• Passive dynamics refers to the dynamical behavior of actuators, robots, or organisms when not drawing energy from a supply (e.g., batteries, fuel, ATP)...
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    example is the TU Delft Flame. Perhaps the most promising approach uses passive dynamics where the momentum of swinging limbs is used for greater efficiency...
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    Passive ventilation is the process of supplying air to and removing air from an indoor space without using mechanical systems. It refers to the flow of...
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  • similar argument can be made for boats, planes and most other vehicles. Passive dynamics Tedrake, Russ (2008). Underactuated Robotics: Learning, Planning, and...
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    In physics, physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids – liquids and gases...
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    A passive margin is the transition between oceanic and continental lithosphere that is not an active plate margin. A passive margin forms by sedimentation...
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    Passive house (German: Passivhaus) is a voluntary standard for energy efficiency in a building that reduces the building's carbon footprint. Conforming...
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    computational fluid dynamics (CFD) design methodology, and test active suction systems. These tests involved the installation of either passive or active suction...
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    Cross ventilation (category Passive cooling)
    opposite sides of the room allow passive breezes a pathway through the structure, which circulate the air and provide passive cooling. There is also a pressure...
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    Passive smoking is the inhalation of tobacco smoke, called passive smoke, secondhand smoke (SHS) or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), by individuals other...
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    indicate one's usual preference. Terms top and bottom refer to active and passive roles, not to who is physically on top in a particular sexual act. A switch...
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    increased rocket motor capability to 6.25–inch diameter, an improved passive radio frequency seeker and upgraded components of the infrared seeker,...
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  • Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) is one of India's manufacturers of ammunitions and missile systems. It was founded in 1970 in Hyderabad, India. BDL has been...
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    Passive cooling is a building design approach that focuses on heat gain control and heat dissipation in a building in order to improve the indoor thermal...
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    two massless legs during double-support, which is consistent with passive dynamics of the inverted pendulum, otherwise known as the inverted pendulum...
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  • Group dynamics is a system of behaviors and psychological processes occurring within a social group (intragroup dynamics), or between social groups (intergroup...
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    semi-active system if all other factors are equal. Many missiles employing passive homing have an additional capability: if the target does attempt to use...
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    offers for a new anti-radiation missile in late 1982; British Aerospace Dynamics offered ALARM while Texas Instruments teamed with Lucas Aerospace offered...
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  • providing multiple-target active/passive homing combined with wire guidance. It is designed and manufactured by Saab Dynamics as a replacement for the Torped...
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  • components are at or close to the scale of a nanometer (10−9 meters). Passive dynamics – refers to the dynamical behavior of actuators, robots, or organisms...
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  • many areas of robotics, such as humanoids (like Honda's Asimo). See Passive dynamics See Zero Moment Point See Leg mechanism See Hexapod (robotics) Walking...
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    formulate a concise definition of thermodynamics in 1854 which stated, "Thermo-dynamics is the subject of the relation of heat to forces acting between contiguous...
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    using a mechanical 'air conditioner' or through other methods, such as passive cooling and ventilative cooling. Air conditioning is a member of a family...
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  • is needed. The second passive system orients the satellite along Earth's magnetic field thanks to a magnet. These purely passive attitude control systems...
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  • robot Panda-Z Parallel manipulator Parity benchmark Particle filter Passive dynamics Patient registration Patrick Brantseg Paul Verhoeven Pepper (robot)...
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    Flow control (fluid) (category Fluid dynamics)
    This change may be accomplished by passive or active devices. Passive devices by definition require no energy. Passive techniques include turbulators or...
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    01122.2004. PMID 15615827. Moritz, Chet T.; Farley, Claire T. (2004). "Passive dynamics change leg mechanics for an unexpected surface during human hopping"...
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    Ice sheet (redirect from Ice flow dynamics)
    change around 10 million years ago, during the middle Miocene, when the two passive continental margins which now form the uplands of West and East Greenland...
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    Cognitive modeling Complex dynamics Dynamic approach to second language development Dynamics (mechanics) Feedback passivation Infinite compositions of analytic...
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    Some people consider quasi-passive exoskeletons to be a sub-category of passive exoskeletons, while others view quasi-passive exoskeletons as their own...
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