M Maarten Steinbuch

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate the advantage of applying viscoelastic materials instead of purely viscous materials as damping medium in mechanical dampers and demonstrate that an increase of the storage modulus as function of frequency contributes to the effectiveness of mechanical damping with respect to energy dissipation at different mechanical resonance frequencies.

TL;DR: A detailed task analysis based on recent maintenance at JET, using task logbooks and video data as well as interviews with experienced master–slave operators, indicates that intuitive (virtual) visual feedback and artificial forces are promising directions for improvement in tele-operated maintenance.

TL;DR: The main contribution of this paper is the derivation of algebraic constraints over Qi that guarantee the existence of a rational stable interpolant over the points Qi.

TL;DR: A non-linear dynamic model of a wind turbine with synchronous generator and AC/ DC/AC conversion has been set up, which is presented here and it is shown that the wind turbine has very fast as well as very slow dynamics.

TL;DR: This work proposes the synthesis of a switching robust controller that increases the environment stiffness range for which both stability and transparency is achieved and shows the applicability of the approach by experiments on a 1-DOF teleoperated system interacting with a virtual spring.