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  1. 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...
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  2. 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
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  3. 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
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  4. 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
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  5. 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...
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  6. 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...
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  7. 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...
    Jian Yuan, Kevin Mills in Complex Dynamics in Communication Networks
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  8. 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...
    Gianluca Setti, Riccardo Rovatti, Gianluca Mazzini in Complex Dynamics in Communication Networks
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  9. 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...
    Gábor Simon, Péter Pollner, ... István Csabai in Complex Dynamics in Communication Networks
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  10. 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...
    Zhengguo Li, Yengchai Soh, Changyun Wen in Switched and Impulsive Systems
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  11. 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...
    Lawton N. Verner, Kristin A. Jeung, Allison M. Okamura in Multi-point Interaction with Real and Virtual Objects
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  12. 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...
    Gabriel Baud-Bovy, Domenico Prattichizzo, Nadia Brogi in Multi-point Interaction with Real and Virtual Objects
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  13. 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,...
    Guanrong Chen, Zheng** Fan, **ang Li in Complex Dynamics in Communication Networks
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  14. 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...
    András Veres, Miklós Boda in Complex Dynamics in Communication Networks
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  15. 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...
    Zhengguo Li, Yengchai Soh, Changyun Wen in Switched and Impulsive Systems
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  16. 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...
    Zhengguo Li, Yengchai Soh, Changyun Wen in Switched and Impulsive Systems
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  17. 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...
    Antonio Frisoli, Massimo Bergamasco, ... Emanuele Ruffaldi in Multi-point Interaction with Real and Virtual Objects
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  18. 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...
    Zhengguo Li, Yengchai Soh, Changyun Wen in Switched and Impulsive Systems
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  19. 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...
    Hanifa Dostmohamed, Vincent Hayward in Multi-point Interaction with Real and Virtual Objects
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  20. 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...
    Hasan Guclu, György Korniss, ... Mark A. Novotny in Complex Networks
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