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Building on advances in miniaturization and soft matter, surface tension effects are a major key to the development of soft/fluidic microrobotics. Benefiting from scaling laws, surface tension and capillary effects can enable sensing, actuation, adhesion, confinement, compliance, and other structural and functional properties necessary in micro- and nanosystems. Various applications are under development: microfluidic and lab-on-chip devices, soft gripping and manipulation of particles, colloidal and interfacial assemblies, fluidic/droplet mechatronics. The capillary action is ubiquitous in drops, bubbles and menisci, opening a broad spectrum of technological solutions and scientific investigations. Identified grand challenges to the establishment of fluidic microrobotics include mastering the dynamics of capillary effects, controlling the hysteresis arising from wetting and evaporation, improving the dispensing and handling of tiny droplets, and developing a mechatronic approach for the control and programming of surface tension effects. In this Special Issue of Micromachines, we invite contributions covering all aspects of microscale engineering relying on surface tension. Particularly, we welcome contributions on fundamentals or applications related to:Drop-botics: fluidic or surface tension-based micro/nanorobotics: capillary manipulation, gripping, and actuation, sensing, folding, propulsion and bio-inspired solutions; Control of surface tension effects: surface tension gradients, active surfactants, thermocapillarity, electrowetting, elastocapillarity; Handling of droplets, bubbles and liquid bridges: dispensing, confinement, displacement, stretching, rupture, evaporation; Capillary forces: modelling, measurement, simulation; Interfacial engineering: smart liquids, surface treatments; Interfacial fluidic and capillary assembly of colloids and devices; Biological applications of surface tension, including lab-on-chip and organ-on-chip systems. We expect novel as well as review contributions on all aspects of surface tension-based micro/nanoengineering. In line with Micromachines' policy, we also invite research proposals that introduce ideas for new applications, devices, or technologies.
electrodynamic screen --- soft tissue --- microstructure --- mist capillary self-alignment --- droplet --- lab-on-a-chip --- mixing --- nanoprecipitation --- asymmetric surfaces --- gecko setae --- oil-water interface --- non-invasive control --- self-cleaning surface --- corrosive resistance --- micropipette-technique --- hydrophobic --- wettability gradient --- lung-surfactants --- hydrophilic --- dynamic --- vibrations --- superhydrophobic --- microasssembly --- adsorption --- wetting --- photochemical reaction --- contact line oscillation --- 355 nm UV laser --- capillary --- computational fluid dynamics --- bearing --- solutal Marangoni effect --- relaxation oscillations --- superhydrophilic --- microtexture melting --- rigid gas permeable contact lenses --- hydrophilic/superhydrophobic patterned surfaces --- polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) replication --- microfabrication --- actuation --- droplet transport --- “droplet-interface-bilayers” --- microfluidics --- electrosurgical scalpels --- continuous-flow reactor --- air-water surface --- micromanufacturing --- surface treatment --- liquid bridge --- stereolithography --- super-hydrophobic --- two-phase flow --- hot drop --- durable --- insoluble lipids --- anti-sticking --- smart superhydrophobic surface --- droplet manipulation --- “black lipid films” --- condensation --- pick-and-place --- wettability --- gas-microbubbles --- soft robotics --- capillary pressure --- superomniphobic --- self-lubricating slippery surface --- electrowetting --- soluble surfactant --- anisotropic ratchet conveyor --- Nasturtium leaf --- droplets --- photoresponsible surfactant --- two-photon polymerization --- contact angle --- adhesion --- transport --- pick and place --- surface tension --- oil-microdroplets --- micromanipulation --- laser die transfer --- capillary gripper --- equilibrium
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Recent trends in vehicle engineering are testament to the great efforts that scientists and industries have made to seek solutions to enhance both the performance and safety of vehicular systems. This Special Issue aims to contribute to the study of modern vehicle dynamics, attracting recent experimental and in-simulation advances that are the basis for current technological growth and future mobility. The area involves research, studies, and projects derived from vehicle dynamics that aim to enhance vehicle performance in terms of handling, comfort, and adherence, and to examine safety optimization in the emerging contexts of smart, connected, and autonomous driving.This Special Issue focuses on new findings in the following topics:(1) Experimental and modelling activities that aim to investigate interaction phenomena from the macroscale, analyzing vehicle data, to the microscale, accounting for local contact mechanics; (2) Control strategies focused on vehicle performance enhancement, in terms of handling/grip, comfort and safety for passengers, motorsports, and future mobility scenarios; (3) Innovative technologies to improve the safety and performance of the vehicle and its subsystems; (4) Identification of vehicle and tire/wheel model parameters and status with innovative methodologies and algorithms; (5) Implementation of real-time software, logics, and models in onboard architectures and driving simulators; (6) Studies and analyses oriented toward the correlation among the factors affecting vehicle performance and safety; (7) Application use cases in road and off-road vehicles, e-bikes, motorcycles, buses, trucks, etc.
Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- tire model parameters identification --- artificial neural networks --- curve fitting --- Pacejka’s magic formula --- intelligent vehicles --- autonomous vehicles --- microscopic traffic simulation --- autonomous driving --- friction estimate --- tire-based control --- ADAS --- potential friction --- energy consumption and recovery --- transmission layouts --- fuel-cell electric vehicles --- adhesion enhancement --- dimple model --- patterned surfaces --- viscoelasticity --- enhancement --- articulated vehicles --- stability analysis --- nonlinear dynamic model --- snake instability --- eigenvalue analysis --- central control --- non-linear model-based predictive control --- pitch behavior --- predictive control --- roll behavior --- self-steering behavior --- vehicle dynamics --- viscoelastic modulus --- rubber --- friction --- empirical modeling --- autonomous emergency steering --- multi-input multi-output model predictive control --- actuator dynamics --- control allocation --- handling enhancement --- road friction --- wear --- tyre --- suspension --- semi-active --- handling --- comfort --- optimisation --- directional stability --- road profile --- road unevenness --- vehicle-road interaction --- vertical vehicle excitation --- tire models --- tire tread --- motorcycle --- rider --- screw axis --- weave --- wobble --- multibody --- gravel pavement --- roughness --- straightedge --- power spectral density --- international roughness index --- vehicle response --- driving comfort --- sky-hook --- in-wheel motor --- semi-active suspension --- quarter-car model --- suspension performance --- suspension test bench --- vehicle stability --- road models --- quarter car models --- limit cycles --- acceleration speed portraits --- speed oscillations --- velocity bifurcations --- noisy limit cycles --- limit flows of trajectories --- Sommerfeld effects --- differential-algebraic systems --- polar coordinates of roads --- covariance equations --- stability in mean --- supercritical speeds --- analytical travel speed amplitudes --- Floquet theory applied to limit cycles --- non-pneumatic tire --- finite element analysis --- steady state analysis --- tire characterization --- footprint --- contact patch --- longitudinal interaction --- n/a --- Pacejka's magic formula
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Recent trends in vehicle engineering are testament to the great efforts that scientists and industries have made to seek solutions to enhance both the performance and safety of vehicular systems. This Special Issue aims to contribute to the study of modern vehicle dynamics, attracting recent experimental and in-simulation advances that are the basis for current technological growth and future mobility. The area involves research, studies, and projects derived from vehicle dynamics that aim to enhance vehicle performance in terms of handling, comfort, and adherence, and to examine safety optimization in the emerging contexts of smart, connected, and autonomous driving.This Special Issue focuses on new findings in the following topics:(1) Experimental and modelling activities that aim to investigate interaction phenomena from the macroscale, analyzing vehicle data, to the microscale, accounting for local contact mechanics; (2) Control strategies focused on vehicle performance enhancement, in terms of handling/grip, comfort and safety for passengers, motorsports, and future mobility scenarios; (3) Innovative technologies to improve the safety and performance of the vehicle and its subsystems; (4) Identification of vehicle and tire/wheel model parameters and status with innovative methodologies and algorithms; (5) Implementation of real-time software, logics, and models in onboard architectures and driving simulators; (6) Studies and analyses oriented toward the correlation among the factors affecting vehicle performance and safety; (7) Application use cases in road and off-road vehicles, e-bikes, motorcycles, buses, trucks, etc.
