Publications by authors named "Danny Wee-Kiat Ng"
Ageing oil palm crops show a significant correlation with the declining oil palm yield in Malaysia. Not only do aged crops result in lower production, but they are also more costly and difficult to harvest. The Malaysian oil palm yield recovered to the pre-El Niño level after the 1997/98 El Niño event.
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- High compliance and muscle-like soft robotic grippers can overcome limitations of traditional rigid grippers, but they often lack control feedback, leading to issues like slipping.
- This study introduces a pneumatically driven, self-powered soft robotic gripper that can identify objects it grasps by integrating pressure and bend triboelectric sensors made from a porous Ecoflex and EGaIn material.
- The new gripper achieved a 63% increase in output voltage compared to non-porous setups and successfully recognized three shapes (cylinder, cuboid, pyramid prism) with 91.67% accuracy, highlighting its potential applications in assembly lines, sorting, VR/AR, and education.
Ultra-slow cortical oscillatory activity of 1-100 mHz has been recorded in human by electroencephalography and in dissociated cultures of cortical rat neurons, but the underlying mechanisms remain to be elucidated. This study presents a computational model of ultra-slow oscillatory activity based on the interaction between neurons and astrocytes. We predict that the frequency of these oscillations closely depends on activation of astrocytes in the network, which is reflected by oscillations of their intracellular calcium concentrations with periods between tens of seconds and minutes.
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