The Scarabs Team robot (Ringo) was designed and built by a team of high school students on a limited budget. The goal was to keep the design simple yet easy for a single human operator to control. The team uses a custom joystick interface to control robot movement using a PC. A Linuxbased camera provides video to the operator and passes serial commands from the PC to the robot. The goals of the...

Qualitative spatio-temporal calculi play a crucial role in modeling, representing, and reasoning about geospatial dynamics such as the movement of agents or geographic entities. They are ubiquitous in ontological modeling, information retrieval, they play a central part at the human-machine interface, and are critical to process data collected from geosensor networks. What is common to all thes...

In this paper, we develop an efficient moving mesh weighted essentially nonoscillatory (WENO) method for one-dimensional hyperbolic conservation laws. The method is based on the quasi-Lagrange approach of the moving mesh strategy in which the mesh is considered to move continuously in time. Several issues arising from the implementation of the scheme, including mesh smoothness, mesh movement re...

Force-velocity, force-time, and force-length relations of muscle are typically evaluated with reductionist techniques in which force is measured while the variable of interest is manipulated. However, force produced during voluntary movement arises from complex interaction of these contractile characteristics. Nonetheless, neuromuscular performance for cyclical, work-producing movements can be ...

Spatial behavior in humans and animals includes a wide variety of behavioral competences and makes use of a large number of sensory cues. Here we studied the ability of human subjects to search locations, to find shortcuts and novel paths, to estimate distances between remembered places, and to draw sketch maps of the explored environment; these competences are related to goal-independent memor...

Introduction: Efficient gait control using Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) is an open research problem. In this research, a new intermittent controller has been designed to control the human shank movement dynamics during gait. Methods: In this approach, first, the three-dimensional phase space was constructed using the human shank movement data recorded from the healthy subjects. Then...

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We deal with the statistical matching problem and in particular we study the problem related to the managing of inconsistencies. In fact, when logical relations among the variables are present incoherence can arise in the probability evaluations. The aim of this paper is to remove such incoherences by using different methods. Specific precise distances minimization or least committal imprecise ...

man's past condition is related to his present life and history means surveying the quality of the past activities whose traces remain in the present time. the main field of historical research is man's past life, the stages which have been put behind in the process of evolution and changes as well as progresses made in these stages. history is a means to provide human beings with a complete in...