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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Human Control"”.
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Methods and Metrics for Human Control of Multi-Robot Teams
Human-controlled robots are utilized in many situations and such use is becoming widespread. This thesis details research that allows a single human to interact with a team of robots performing tasks that require cooperation. The research provides insight into effective interaction design methods …
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Human control performance in operation of a time-delayed master-slave telemanipulator
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1985.
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Sensorimotor adaptation of human control strategies : ramifications for future human-machine interface design
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1995.
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Fitts' Law and human control of an electromyographic signal from the biceps brachii muscle group
Six human subjects performed a modified Fitts' test by moving an electromyographic signal between two targets on a computer screen. For five out of six subjects, the results were consistent with Fitts' Law with correlation coefficients ranging between 29% and 72%. The low correlation of the sixth …
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Human control of robots over discrete noisy channels with high latency: toward efficient EEG-based brain-robot interfaces
… noisy and discrete inputs at high latency from a human user (e.g., with an electroencephalograph) to control a robotic system (e.g., a robotic wheelchair) that can provide visual feedback. In this framework, the human user communicates their intent by providing inputs in response to queries posed …
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Magnesium Transport In Mammalian Erythrocytes And Its Effect On Platelet Aggregation
… in the presence of various drugs. Healthy human controls and patients suffering from acute renal failure who are undergoing treatment via haemodialysis (Pre- and Post-dialysis) were employed for the study. The effects of varying extracellular Mg 2+ on platelet aggregation was also …
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Demolition in American city planning
… the built environment and as a grand gesture of human control of the urban organism. This thesis examines the three main arguments for demolition: social reform, modernization, and non-conformity. Through the lens of each, it looks at the history of American demolition and points out the flawed …
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Maiden, Mother, Corpse: Greek Goddesses’ Dominion Over Life and Death in Myth and Literature
… affect both concepts, they are ultimately beyond human control, and so mythology is one means in which people cope with that reality. Four of Greek mythology’s central deities were called upon in order to intervene, and in the stories and cult practices that included these deities two patterns …
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A literary perspective on the notion of le hasard in twentieth century France
… by chance (which I define as events which exceed human control). From a tentative and fearful attitude there is a demonstrable move toward a decidedly open and positive one. In addition to the literary texts examined, I demonstrate the importance of such events to the philosophies of Georges …
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Filmic Bodies as Terministic (Silver) Screens: Embodied Social Anxieties in Videodrome
The horror film genre utilizes spectacles of the human body while alluding to our worst fears beyond the silver screen. "Body horror" is a unique sub-genre that distorts the very nature of human flesh for horrific effect. David Cronenberg's <italic>Videodrome</italic> (1983) is an exemplary body …
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A mixed-initiative framework for multi-agent human-robot teams
… are expanding into more complex, dynamic, and human-centered operating domains. In such domains, neither full autonomy nor full human control are ideal and the appropriate level of autonomy is contextually-dependent. Mixed-initiative systems enable flexible autonomy, making them ideal for …
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Plucking the rose: attitudes toward nature in the modern American fairy tale
… chosen, through characterization, identify a human main character with civilization and a fairy main character with the wilderness. In this way, nature is made into an "Other," something super-natural and thus something different from humans. Readers may, through fairy tales, accommodate …
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Characterization of whip targeting kinematics in discrete and rhythmic tasks
Robotic control of complex objects is inferior to that of humans despite superior communication, sensors and actuators. Therefore, studying human control of complex dynamic objects, in particular a bullwhip, should reveal how humans may achieve superior dexterity. An expert whip-cracker performing …
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Hydrocolonialism, Scarcity, and Pollution: Reading for Water in African Fiction
… Throughout the study, I note how water exceeds human control in numerous ways, acting as an unruly and disruptive force. My analysis of inspirited waters establishes that the more-than-human powers that imbue water with a form of agency contribute to its unruliness and its tendency to remain …
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Sex Specific Gene Expression Profiles In Fibrosis and Copd
… that are differentially expressed by gender in human control and diseased lung tissues we employed custom designed gene arrays to measure the transcriptional expression of 48 genes (39 immune and ECM relevant genes and 9 sex-related genes) simultaneously by quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) …
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Optimizing the Design of Robot Environments via Interleaved Optimization and White-Box Motion-Planning
… as an assembly line) this environment is under human control. Enter our first key insight: rather than treating a motion planner simply as a tool to be applied in a challenging environment, we can use the utilities returned by the planner to optimize the design of the environment itself. To do …
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Effects Of Voluntary Control On Performance Response Under Stress.
… real world counterpart. To examine how voluntary human control can influence traditional stress/no-stress research findings, traditional as well as exploratory paradigms were presented. Both noise and time pressure conditions produced significant differences between experimental and control groups …
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Co-Authoring Beyond the Human: Disordering Architectural Processes through Play and Multi-Agent Co-Existence
… participatory interventions to expose the human-centric assumptions embedded in spatial decision-making. Presented as a collection of games and booklets, the work invites participants to engage with a wide spectrum of architectural processes—from site understanding and planning to …
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OCA : a device interconnection platform for context-aware transformable environments
… hundreds, of connected devices that will require human control. Currently, most interactions involve standalone devices, each with a unique and often non-intuitive interface, which places an unacceptable cognitive load on the occupants. To address this challenge, I propose to develop a framework …
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