Planning Titan entry? New lab tests flag nitrogen-driven heat shield debris risks

Heat shields are designed to protect the surface and cargo of a spacecraft as it enters an atmosphere. Aerospace engineers in The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois ...
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Implementing the Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm to enhance the positioning of sensors in an indoor CO2 monitoring system using wireless sensor networks

Abstract: This work focuses on advancing the usage of a specific optimization algorithm called Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for optimizing the placement of sensor nodes for the WSN system to ...
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Design of a 100 Gb/s Ethernet Interface for a Silicon Photonics-based Data Acquisition System for Particle Physics Experiments

Abstract: Particle physics experiments, like nEXO and ARGO, require a large-scale data acquisition system capable of supporting high data rates. One can expect a total data rate of approximately 400 ...