Active deformation in Alborz range is due to N-S convergence between Arabia and Eurasia. This paper provides geomorphic traces of regional deformation in NW Iran in order to characterize active faulting on major faults. Soltanieh and North Zanjan fault systems are involved in convergence boundary extent between South Caspian Basin and Central Iran. Soltanieh and North Zanjan faults are major re...

Physical inversion of whole or partial human body representations typically has catastrophic consequences on the observer's ability to perform visual processing tasks. Explanations usually focus on the effects of inversion on the visual system's ability to exploit configural or structural relationships, but more recently have also implicated motion or kinematic cue processing. Here, we systemat...

NW-tending faults in Central Iran are expected to represent dominant dextral components due to their orientation with respect to the northward motion of the Arabian Plate with respect to Eurasia. However, previously published works, as well as the focal mechanism solution of the area's earthquakes, indicate evidence of sinistral kinematic along the major faults in Central Iran. Here we present ...

Muscle-based models of the human face produce high quality animation but rely on recorded muscle activity signals or synthetic muscle signals that are often derived by trial and error. This paper presents a dynamic inversion of a muscle-based model (Lucero and Munhall, 1999) that permits the animation to be created from kinematic recordings of facial movements. Using a nonlinear optimizer (Powe...

This paper introduces the concept of functional redundancy of serial manipulators, and presents a new resolution scheme to solve such redundant robotic tasks requiring less than six degrees-of-freedom. Instead of projecting the secondary task onto the null space of the Jacobian matrix in order to take advantage of the redundancy, the twist of endeffector is directly decomposes into two orthogon...

The inverse kinematic (IK) relationship of a manipulator is a one-to-many map which can not be learnt using a feed-forward neural network (FFN). The usual method is to learn the forward kinematic relationship using a FFN and then obtaining the IK solution through inversion of the approximate forward model. The accuracy of the inverse kinematic solution thus obtained is limited by the accuracy o...