This work concerns both monitoring of contact transitions and estimation of the unknown first-order geometric parameters during force-controlled motions. The robotic system is required to move an object among a sequence of contact configurations with the environment, under partial knowledge of geometric parameters (positions and orientations) of the manipulated objects and of the environment it...

We studied the possibility to approximate a Lennard-Jones interaction by a pairwise contact potential. First we used a Lennard-Jones potential to design off-lattice, protein-like heteropolymer sequences, whose lowest energy (native) conformations were then identified by molecular dynamics. Then we turned to investigate whether one can find a pairwise contact potential, whose ground states are t...

In the Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) process used for microelectronics manufacturing, three contact regimes between the wafer surface and the polishing pad may be proposed: direct contact, mixed or partial contact, and hydroplaning. An effective in-situ method for characterizing the wafer/pad contact and a systematic way of relating contact conditions to the process parameters are both la...

Using the ARGUS detector at the e+e storage ring DORIS II, we have measured the Michel parameters , , and for ! l  decays in -pair events produced at center of mass energies in the region of the resonances. Using ! as spin analyzing tags, we nd e = 0:68 0:04 0:08, e = 1:12 0:20 0:09, e = 0:57 0:14 0:07, = 0:69 0:06 0:08, = 1:25 0:27 0:14 and = 0:72 0:18 0:10. In addition, we report the combine...

In the presence of nuisance parameters, we derive an explicit higher order asymptotic formula to compare the expected lengths of conndence intervals given by likelihood ratio statistics arising from the usual proole likelihood and various adjustments thereof. Highest posterior density regions, with approximate frequentist validity, are also included in the study.

Introduction Both particle packing and particle contact parameters play important roles in determining the mechanical behavior of a discrete particle assembly. One common approach to calibrate discrete element models (DEM) of rock is to hold particle packing constant while contact parameters are changed to match observed macroscopic mechanical behavior. This often leads to non-unique material c...

in this study; utilizing the elastic matrix ball has higher processing efficiency and better superficial quality than traditionalgrinding. the diversity of elastic abrasive tool characteristics contact with bend surface results in irregular wear abrasion，and abrasive tool machining status gets complicated. there is no theoretical interpretation of parameters affecting the grinding accuracy. bec...

The nano sized TiO2 and ZnO are the most active photocatalysts.  Methylene blue was used as a reference molecule for the photocatalytic degradation. The TiO2 and ZnO can totally remove methylene blue dye. The effect of various process parameters like initial concentration, contact time, dose of catalyst and pH on the extent of removal of dye by photocatalysis in presence o...

For hypotheses of the type H0 : θ = θ0 vs H1 : θ 6= θ0 we demonstrate the equivalence of a Bayesian hypothesis test using a Bayes factor and the corresponding classical test, for a large class of models, which are detailed in the paper. In particular, we show that the role of the prior and critical region for the Bayes factor test is only to specify the type I error. This is their only role sin...