This article presents the development of an autonomous motion planning algorithm for a soft planar grasping manipulator capable of grasp-and-place operations by encapsulation with uncertainty in the position and shape of the object. The end effector of the soft manipulator is fabricated in one piece without weakening seams using lost-wax casting instead of the commonly used multilayer laminatio...

To move real objects, our hand needs to get in direct physical contact with the object. However, this is not necessarily the case when interacting with virtual objects, for example when displacing objects on tablets by swipe movements. Here, we performed two experiments to study the behavioral strategies of these movements, examining how visual information about the virtual object is mapped int...

We study the two-dimensional flow of foams around a circular obstacle within a long channel. In experiments, we confine the foam between liquid and glass surfaces. In simulations, we use a deterministic software, the Surface Evolver, for bubble details and a stochastic one, the extended Potts model, for statistics. We adopt a coherent definition of liquid fraction for all studied systems. We va...

• Typically it takes place in a health centre or clinic, at the beginning of the day, when the patients have arrived. Health talks are also commonly given to the patients in a hospital ward. • The subject matter is decided upon by the health care staff, often in advance – they may have a programme worked out for the month. Often the subject matter is related to the medical programme for the day...

We discuss recent calculations of electromagnetic form factors and strong decay widths of nucleon and delta resonances. The calculations are done in a collective constituent model of the nucleon, in which the baryons are interpreted as rotations and vibrations of an oblate top.

We present results for objects settling in a cornstarch suspension. Two surprising phenomena can be found in concentrated suspensions. First, the settling object does not attain a terminal velocity but exhibits oscillations around a terminal velocity when traveling through the bulk of the liquid. Second, close to the bottom, the object comes to a full stop but then reaccelerates before coming t...

Accurate motion estimation between frames is important for drastically reducing data redundancy in video coding. However, advanced motion estimation methods are computationally intensive and their execution in real time usually requires a parallel implementation. In this paper, we investigate the parallel implementation of such a motion estimation technique. Specifically, we present a parallel ...