Dramatic advancements and adoption of computing capabilities, communication
technologies, and advanced, pervasive sensing have impacted every aspect of modern …

Although uniaxial tensile testing is commonly used to evaluate failure properties of vascular
tissue, there is no established protocol for specimen shape or gripping method. Large …

Centrifugal compressors are widely used for gas lift, re-injection and transport in the oil and
gas industry. Critical compressors that compress flammable gases and operate at high …

This article addresses the application of minimax optimization in the control design of
complex dynamic systems of the semiconductor manufacturing. We highlight the main …

Recently, to ensure product quality in high-mix semiconductor manufacturing processes, run-
to-run (R2R) control algorithms have received increasing attention. Difficult challenges have …

Mixed-product production is common practice in semiconductor manufacturing and has
attracted considerable academic attention recently. The main purpose of the mixed-product …

Time delay is a common phenomenon in robotic systems due to computational requirements
and communication properties between or within high-level and low-level controllers as well …

This paper proposes a new Run-to-Run (R2R) control framework based on deep
deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) for the mixed-product production mode in …

Exponentially weighted moving average run-to-run (EWMA-RtR) controller is frequently
adopted in semiconductor manufacturing process. As a model-based control method, the …

Different from elastic waves in linear periodic structures, those in phononic crystals (PCs)
with nonlinear properties can exhibit more interesting phenomena. Linear dispersion …