This paper provides a review of shape analysis methods. Shape analysis methods play an important role in systems for object recognition, matching, registration, and analysis. Research in shape analysis has been motivated, in part, by studies of human visual form perception systems. Several theories of visual form perception are brie y mentioned. Shape analysis methods are classi ed into several...

Plant fibres and especially flax can be distinguished from most synthetic by their intricate shape intrinsic porosity called lumen, which is usually assumed to tubular. However, the real appears more complex thus might induce stress concentrations influencing fibre performance. This study proposes a novel representation of lumen its variations along fibre, an interpretation origin effect on ten...

The many degrees of freedom continuum robots (CRs) enable unique applications in the search and rescue, medical aerospace industries. However, motors required result unwieldy external actuation packs additional weight. Underactuation can achieve any pose with four by locking sections through clutching cables. Existing underactuated (UA) solutions are characterized lengthy joint times, add signi...