Concept

Orientation (geometry)

Related publications (88)

Orientation of body segments in ski jumps using wearable sensors: Analysis of relevant parameters during stable flight phase

Kamiar Aminian, Julien Favre, Julien Chardonnens

3D kinematic and dynamic analysis is highly required in ski jumping. Current recording techniques (e.g. camera systems) suffered from limitations, such as volume capture or complexity of use and processing. This study proposed a new 3D approach based on in ...

2010

On The Stochastic Modeling Of Rigid Body Systems With Application To Polymer Dynamics

John Maddocks

The stochastic equations of motion for a system of interacting rigid bodies in a solvent are formulated and studied. Three-dimensional bodies of arbitrary shape, with arbitrary couplings between translational and rotational degrees of freedom, as arise in ...

2010

SwissCube Inertial Wheel Assembly Electronics

Laurenz Notter

The overall goal is the development of a new control software for the inertial wheel assembly of the SwissCube project. SwissCube is an educational project of several Swiss universities and technical colleges under the supervision of the Space Center of EP ...

2010

Contact mechanics at the nanoscale, a 3D multiscale approach

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux

We present a multiscale coupling method to address contact problems. The components of the model are a molecular dynamics engine, a finite element program and a coupling scheme. We validate the approach, first on Hertzian contact and then with a rough surf ...

2009

A micromachined earth sensor based on measuring the gravity gradient torque

Herbert Shea, Kaustav Ghose

We present the fabrication and testing of a novel MEMS inertial sensor that directly measures the gravity gradient in low Earth orbit in order to sense the relative orientation of a satellite with respect to the Earth. Instead of the current Earth sensing ...

American Soc Mechanical Engineers, Three Park Avenue, New York, Ny 10016-5990 Usa2009

Gravity and observer's body orientation influence the visual perception of human body postures

Olaf Blanke, Christophe Lopez, Manuel Mercier, Christelle Bachofner

Since human behavior and perception have evolved within the Earth's gravitational field, humans possess an internal model of gravity. Although gravity is known to influence the visual perception of moving objects, the evidence is less clear concerning the ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2009

Is there a geometric module for spatial orientation? Insights from a rodent navigation model

Wulfram Gerstner, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Thomas Strösslin, Angelo Arleo

Modern psychological theories of spatial cognition postulate the existence of a geometric module for reorientation. This concept is derived from experimental data showing that in rectangular arenas with distinct landmarks in the corners, disoriented rats o ...

American Psychological Association2009

Learning Nonlinear Multi-Variate Motion Dynamics for Real- Time Position and Orientation Control of Robotic Manipulators

Aude Billard, Elena Gribovskaya

We present a generic framework that allows learning non- linear dynamics of motion in manipulation tasks and generating dynamical laws for control of position and orientation. This work follows a recent trend in Programming by Demonstration in which the dy ...

2009

Fabrication and Testing of a MEMS Based Earth Sensor

Herbert Shea, Kaustav Ghose

We present a novel MEMS inertial sensor that directly measures the gravity gradient in order to sense the relative orientation of a satellite with respect to the Earth. An Earths ensor provides an orbiting satellite with a vector towards the Earth center. ...

2009

X-ray structure of a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel in an apparently open conformation

Pentameric ligand-gated ion channels from the Cys-loop family mediate fast chemo-electrical transduction, but the mechanisms of ion permeation and gating of these membrane proteins remain elusive. Here we present the X-ray structure at 2.9 A resolution of ...

Nature Publishing Group2008

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