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  1. 8 Semi-Autonomous Human-Robot Interaction for People with Disability

    This chapter presents an innovative semi-autonomous human-robot interaction concept for people with disability and discusses a proof-of-concept...
    Pramila Rani, Medha Sarkar, ... Nilanjan Sarkar in Multi-point Interaction with Real and Virtual Objects
    Chapter
  2. 1 Rapid Collision Dynamics for Multiple Contacts with Friction

    We examine the interaction of complex two-dimensional rigid bodies with friction. Given their idealized description, many different feasible...
    Chapter
  3. 16 Design of 100G Capturing Robot

    How much acceleration can a robot produce? Pursuing a robot with an extremely high response is a challenging matter. We have designed and developed...
    Makoto Kaneko, Mitsuru Higashimori in Multi-point Interaction with Real and Virtual Objects
    Chapter
  4. 10 Tactile Flow and Haptic Discrimination of Softness

    Haptic perception involves both cutaneous perception, through mechanoreceptors lying on the skin, and kinaesthetic perception mediated by the...
    Antonio Bicchi, Enzo P. Scilingo, ... Nicola Sgambelluri in Multi-point Interaction with Real and Virtual Objects
    Chapter
  5. 5 Grasp Synthesis from Example: Tuning the Example to a Task or Object

    Many approaches to grasp synthesis do not scale well as the desired number of contacts is increased. In previous work [223], we have presented a...
    Chapter
  6. 7 Toward Sensorless Acquisition of Multiple Contact Points Between Planar Parts

    A fixture is a device which immobilizes a part through a maximal set of linearly independent contacts. While many techniques exist to determine an...
    Kevin Egan, Stephen Berard, Jeffrey C. Trinkle in Multi-point Interaction with Real and Virtual Objects
    Chapter
  7. 3 Dynamic Proxies and Haptic Constraints

    Haptic simulations strive to provide users with realistic renditions of virtual environments but often struggle to display convincing rigid...
    Günter Niemeyer, Probal Mitra in Multi-point Interaction with Real and Virtual Objects
    Chapter
  8. The Prototype TNG Long-Term Archive and its Interactions with the Italian GRID Project

    A pilot project is currently being carried out, aiming at demonstrating the feasibility of technical solutions for the construction of the Long-Term...
    Fabio Pasian, Leopoldo Benacchio, Riccardo Smareglia in Toward an International Virtual Observatory
    Conference paper
  9. The UDAPAC Project - Uccle Direct Astronomical Plate Archive Centre: A New International Facility for Inherited Observations

    We discuss a project to create a centralized astronomical direct-plate archive and digitizing facility, with a view to making photographic data fully...
    Jean-Pierre De Cuyper, Elizabeth Griffin, René Hudec in Toward an International Virtual Observatory
    Conference paper
  10. The Master Catalogue of Stars Towards the Magellanic Clouds

    The Master Catalogue of stars towards the Magellanic Clouds (MC2) is a multi-wavelength reference catalogue. We performed a systematic cross-matching...
    Nausicaa Delmotte, Cécile Loup, ... Francesco Pierfederici in Toward an International Virtual Observatory
    Conference paper
  11. The CATS Database as a Tool to Study Radio Sources

    The CATS database unifies more than 350 catalogues mostly radio astronomical. It allows a user to execute over these data some operations including...
    Oleg V. Verkhodanov, Sergei A. Trushkin, ... Heinz Andernach in Toward an International Virtual Observatory
    Conference paper
  12. The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey: A VO Test Case?

    The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey is an effort to orchestrate limiting observations of a northern (HDF-N) and a southern (CDF-S) field,...
    Robert A. E. Fosbury, The GOODS teams in Toward an International Virtual Observatory
    Conference paper
  13. Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Clouds Over the Twenty-First Century Virtual Observatory

    Physical science has changed in the century since Lord Kelvin’s celebrated essay on Nineteenth Century Clouds over the Dynamical Theory of Heat and...
    Conference paper
  14. Statistical Analysis of Observed and Simulated Surveys

    The statistical analysis of large astronomical datasets requires also application of powerful fast codes and corresponding basic models. Some...
    Conference paper
  15. e-Star: Telescopes and Databases as a Single Information Grid

    We present a sketch of a system which consists of a Grid of databases and telescopes within which intelligent agents assess the information available...
    Tim Naylor, Iain Steele, ... Chris Mottram in Toward an International Virtual Observatory
    Conference paper
  16. Inter-Operability of ESA Science Archives

    ESA Science Archives for ISO and XMM-Newton have been developed by the Science Operations and Data Systems Division in Villafranca, Spain. By using...
    Christophe Arviset, Matteo Guainazzi, ... Aurèle Venet in Toward an International Virtual Observatory
    Conference paper
  17. Data Mining Facility

    A major goal of the Virtual Observatory is to build tools for exploring and extracting new information from heterogeneous (and possibly very large)...
    Sébastien Derriere, François Ochsenbein, ... Françoise Genova in Toward an International Virtual Observatory
    Conference paper
  18. Star-Forming Regions at High Resolution: Interferometry for Virtual Observatories

    Star forming regions must be studied in 3-D with resolutions from milli-arcseconds to degrees, to understand the birth of stars and planets and the...
    Anita M. S. Richards, Simon T. Garrington in Toward an International Virtual Observatory
    Conference paper
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