Crosswell methods: Where are we, where are we going?

James W. Rector

doi:10.1190/1.1443802

Crosswell methods: Where are we, where are we going?

Geophysics ◽

10.1190/1.1443802 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 60 (3) ◽

pp. 629-630 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

James W. Rector

Keyword(s):

Editorial Staff ◽

Special Issue

This special issue on crosswell methods was constructed in response to the large number of crosswell papers submitted during 1993 and 1994. The editorial staff felt that rather than distributing these papers throughout the year the society would be better served by having an archival volume composed completely of crosswell‐related papers. This was not a publicly solicited issue, and we undoubtedly did not receive some excellent papers that may have been submitted with a public solicitation. Nevertheless, we feel that this volume is an excellent snapshot of crosswell technology as it stood in 1993–1994.

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Management of Sarcoidosis, a Selection of Topical Items Updating

Journal of Clinical Medicine ◽

10.3390/jcm9103220 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (10) ◽

pp. 3220

Author(s):

Dominique Valeyre ◽

Jean-François Bernaudin

Keyword(s):

Editorial Staff ◽

Special Issue ◽

Selection Of

First of all, we would like to thank all the authors for their contribution and the editorial staff who enabled the achievement of this “Management of Sarcoidosis: Challenges and Solutions” Special Issue [...]

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Special Issue “Plant Virus Ecology and Biodiversity”

Viruses ◽

10.3390/v11080676 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (8) ◽

pp. 676

Author(s):

Ulrich Melcher

Keyword(s):

Plant Virus ◽

Editorial Staff ◽

Special Issue ◽

Virus Ecology

I thank all the teams of authors, the scientists who reviewed submitted manuscripts and made suggestions that improved the reports, and the editorial staff workers who put this special issue together [...]

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Flood Management and Flood Disaster Mitigation Measures

Journal of Disaster Research ◽

10.20965/jdr.2012.p0533 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 7 (5) ◽

pp. 533-533

Author(s):

Kuniyoshi Takeuchi ◽

Ali Chavoshian ◽

Shinji Egashira

Keyword(s):

Management Practices ◽

Flood Plain ◽

Editorial Staff ◽

Flood Management ◽

Disaster Mitigation ◽

Mitigation Measures ◽

Special Issue ◽

Staff Members ◽

Novel Studies ◽

Research Activities

The 5th International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM5) was held on September 27-29, 2011 in Tokyo under the umbrella title “Floods: from risk to opportunity” focused on flood management and disaster mitigation measures in its plenary, oral, and poster sessions. Out of over 250 presented papers, 120 manuscripts – far more than expected – were contributed for post-publication in the Journal of Flood Risk Management, the IAHS Red Book and the Journal of Disaster Research (JDR). Editorial staff members of the JDR, which was independent of ICFM5, attended the conference to survey research activities in related study fields and to announce JDR strategies to participants. The ICHARM scientific committee supervising ICFM5 post-publications is well acquainted with JDR, which is one of the reasons for agreeing on this special issue. The 13 manuscripts presented for consideration by JDR concern the following topics: – Flood forecasting – Basic tools for evaluating inundation flows – Flood management practices and policies – Flood plain management – Relations between human activities and floods These topics range from novel studies to public statements and have been reviewed as papers, reviews, and survey reports. This resulted in 9 papers recommended for the special issue – 4 topics for papers, 1 topic for review, and 4 topics for reports. We thank the authors for their contributions and revisions and the reviewers for their invaluable comments. We also thank the ICHARM committee members for introducing authors to special publications for JDR.

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Special Issue on Bioelectronics

Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics ◽

10.20965/jrm.1991.p0073 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 73-73

Author(s):

Hideto Ide ◽

Keyword(s):

Research And Development ◽

Sensory Information ◽

Specific Area ◽

Editorial Staff ◽

Recognition System ◽

Accurate Information ◽

Special Issue ◽

Sense Organs ◽

Short History ◽

Area Of Study

Recent biological approaches in robotic research and development have been advancing in two ways: 1) steady advances toward intelligent bio-systems by making sensors more integrated and functional, and 2) studies on the coordination of bio-information from various sources. For the coordination of bio-information dealt with in this special issue, its necessity was originally discussed in the area of mobile robots. For a mobile robot performing tasks autonomously, recognition of its relation with the external environment is essential. The concept perhaps came up as robotics aimed to improve robots' toughness to changing and unknown environments, by coordinating information from several sense organs (visual, tactile etc.) to obtain more accurate information. Man constructs a recognition system more reliably as a whole by coordinating various sets of sensory information. Attempts are also being made to con struct a new bio-information coordinating architecture aimed at achieving functions equivalent to those of human recognition. This special'issue was planned to present recent research and development as well as problems and trends in bio-information. This area of study is still in its infancy, with no study frameworks and methodology having been established in its short history. In contrast to other past special issues, this one stresses biological approaches, and I hope it will be helpful in developing the specific area of study mentioned here while helping robotists recognize current studies and problems. Finally, I express my sincere thanks to those who spared time to contribute to this issue, and to the editorial staff of the journal.

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Special Issue “Molecular Detection and Typing of Viruses”

Diagnostics ◽

10.3390/diagnostics11112031 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (11) ◽

pp. 2031

Author(s):

Ilka Engelmann

Keyword(s):

Molecular Detection ◽

Editorial Staff ◽

Special Issue

I thank all authors, reviewers and the editorial staff who contributed to this special issue [...]

