Accuracy in discriminating rigid from nonrigid motion was investigated for orthographic projections of three-dimension rotating objects. In 3 experiments the hypothesis that magnitudes of angular velocity are misperceived in the kinetic depth effect was tested, and in 4 other experiments the hypothesis that misperceiving angular velocities leads to misperceiving rigidity was tested. The princip...

The study of acceleration capability is concerned with the responsiveness of a manipulator to controller commands. In this paper we present a general model for the analysis of end-eeector linear and angular accelerations that accounts for the velocity eeects. The separate treatment of linear and angular motion directly addresses the inhomogeneities of end-eeector motions, avoiding the use of in...

Spreading of a conservative solute in potential flow in a helical porous medium is dominated by the radial velocity distribution within the domain. Higher velocities at the inside of the helix compared to the outside leads to spreading that is balanced by transverse pore-scale dispersion. The angular moments of the concentration distribution exhibit the typical behavior of Taylor-Aris dispersio...

We use the measures of Li and rotational velocities in F Hyades stars to assess the role of the winddriven meridian circulation and of shear turbulence in the transport of angular momentum in stars of different masses. Our models include both element segregation and rotation-induced mixing, and we treat simultaneously the transport of matter and angular momentum as described by Zahn (1992) and ...

We present preliminary observational results on tidal synchronization in detached solar-type binary stars in the open clusters M35 (NGC2168; ∼ 150 Myr) and M34 (NGC1039; ∼ 250 Myr). M35 and M34 provide populations of close late-type binaries with ages that make them attractive observational tests of models of tidal synchronization during the early main-sequence phase. A combined dataset of stel...

The study of acceleration capability is concerned with the responsiveness of a manipulator to controller commands. In this paper we present a general model for the analysis of end-effector linear and angular accelerations that accounts for the velocity effects. The separate treatment of linear and angular motion directly addresses the inhomogeneities of end-effector motions, avoiding the use of...

A technique using augmented sliding mode control for robust, real-time control of flexible multiple link robots is presented. For the purpose of controller design, the n-link, n-joint robot is subdivided into n single joint, single link subsystems. A sliding surface for each subsystem is specified so as to be globally, asymptotically stable. Each sliding surface contains rigid-body angular velo...