What if you could draw energy from the night sky without effort? That's the question that researchers at the University of ...

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Engineers have built a modern Stirling engine that quietly turns the cold of outer space into steady mechanical power, using ...

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Abstract: Due to the unique propeller of turboprop engines and the conservative control strategies implemented for safety, traditional turboprop engines are unable to meet current control requirements ...

Abstract: This paper mainly focuses on the output regulation bumpless transfer control problem of discrete-time switched systems. To begin with, a bumpless transfer performance constraint regarding ...