Recent developments in the area of service robotics show an increasing interest in personal robots. Those personal robots can help to handle daily work and to entertain people. Both tasks require a robot that is able ...
The purpose of this research is a quantitative analysis of movement patterns of dance, which cannot be analyzed with a motion capture system alone, using simultaneous measurement of body motion and biophysical informa...
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The purpose of this research is a quantitative analysis of movement patterns of dance, which cannot be analyzed with a motion capture system alone, using simultaneous measurement of body motion and biophysical information. In this research, two kinds of same leg movement are captured by simultaneous measurement; one is a leg movement with given strength, the other is a leg movement without strength on condition of basic experiment using optical motion capture and electromyography (EMG) equipment in order to quantitatively analyze characteristics of leg movement. Also, we measured the motion of the traditional Japanese dance using the constructed system. We can visualize leg movement of Japanese dance by displaying a 3D CG character animation with motion data and EMG data. In addition, we expect that our research will help dancers and researchers on dance through giving new information on dance movement which cannot be analyzed with only motion capture.
Many sources of vibroacoustic energy manifest themselves in open-pit mines of mineral raw materials. Noise and vibrations are the reasons of occupational diseases and injuries at work. Exploitation of open-pit mines o...
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Many sources of vibroacoustic energy manifest themselves in open-pit mines of mineral raw materials. Noise and vibrations are the reasons of occupational diseases and injuries at work. Exploitation of open-pit mines of minerals constitutes hazards not only at workstations but also for the natural environment. Kinds of noise sources depend on the technology applied in open cast mining. Noise levels often exceed the permissible values. Besides high noise levels, values of vibrations - general and local - which are the highest during processes of mining, loading and transporting are also significant. Among machines and devices used at raw material mining the highest noise is caused by crushers, dumping conveyers, bulldozers etc. Blasting works are the source of short-lived noises however, characterised by high levels of acoustic pressures. Identification of sources of vibroacoustic hazards occurring in one of the open-pit mine is presented in the paper. The obtained results of measurements of noise levels generated by sources of continuous and impulse noises are also given.
An approach and method to integrate virtual engineering and robot systems is introduced. The main idea is extended application of the principle of shape aspect that is well-proven in part modeling. Shape intensive rob...
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An approach and method to integrate virtual engineering and robot systems is introduced. The main idea is extended application of the principle of shape aspect that is well-proven in part modeling. Shape intensive robot system is engineered by using of shape modeling. Shapes are connected by special aspects in a shape aspect oriented model system. The main purpose of the proposed approach and method is better communication between product modeling and robot related engineering. Associativity definitions integrate part level functions into product level functions while behaviors and adaptivities are also handled as aspects. Paper starts with introduction and comparison of classical industrial product modeling and the proposed integrated product and robot system modeling. Following this, extended application of shape aspects and definition of connective aspects are detailed. Finally, implementation in open architecture industrial modeling systems is explained and future work is outlined.
In this paper, we present a motion planning scheme for navigation of a contour-like formation of autonomous underwater vehicles on gradient fields and subsequent convergence to desired isoclines, inspired by evolution...
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In this paper, we present a motion planning scheme for navigation of a contour-like formation of autonomous underwater vehicles on gradient fields and subsequent convergence to desired isoclines, inspired by evolution of closed planar curves. The basic evolution behaviour is modified to include moving boundary points and incorporate safety constraints on formation parameters. Also, the whole process is decomposed into a sequence of well-behaving states. As opposed to the basic model, the regularized solution is characterized by the maximum allowable curvature rather than balance of forces determined by fixed coefficients. Nevertheless, the proposed framework subsumes the original model. Blocking states and fairness are briefly discussed.
The purpose of this research is to make a quantitative analysis of leg movement patterns of expert dancer, which cannot be analyzed with a motion capture system alone, using simultaneous measurement of body motion and...
