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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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,... -
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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)... -
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...