The Food Simulator is a haptic interface that presents biting force. A taste of food arises from mixture of chemical, auditory, olfactory and haptic sensation. Haptic sensation while eating is a remained problem in taste display. The Food Simulator generates force to the user’s teeth to display food texture. The device is composed of four linkages. The mechanical configuration of the device is ...

We present a characterization of molybdenum sources, ΓMo , core Mo density, nMo, and their dependencies on Alcator C-Mod operational regimes. This includes sources from the divertor, the inner wall and the ICRF antenna limiters. We also present information characterizing the penetration of these impurities into the core plasma under different conditions based on penetration factors, PF=nMo/ΓMo ...

We describe a calibration technique for a hand-immersive virtual-reality environment – the Reachin Display [1]. The technique we present allows us to calibrate both the haptics device and the stereo display environment simultaneously where calibration of the stereo display utilises the haptics device and vice versa. The calibration procedure is described and we present a modular architecture fo...

GyM is a linear plasma device operating at Istituto per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Plasmi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Milan, with the original aim of studying basic physics, such as turbulent processes. Since 2014, experimental program has been mainly focused on issue plasma-material interaction (PMI) for magnetic confinement nuclear fusion applications. consists stainless steel vacuu...

A motion adaptive de-interlacing algorithm and its hardware architecture are presented in this paper. It consists of the directional interpolation ELA with median processing, and 4-field horizontal motion detection. The edges can be sharper while the ELA with median processing is adopted. Enhanced ELA with median processing can prevent the happening of the bursting pixels. Proposed 4-field hori...