The purpose of this research is to facilitate the mechanical harvesting of apricots (Prunus armeniaca L.) for industry. A tractor-trailed harvester was built to catch the fruits detached from apricot (cv. Búlida) trees by vibratory systems. This machine is a low profile catcher that can move under the trees in high-density canopies where umbrella-type harvesters cannot. The trailer is able to w...

This paper discusses three instances of compositions, in which physical and cyber everyday objects interact. The physical objects such as plastic corrugated tubes, plastic superballs, glass marbles, cocktail shakers, electric blenders, and others provide unique musical data for the performance and input data for their physically modeled counterparts. Besides the compositional strategies, the ar...

It must be explicitly stated that some individuals should never take drugs of this category, and that one's friends are not suitable judges of suitable candidates. Furthermore, a secure environment is essential for the protection of the subject who takes LSD, since hs is vulnerable, hypersuggestible, and emotionally labile. In the hands of experts these agents are relatively safe, but they are ...

This study analyzes the interactions among individuals engaged in an information system project aimed to support an organization created by the merger of previously independent entities. We draw on a practice perspective to analyze the spanning practices of boundary shakers – mandated change agents – as they attempt to engage with others in crossboundary collaborative initiatives that aim at ch...

The application of the two-degree-of-freedom (2DOF) control to the electrodynamic multi-axis shaking system that is not permitted to employ the iteration control method is presented. A transformation matrix is used to remove a redundancy. The redundancy arises from the fact that the 6DOF shaking table is composed of 8-shakers. Furthermore, the influences of the specimen and the crosscoupling te...

Vibration isolators are widely used in high-precision machines to reduce the transmissibility function T , which represents the transfer from base frame vibrations to payload vibrations. Active vibration control (AVC) can be used to further improve T . However, for industrial systems with AVC it is often difficult to show improvement of T via system identification, since it is hard to sufficien...