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Humans use tools to complete impact-aware tasks, such as hammering a nail or playing tennis. The postures adopted to use these tools can significantly influence the performance of these tasks, where the force or velocity of the hand holding a tool plays a ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Indole Alkaloids (+)-Condyfoline, (-)-Tubifoline, (+)-Dasycarpidone and (+)-Uleine

Bastien Delayre

The development of a titanium(III)-mediated cascade electrocyclisation/rearrangement for theenantioselective total synthesis of indole alkaloids (+)-condyfoline and (-)-tubifoline serve as the basisof the first chapter of this thesis. An introduction will ...

EPFL2022

Carbon outclasses wood in racket paddles: Ratings of expert and intermediate tennis players

Michael Herzog, Olaf Blanke, Véronique Michaud, Christian Fischer

Wooden racket paddles were modified with rubber and carbon fibre laminates and their differences tested in terms of flexural, damping, and coefficient of restitution properties. Four rackets types were designed: a wood reference, wood with rubber, carbon f ...

Taylor & Francis2010

Evaluation of a probabilistic approach to learn and reproduce gestures by imitation

Aude Billard, Sylvain Calinon, Eric Sauser

We present an approach based on Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and Gaussian Mixture Regression (GMR) to learn robust models of human motion through imitation. The proposed approach allows us to extract redundancies across multiple demonstrations and build time- ...

2010

Enhanced temporal but not attentional processing in expert tennis players

Michael Herzog, Olaf Blanke

In tennis, as in many disciplines of sport, fine spatio-temporal resolution is required to reach optimal performance. While many studies on tennis have focused on anticipatory skills or decision making, fewer have investigated the underlying visual percept ...

Public Library of Science2008

Réaménagement du quartier Campo Marzio en nouveau centre d'exposition et salles de congrès de la ville de Lugano (TI)

Luca Conti

Le Quartier Campo Marzio, c'est un vaste vide urbain public sur le delta du fleuve Cassarate en situation de limite entre le pôle administratif du centre-ville et l'agglomération résidentielle qui grandit à l'Est du fleuve jusqu'aux pieds du Monte Bre. Il ...

2003

Generic 3D ball animation model for networked interactive VR environments

Daniel Thalmann

The paper describes a versatile, robust, and parametric ball animation model that can be used in many types of interactive virtual reality (VR) environments. The generic model is particularly useful for animation of ball-like objects such as tennis balls a ...

2000

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