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Air-powered soft robots think, sense and move with no electronics

Robots that move, sense and even coordinate with one another usually bring to mind tangled wires, circuit boards and humming ...
EDN

Crowbar circuits: Revisiting the classic protector

Crowbar circuits have long been the go-to safeguard against overvoltage conditions, prized for their simplicity and ...
IEEE

Design and Analysis of Double Voltage Self-Powered Synchronous Switch Interface Circuit for High Impedance Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting

Abstract: Although the synchronized switch harvesting on inductor (SSHI) circuit can obtain eight times the energy of the standard energy harvesting (SEH) circuit at its optimal impedance, the energy ...
IEEE

A Novel Detection and Localization Approach of Open-Circuit Switch Fault for the Grid-Connected Modular Multilevel Converter

Abstract: The open-circuit fault detection and localization (FDL) technique can improve the reliability of the modular multilevel converter (MMC). However, the conventional software-based FDL methods ...
Science Daily

Physicists made atoms behave like a quantum circuit

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...