In this study we present morphing methods for musical instrument body models using DSP techniques. These methods are able to transform a given body model gradually into another one in a controlled way, and they guarantee stability of the body models at each intermediate step. This enables to morph from a certain sized body model to a larger or smaller one. It is also possible to extrapolate bey...

In the past few years, the idea of extending the Grid to cover also the remote access, control, management of instrument devices has been explored in a few initiatives. Existing tools lack in generality and require advanced specialized computer science knowledge, thus making them difficult to be broadly adopted in the scientific community. In this paper we present a new open source initiative t...

This is a report of a novel tactile musical instrument. This instrument is called "Multi Rubbing Tactile Instrument (MRTI2015)", using ten pieces of "PAW sensor produced by the RT corporation". Previous research was focused on "untouchable" instruments, but this approach is fully tactile "rub" and "touch". The ten PAW sensors are assigned on the surface of the egg-like plastic case to fit the t...

A b s ~ The science objectives o f the HYDROS mission are to provide frequent, global measurements o f snrface soil moisture and surface f r d t h a w state. In order to adequately measure these geophysical quantities, the key instrument requirements were determined by the HYDROS science team to be: 1) Dualp o l a h t i o n L B a n d passive radiometer measurements at 40 km resolution, 2) Dual-...

The ALADDIN project aims at detecting warm dust populations around nearby main sequence stars. In order to achieve the significantly improved sensitivity with respect to existing instruments, the architecture of the system is focused and optimised for the mission: ALADDIN implements the nulling interferometry technique at the focal plane of a 2-telescope interferometer mounted on a rotating str...

The recent developments of the neutron scattering instruments at the DR3 10 MW steady state reactor and other related facilities at Risø National Laboratory are described. The motivation for starting these developments is to optimise the available cold and thermal neutron flux as cost effective as possible. This has led to the implementation of the RITA neutron spectrometer and the germanium mo...

The second generation Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission (ARCADE 2) instrument is a balloon-borne experiment to measure the radiometric temperature of the cosmic microwave background and Galactic and extra-Galactic emission at six frequencies from 3 to 90 GHz. ARCADE 2 utilizes a double-nulled design where emission from the sky is compared to that from an exte...

The bone diagnostic instrument is designed to measure materials properties of bone even if it is covered with soft tissue such as periosteum, connective tissue and skin. It uses 1 a probe assembly, consisting of a reference probe that penetrates soft tissue and stops on the surface of the bone and a test probe that is inserted into the bone, 2 an actuation system that can move the test probe, t...