In the last years, scientists and engineers have designed a wide range of polymeric systems capable responding to internal or external stimuli. There is a great range of responsive polymers that are sensitive to different ...

Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) is an additive manufacturing process by means of which three-dimensional objects can be manufactured using a laser beam to selectively sinter powder particles. Many are the advantages of ...

The ultimate behaviour of aluminium members is strongly affected by the interactive local buckling in the elastic-plastic range occurring in the element plates constituting the cross-sections and by the strain-hardening ...

Kinematically redundant robots possess more degrees of freedom than those strictly required to execute a given task. Such a charac- teristic gives the system a higher degree of dexterity and mobility that can be exploited ...

In the field of logistics, the study of systems that follow the recommended requirements of the ``Industry 4.0'' is now of paramount importance. Since traditional hierarchical and centralized control architectures have ...

The development and spread of human-centered products that are increasingly simple and affordable has seen their application areas increase over the years, as well as their effectiveness and reliability. Real-time monitoring ...

The will to face the issue of small towns in inland areas comes from the awareness of the importance of these realities for the sustainable development of territories. There is a growing need to establish valorization ...

In decentralized systems, the control loop between robots, sensors, actuators and processing units does not close on the same physical device, but through a communication network on which the explicit or implicit exchange ...

Computational science is an ever-expanding research eld. It combines tech- nologies, modern computational methods, and simulations to address prob- lems too complex to be e ectively predicted by theory alone or too ...

Context-Aware Computing describes the development of technologies and applications that can detect data from the surrounding environment and react accordingly with specific actions, reducing and simplifying the human-machine ...