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Atmospheric water harvesting technology, which extracts moisture from ambient air to generate water, is a promising strategy to realize decentralized water production. However, the prohibitively high energy consumption of heat-induced…
The heavy-tailed behavior of the generalized extreme-value distribution makes it a popular choice for modeling extreme events such as floods, droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, etc. However, estimating the distribution's parameters using…
Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters (PEHs) are typically employed to provide additional source of energy for a sensing system. However, studies show that a PEH can be also used as a sensor to acquire information about the source of vibration by…
Adaptive structures are equipped with sensors and actuators to actively counteract external loads such as wind. This can significantly reduce resource consumption and emissions during the life cycle compared to conventional structures. A…
We investigate the influence of parametric excitation on MEMS vibration energy harvesters for energy autonomous sensor systems. In Industry 4.0 (or Industrial IoT) applications, interconnected sensors provide a means of data acquisition for…
We propose a new method for estimating the extreme quantiles for a function of several dependent random variables. In contrast to the conventional approach based on extreme value theory, we do not impose the condition that the tail of the…
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Energy-based models (EBMs) are powerful probabilistic models, but suffer from intractable sampling and density evaluation due to the partition function. As a result, inference in EBMs relies on approximate sampling algorithms, leading to a…
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The concept of capacity value is widely used to quantify the contribution of additional generation (most notably renewables) within generation adequacy assessments. This paper surveys the existing probability theory of assessment of the…
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This research describes a piezoelectric Poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-trifluoroethylene)/ Polyethylene Terephthalate energy harvester for structural health monitoring of wind turbines. The piezoelectric energy harvester was made of a…
Despite vibrational properties being critical for the ab initio prediction of the finite temperature stability and transport properties of solids, their inclusion in ab initio materials repositories has been hindered by expensive…
Causal effect estimation seeks to determine the impact of an intervention from observational data. However, the existing causal inference literature primarily addresses treatment effects on frequently occurring events. But what if we are…
This paper reports a method to design highly coupled piezoelectric energy harvesters with frequency tuning capabilities using nonlinear electrical techniques. A cantilever beam with two PMN-PT patches has been optimized thanks to both…
Historically, battery is the power source for mobile, embedded and remote system applications. However, the development of battery techniques does not follow the Moore's Law. The large physical size, limited electric quantity and high-cost…
Results are presented for highly accurate ab initio variational calculation of the rotation - vibration energy levels of H2O2 in its electronic ground state. These results use a recently computed potential energy surface and the variational…