A Statically Unstable Passive Hopper: Design Evolution

Statically Defined Dynamic Architecture Evolution

There are a variety of contexts where dynamic architecture evolution is needed. The context we have been working in is that of providing architecture models of NASA training simulations for manned space exploration. In this context, as in many others, we do not need unrestricted dynamic evolution, but only a limited form of dynamic evolution where the transitions and boundaries of that evolutio...

Statically Checked Documentation with Design Patterns

Passive Joint Braking: A Solution to Unstable Singularity

Parallel mechanisms frequently contain an unstable type of singularity that has no counterpart in serial mechanisms. When the mechanism is at or near this type of singularity, it loses the ability to counteract external forces in certain directions. This paper considers the application of additional kinematic constraint through passive joint braking in the close neighborhood of unstable poses. ...

DESIGN AND DEPLOYMENT OF A PASSIVE MONITORING INFRASTRUCTURE / TALK 02 Design and Deployment of a Passive

Hopper Lectures-Jkerr

The struggle for gender equality ranks as one of our century's defining movements. This struggle has won women in Canada and around the developed world the right to vote, to own property, to earn an education, and to work outside the home for wages. It has also won them the right to physical safety within their own homes. Where men once had the legal right to beat their wives with a stick no th...