Static electricity is one of those everyday phenomena that turns out to be much more complicated than you might expect.

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DENVER — Static electricity is a touchy subject. Touch or rub two materials together, and they can exchange electric charge. But the details behind the phenomenon of static electricity are poorly ...

Abstract: This paper studies the direct geometrico-static problem of underconstrained cable-driven parallel robots supported by n cables, with n ≤ 6. The task consists in identifying the equilibrium ...

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Abstract: We propose a parameter optimization method for achieving static equilibrium of discrete elastic rods. Our method simultaneously optimizes material stiffness and rest shape parameters under ...