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Remote Controlled Capsule (RCC) is a new method to realize non-invasive drug delivery to the selected sites of human gastro-intestinal (GI) tract. With RCC, Human Drug Absorption (HDA) studies are taken easily to obtain data on the intestinal absorption of a drug in humans. In this paper, a new RCC system has been designed based on MEMS technology to provide for the delivery of a wide range of different drug formulations, for example, solution, powder and granulate, into any region of the gut. A magnetic Marker Monitoring (MMM) system was developed to monitor the location of the capsule inside the gut. A novel method to indicating the drug release, called as Indicating System based on Abrupt Movement of Marker (ISAMM), was proposed in this study. High reliability of the RCC system has been proved by animal experiments.

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The sol-gel derived technique has been proposed not only to tailor the microstructure of resistive layer but to control the amount of metal during device fabrication for resistive random access memory (ReRAM). Using the sol-gel derived technique can modulate the solution ratio to adjust the resistance and operation voltage. In addition, various metal concentrations can be doped in sol-gel derived resistive layer to significantly improve switching properties including switching speed and power consumption. Above all, forming energy and morphology of metal filament can be ordered by the sol-gel derived technique, which is desirable for practical ReRAM applications.

The purpose of this research is to accomplish the ZPETC (Zero Phase Error Tracking Control) Path-Tracking gain-scheduling control design and real-time multi-task flight simulation for the automatic transition of tilt-rotor aircraft.Firstly, we select 20 flight equilibrium points during the automatic transition through the trim operation. For each equilibrium state, we can get a set of Jacobian matrix A, B of the linearized equation by using the numerical linearization method and perform the flight control system design. Due to the highly instability of the system for the period of the dynamic transition maneuver, if we want to stabilize the unstable aircraft and do the desired path tracking for the vertical take off flight, then it is necessary to use the optimal controller and the ZPETC method.In this research, we use the quadratic synthesis method to find an optimal control gain for each flight equilibrium point and then perform the desired VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) transition path tracking by using ZPETC method. Also we utilize real-time look-up control gain computation from the selected 20 flight equilibrium points to achieve the gain-scheduling control task.