The separation of gangues from coals with robots is an effective and practicable means. Therefore, a cable-suspended gangue-sorting robot (CSGSR) end-grab was developed in our early work. Due to the unidirectional characteristic, flexibility cables, dynamic impact pick-and-place gangues, one significant issues robustness under internal external disturbances. Cable tensions, being end-grab’s con...

This paper presents a software framework, called Collaborator, to provide a shared workspace supporting the activities of virtual teams. This system exploits seamless integration of standard Web technologies with agent technologies, enhancing the classic Web communication mechanisms to support synchronous sharing of applications, and its use through emerging technologies such as: third generati...

The workspace of a Stewart platform is a complex sixdimensional volume embedded in the Cartesian space defined by six pose parameters. Because of its large dimension and complex shape, such workspace is difficult to compute and represent, so that comprehension on its structure is being gained by studying its three-dimensional slices. While successful methods have been given to determine the con...

This paper presents a novel and exible architecture to support the collaboration paradigm for asynchronous sharing of computer-supported workspaces, or simply replayable workspaces. Such workspace, however, may be composed of multiple, interacting, tools. Through the capture, re-execution, and manipulation of a session with an interactive computer-supported workspace, it is possible to reuse th...

A neural network solution is proposed for solving path planning problems faced by mobile robots. The proposed network is a two-dimensional sheet of neurons forming a distributed representation of the robot's workspace. Lateral interconnections between neurons are "cooperative", so that the network exhibits oscillatory behaviour. These oscillations are used to generate solutions of Bellman's dyn...

Palantír is a configuration management workspace awareness tool that continuously informs developers of the changes that are made in parallel by other developers in other workspaces. In order to achieve its goal of reducing the number of merge conflicts when developers commit their artifacts, Palantír deliberately breaks traditional workspace isolation in order to promote better coordination of...

It has been suggested that the learning of new dynamics occurs in intrinsic coordinates. However, it has also been suggested that elements that encode hand velocity, and hence act in an extrinsic frame of reference, play a role in the acquisition of dynamics. To reconcile claims regarding the coordinate system involved in the representation of dynamics, we have used a procedure involving the tr...

Effortful cognitive performance is theoretically expected to depend on the formation of a global neuronal workspace. We tested specific predictions of workspace theory, using graph theoretical measures of network topology and physical distance of synchronization, in magnetoencephalographic data recorded from healthy adult volunteers (N = 13) during performance of a working memory task at severa...

Parallel manipulators are an interesting alternative to serial robots given the important mechanical and kinematic advantages offered. Nevertheless, they often present more complex and smaller workspaces with internal singularities (Altuzarra et al., 2004; Gosselin & Angeles, 1990). Thus, the workspace size, shape and quality are considered some of the main design criteria of these robots (Merl...

This paper proposes a systematic algorithm based on the interval analysis concept in order to obtain the maximal singularity-free circle or sphere within the workspace of parallel mechanisms. As case studies the 3-RPR planar and 6-UPS parallel mechanisms are considered to illustrate the relevance of the algorithm for 2D and 3D workspaces. To this end, the main algorithm is divided into four sub...