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Manipulation (psychology)

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Controlling Biological Functions

Majed Chergui

A review. Manipulation of the quantum properties of matter can influence the course of biochem. reactions. Can biol. functions, such as vision or photosynthesis, that are driven by incoherent phenomena have anything to do with quantum mechanics, where the ...

2006

Learning Dynamical System Modulation for Constrained Reaching Tasks

Aude Billard, Sylvain Calinon, Micha Hersch

In this paper we combine kinesthetic demonstrations and dynamical systems to enable a humanoid robot to imitate constrained reaching gestures directed toward a target. Using a learning algorithm based on Gaussian Mixture Regression, the task constraints ar ...

2006

The optimal use of vision as part of the manipulation of micron-sized objects

Reymond Clavel, Mélanie Dafflon, Jean-Philippe Bacher, Thomas Wimböck

This project concerns the development and integration of a sub-millimeter objects manipulation setup and will take part in a CTI project named “Manipulating Microscale Objects with Nanoscale Precision”. On the way of manipulating microscale objects, we nee ...

2004

Nanocapsules with functionalized surfaces and walls

Horst Vogel, Mathias Winterhalter

With the possibility of creating and handling nanometer-sized objects, it became popular to dream of future miniaturized tools allowing completely new applications in medicine and technology. Mother nature created during evolution many such self-assembled ...

2004

Discovering Optimal Imitation Strategies

Aude Billard, Sylvain Calinon

This paper develops a general policy for learning relevant features of an imitation task. We restrict our study to imitation of manipulative tasks or of gestures. The imitation process is modeled as a hierarchical optimization system, which minimizes the d ...

2004

High resolution miniature rotary microactuator

Jean-Marc Breguet, Walter Driesen

For the development of high precision mobile microrobots with a size of about one cm3, capable of micromanipulation tasks, small and precise actuators have to be developed in order to provide the microrobot and its manipulation tools with the required degr ...

2004

Position Feedback for Microrobots based on Scanning Probe Microscopy

Hannes Bleuler, Jean-Marc Breguet, Walter Driesen, Ashwin Lal

A cluster of small cooperative robots capable of executing measurement and manipulation tasks is being developed within the scope of a European project. The robots are autonomous and have an overall dimension in the order of 1 cm/sup 3/. In this paper we p ...

2004

Defining behaviors for autonomous agents based on local perception and smart objects

Daniel Thalmann

An integrated framework is proposed in which local perception and close manipulation skills are used in conjunction with a high-level behavioral interface based on a "smart object" paradigm as support for virtual agents to perform autonomous tasks. In our ...

Elsevier2002

Mycobacterial genomics

Stewart Cole

The small size of their genomes made bacterial ideal model organisms for the emerging field of genomics. Elucidating the genome sequences of mycobacteria was particularly attractive owing to the difficulties inherent in their manipulation. The slow growth ...

2002

Multi-finger manipulation of virtual objects

Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic

The manipulation of a virtual object by means of a digital glove is a tedious task for repetitive position and orientation adjustments. We try to overcome the lack of force feedback of general purpose digital gloves. We propose a solution based only on the ...

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