In most of gravity balancing approaches devoted to robot manipulators, the gravity compensation is carried out for cancelling of the static efforts due to robot element masses, as well as a fixed payload. When the payload is variable, i.e. if for each cycle of the robot operation it is different, the known compensation techniques are not efficient. Some solutions permitting to compensate the gr...

Long-term (multiple-week or -month) release of small, water-soluble molecules from hydrogels remains a significant pharmaceutical challenge, which is typically overcome at the expense of more-complicated drug carrier designs. Such approaches are payload-specific and include covalent conjugation of drugs to base materials or incorporation of micro- and nanoparticles. As a simpler alternative, he...

ABSTRACT One of the challenging issues to consider in balancing a two-wheeled robotic machine (TWRM) is when the load carried by the machine is changing position along the vehicle intermediate body (IB). An issue of interest in this case is the resulting impact on the system behaviour due to changing position of the load. Further complications arise with changing the size of the load. This work...

JIMO presents an opportunity to the planetary science community to expand the detailed knowledge (data) of the composition and geomorpology of Jupiter’s Icy Moons – Callisto, Ganymede, Europa. This data will be used to develop understanding of the origin and evolution of these bodies as well as determination of life and sustainability potential. This presentation focuses on a class of data coll...

We have previously demonstrated that exposed phosphatidylserine (PS) on tumor vascular endothelial cells is highly tumor specific, and development of the PS targeted near infrared (NIR) optical probe enables successful in vivo optical imaging of U87 gliomas in a mouse model. Liposomes have been widely used as a nanovector for delivery of chemotherapeutics and imaging contrast agents due to thei...

This study investigated three different types of multispectral imaging systems for airborne remote sensing to support management in agricultural application and production. The three systems have been used in agricultural studies. They range from low-cost to relatively high-cost, manually operated to automated, multispectral composite imaging with a single camera and integrated imaging with cus...

Distributed, autonomous space-segment command and control is one of the main objectives of present-day spacevehicle design. This objective is oftentimes difficult to achieve, however, since the spacecraft bus and the payload are usually manufactured by two different organizations and have correspondingly different designs and architectures. As a result, bus-to-payload communication is usually r...

The search for undiscovered planets outside the solar system is a scientific topic that is rapidly spreading into the astrophysical and engineering communities. In this framework, the design of an innovative payload to detect exoplanets from a nano-sized space platform, like a 3U cubesat, is presented. The selected detection method is photometric transit, and the payload aims to detect flux dec...

This study explores an alternative way of storing text files to answer exact match queries faster. We decompose the original file into two parts as filter and payload. The filter part contains the most informative k bits of each byte, and the remaining bits of the bytes are concatenated in the order of appearance to generate the payload. We refer to this structure as k-bit filtered format. When...

The Hα imaging spectrograph (HIS) is the scientific payload of first solar space mission, Chinese explorer (CHASE), supported by China National Space Administration (CNSA). CHASE/HIS achieves, for time in space, spectroscopic observations with high spectral and temporal resolutions. Separate channels raster scanning mode (RSM) continuum (CIM) are integrated into one, a highly design achieved th...