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The operational space formulation (Khatib, 1987), applied to rigid-body manipulators, describes how to decouple task-space and null-space dynamics, and write control equations that correspond only to forces at the end-effector or, alternatively, only to motion within the null-space. We would like to apply this useful theory to modern humanoids and other legged systems, for manipulation or simil...

4. Farley MM, Harvey RC, Stull T, et al. A population-based assessment of are rare in adults, routine screening for GBS, as done before delivinvasive disease due to group B streptococcus in nonpregnant adults. ery to prevent GBS infection in neonates, is not economically N Engl J Med 1993;328:1807–11. feasible. 5. Sarmiento R, Wilson FM, Khatib R. Group B streptococcal meningitis in adults: cas...

By following Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear (CSN) requirements, all of the Spanish NPP ́s performed plant specific PSA level 2 studies and implemented Severe Accident Management Guidelines during the first years of this century. CSN and contractors made an independent detailed review of these PSA level 2 studies (Khatib-Rahbar 1997 2002). This independent review included the performance of plant s...

Preferences are ubiquitous in real-life. Moreover, preferences can be of many kinds: qualitative, quantitative, conditional, positive or negative, to name a few. Our ultimate goal is to define and study formalisms that can model problems with both constraints and many kind of preferences, possibly defined by several agents, and to develop tools to solve such problems efficiently. In this paper ...

From its historical background and its focus on quality, the International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR) is one of the most prestigious conferences in the field of robotics. Sponsored by the International Foundation of Robotics Research (IFRR), the goal of ISRR is to bring together active leading robotics researchers from academia, public institutions and industry to assess and share th...

Complete volume, containing all articles CONTENTS Introduction: Feriel Bouhafa, Towards New Perspectives on Ethics in Islam: Casuistry, Contingency, and Ambiguity I. Islamic Philosophy Theology The Dialectics of Ethics: Moral Ontology Epistemology Frank Griffel, Place Virtue within the Post-Classical Discourse ḥikma: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s al-Nafs wa-l-rūḥ wa-sharḥ quwāhumā Ayman Shihadeh, Psyc...