Eccentricity detection is a crucial issue for highspeed rotating machinery, which concerns the stability and safety of the machinery. Conventional techniques in industry for eccentricity detection are mainly based on measuring certain physical indicators, which are costly and hard to deploy. In this paper, we propose RED, a non-intrusive, low-cost, and realtime RFID-based eccentricity detection...

The aim of the present study was to show that planning and controlling the trajectory of a pointing movement is influenced not solely by physical constraints but also by visual constraints. Subjects were required to point towards different targets located at 20 degrees , 40 degrees , 60 degrees and 80 degrees of eccentricity. Movements were either constrained (i.e. two-dimensional movements) or...

The latency time, which is the residual vibration of afine actuator and track eccentricity, has been the aim for direct pull-in in optical disk system. Modified velocity profiles of the coarse actuator and control inputs of the fine actuator have been proposed for the minimum residual vibration. Generally, there exists eccentricity due to mismatch of the disk center and the axis of a spindle mo...

Subjects made saccades to point and spatially-extended targets located at a randomly-selected eccentricity (3.8-4.2 deg) under conditions designed to promote best possible accuracy based only on the visual information present in a single trial. Saccadic errors to point targets were small. The average difference between mean saccade size and target eccentricity was about 1% of eccentricity. Prec...

The validity of the classical formula for the rate of secular apsidal motion in close binaries is investigated for a sequence of models of a 5M⊙ star ranging from the last stages of the C 12 → N reaction to the phase where hydrogen is exhausted in the core. For binaries with short orbital periods, the apsidal-motion rates predicted by the classical formula deviate from the rates determined with...

We describe simple heuristics, based on perceptual variables, that produce human-like trajectories towards moving and stationary targets, and around moving and stationary obstacles. Interception of moving and stationary objects can be achieved through regulation of self-movement to maintain a target at a constant eccentricity, or by cancelling the change (drift) in the eccentricity of the targe...