Translation + Pendaphonics = Movement Modulated Media

Leonardo ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 322-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byron Lahey ◽  
Winslow Burleson ◽  
Elizabeth Streb

Translation is a multimedia dance performed on a vertical wall filled with the projected image of a lunar surface. Pendaphonics is a low-cost, versatile, and robust motion-sensing hardware-software system integrated with the rigging of Translation to detect the dancers' motion and provide real-time control of the virtual moonscape. Replacing remotely triggered manual cues with high-resolution, real-time control by the performers expands the expressive range and ensures synchronization of feedback with the performers' movements. This project is the first application of an ongoing collaboration between the Motivational Environments Research Group at Arizona State University (ASU) and STREB Extreme Action Company.

Nanophotonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhicheng Xiao ◽  
Andrea Alù

Abstract Fano resonances feature an asymmetric lineshape with controllable linewidth, stemming from the interplay between bright and dark resonances. They provide efficient opportunities to shape the scattering lineshape, but they usually lack flexibility and tunability and are hindered by loss in passive systems. Here, we explore a hybrid parity-time (PT) and anti-parity-time (APT) symmetric system supporting unitary scattering features with highly tunable Fano resonances. The PT-APT-symmetric system can be envisioned in nanophotonic and microwave circuit implementations, allowing for real-time control of the scattering lineshape and its underlying singularities. Our study shows the opportunities enabled by non-Hermitian platforms to control scattering lineshapes for a plethora of photonic, electronic, and quantum systems, with potential for high-resolution imaging, switching, sensing, and multiplexing.


1986 ◽  
Vol 19 (13) ◽  
pp. 113-117
Author(s):  
J.J. Serrano ◽  
C. Cebrián ◽  
J. Vila ◽  
R. Ors

Author(s):  
Ryan W. Krauss

Arduino microcontrollers are popular, low-cost, easy-to-program, and have an active user community. This paper seeks to quantitatively assess whether or not Arduinos are a good fit for real-time feedback control experiments and controls education. Bode plots and serial echo tests are used to assess the use of Arduinos in two scenarios: a prototyping mode that involves bidirectional real-time serial communication with a PC and a hybrid mode that streams data in real-time over serial. The closed-loop performance with the Arduino is comparable to that of another more complicated and more expensive microcontroller for the plant considered. Some practical tips on using an Arduino for real-time feedback control are also given.


2012 ◽  
Vol 614-615 ◽  
pp. 1562-1565
Author(s):  
Yu Sen Li ◽  
Ying Sun

In order to realize the sensor signal acquisition and analysis of data, according to data acquisition system design ideas of the PCI bus, applying to CPLD complex programmable controller and CH365 interface chip and combined with the actual needs of data collection ,designed a kind of low cost, high speed process controller. CPLD realizes data cache control and the control of reading. This design can gather 16 roads analog signals and real-time pulse signal of 8 roads on the same time, which includes a 16-bit digital output channel and a 32-bit counter, could be used in the real-time control.


2014 ◽  
Vol 926-930 ◽  
pp. 2690-2693
Author(s):  
Yao Cheng

Ethernet has been broadly used in modern industry for its exoteric standard, flexibility and low cost. Ethernet is becoming the right choice for many engineering application. However, issues of performance must be considered when we apply it to timing sensitive field such as real time control system and so on. An Ethernet interface solution implemented based on s3c2410a and ax88796 was described in this article, and in order to improve the performance, inline assemble was introduced into this study. The effect of performance improvement through inline assemble was checked by ping experiments. It was proved that inline assemble can improve the performance of Ethernet interface distinctly.


2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (08) ◽  
pp. 2349-2360 ◽  
Author(s):  
LEONARDO A. B. TÔRRES ◽  
LUIS ANTONIO AGUIRRE

This paper describes a laboratory setup suitable for implementing low cost real-time solutions in the fields of control, synchronization and information transmission based on chaotic oscillators. The setup has the following features: (a) it is composed of a Chua oscillator furnished with three actuators thus permitting mono- and multi-variable control; (b) the actuators can be driven by the analog outputs of a standard I/O-board; in order to be able to actuate fast enough (c) the I/O-board is driven by a real time program written for Linux and (d) an inductorless implementation of Chua's circuit permits to slow down the original dynamics to just a few hertz. This enables implementing sophisticated control schemes without severe time restrictions. The paper concludes with a sample of experiments performed using the new setup.


Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raimarius Delgado ◽  
Byoung Choi

This paper proposes a real-time embedded system for joint space control of omnidirectional mobile robots. Actuators driving an omnidirectional mobile robot are connected in a line topology which requires synchronization to move simultaneously in translation and rotation. We employ EtherCAT, a real-time Ethernet network, to control servo controllers for the mobile robot. The first part of this study focuses on the design of a low-cost embedded system utilizing an open-source EtherCAT master. Although satisfying real-time constraints is critical, a desired trajectory on the center of the mobile robot should be decomposed into the joint space to drive the servo controllers. For the center of the robot, a convolution-based path planner and a corresponding joint space control algorithm are presented considering its physical limits. To avoid obstacles that introduce geometric constraints on the curved path, a trajectory generation algorithm considering high curvature turning points is adapted for an omnidirectional mobile robot. Tracking a high curvature path increases mathematical complexity, which requires precise synchronization between the actuators of the mobile robot. An improvement of the distributed clock—the synchronization mechanism of EtherCAT for slaves—is presented and applied to the joint controllers of the mobile robot. The local time of the EtherCAT master is dynamically adjusted according to the drift of the reference slave, which minimizes the synchronization error between each joint. Experiments are conducted on our own developed four-wheeled omnidirectional mobile robot. The experiment results confirm that the proposed system is very effective in real-time control applications for precise motion control of the robot even for tracking high curvature paths.


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