Motion paths of cable-driven hexapods must carefully be planned to ensure that the lengths and tensions of all cables remain within acceptable limits, for a given wrench applied to the platform. The cables cannot go slack –to keep the control of the platform– nor excessively tight –to prevent cable breakage– even in the presence of bounded perturbations of the wrench. This paper proposes a path...

UNLABELLED This study examined the effects of glovebox gloves for 11 females on maximum grip and key pinch strength and on contact forces generated from simulated tasks of a roller, a pair of tweezers and a crescent wrench. The independent variables were gloves fabricated of butyl, CSM/hypalon and neoprene materials; two glove thicknesses; and layers of gloves worn including single, double and ...

During locomotion, legged robots interact with the ground by sequentially establishing and breaking contact. The interaction wrenches that arise from contact are used to steer robot’s Center of Mass (CoM) reject perturbations make system deviate desired trajectory often them fall. feasibility a given control target (desired CoM wrench or acceleration) is conditioned point distribution, f...

This paper proposes a solution to the problem of grasp analysis and synthesis of 2D articulated objects with n links considering frictionless contacts. The boundary of each link of the object is represented by a finite set of boundary points allowing links of any shape to be considered. Grasp analysis is carried out to verify whether a set of contact points on the object boundary allows a force...

Comparative geology suggests that the continents adjacent to northern, western, southern, and eastern Laurentia in the Late Proterozoic were Siberia, Australia-Antarctica, southern Africa, and Amazonia-Baltica, respectively. Late Proterozoic fragmentation of the supercontinent centered on Laurentia would then have been followed by rapid fan-like collapse of the (present) southern continents and...

Moral dilemmas often pose dramatic and gut-wrenching emotional choices. It is now widely accepted that emotions are not simply experienced alongside people's judgments about moral dilemmas, but that our affective processes play a central role in determining those judgments. However, much of the evidence purporting to demonstrate the connection between people's emotional responses and their judg...

This paper addresses the issue of difficulties in servicing brake pipe connectors for passenger cars, service life which exceeds 8‒10 years, is associated with deteriorated loosening connectors. The existing ways to loosen pipes have been investigated, especially those whose dismantling complicated due corrosion and contamination mated surfaces as a result their wetting when driving car. A conv...