Optically Isotropic Liquid Crystal Structure In article number 2101919, Young-Chul Shin, Hak-Rin Kim, and co-workers present an optically isotropic liquid crystal structure templated by a self-structured nano-porous breath figure membrane, which is implementable as high contrast ratio of flexible displays with size-scalable printing approaches.

Abstract. A reactive tracking control law and a flexible local navigation method for non-holonomic mobile vehicles are presented. The tracking controller enables noise tolerant trajectory following and collision avoidance with a feedback control loop through raw sensor data (laser scanner, sonars, IR). The controller needs no knowledge about absolute robot coordinates. Based on the tracking con...

Flexible flow shop (or a hybrid flow shop) scheduling problem is an extension of classical flow shop scheduling problem. In a simple flow shop configuration, a job having ‘g’ operations is performed on ‘g’ operation centres (stages) with each stage having only one machine. If any stage contains more than one machine for providing alternate processing facility, then the problem...

Animations of characters with flexible bodies such as jellyfish, snails, and, hearts are difficult to design using traditional skeleton-based approaches. A standard approach is keyframing, but adjusting the shape of the flexible body for each key frame is tedious. In addition, the character cannot dynamically adjust its motion to respond to the environment or user input. This paper introduces a...