in personal, public, and working environments and must be equipped for a broad range of manipulation tasks and physical encounters. Traditional robotic grasping methodologies like opposed ...
Performance effects and causal mechanisms of mid-channel congestion in diesel particulate filters
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)
The diesel particulate filter (DPF) is a ~$5,000-$50,000 USD critical component of aftertreatment systems installed in diesel engine-powered vehicles. The device is designed to trap particles emitted by the diesel combustion ...
Metrology and mechanics for manufacturing space-based x-ray grating spectrometers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)
Small errors in critical dimensions (CDs) or deformation of optical components can lead to severe performance degradation in high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy tools. Consistent innovations towards more precise optical ...
Computational tools towards automating the scientific method
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)
We present a collection of novel computational tools designed to contribute to the goal of large-scale scientific automation. Deep Involutive Neural MCMC and other inference compilation techniques present a promising path ...
Performance and economics of monovalent selective electrodialysis desalination for irrigation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)
Reverse osmosis (RO) is the most widely used desalination technology for the treatment of irrigation source water and wastewater. Brackish groundwater, seawater, and agricultural effluent often contain both monovalent ions ...
Design and optimization of shared mobility on demand : dynamic routing and dynamic pricing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)
Mobility of people and goods has been critical to urban life ever since cities emerged thousands of years ago. With the ushering in Cyber-Physical Systems enabled by the development of smart mobile devices, telecommunication ...
Computational processing and modeling of intravascular images precisely couple arterial morphology and biomechanics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)
Cardiovascular diseases, and coronary artery disease in particular, remain a persistent devastating and prevalent menace to health and wellbeing globally despite great strides in vascular biology and medicine. While ...
Towards security by design of connected and automated vehicles : cyber and physical threats, mitigations, and architectures
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)
Security, safety and privacy converge when it comes to the design of cyber-physical systems (CPS) such as connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). This trend can be attributed to the increased level of connectivity and ...
Engineered microvascular brain-on-a-chip model for the study of tumor progression
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)
Cancers of the brain tend to be among the most fatal, due to their rapid rates of growth and the difficulty in transporting therapeutics across the blood-brain barrier (BBB), one of the tightest vascular barrier in humans¹. ...
Integrated bio-photonic devices : sensors, imagers, and beyond
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)
Optical imaging, sensing, and testing are ubiquitous in biology, offering elegant solutions for diagnostic, therapeutic, and theranostic applications. If these optical systems can be built using complex miniaturized photonic ...