Theory made physical: control, flight, circuits, materials.
Engineering › Control theory
Subset of artificial intelligence
Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalize to unseen data, and thus perform tasks without being explicitly programmed.
Engineering › Materials science
Science of rubbing surfaces
Tribology is the science and engineering of understanding friction, lubrication and wear phenomena for interacting surfaces in relative motion. It is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on many academic fields, including physics, chemistry, materials science, mathematics, biology and engineering.
Engineering › Robotics
Type of robot
A continuum robot is a type of robot that is characterised by infinite degrees of freedom and number of joints.
Engineering › Electrical engineering
Signal boosting phenomenon using white noise
Stochastic resonance (SR) is a mathematical mechanism and behavior of nonlinear systems (that is, systems in which the change of the output is not proportional to the change of the input) where random (stochastic) fluctuations in the microstate of a system (that is, its specific configuration,…
Engineering › Materials science
Class of atomically thin materials
Magnetic 2D materials or magnetic van der Waals materials are two-dimensional materials that display ordered magnetic properties such as ferromagnetism or antiferromagnetism.
Engineering › Electrical engineering
Series of programmable logic controllers
SIMATIC is a series of programmable logic controller and automation systems, developed by Siemens. Introduced in 1958, the series has gone through four major generations, the latest being the SIMATIC S7 generation. The series is intended for industrial automation and production.
Engineering › Robotics
Robotics problem of locating the source of a chemical plume using mobile sensors
Odor source localization (OSL) is the problem of locating the origin of an airborne or waterborne chemical plume using one or more mobile sensors, typically robots equipped with chemical sensors. The task sits at the intersection of robotics, fluid dynamics and machine olfaction.
Engineering › Materials science
Phenomenon in crystallization
Crystal twinning occurs when two or more adjacent crystals of the same mineral are oriented so that they share some of the same crystal lattice points in a symmetrical manner. The result is an intergrowth of two separate crystals that are tightly bonded to each other.
Engineering › Robotics
Collaboration of autonomous and human systems
Aerial manned-unmanned teaming is the collaborative operation of manned and unmanned aircraft systems, typically in military contexts.
Engineering › Control theory
System capable of producing itself
The term autopoiesis (from Greek αὐτo- (auto) 'self' and ποίησις (poiesis) 'creation, production'), one of several current theories of life, refers to a system capable of producing and maintaining itself by creating its own parts.
Engineering › Electrical engineering
The asymptotic gain model (also known as the Rosenstark method) is a representation of the gain of negative feedback amplifiers given by the asymptotic gain relation: G=G∞(TT+1)+G0(1T+1), where T is the return ratio with the input source disabled (equal to the negative of the loop gain in the case of a single-loop system composed of unilateral blocks), G∞ is the asymptotic gain and G0 is the direct transmission term.
Engineering › Control theory
Process of repeating items in a self-similar way
Recursion occurs when the definition of a concept or process depends on a simpler or previous version of itself. Recursion is used in a variety of disciplines ranging from linguistics to logic.
