Social interactions are the result of individuals' cooperative and competitive tendencies expressed over an extended period of time. Although social manipulation, i.e., using another individual to achieve one's own goals, is a crucial aspect of social interactions, there has been no comprehensive attempt to differentiate its various types and to map its cognitive and motivational determinants. ...

Examples of behavioural manipulation by parasites are numerous, but the processes underlying these changes are not well characterized. From an evolutionary point of view, behavioural changes in infected hosts have often been interpreted as illustrations of the extended phenotype concept, in which genes in one organism (the parasite) have phenotypic effects on another organism (the host). Here, ...

in this research the cooperative sector's law has been analyzed under the general headings cooperative as an economic sector, cooperative's and cooperatives :union:’s nature, and damages of the acts to the law and the normal function of cooperatives and at the end it has been analytically concluded that regarding the stated structural and legal deficiencies while keeping the cooperati...

Educational systems consider fostering creativity and cooperation as two essential aims to nurture future sustainable citizens. The cooperative learning approach proposes different pedagogical strategies for developing in students. In this paper, we conceptualize collaborative under the framework of coordination dynamics and, specifically, base it on formation spontaneous multiscale synergies e...

We describe a distributed and collaborative environment for cooperative scientiic problem solving. SHASTRA is a highly extensible, distributed and collaborative design and scientiic manipulation environment. At its core is a powerful collaboration substrate { to support synchronous multiuser applications, and a distribution substrate { which emphasizes distributed problem solving. The design of...

In this paper, we present a comprehensive trajectory tracking framework for cooperative manipulation scenarios involving marine surface ships. Our experimental platform is a small boat equipped with six thrusters, but the technique presented here can be applied to a multi-ship manipulation scenario such as a group of autonomous tugboats transporting a disabled ship or unactuated barge. The prim...

This paper deals with the coordinated controller design for a certain kind of cooperative manipulation of an unstable object with multiple robotic manipulators. Based on the system description in the framework of differential-algebraic equations (DAEs), control problems of the object manipulation with a single and two manipulators are formulated. By characterizing a hand-over operation as a res...

This article discusses the basic capabilities needed to enable robots to operate in human-populated environments for accomplishing both autonomous tasks and human-guided tasks. These capabilities are key to many new emerging robotic applications in service, construction, field, underwater, and space. An important characteristic of these robots is the “assistance” ability they can bring to human...

This article discusses the basic capabilities needed to enable robots to operate in human-populated environments for accomplishing both autonomous tasks and human-guided tasks. These capabilities are key to many new emerging robotic applications in service, construction, field, underwater, and space. An important characteristic of these robots is the “assistance” ability they can bring to human...

Haptic virtual fixtures are software-generated force and position signals applied to human operators in order to improve the safety, accuracy, and speed of robot-assisted manipulation tasks. Virtual fixtures are effective and intuitive because they capitalize on both the accuracy of robotic systems and the intelligence of human operators. In this paper, we discuss the design, analysis, and impl...