We have constructed an experimental system to measure a piconewton lateral force using dual cantilevers which cross with each other. The resolution of the lateral force is estimated to be 3.3 p ± 0.2 pN, which is comparable to forces due to thermal fluctuation. This experimental apparatus works so easily that it will enable us to determine forces during nano-manipulation and nano-tribological m...

This letter shows for the first time why it is important and how to optimize gains of a position controller on board fully-actuated aerial vehicle with bounded lateral force, via an auto-tuning approach. In such vehicles, most control authority expressed along principal thrust direction, while directions smaller forces can be exploited achieve full-pose tracking. The nonlinear hard model interp...

Abstract With the rapid development of computer technology in recent years, this paper explores feasibility applying computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to study external flow-field automobile body. The numerical solution provides pressure and velocity distribution car body, such as aerodynamic field field, order obtain information resistance, lift, lateral force related torque, which can be fur...

This article presents methods for estimating lateral vehicle velocity and tire cornering stiffness, which are key parameters in vehicle dynamics control, using lateral tire force measurements. Lateral tire forces acting on each tire are directly measured by load-sensing hub bearings that were invented and further developed by NSK Ltd. For estimating the lateral vehicle velocity, tire force mode...

background: lateral epicondylitis, also known as tennis elbow, is the most common overuse syndrome of the elbow. the severity of pain may not be directly caused by tendinopathy of wrist extensors since trigger points of the shoulder muscles have a referral zone in the arm and elbow. therefore the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of dry needling of shoulder myofascial trigger points ...

We present here a method to calibrate the lateral force in the atomic force microscope. This method makes use of an accurately calibrated force sensor composed of a tipless piezoresistive cantilever and corresponding signal amplifying and processing electronics. Two ways of force loading with different loading points were compared by scanning the top and side edges of the piezoresistive cantile...

In this paper we propose a method for waveletltering of noisy signals when prior information about the energy of the signal of interest is available. Assuming the independence model, according to which the wavelet coeÆcients are treated individually, we propose a level dependent shrinkage rule that turns out to be the -minimax rule for a suitable class of realistic priors on the wavelet coeÆcie...

We study biased, diffusive transport of Brownian particles through narrow, spatially periodic structures in which the motion is constrained in lateral directions. The problem is analyzed under the perspective of the Fick-Jacobs equation, which accounts for the effect of the lateral confinement by introducing an entropic barrier in a one-dimensional diffusion. The validity of this approximation,...