This paper aims to discuss the requirements of safe and smooth trajectory planning of transporter mobile robots to perform non-prehensile object manipulation task. In non-prehensile approach, the robot and the object must keep their grasp-less contact during manipulation task. To this end, dynamic grasp concept is employed for a box manipulation task and corresponding conditions are obtained an...

We present measurements of the scaling of the dielectrophoresis force with electrode size and particle size, in order to determine the ultimate size limits for dielectrophoresis at the nanoscale. To demonstrate the feasibility of nano-manipulation we present studies on the dielectrophoretic manipulation of DNA with microfabricated electrodes using RF electric fields. We find that DNA undergoes ...

The electron confinement for the carbon nanomaterials provides them unusual electronic, mechanical and optical properties making them one of the best suited materials for electronic and sensor applications. However, the practical realization of nano-scale electronics faces two major challenges: their assembly into functional circuit and the precise engineering of these building blocks. Physical...

F gait is a strategy for a multi-fingered robotic hand to change its grasp status sequentially by relocating its fingers, which gives the hand more dexterity to perform large scale or complicated dextrous manipulations (Hong et al. 1990). In a finger gait, the robotic hand must achieve the desired configuration of both the object and the fingers, which involves the manipulation of the object as...

The present paper focuses on the questions of modern advertising science, structure of advertising and elements making actual manipulative influence from the addresser. Advertising encourages product sales, is an instrument of forming ethical standards, values, creating cultural values, standards and mode of behavior that is why the wide system of means for achieving aims of advertisers is need...

Three experiments examined the effectiveness of the forced-agreement scale effect (FASE) manipulation at influencing self-perceptions of traits and consistent behaviors. The FASE manipulation forces respondents to agree (at least somewhat) with behavioral statements from previously validated questionnaires. Experiment 1A required participants to agree with items from a measure of need for cogni...