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14 Intrinsically Passive Control using Sampled Data System Passivity
In this chapter, which is a distilled version of [271], we present a novel way to approach the interconnection of a continuous and a discrete time... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Dynamic Complexity in the Internet Traffic
The Internet is one of the most enormous autonomously distributed network systems created by human being. There is no central control in the Internet... -
Macroscopic Dynamics in Large-Scale Data Networks
Modern society grows increasingly reliant on the Internet, a network of global reach that supports many services and clients. However, in such a... -
Chaos-Based Generation of Arti.cial Self-Similar Traffic
The exploitation of the unique features of chaotic dynamics for performance improvement recently became a widely followed path in several field of... -
Dynamical Properties of Externally Driven TCP traffic
One of the most influential achievements of the last sanctuary was the emergence of a decentralized, highly heterogenous, global communication... -
7. Scheduling of Switched Server Systems
In this chapter, we shall present an interesting and practical application of the stability results obtained in Chapter 2. Specifically, the... -
15 Effects of Grip** and Translational Forces on Teleoperation
For minimally invasive surgical teleoperation systems, it is often impractical to provide the same number of degrees of freedom (dof) for position... -
2 Does Torque Minimization Yield a Stable Human Grasp?
In this chapter, we present a study of the human grasp conducted with a mathematical formalism that has been developed in robotics during the last... -
Modelling the Complex Internet Topology
Internet is one of the most impressive creatures of our civilization; it has literally changed the ways we do business, communication, education,... -
Nonlinear Dynamics of TCP and its Implications to Network Performance
TCP flows continuously intertwine in the Internet competing with each other for service capacity and buffer space in bottleneck routers. The window... -
5. Impulsive Synchronization of Chaotic Systems
In this chapter, less conservative conditions on the stability of impulsive systems are first derived. These results are then used to study the... -
8. Relative Differentiated Quality of Service of the Internet
In this chapter, the feedback cyclic control policy is first extended to the case that the arrival rates are not known in advance. The policy is then... -
11 Evaluation of Multipoint Contact Interfaces in Haptic Perception of Shapes
This chapter presents the evaluation of a multicontact point interface for the shape recognition of objects. A set-up constituted of an Haptic... -
6. Chaos Based Secure Communication Systems
In this chapter, the results obtained in the previous chapter will be used to design a chaos based secure communication system. Specifically, these... -
12 Contact Location Trajectory on the Fingertip as a Sufficient Requisite for Illusory Perception of Haptic Shape and Effect of Multiple Contacts
This chapter seeks to demonstrate that haptic curvature perception can result solely from the trajectory of the deformed region of the fingertip due... -
Small-World Synchronized Computing Networks for Scalable Parallel Discrete-Event Simulations
We study the scalability of parallel discrete-event simulations for arbitrary short-range interacting systems with asynchronous dynamics. When the...