Generating synthetic baseline populations is a fundamental step of agent-based modeling and simulation, which is growing fast in a wide range of socio-economic areas including transportation planning research. Traditionally, in many commercial and non-commercial microsimulation systems, the iterative proportional fitting (IPF) procedure has been used for creating the joint distribution of indiv...

This paper presents the Double Actuator Joint Mechanism, a novel mechanism for robots to generate human-like motion. The mechanism is based on the idea of the equilibrium trajectory hypothesis, a hypothesis that multi-joint limb movements are achieved by shifting the limbs equilibrium positions defined by neuromuscular activity. The magnitude of force exerted on the arm depends on the differenc...

The TMJ disc is a fibrocartilage tissue, biconcave and elliptical in shape. The disc provides low friction articulation surfaces in the joint. Moreover, its biconcave profile allows a smooth articulation between two incongruent surfaces of the mandibular condyle and the articular eminence. Without the TMJ disc, the incongruent surfaces would have a small area of contact, creating concentrated s...

In this paper, coefficient sensitivity of polynomialpredictive FIR differentiators (PPFD) is investigated for implementations in fixed point environments, and advantageous guidelines for creating robust designs are given. By joint selection of an appropriate filter length and implementation structure, sufficient prediction and differentiation properties can be maintained even in short word-leng...

When the U.S. conducts warfare, elements of a force are drawn from different Services and work together as a single team to accomplish an assigned mission on the basis of joint doctrine. To achieve such unified action, it is necessary that specific Service doctrines be both consistent with and subservient to joint doctrine. But there are two further requirements that flow from the ways in which...