To accurately estimate the state of the body, the nervous system needs to account for delays between signals from different sensory modalities. To investigate how such delays may be represented in the sensorimotor system, we asked human participants to play a virtual pong game in which the movement of the virtual paddle was delayed with respect to their hand movement. We tested the representati...

The haptic paddle is a force-feedback joystick used at several universities in teaching System Dynamics, a core mechanical engineering undergraduate course where students learn to model dynamic systems in several domains. A second goal of the haptic paddle is to increase the accessibility of robotics and haptics by providing a low-cost device for middle and high school teachers and students, a ...

Cilia with a distal expansion of the membrane enclosing a curved or coiled end of the axoneme (paddle cilia or discocilia) have been widely reported in a variety of marine invertebrates. Various functions have been ascribed to paddle cilia, from acting as paddles to chemoreceptors (see Short and Tamm. 1991). Nevertheless, several authors have argued against the genuine nature of these organelle...

AIM To define the effect of defibrillator paddle position on technical success and dc shock energy requirements of external cardioversion of atrial fibrillation. METHODS 301 patients (mean (SD) age 62 (11) years) with stable atrial fibrillation were randomly assigned to elective external cardioversion using anterolateral paddle position (ventricular apex-right infraclavicular area; group AL (...

This paper presents a novel method to optimize the motion of a paddle within a nonprehensile batting task. The proposed approach shows that it is possible to online predict the impact time and the configuration of the paddle, in terms of its linear velocity and orientation, to re-direct a ball towards a desired location, imposing also a desired spin during the free flight. While exploiting the ...