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The purpose of this research is to make a quantitative analysis of leg movement patterns of expert dancer, which cannot be analyzed with a motion capture system alone, using simultaneous measurement of body motion and biophysical information (EMG: electromyogram). We carried out experiments on traditional Japanese dance, Nihonbuyo. We can analyze leg movements of expert Japanese traditional dancer by calculating a center of gravity in human body and co-contraction of muscles in knee and ankle using biomechanics method. In addition, it is expected that our research will help dancers and researchers on dance through giving new information on dance movements which cannot be analyzed with motion capture alone.
The paper includes the results of estimation of accessible resources of geothermal heat in Poland and comparison of estimations of energy made after 1985 according to the methodology used in Poland, prepared by J. Sok...
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The paper includes the results of estimation of accessible resources of geothermal heat in Poland and comparison of estimations of energy made after 1985 according to the methodology used in Poland, prepared by J. SokoLowska and J. SokoLowski, and ways of calculations approved in EU. All the data presented have been verified by the latest results issued by German government. After the analysis of resources and geoenergetic potential of Poland, which is based on many years' research and comparison with other countries in Europe, we can state that Poland has the biggest geothermal resources. A real technical energetic potential of geothermal waters to a depth of 3,000 m, which can be used in practice, is almost 200 times bigger than energy demand in Poland. According to the result of investigations and analysis it can be said that Poland can certainly be in a short time energy independent due to geothermal resources.
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Tak Wing Edward LauYu-Chi HoDivision of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University Cambridge MA02138 U.S.A. Yu-Chi (Larry) Ho received his S.B. and S.M. degrees in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. Except for three years of full time industrial work he has been on the Harvard Faculty. Since 1969 he has been Gordon McKay Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics. In 1988
he was appointed to the T. Jefferson Coolidge Chair in Applied Mathematics and Gordon McKay Yu-Chi (Larry) Ho received his S.B. and S.M. degrees in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. Except for three years of full time industrial work he has been on the Harvard Faculty. Since 1969 he has been Gordon McKay Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics. In 1988 he was appointed to the T. Jefferson Coolidge Chair in Applied Mathematics and Gordon McKay Professor of Engineering at Harvard and as visiting professor to the Cockrell Family Regent's Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas Austin. He has published over 120 articles and three books one of which (co-authored with A.E. Bryson Jr.) has been translated into both Russian and Chinese and made the list of Citation Classics as one of the most referenced works on the subject of optimal control. He is on the editorial boards of several international journals and is the editor-in-chief of the new international Journal on Discrete Event Dynamic Systems. He is the recipient of various fellowships and awards including the Guggenheim (1970) and the IEEE Field Award for Control Engineering and Science (1989) the Chiang Technology Achievement Award (1993). He is a fellow of IEEE a Distinguished Member of the Control Systems Society and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. In addition to serving on various governmental and industrial panels and professional society administrative bodies he was the President of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society in 1988
Combinatorial problems are known to be difficult because of the shear size of the solution space and the lack of polynomial time algorithms to “solve” them. Heuristics are often devised to produce acceptable solutio...
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Combinatorial problems are known to be difficult because of the shear size of the solution space and the lack of polynomial time algorithms to “solve” them. Heuristics are often devised to produce acceptable solutions in an affordable time. In this paper, we propose a method called super-heuristic that expands the capabilities of heuristics using randomization and sampling techniques. We submit that heuristics are in general strategies that map from available information of a problem instance to decisions in solution constructions/improvement. We show that it is important to utilize the information effectively in the randomization process. More importantly, the possibility of randomization around a heuristic spells out the demarcation between the roles of human and machines in complex optimization problems.
The effects of low frequency vibration exposure on the humans were investigated in the Institute of Human Biophysiology of the Academy of Physical Education in Kraków. The research program involved nineteen 1200 ...
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The effects of low frequency vibration exposure on the humans were investigated in the Institute of Human Biophysiology of the Academy of Physical Education in Kraków. The research program involved nineteen 1200 s vibrations exposure sessions in the subsequent working days, ut the same time of day for each participant. During each session, selected physiological parameters were registered before and after the exposure, the heart beat rate HR and saturation levels SpO2 were monitored on the constant basis. The research program was supported by the biochemical and densitometric analysis before und after the experiments.
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