Opening doors for exogenous agents

Phenotype–genotype complexities: opening DOORS

The escalating pace of molecular genetic discoveries in neurological diseases is repeatedly providing surprises that challenge our ability to match phenotype and genotype. With the current transition of whole-exome sequencing from the laboratory to clinical use, the ability to understand and interpret molecular-level data becomes ever more important. The classic view of one gene encoding one pr...

Opening Doors in Motion Analysis Research

This paper discusses the use of motion analysis techniques to establish a computational model of human motion. As a test case, we discuss an experiment that analyzes combined navigation and manipulation motions performed by human subjects. In this particular experiment, we have analyzed the action of walking to a door and opening the door in different settings. We have looked at different varia...

Adaptive Force/Velocity Control for Opening Unknown Doors

The problem of door opening is fundamental for robots operating in domestic environments. Since these environments are generally unstructured, a robot must deal with several types of uncertainties associated with the dynamics and kinematics of a door to achieve successful opening. The present paper proposes a dynamic force/velocity controller which uses adaptive estimation of the radial directi...

“Open Sesame!” Adaptive Force/Velocity Control for Opening Unknown Doors

The problem of door opening is fundamental for robots operating in domestic environments. Since these environments are generally less structured than industrial environments, several types of uncertainties associated with the dynamics and kinematics of a door must be dealt with to achieve successful opening. This paper proposes a method that can open doors without prior knowledge of the door ki...

Doors opening: A mechanism for growth after adversity