Distributed impedance is an efficient approach for controlling any kind of cooperating manipulation system. It combines the advantages of decentralized control solutions and the robustness of impedance control with force feedback. Distributed impedance was implemented on a dualarm system composed of two industrial manipulators. Experimental results were obtained for free and constrained manipul...

The term prototyping has in recent years become a buzzword in both research and practice of system design due to a number of claimed advantages of prototyping techniques over traditional specification techniques. In particular it is often stated that prototyping facilitates the users' involvement in the development process. But prototyping does not automatically imply active user involvement! T...

Human children 18-24 months of age and 3 young chimpanzees interacted in 4 cooperative activities with a human adult partner. The human children successfully participated in cooperative problem-solving activities and social games, whereas the chimpanzees were uninterested in the social games. As an experimental manipulation, in each task the adult partner stopped participating at a specific poi...

Objective: There is a large theoretical literature regarding stock market manipulation. However, empirical evidence of manipulation remains scare especially in emerging markets like Iran. So, it is vital to detect and prevent. Manipulation distorts prices, thereby reducing market efficiency and harms public confidence. Distorted prices increase market volatility and risk. This study empirically...

Mobile manipulation capabilities are key t o many new applications of robotics in space, underwater, construction, and service environments. This article discusses the ongoing effort at Stanford University f o r the development of multiple mobile manipulation systems and presents the basic models and methodologies for their analysis and control. This work builds on four methodologies we have pr...

In this paper, we present a paradigm for allowing subjects to configure a user interface for multi-robot manipulation tasks. Multi-robot manipulation tasks can be complicated, due to the need for tight temporal coupling between the robots. However, this is an ideal scenario for human-agent-robot teams, since performing all of the manipulation aspects of the task autonomously is not feasible wit...

In this thesis, we are going to study the strategic manipulation of voting rules, mostly scoring rules. In the first part, we focus on naive manipulation, where we have a coalition of manipulators and the other voters vote sincerely. In Section 1.4 we introduce a new measure of manipulability of voting rules, which reflects both the size and the prevalence of the manipulating coalitions and is ...