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Special Issue on ISIS 2009, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea

Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics ◽

10.20965/jaciii.2010.p0549 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 14 (5) ◽

pp. 549-549

Author(s):

John-Tark Lee ◽

Gyei Kark Park

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

International Symposium ◽

Intelligent Systems ◽

Intelligent System ◽

Unscented Kalman Filter ◽

Fuzzy Theory ◽

Capacitive Sensor ◽

Theoretical Work ◽

Editorial Staff ◽

Special Issue

The 10th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems 2009 (ISIS2009) held on August 17-19, 2009, at the Bumin Campus of Dong-A University (http://www.donga.ac.kr/) in Busan, Korea, was sponsored by the Korean Institute of Intelligent System Society (KIIS) and cosponsored technically by the Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics (SOFT) and the Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence (TAAI). The international symposium focused on state-of-art accomplishments, innovations, and potential directions in intelligent systems. It also marked an epoch of innovation and the dissemination of research into many interesting fields. Its broad theme covered the latest in technical fields, including artificial intelligence, intelligent systems, Ambient Intelligence (AmI), bioinformatics, information technology, and their wide-ranging applications, from basic theoretical work to practical engineering applications. The 80 featured papers were presented by 120 participants. With so many papers submitted to JACIII, this special issue consists of just two strictly selected papers. The first, deals with emerging research trends in robotics, proposing a new trajectory generation using the univariate Dynamic Encoding Algorithm for Searches (uDEAS) in the turning of a biped walking robot. The second paper, presenting the latest findings in AmI, details a newly designed and implemented robust capacitive sensor with parasitic parameter modeling over a range of high 200 KHz frequencies based on an Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) algorithm. I would like to thank Mr. Kunihiko Uchida, Mr. Shinya Wakai, Ms. Reiko Ohta, and Mr. Shinji Isokawa as editorial staff of Fuji Technology Press for editing these complex manuscripts into their final form. And I really thank to Prof. Kaoru Hirota, Editor-in-Chief of JACIII for inviting me to direct this special issue on ISIS

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Special Issue on Fuzzy Control

Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics ◽

10.20965/jrm.1995.p0001 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 1-1

Author(s):

Keigo Watanabe ◽

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Fuzzy Control ◽

Large Scale ◽

Fuzzy Controller ◽

Fuzzy Reasoning ◽

Editorial Staff ◽

Special Issue ◽

Fuzzy Neural ◽

Input Variables ◽

Neural Network Theory

This special issue is devoted to the study of Fuzzy Control applied to robotics and mechatronics. In particular, it contains a collection of fuzzy-neural network approaches, together with the conventional fuzzy reasoning or new approaches. Since the first pioneering work on fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic reported in 1965 by Zadeh, many control application papers have been published with the fundamental fuzzy controllers based on the so-called Mamdani's min-max centroidal method, the TakagiSugeno's functional reasoning, and the simplified reasoning. However, it is recognized that much trial and error is necessary in the design of the conventional fuzzy controller, because the fuzzy reasoning methods mentioned above are not fundamentally related to any control or system theory. In addition, it should be noted that the total number of control rules grows exponentially as the number of input variables to the conventional fuzzy reasoning increases. Thus, in order to improve the conventional approach and develop the new approach for large-scale systems, most current work on fuzzy control is concerned with an effective design, construction, or analysis of the fuzzy controller by invoking the neural network theory, genetic algorithm, and other control or system theories. Although the literature, both in Japanese and in English, on fuzzy control and applications is now very rich, I believe that this special issue provides an important impact on the advanced fuzzy control. This issue would not have been possible without the enthusiastic support of the contributors. I am indebted to all of them for their up-to-date contributions and to the editorial staff for care throughout the editorial and printing process.

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Special Issue on Force and Compliance Control

Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics ◽

10.20965/jrm.1991.p0445 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 3 (6) ◽

pp. 445-445

Author(s):

Kazuo Tanie ◽

Keyword(s):

Force Control ◽

Impedance Control ◽

Editorial Staff ◽

Control Technique ◽

Special Issue ◽

Constraint Forces ◽

Compliance Control ◽

Research Activities ◽

Impedance Parameters ◽

Control Forces

When robots perform tasks in which constraint forces are applied to the end effector from the environment, the interactive forces must be controlled. Considering this problem, in robotics, force control has been recognized as one of the most important research topics since the beginning of robotics research. In order to control forces dexterously, several studies have been conducted concerning sensors, actuators, and control algorithms. Currently, compliance and impedance control is a newly identified topic in force control. In the biological analysis of human behavior, it is well known that man adjusts the impedance of skeletal muscles according to the kind of task and can perform them dexterously. A compliance/impedance control technique has been proposed in order to realize such a function in robot motion. The feature of compliance/impedance control is control of the interacting forces not directly but through adjustment of compliance/impedance parameters of the system. This control structure provides several benefits to enable robots perform to complex tasks dexterously; however, there are still a lot of problems to be solved before it can be put to practical use. This Special Issue provides an overview of recent research activities concerning force control technology in robotics with an emphasis on compliance and impedance control. The papers compiled in this issue include various topics of force control, such as compliant motion control, biological aspects of compliance control and this force control using different kinds of actuators. I believe that the contents of this issue contains useful information for researchers and engineers with interests in this area. Finally, I would like to express my appreciation to the authors for their efforts and contributions to this issue and also to the members of the editorial staff for their skillful assistance.

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