No common position! European arms export control in crisis

New Challenges to Arms Export Control : Whither Wassenaar ?

Ron Smith is Professor of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London. He has been Visiting Professor at the London Business School and the University of Colorado and has published seven books and over a hundred papers in the areas of applied econometrics and defense economics. Bernard Udis is Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the University of Colorado at Boulder. During 1997, he was ...

Tip Position Control Of Flexible Arms Using A Control Law . . .

Experimental Identification and Hybrid PID-Fuzzy Position Control of Continuum Robotic Arms

Continuum robotic arms that are inspired from nature, have many advantages compared to traditional robots, which motivate researchers in this field. Dynamic modeling and controlling these robots are challenging subjects due to complicated nonlinearities and considerable uncertainties existing in these structures. In this paper, first a dynamic three-dimensional model of the continuum robotic ar...

Strategic choice during economic crisis: Domestic market position, organizational capabilities and export flexibility

This study examines how sudden shrinkage of domestic demand affects firm-level export performance. Using the Asian economic crisis as a natural experiment, we show that while the industrial organization (IO) economics and resource-based view (RBV) apply well in the pre-crisis period, the real options perspective does a better job in explaining firms’ efforts to increase exports in the post-cris...

Adaptive Control and Impedance Control for Dual Robotic Arms Manipulating a Common Heavy Load

Impedance control provides a convenient framework for designing control algorithms for robotic applications that involve interaction with the environment. Passive impedance control was utilized in the early days of robotic applications, when the peg-in-hole type of tasks were performed using remote center compliance. Active impedance control using digital measurements of contact forces for debu...