Auditory modeling is a well-established methodology that provides insight into human perception and that facilitates the extraction of signal features that are most relevant to the listener. The aim of this paper is to provide a tutorial on perceptual speech and audio coding using an invertible auditory model. In this approach, the audio signal is converted into an auditory representation using...

This paper introduces a neural network model of a planar redundant arm whose structure and operation principles were inspired by those of the human arm. We developed the model for two purposes. One purpose was to study the relative role of control strategies and plant properties in trajectory formation, namely which features of simple arm movements can be attributed to the properties of the pla...

In this paper, we explore the idea of designing nonanthropomorphic, multi-fingered robotic hands for tasks that replicate the motion of the human hand. Taking as input data rigid-body trajectories for the five fingertips, we develop a method to perform dimensional synthesis for a kinematic chain with a tree structure, with three common joints and five branches. We state the forward kinematics e...

Anthropomorphic grippers for robots are similar to human hand and they can have two, three, four or more fingers, with two or three phalanxes. Anthropomorphic grippers for robots compared to other mechanical grippers have more advantages like: a higher degree of dexterity, a larger area of utility (more types of objects can be grasped) and a micro-movement of the grasped objects can be performe...

A novel metamorphic anthropomorphic hand is for the first time introduced in this paper. This robotic hand has a reconfigurable palm that generates changeable topology and augments dexterity and versatility of the hand. Structure design of the robotic hand is presented and based on mechanism decomposition kinematics of the metamorphic anthropomorphic hand is characterized with closed-form solut...

Is it possible to think about God without anthropomorphizing him? The fact that has both anthropomorphic and non-anthropomorphic characteristics adds theological confusion. Individual variances in God's views might be a reflection of how individuals understand portrayals. Intellectuals have argued for ages theistic conceptions are excessively anthropomorphic, perplexing, complex. paper focused ...