Hydraulic machines have been widely used in a variety of high power applications. Typically these machines are operated by an operator. In past research the interaction safety between the operator and the machine was seldom investigated. This dissertation addressess the interaction stability issue by exploiting the safety guarantees offered by passive systems. The hydraulic machine considered i...

The BeliefNet Tool is a new engine to perform local computations efficiently and conveniently in both undirected and directed evidential networks (i.e. networks using belief functions theory [10], [12]). BeliefNet Tool is written in Matlab and it implements the basic algorithms as well as the main operations performing inference of beliefs in evidential networks. Attention is especially devoted...

The cross-sensitivity of breath-alcohol analysing systems is intensively discussed since these instruments are used for evidential breath testing. Besides ethanol other substances can be present in human breath at significant concentrations. In the beginning of the design of such instruments most of the interest was concentrated only on aceton, which can be found in the breath of subjects, who ...

The paper develops an information fusion system that aims at supporting a commander’s decision making by providing an assessment of threat, that is an estimate of the extent to which an enemy platform poses a threat based on evidence about its intent and capability. Threat is modelled in the framework of the valuation-based system (VBS), by a network of entities and relationships between them. ...

Mining frequent patterns is widely used to discover knowledge from a database. It was originally applied on Market Basket Analysis (MBA) problem which represents the Boolean databases. In those databases, only the existence of an article (item) in a transaction is defined. However, in real-world application, the gathered information generally suffer from imperfections. In fact, a piece of infor...

Theauthors have built the first three-dimensional, kneed, two-legged, passive-dynamic walking machine. Since the work of Tad McGeer in the late 1980s, the concept of passive dynamics has added insight into animal locomotion and the design of anthropomorphic robots. Various analyses and machines that demonstrate efficient humanlike walking have been developed using this strategy. Human-like pass...