This paper presents ongoing work on methods dedicated to relations between composers and performers in the context of experimental music. The computer music community has over the last decade paid a strong interest on various kinds of gestural interfaces to control sound synthesis processes. The mapping between gesture and sound parameters has specially been investigated in order to design the ...

Many future applications of robotic systems will require manipulators to operate from moving vehicles. Such vehicles will be compliant in comparison to the rigid bases on which most manipulators are mounted today. Base compliance can seriously degrade system performance. Statically base compliance may lead to error in the position of the end effector, and dynamically base compliance may interac...

For the current exploration programs high enthalpy landing missions are foreseen. It is rather difficult to simulate the corresponding enthalpies with steady state facilities. For the case of sample return missions such as Genesis, STARDUST or Hayabusa hyperbolic entries require maximum enthalpies of about 80 MJ/kg. Atmospheric entry parameters of relevance were derived with the model of Allan ...

This paper presents a comparative analysis between an energy simulation model and an actual solar home. The case study used was the Team Missouri’s 2009 Solar Decathlon entry. The home was evaluated using the predicted data developed with the use of Energy-10 Version 1.8. The software simulates the energy use performance of building strategies ranging from building envelope and system efficienc...

in studying through simulation, choosing an appropriate tool/language would be a difficult task because many of them are available. on the other hand, few research works focus on evaluation of simulation tools/languages and their comparison. this paper makes a couple of evaluations and ranks more than fifty simulation tools that are currently available. the first evaluation and ranking is in th...

Sieve trays are widely used in the gas- liquid contactors such as distillation and absorption towers. In this article, a three-dimensional, two phase CFD model using Euler-Euler framework was developed to simulate a distillation tower with two sieve trays. Hydrodynamic simulation of air and water system in different rates of gas phase was carried out and velocity distribution parameters, clear ...