This paper presents a novel method to compensate the eeects of exi-bility in belt-driven drive trains. Such drives are found in robot manipulators, for example, where drive exibility is undesirable. Unfortunately, the eeects of exibility can be diicult to compensate using the primary actuator, due to bandwidth limitations. By introducing a second actuator, which applies a force to the belt at a...

Statistical approaches to study the properties of neurons in sensory system ascribe the selectivity of neurons in visual and auditory cortices to regularities of signals in natural environment. “Efficient coding” hypothesis is an outstanding theory that explains the work of sensory system in discarding unnecessary data and supplying higher order brain areas with the most informative features in...

Cloutier, Nyman, and Su (Mathematical Social Sciences 59 (2005), 26–37) initiated the study of envy-free cake-cutting problems involving several cakes. The classical result in this area is that when there are q players and one cake, an envy-free cake-division requiring only q − 1 cuts exists under weak and natural assumptions. Among other results, Cloutier, Nyman, and Su showed that when there ...

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We investigate the characteristics of constant-amplitude input shapers for robust time-optimal maneuvers of exi-ble structures. Trends in the timing of the shaper impulses are shown as a function of the system damping constant and move distance. The insensitivity to modeling errors, time-optimality, amount of vibration caused during maneuvers, and high frequency excitation of these shapers are ...