We present an interface between a deformable body mechanics model and a rigid body mechanics model. What is novel with our approach is that the physical representation in both the models is the same, which ensures behavioral correctness and allows great flexibility. We use a massspring representation extended with the concept of volume, and thus contact and collision. All physical interaction o...

A number of staged impacts performed by our group with the aid of a test device representing a low-mass vehicle (LMV) indicates that a rigid-belt body (RBB) is a valid means for providing adequate occupant safety also for LMVs in the strict sense (curb mass less than 600 kg). The RBB concept raises the problem of compatibility, however. Ideally, the deformability of car front structures should ...

This Demo presents a framework for the live synchronization of an RDF view defined on top of relational database. In the proposed framework, rules are responsible for computing and publishing the changeset required for the RDB-RDF view to stay synchronized with the relational database. The computed changesets are then used for the incremental maintenance of the RDB_RDF views as well as applicat...

This paper is devoted to the construction of a probabilistic model of uncertain rigid bodies for multibody system dynamics. We first construct a stochastic model of an uncertain rigid body by replacing the mass, the center of mass and the tensor of inertia by random variables. The prior probability distributions of the stochastic model are constructed using the maximum entropy principle under t...

In this paper, we propose a nonlinear adaptive position and attitude tracking controller for a rigid body that requires no information about the mass and inertia matrix of the body. Moreover, we provide sufficient conditions on the reference trajectory that guarantee mass and inertia matrix identification. The controller is shown to be almost globally asymptotically stable and can handle large ...

RDF has gained great interest in both academia and industry as an important language to describe graph data. Several approaches have been proposed for storing and querying RDF data efficiently; each works best under certain circumstances, e.g. certain types of data and/or queries. However, there was lack of a thorough understanding of exactly what these circumstances are, as different data-sets...

We introduce the notion of L2-rigidity for von Neumann algebras, a generalization of property (T) which can be viewed as an analogue for the vanishing of 1-cohomology into the left regular representation of a group. We show that L2-rigidity passes to normalizers and is satisfied by nonamenable II1 factors which are non-prime, have property Γ , or are weakly rigid. As a consequence we obtain tha...

This is a reply to Timothy Williamson’s paper ‘Tennant’s Troubles’. It defends against Williamson’s objections the anti-realist’s knowability principle based on the author’s ‘local’ restriction strategy involving Cartesian propositions, set out in The Taming of the True. Williamson’s purported Fitchian reductio, involving the unknown number of books on his table, is analyzed in detail and shown...