ARELLANO, C. J., C. S. LAYNE, D. P. O’CONNOR, M. SCOTT-PANDORF, and M. J. KURZ. Does Load Carrying Influence dynamical system analysis to investigate the effect of carrying external loads on the stability of the locomotive system and sagittal plane kinematics. We hypothesized that carrying an additional load at the waist would 1) decrease the dynamic stability of the locomotive system and 2) ca...

For large customers, Electricité de France the French national electric power company stores every 10’ the amount of electric power they consume. For each customer, these measures lead to curves called electric load curves. Clustering of electric load curves is a key problem for understanding the behavior of these customers. Several methods have been used but Kohonen maps give a very nice solut...

Dr. Mohammed Yousif Hassan* Received on:28/6/2009 Accepted on:3/12/2009 Abstract Pneumatic circuits are widely used in industrial automation, such as drilling, sawing, squeezing, gripping, and spraying. Furthermore, they are used in motion control of materials and parts handling, packing machines, machine tools, foodprocessing industry and in robotics. In this paper, a Neural Network based Fuzz...

[Purpose] The present study examined the activity and the gait characteristics of the gluteus medius and the trunk stability muscles during the stance phase of gait on level ground when a vertical load corresponding to 0%, 1%, or 2% of body weight was placed on the lower extremities during the swing phase of the gait. [Methods] The subjects were 40 young males aged between 21 and 30 years. The ...

A commercial electromechanical actuator (EMA) is to be dynamically tested with predetermined stroke and load profiles for transient thermal and electric power behavior to validate a numerical model used for aerospace applications. The EMA will follow the stroke profile representative of a real aircraft mission duty cycle. A hydraulic press will exert a corresponding load profile onto the EMA. S...

A novel approach for evaluation of a grasp in humans is presented. The key novelty is combination of a haptic interface with force/torque transducers for measuring the grasp force. This paper presents results of grasp and load force coordination for quasi-static and dynamic external load force disturbances for a power grasp. An elevation of the grasp force is observed in a dynamic task. Elevati...

36 Elektor Electronics 11/2003 Often a mechanical operation is required in an application to accurately position a load or device. While a conventional DC or AC motor can be used, it is difficult to determine the exact position of the load, motor speed, or how much total motion has been produced, unless external positioning sensors, encoders, servo loops, and controlling devices (brakes or clut...

This paper concerns the influence of elastic mounting on the dynamic properties of hydrostatic control system. Digital simulation of the drives with rigid mounting and with elastically mounted load mass was performed in order to adapt their dynamic models to the physical model at the laboratory stand. The influence of parameters of the system, external load and friction on the dynamic propertie...

MPLS is the dominant technology in most backbone networks. MPLS-TE is able to handle various paths along different routes to balance the traffic load between two points of the network. In this paper we present a load balancing algorithm (LC) designed to reduce network congestion. The algorithm presented has been tested by simulation and implemented in a MPLS Linux lab test bed. Observed results...

A commercial electromechanical actuator (EMA) is to be dynamically tested with predetermined stroke and load profiles for transient thermal and electric power behavior to validate a numerical model used for aerospace applications. The EMA will follow the stroke profile representative of a real aircraft mission duty cycle. A hydraulic press will exert a corresponding load profile onto the EMA. S...