Motivation – Designers make decisions that later influence how users work with the systems that they have designed. When errors occur in use, it is tempting to focus on the acti...
This paper considers grasps and fixtures whose contacts react according to force-displacement laws consistent with friction constrains at the contacts. The passive force closure s...
Abstract— People in densely populated environments typically form groups that split and merge. In this paper we track groups of people so as to reflect this formation process an...
We study an inventory system under periodic review in the presence of two suppliers (or delivery modes). The emergency supplier has a shorter lead-time than the regular supplier, ...
This paper presents a simple but effective tuning strategy for robust static output feedback (SOF) controllers with minimal quadratic cost in the context of multiple parametric un...