A Conro reconfigurable robot is formed by joining a set of self-contained modules in a particular configuration; the actions of the robot are the result of the coordinated actions of its modules. These actions can be controlled using a master-slave approach only i f the master can m a p the particular configuration of the robot to one that it already knows how t o control. In this paper we disc...

Peter D. Jacobson Introduction For the past 20 years, I have been teaching various law courses, mostly to public health students. At the RAND Graduate School, I taught two courses to Ph.D. candidates: one on law and social science, and then a course on law and epidemiology (co-listed with the UCLA School of Public Health). Each year since 1996 at the University of Michigan School of Public Heal...

We develop a variational scheme in a field theoretic approach to a stochastic process. While various stochastic processes can be expressed by master equations, in general it is difficult to solve the master equations exactly, and it is also hard to solve the master equations numerically because of the curse of dimensionality. The field theoretic approach has been used in order to study such com...

The main function of haptic teleoperation is to provide the user with force feedback from a remote environment. Use of a passive haptic master complicates the replication of remote forces due to the limitations of passive actuators. An active master can drive its endpoint anywhere in the workspace and produce forces limited by the output of the motors. In a passive system the position of the ma...

Since the FMI technology gains ground in industrial environment, the demand for robust co-simulation increases. In a master-slave concept the master algorithms define the quality of a co-simulation whereas the properties of the coupled FMUs for co-simulation restrict the variety of possible master algorithms. In this paper an existing experimental master tool with three basic master algorithms ...

Master-slave active robot hands and endoscopes, which provide dexterous manipulations and wide views like human hands and eyes, are required to be constructed. We have previously developed a multi-DOF ultrasonic motor consisting of a spherical rotor and a bar-shaped stator. The rotor rotates around three perpendicular axes using three natural vibration modes of the stator. In this study, a mult...