tire model parameters identification --- artificial neural networks --- curve fitting --- Pacejka’s magic formula --- intelligent vehicles --- autonomous vehicles --- microscopic traffic simulation --- autonomous driving --- friction estimate --- tire-based control --- ADAS --- potential friction --- energy consumption and recovery --- transmission layouts --- fuel-cell electric vehicles --- adhesion enhancement --- dimple model --- patterned surfaces --- viscoelasticity --- enhancement --- articulated vehicles --- stability analysis --- nonlinear dynamic model --- snake instability --- eigenvalue analysis --- central control --- non-linear model-based predictive control --- pitch behavior --- predictive control --- roll behavior --- self-steering behavior --- vehicle dynamics --- viscoelastic modulus --- rubber --- friction --- empirical modeling --- autonomous emergency steering --- multi-input multi-output model predictive control --- actuator dynamics --- control allocation --- handling enhancement --- road friction --- wear --- tyre --- suspension --- semi-active --- handling --- comfort --- optimisation --- directional stability --- road profile --- road unevenness --- vehicle-road interaction --- vertical vehicle excitation --- tire models --- tire tread --- motorcycle --- rider --- screw axis --- weave --- wobble --- multibody --- gravel pavement --- roughness --- straightedge --- power spectral density --- international roughness index --- vehicle response --- driving comfort --- sky-hook --- in-wheel motor --- semi-active suspension --- quarter-car model --- suspension performance --- suspension test bench --- vehicle stability --- road models --- quarter car models --- limit cycles --- acceleration speed portraits --- speed oscillations --- velocity bifurcations --- noisy limit cycles --- limit flows of trajectories --- Sommerfeld effects --- differential-algebraic systems --- polar coordinates of roads --- covariance equations --- stability in mean --- supercritical speeds --- analytical travel speed amplitudes --- Floquet theory applied to limit cycles --- non-pneumatic tire --- finite element analysis --- steady state analysis --- tire characterization --- footprint --- contact patch --- longitudinal interaction --- n/a --- Pacejka's magic formula
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Recent trends in vehicle engineering are testament to the great efforts that scientists and industries have made to seek solutions to enhance both the performance and safety of vehicular systems. This Special Issue aims to contribute to the study of modern vehicle dynamics, attracting recent experimental and in-simulation advances that are the basis for current technological growth and future mobility. The area involves research, studies, and projects derived from vehicle dynamics that aim to enhance vehicle performance in terms of handling, comfort, and adherence, and to examine safety optimization in the emerging contexts of smart, connected, and autonomous driving.This Special Issue focuses on new findings in the following topics:(1) Experimental and modelling activities that aim to investigate interaction phenomena from the macroscale, analyzing vehicle data, to the microscale, accounting for local contact mechanics; (2) Control strategies focused on vehicle performance enhancement, in terms of handling/grip, comfort and safety for passengers, motorsports, and future mobility scenarios; (3) Innovative technologies to improve the safety and performance of the vehicle and its subsystems; (4) Identification of vehicle and tire/wheel model parameters and status with innovative methodologies and algorithms; (5) Implementation of real-time software, logics, and models in onboard architectures and driving simulators; (6) Studies and analyses oriented toward the correlation among the factors affecting vehicle performance and safety; (7) Application use cases in road and off-road vehicles, e-bikes, motorcycles, buses, trucks, etc.
Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- tire model parameters identification --- artificial neural networks --- curve fitting --- Pacejka's magic formula --- intelligent vehicles --- autonomous vehicles --- microscopic traffic simulation --- autonomous driving --- friction estimate --- tire-based control --- ADAS --- potential friction --- energy consumption and recovery --- transmission layouts --- fuel-cell electric vehicles --- adhesion enhancement --- dimple model --- patterned surfaces --- viscoelasticity --- enhancement --- articulated vehicles --- stability analysis --- nonlinear dynamic model --- snake instability --- eigenvalue analysis --- central control --- non-linear model-based predictive control --- pitch behavior --- predictive control --- roll behavior --- self-steering behavior --- vehicle dynamics --- viscoelastic modulus --- rubber --- friction --- empirical modeling --- autonomous emergency steering --- multi-input multi-output model predictive control --- actuator dynamics --- control allocation --- handling enhancement --- road friction --- wear --- tyre --- suspension --- semi-active --- handling --- comfort --- optimisation --- directional stability --- road profile --- road unevenness --- vehicle-road interaction --- vertical vehicle excitation --- tire models --- tire tread --- motorcycle --- rider --- screw axis --- weave --- wobble --- multibody --- gravel pavement --- roughness --- straightedge --- power spectral density --- international roughness index --- vehicle response --- driving comfort --- sky-hook --- in-wheel motor --- semi-active suspension --- quarter-car model --- suspension performance --- suspension test bench --- vehicle stability --- road models --- quarter car models --- limit cycles --- acceleration speed portraits --- speed oscillations --- velocity bifurcations --- noisy limit cycles --- limit flows of trajectories --- Sommerfeld effects --- differential-algebraic systems --- polar coordinates of roads --- covariance equations --- stability in mean --- supercritical speeds --- analytical travel speed amplitudes --- Floquet theory applied to limit cycles --- non-pneumatic tire --- finite element analysis --- steady state analysis --- tire characterization --- footprint --- contact patch --- longitudinal interaction
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