Asteroid Bennu's rugged surface baffled NASA—now, we finally know why

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged ...
IEEE

Wheel Force-Based Road Surface Classification for Intelligent Tire Testing

Abstract: This paper proposes a sensor-efficient method for road surface classification using longitudinal and vertical wheel force signals ($F_{x}, F_{z}$) from an ...
SciELO

DESIGN AND TESTING OF A CASSAVA HARVESTER DIGGING SHOVEL BASED ON THE DISCRETE ELEMENT AND RESPONSE SURFACE METHODS

In light of the problems of large operation resistance and small soil fragmentation during the harvesting operations of existing cassava harvesters, a long- and short-toothed digging shovel was ...
IEEE

A Vertex Function--Based Radial--Angular Quadrature for the Numerical Evaluation of Surface Test Integrals in the Method of Moments

Abstract: A novel integration scheme is proposed for the accurate numerical evaluation of test (reaction) integrals needed for solving complex direct or inverse electromagnetic problems using surface ...