Perceptual processes play an important role in motor learning. While it is evident that visual information greatly contributes to learning new movements, much less is known about provision of prescriptive proprioceptive information. Here, we investigated whether passive (proprioceptively-based) movement training was comparable to active training for learning a new bimanual task. Three groups pr...

Components are to becoming a key concept for the next generation of software architectures because of their impact on effective software reuse, real interoperability and integration. The Olan project [18] investigates a “programming in the large” approach that allows the specification of applications as hierarchies of interacting components, glued together through connectors, which are agents s...

In this paper we present a new class of tasks for multi-robot teams: those that require constant complex interaction between teammates. Much research has been done in the area of multi-robot coordination, but no existing framework meets the technical demands of such tasks. We have developed Hoplites in response to the need for a more capable framework. Hoplites is a market-based framework that ...

Relying solely on virtual springs and dampers, the transparency of standard virtual coupling suffers from the device-proxy coordination error when a large interaction force is engaged (e.g., contact tasks) and also from the unmodifiable inertias of the haptic device and the virtual proxy. To overcome these limitations, we propose a novel virtual coupling scheme, which, utilizing passive decompo...

In the current study, numerical analysis of passive control flow with a rod for Ahmed body is performed at different slant angles and velocities placed locations on surface. The aim study to improve aerodynamic performance by preventing separation surface using rod. This method uses that has not been applied simplified ground vehicles before. Therefore, it can be said this new example in point ...