This work addresses two key topics in the field of energy harvesting and wireless power transfer. The first is the optimum signal design for improved RF-DC conversion efficiency in rectifier circuits by using time varying envelope signals. The second is the design of rectifiers that present reduced sensitivity to input power and output load variations by introducing resistance compression netwo...

Contact behavior of thermal flying height control sliders and interfacial temperature rise upon head disk contact is investigated utilizing the resistance change of the read and write element. To achieve contact, the heater element of a TFC slider is energized with constant and square wave input profiles. To estimate the temperature rise during head disk contact, the resistance change of the re...

Adversarial attacks have been shown to construct examples that drastically reduce the performance of classification models. One recently proposed defense against adversarial attacks is to discretize the input in a method called thermometer encoding. We apply thermometer encoding to capsule networks, a recently proposed computer vision architecture that has also demonstrated state-ofthe-art resi...

There is a large demand for models able to predict the future capacity retention and internal resistance (IR) of Lithium-ion battery cells with as little testing possible. We provide data-centric model accurately predicting cell’s entire IR trajectory from one single cycle input data. This represents significant reduction in amount data needed over previous works. Our approach characterises cur...

In the rotor reference frame, the input-output linearization theory was adopted to decouple the rotor position and rotor flux. We then designed two adaptation laws to estimate the rotor resistance and mechanical parameters of the motor. The passive properties of the negative feedback connection from the rotor flux observer to the rotor resistance estimator, and the position controller were anal...

Although essential for understanding the mechanisms underlying sensorimotor integration and motor control of behaviors, very little is known about the degree to which different behaviors share neural elements of the sensorimotor command chain by which they are controlled. Here, we provide, to our knowledge, the first direct physiological evidence that various modulatory premotor inputs to a ver...