SP-0407: Update on FALCON

Falcon City: An Integration of Novint Falcon in Virtual Reality

Haptic Devices enable various tactile feedback and allow users to interact with a virtual environment in a more immersive way. The current Virtual Reality (VR) interface in the market is largely comprised of devices designed for visual and auditory feedback, with Head Mounted Display (HMD) devices such as Oculus Rift leading the industry by providing significant visual immersion. However, there...

A "mutual update" training algorithm for fuzzy adaptive logic control/decision network (FALCON)

The conventional two-stage training algorithm of the fuzzy/neural architecture called FALCON may not provide accurate results for certain type of problems, due to the implicit assumption of independence that this training makes about parameters of the underlying fuzzy inference system. In this correspondence, a training scheme is proposed for this fuzzy/neural architecture, which is based on li...

Falcon Temperature Regulation

--We measured tarsal and body temperatures of four species of large falcons in relation to rising ambient temperature and found that the tarsus has an apparent hermoregulatory function. Statistical efforts to separate the birds into ecological or plumage types yielded mixed results. An index of tarsal surface area per unit body weight was correlated with the temperature regimens of the birds, w...

Reply to Falcon.

The hematologists' Maltese Falcon.

The Knights Templar of Malta paid tribute to Charles V of Spain by sending him a golden falcon encrusted with jewels. Pirates stole this priceless token and the fate of the Maltese Falcon remains a mystery, still invoked by films and novels. Our story begins more than 150 years ago when John Hughes Bennett in Edinburgh and Rudolf Virchow in Berlin described, at autopsies, enlarged spleens in me...