Abstract The present paper analyzes Petrus van Maistricht’s (1630–1706) critique of Baruch Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise found in his Novitatum cartesianarum gangraena (1677). shows, first, that Mastricht regarded atheism as the inevitable outcome Cartesians’ denial philosophy’s subordination to theology. Second, Mastricht, refuting Spinoza, revised earlier Cartesianism. In previous ...

Commercially available robotic prosthetic arms currently use independent joint control. An alternative controller involving only control of the hand in a Cartesian frame rather than controlling each joint independently is proposed and tested. An experimental 4DOF robotic arm was used as the platform for testing the proposed control approach. As opposed to joint control, Cartesian control requir...

The Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) algorithm consists of a population (or swarm) of particles that are “flown” through an n-dimensional space in search of a global best solution to an optimisation problem. PSO operates in Cartesian space, producing Cartesian solution vectors. By making use of an appropriate mapping function the algorithm can be modified to search in polar space. This mapping...

in the research, six degrees of freedom hexapod parallel machine tool is studied and investigated. jacobian matrix is developed by cinematic relations differentiation and using weighted coefficient method, dimensional analysis operation is carried out on jacobian matrix. geometric parameters of cartesian robot workspace are optimized, considering a minimum allowable rotation about three axes, a...