Traditional drum machines and digital drum-kits offer users the ability to practice or perform with a supporting ensemble – such as a bass, guitar and piano – but rarely provide support in the form of an accompanying percussion part. Beatback is a system which develops upon this missing interaction through offering a MIDI enabled drum system which learns and plays in the user's style. In the co...

The angular error of indexing table on machine tool is measured using new developed measuring device. The measuring techniques, which have been reviewed in this paper, are currently available in manufacturing engineering to calibrate the angle measurement. The new developed measuring device using 6 points kinematic concept and employing ball and vee grooves is used to calibrate angle errors of ...

This thesis investigates the moment, when the drumstick hits the membrane of a drum. Experiments were conducted to obtain information about the interaction of drummer, drumstick and membrane during a single stroke. Using a modified drumstick, the force on the drumstick, the acceleration of the stick’s tip, the duration of the contact between stick and membrane and the sound of the drum were rec...

Low-intensity magnetic separators are widely used in the research works and the industry. Advancement in the magnetic separation techniques has led to an expansion in the application of this method in different fields such as enrichment of magnetic mineral, wastewater treatment, and medicine transfer in the human body. In the mineral processing industry, the main application of wet magnetic sep...

Drum–Buffer–Rope is a theory of constraints production planning methodology that operates by developing a schedule for the system’s first bottleneck. The first bottleneck is the bottleneck with the highest utilization. In the theory of constraints, any job that is not processed at the first bottleneck is referred to as a free good. Free goods do not use capacity at the first bottleneck, so very...

Drum Boilers are an important component of many modern industrial facilities. Generally, the simulation of tailormade Drum Boilers starts up at each steady-state condition inside each operation region. The problem of such systems is the control of parameters, as level and pressure, around a reference value. The design of control algorithms can be accomplished using intelligent techniques such a...

This thesis investigates issues surrounding the design and implementation of a digital drum tutor. People have been developing digital tutors in all fields of study in an attempt to replace or complement human instructors. This drum tutor aims to replace a human instructor in some cases, but mostly to guide a student’s practice sessions, which is where the most improvement occurs. While using t...

This paper describes drum sound identification for polyphonic musical audio signals. It is difficult to identify drum sounds in such signals because acoustic features of those sounds vary with each musical piece and precise templates for them cannot be prepared in advance. To solve this problem, we propose new template-adaptation and templatematching methods. The former method adapts a single s...