News tagged with closed loop control

Junior, the robotic car, learns to slide park (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Junior," an autonomous car developed by the Stanford Racing Team, has been taught how to park itself -- by putting itself into reverse, accelerating up to 25 miles per hour, and then suddenly ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 11, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report




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Study ups plant CO2 intake estimates

Plants may be able to limit the impact of our CO2 emissions even more than we previously thought, an innovative new experiment suggests.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 6

Students to demonstrate smart camera trap at new engineering competition

(Phys.org) -- Forget about building a better mouse trap. University of California, San Diego sophomore Riley Yeakle and his teammates have come up with a better camera trap, and they will be facing off with ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

New detector design improves gamma-ray measurements

(Phys.org) -- In the pursuit of precision measurements, nothing is simple, even when the apparatus employed appears to be utterly uncomplicated. An instructive case in point is the new ionization chamber used ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify structure of key control element behind protein misfolding that can lead to disease

The gold standard for nanotechnology is nature's own proteins. These biomolecular nanomachines – macromolecules forged from peptide chains of amino acids - are able to fold themselves into a dazzling ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Tiny, implantable medical device can propel itself through bloodstream

Someday, your doctor may turn to you and say, "Take two surgeons and call me in the morning." If that day arrives, you may just have Ada Poon to thank.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Small modular reactor design could be a 'SUPERSTAR'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Though most of today's nuclear reactors are cooled by water, we've long known that there are alternatives; in fact, the world's first nuclear-powered electricity in 1951 came from a reactor ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 41 | with audio podcast

Small things, big thinking

Finely tuned for touch and smell, the fly foot has sensors that can detect both chemical and mechanical changes in the environment.  The outcome of more than three billion years of evolution, these sensors are far smaller ...

Chemistry / Other

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Optical fiber innovation could make future optical computers a 'SNAP'

Optics and photonics may one day revolutionize computer technology with the promise of light-speed calculations. Storing light as memory, however, requires devices known as microresonators, an emerging technology ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (18) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

At a crossroads: New research predicts which cars are likeliest to run lights at intersections

In 2008, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2.3 million automobile crashes occurred at intersections across the United States, resulting in some 7,000 deaths. More than 700 of ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

NASA flies Robotic Lander prototype to new heights

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA successfully completed the final flight in a series of tests of a new robotic lander prototype at the Redstone Test Center’s propulsion test facility on the U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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