In common engineering practice, foundation–soil–foundation interaction of shallow foundations is frequently ignored. This presumably for cost/benefit reasons, since computationally demanding finite-element and/or boundary element models are required that purpose, and its effects usually assumed to be negligible. this sense, the present paper provides a simple inexpensive way incorporating throu...

This paper presents a simple yet comprehensive approach that enables the stiffness of a tripod-based parallel kinematic machine to be quickly estimated. The approach can be implemented by two steps. In the first step, the machine structure is decomposed into two substructures associated with the machine frame and the parallel mechanism. The stiffness model of each substructure is formulated by ...

Many applications, in areas such as land use, traffic management and location aware services, involve the storage, analysis and sharing of spatio-temporal data. The need to represent such data in a way that eases sharing across applications, has led to the development of the Geography Markup Language (GML), which provides a rich collection of constructs for representing spatial and associated a...

Hand held long exposures often result in blurred photographs due to camera shake. Long exposures are desirable both for artistic effect and in low-light situations. We propose a novel method for digitally reducing imaging artifacts, which does not require additional hardware such as tripods or optical image stabilization lenses. A series of photographs is acquired with short shutter times, stab...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the kinematic characteristics and differences of the snatch barbell trajectory of 53 kg class female weight lifters. We take the 2014 Taiwan College Cup players as examples, and tend to make kinematic applications through the proven weightlifting barbell track system. The competition videos are taken by consumer camcorder with a tripod which set up at...

The possibility of automatically annotating information objects such as images with metadata related to their geography is increasingly relevant, as larger volumes of such information are captured with explicit georeferences (e.g. Flickr images). Within the Tripod project research has been carried out as to the extent to which we can automatically derive keywords and captions for images which a...

Tripod operators (TO'S) are a versatile class of feature extraction operators for surfaces. Thcy arc useful for rccognition and localization based on range or tactile data. Thcy extract a few sparse point samples in a regimented way, so that N sampled surface points yield only N-3 independent scalar features containing all the pose-invariant surface shape information in these points and no othe...

We show that N−1 degenerate dark states can be generated by coupling N-fold degenerate ground states and a common excited state with N laser fields. Interferences between light waves with different frequencies can produce laser fields with time-dependent amplitudes, which can induce not only U N non-Abelian vector fields but also the scalar ones for the adiabatic motion of atoms in such laser f...