scholarly journals Whisking and whisker kinematics during a texture classification task

2011 ◽  
Vol 366 (1581) ◽  
pp. 3058-3069 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanfang Zuo ◽  
Igor Perkon ◽  
Mathew E. Diamond
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Texture Classification ◽  
Preliminary Assessment ◽  
Stick Slip ◽  
High Speed Video ◽  
Texture Information ◽  
Motor Strategy ◽  
Texture Coding ◽  
Motor Programme

Rats explore objects by rhythmically whisking with their vibrissae. The goal of the present study is to learn more about the motor output used by rats to acquire texture information as well as the whisker motion evoked by texture contact. We trained four rats to discriminate between different grooved textures and used high-speed video to characterize whisker motion during the task. The variance in whisking parameters among subjects was notable. After whisker trimming, the animals changed their behaviour in ways that appear consistent with an optimization of whisker movement to compensate for lost information. These results lead to the intriguing notion that the rats use an information-seeking ‘cognitive’ motor strategy, instead of a rigid motor programme. Distinct stick/slip events occurred during texture palpation and their frequency increased in relation to the spatial frequency of the grooves. The results allow a preliminary assessment of three candidate texture-coding mechanisms—the number of grooves encountered during each touch, the temporal difference between groove contacts and the spatial pattern of groove contacts across the whiskers.

Observation of Kaneta's dimples in elastohydrodynamic lubrication contacts

2001 ◽  
Vol 215 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Ehret ◽  
F Bauget
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication ◽  
Periodic Variation ◽  
Video Camera ◽  
Interfacial Slip ◽  
Stick Slip ◽  
High Speed Video ◽  
High Speed Video Camera ◽  
Dependent Model ◽  
Time Dependent Model

The formation of Kaneta's dimples are investigated under different sliding conditions using a high-speed video camera. Of interest is the observation of an unstable regime in which trains of dimples are formed and propagate throughout the high-pressure conjunction at regular intervals while the running conditions are steady. This study shows that such a situation can be associated with a type of stick-slip phenomenon in which adherence at the wall is periodically lost. A simple time-dependent model is developed to validate this concept. The model extends the consideration of interfacial slip previously proposed and accounts for a periodic variation in slip with time. The results reveal that such a condition effectively allows trains of single dimples to move throughout the conjunction. A refined modelling of the conditions at the wall/lubricant interface is, however, required in the future if a better understanding of the conditions which trigger such instabilities is to be obtained.

APPLICATION OF THE EARLY DAMAGE DIAGNOSTICS TECHNIQUE TO EXAMINATION OF THE AVIATION PANEL

2019 ◽  
Vol 85 (6) ◽  
pp. 53-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. E. Vasil’ev ◽  
Yu. G. Matvienko ◽  
A. V. Pankov ◽  
A. G. Kalinin
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Emission ◽  
Damage Detection ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Video Data ◽  
High Speed Video ◽  
Damage Diagnostics ◽  
Subsurface Defect ◽  
Sensitive Coating ◽  
Early Damage

The results of using early damage diagnostics technique (developed in the Mechanical Engineering Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMASH RAN) for detecting the latent damage of an aviation panel made of composite material upon bench tensile tests are presented. We have assessed the capabilities of the developed technique and software regarding damage detection at the early stage of panel loading in conditions of elastic strain of the material using brittle strain-sensitive coating and simultaneous crack detection in the coating with a high-speed video camera “Video-print” and acoustic emission system “A-Line 32D.” When revealing a subsurface defect (a notch of the middle stringer) of the aviation panel, the general concept of damage detection at the early stage of loading in conditions of elastic behavior of the material was also tested in the course of the experiment, as well as the software specially developed for cluster analysis and classification of detected location pulses along with the equipment and software for simultaneous recording of video data flows and arrays of acoustic emission (AE) data. Synchronous recording of video images and AE pulses ensured precise control of the cracking process in the brittle strain-sensitive coating (tensocoating)at all stages of the experiment, whereas the use of structural-phenomenological approach kept track of the main trends in damage accumulation at different structural levels and identify the sources of their origin when classifying recorded AE data arrays. The combined use of oxide tensocoatings and high-speed video recording synchronized with the AE control system, provide the possibility of definite determination of the subsurface defect, reveal the maximum principal strains in the area of crack formation, quantify them and identify the main sources of AE signals upon monitoring the state of the aviation panel under loading P = 90 kN, which is about 12% of the critical load.

A High Speed Video/Audio Stream Splitter for 4K Digital-Cinema

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hirokazu Takahashi ◽  
Takahiro Murooka ◽  
Kan Toyoshima ◽  
Hitoshi Uematsu ◽  
Tetsuro Fujii
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Digital Cinema ◽  
High Speed Video

Study on Magnetic Barrel Machine Equipped with Three-Dimensional Arrangement of Magnets

2007 ◽  
Vol 329 ◽  
pp. 761-766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Zhang ◽  
Masato Yoshioka ◽  
Shin-Ichiro Hira
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Permanent Magnets ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Video Camera ◽  
High Speed Video ◽  
High Speed Video Camera ◽  
The Media ◽  
Set Up

At present, a commercially available magnetic barrel machine equipped with permanent magnets has some faults arising from constructional reason. That is, grinding or finishing ability is different from place to place in the machining region, resulting in the limitation on the region we can use in the container of workpieces. Therefore, in this research, authors made the new magnetic barrel machine equipped with three dimensional (3D) magnet arrangement to overcome these faults. The grinding ability of the new 3D magnetic barrel machine converted was experimentally examined, and compared with that of the traditional magnetic barrel machine. As a result, it was shown that we can use much broader region in the new 3D machine. It was also shown that the grinding ability became higher. The distribution of barrel media in action was recorded by means of a high speed video camera. It was clarified that the media rose up higher and were distributed more uniformly in the container by the effect of the magnet block newly set up. It was supposed that this must be the reason for the above-mentioned improvement of grinding ability.

High Speed Video Observations of Vocal Fold Kinematics While Playing a Clarinet

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew L. DiMatteo ◽  
Juergen Neubauer ◽  
David G. Lott ◽  
Stephanie Zacharias ◽  
Thomas Murry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vocal Fold ◽  
High Speed ◽  
High Speed Video ◽  
Video Observations
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