Trying to Grasp a Sketch of a Brain for Grasping

Ritter H, Haschke R, Steil JJ. Trying to Grasp a Sketch of a Brain for Grasping. In: Sendhoff B, ed. Creating Brain-Like Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence; 5436. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009: 84-102

Manual Intelligence as a Rosetta Stone for Robot Cognition

Ritter H, Haschke R, Röthling F, Steil JJ. Manual Intelligence as a Rosetta Stone for Robot Cognition. In: Kaneko M, Nakamura Y, eds. Robotics Research. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, 66. Vol 66. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer; 2011: 135-146.A major unsolved problem is to provide robots with sufficient manual intelligence so that they can seamlessly interact with environments made for humans, where almost all objects have been designed for being acted upon by human hands. With the recent advent of anthropomorphic hand designs whose configuration space begins to approximate that of human hands in a realistic fashion, manual intelligence for robots is rapidly emerging as an exciting interdisciplinary research field, connecting robotics research with advances in the cognitive and brain sciences about the representation and production of dextrous motion. We argue that a thorough understanding of manual intelligence will be basic for our concepts of objects,actions, and the acquisition of new skills, while the rich grounding of manual intelligence in the physical level of interaction may make it much more approachable for analysis than other, “higher level” aspects of intelligence. Therefore, we envisage manual intelligence as a “Rosetta stone” for robot cognition. To substantiate that claim, we present and discuss some of the manifold connections between manual actions and cognitive functions, review some recent developments and paradigm shifts in the field, discuss what we consider major challenges and point out promising directions for future research

The horizontal drift chambers for the focal plane proton-polarimeter of the 3-spectrometer setup at MAMI

Large-area horizontal drift chambers have been built for use in a proton polarimeter. A gas mixture of 20% argon and 80% ethane is used. The left–right assignment is achieved by measuring the difference of the signals induced on neighboring potential wires. A spatial resolution of 300 μm is achieved

The focal plane proton-polarimeter for the 3-spectrometer setup at MAMI

For (e- gt ,e prime p- gt ) experiments the 3-spectrometer setup of the A1 collaboration at MAMI has been supplemented by a focal plane proton-polarimeter. To this end, a carbon analyzer of variable thickness and two double-planes of horizontal drift chambers have been added to the standard detector system of Spectrometer A. Due to the spin precession in the spectrometer magnets, all three polarization components at the target can be measured simultaneously. The performance of the polarimeter has been studied using elastic p(e- gt ,e prime p- gt ) scattering

CMS physics technical design report: Addendum on high density QCD with heavy ions

This report presents the capabilities of the CMS experiment to explore the rich heavy-ion physics programme offered by the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The collisions of lead nuclei at energies ,will probe quark and gluon matter at unprecedented values of energy density. The prime goal of this research is to study the fundamental theory of the strong interaction - Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) - in extreme conditions of temperature, density and parton momentum fraction (low-x). This report covers in detail the potential of CMS to carry out a series of representative Pb-Pb measurements. These include "bulk" observables, (charged hadron multiplicity, low pT inclusive hadron identified spectra and elliptic flow) which provide information on the collective properties of the system, as well as perturbative probes such as quarkonia, heavy-quarks, jets and high pT hadrons which yield "tomographic" information of the hottest and densest phases of the reaction.0info:eu-repo/semantics/publishe