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Showing 1 to 20 of 3897 for “"Manipulation"”.
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Sensitive manipulation
… to the traditional approach to robotic manipulation. In our approach, manipulation is mainly guided by tactile feedback as opposed to vision. The motivation comes from the fact that manipulating an object implies coming in contact with it, consequently, directly sensing physical contact …
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Soft Aerial Manipulation
… exploits the advantages of softness in aerial manipulation. Manipulation and grasping with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) currently require accurate positioning and are often executed at reduced speed to ensure successful grasps. This is because modern aerial manipulation platforms employ …
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VISION-BASED ROBOTIC MANIPULATION
Vision-based robotic manipulation has emerged as a pivotal research area within the field of robotics, leveraging advanced computer vision techniques to enable robots to perceive and interact with their environment autonomously. This thesis explores three critical aspects of vision-based robotic …
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Object Manipulation During Development
… adjust grip parameters during skilled object manipulation. While the developmental trajectory of digit forces has been extensively investigated, the development of anticipatory control of digit position remains poorly understood. Assessment of sensorimotor hand function forms an important …
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Interactive Touch for Manipulation
… focus on how to let robots leverage touch for manipulation in interactive means. We demonstrate several hardware platforms equipped with tactile sensing and integrated perception and control frameworks to apply interactive touch to real-world manipulation tasks. (1) We use touch for …
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Manipulation with diverse actions
We define the Diverse Action Manipulation (DAMA) problem in which we are given a mobile robot, a set of movable objects, and a set of diverse, possibly non-prehensile manipulation actions, and the objective is to find a sequence of actions that moves each of the objects to a goal configuration. We …
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Text-Driven Movie Manipulation
… a textual description of the desired appearance manipulation. Compared to work-intensive special effects, our method enables quick and flexible experimentation.
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The awareness of visual manipulation
… of ideological signifiers through visual manipulation in the reading of cinematic texts. The experiment brought about different features whereby students with formal training in visual aesthetics recognised the connotative and denotative of the codes of film grammar. Whereas the other …
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Genetic manipulation and human rights
… the ethical, social and legal aspects of genetic manipulation within the frame of human rights. The thesis tries to dig deep into the process of genetic manipulation and explain how postmodern philosophy of human nature can reflect dangerously on the hardly-gained human rights.
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Structural manipulation of conjugated polymers
The syntheses of new classes of conjugated polymers are presented. The synthesis of novel alkyne bridged trispyrazolylmethane ligands, their coordination behavior and their crystallographic properties are studied. A series of functionalized poly(paraphenyleneethynylene)s, PPEs, are produced by …
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Content based image pose manipulation
This thesis proposes the application of space-frequency transformations to the domain of pose estimation in images. This idea is explored using the Wavelet Transform with illustrative applications in pose estimation for face images, and images of planar scenes. The approach is based on examining …
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Manipulation of 3D knotted polygons
… "building blocks" which specify the actual manipulations and computations to be performed, and a structural framework which allows the user to specify which manipulations/computations to perform, in which order and with how many repetitions. The overall framework is designed in such a way …
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Topochemical Manipulation of Layered Perovskites
… The further multistep </p> <p> <p>topochemical manipulation of this new compound was not successful and was indicative of the difference in chemical behavior of the tantalates versus the niobates.</p> <p>We have also investigated the oxidative intercalation of halogens into a series of …
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Coherent manipulation of ultracold Rubidium
The production of dense samples of atoms whose translational velocity can be parameterized by temperatures in the microkelvin range has revolutionized the fields of spectroscopy, metrology, quantum computing and sensitive tests of quantum mechanics. Such ultracold temperatures may be reached by …
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Electrohydrodynamic manipulation of multiphase fluids
In microfluidic devices, the fluid can be manipulated either as continuous streams or droplets. The latter is particularly attractive as individual droplets can not only move but also split and fuse, thus offer a greater flexibility in applications such as a laboratory-on- a-chip. In this thesis, a …
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Prediction learning in robotic manipulation
… thesis addresses an important problem in robotic manipulation, which is the ability to predict how objects behave under manipulative actions. This ability is useful for planning of object manipulations. Physics simulators can be used to do this, but they model many kinds of object interactions …
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Friendsourcing to detect network manipulation
… category that one can describe as network manipulation. Many methods have been investigated to detect and circumvent network manipulation. For instance, researchers have devoted projects to determining which words trigger various national censorship firewalls and strategies for deploying …
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Aerial manipulation for indoor applications
… in the presence of uncertainties. While aerial manipulation has been researched to some extent, few efforts have been made to address both of these challenges simultaneously. First, the dynamics of the quadrotor and manipulator are introduced. Then, two types of baseline flight controllers are …
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