Passive tools for enhancing muscle-driven motion and locomotion

Towards Muscle Driven Bipedal Locomotion

Design and Motion Planning of a Semi-Passive Mobile Platform for Locomotion on Slippery Surfaces

Slippery surfaces introduce various difficulties in motion planning and control. This paper presents a novel design and a motion planner for a mobile robot operating on slippery surfaces. The robot consists of an upper circular body and three identical semi-passive driving mechanisms. Each mechanism consists of a passive wheel that can roll, a rotation actuator along the normal axes and a linea...

Enhancing Business-Intelligence Tools with Value-Driven Recommendations

Business-intelligence (BI) tools are broadly adopted in organizations today, supporting activities such as data analysis, decision making, and performance measurement. This study investigates the integration of feedback and recommendation mechanisms (FRM) into BI tool, defining FRM as visual cues that are embedded into the tools and provide the end-user with usage guidelines. The study focuses ...

Stability and Chaos in Passive-dynamic Locomotion

Enhancing Tools for Community Privacy

COMMUNITY PRIVACY In addition to enhancing the ability of individuals to protect their personally identifying information we believe it also important to enhance tools to protect the privacy of a community. By “community” we mean a group of people sharing sensitive information that they have professional, legal, ethical, or personal obligations to safeguard. By “privacy of a community” we mean ...