Design of Robot Controllers for Cooperative Interactive Dynamics

Author(s):  
Wyatt Newman ◽  
Craig Birkhimer ◽  
Mark Dohring
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Author(s):  
Katherine Wasdin

This chapter analyzes ancient animal metaphors according to interactive dynamics as well as species. Erotic praise of elite maidens presents them as proud racehorses and should be distinguished from metaphors of tamed or yoked hetairai that focus on the lover’s desired role as rider or driver. The marital yoke is a common metaphor in some genres, but yoking language found in the wedding discourse focuses on the unity of the couple rather than the control of the bride by the groom. Hunting metaphors that feature fearful or endangered animals are more common in erotic poetry or in tragic weddings, rather than in the wedding song. The chapter concludes with a series of Horatian odes that purposefully blur the lines between nuptial and erotic animals.


2021 ◽  
pp. 102986492098831
Author(s):  
Andrea Schiavio ◽  
Pieter-Jan Maes ◽  
Dylan van der Schyff

In this paper we argue that our comprehension of musical participation—the complex network of interactive dynamics involved in collaborative musical experience—can benefit from an analysis inspired by the existing frameworks of dynamical systems theory and coordination dynamics. These approaches can offer novel theoretical tools to help music researchers describe a number of central aspects of joint musical experience in greater detail, such as prediction, adaptivity, social cohesion, reciprocity, and reward. While most musicians involved in collective forms of musicking already have some familiarity with these terms and their associated experiences, we currently lack an analytical vocabulary to approach them in a more targeted way. To fill this gap, we adopt insights from these frameworks to suggest that musical participation may be advantageously characterized as an open, non-equilibrium, dynamical system. In particular, we suggest that research informed by dynamical systems theory might stimulate new interdisciplinary scholarship at the crossroads of musicology, psychology, philosophy, and cognitive (neuro)science, pointing toward new understandings of the core features of musical participation.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (9) ◽  
pp. P09006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Formentin ◽  
Alberto Lovison ◽  
Amos Maritan ◽  
Giovanni Zanzotto

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Paul Ashby

This chapter contends that the Western Hemisphere is not only key to the development of U.S. national security but also remains of great importance today. Quite simply, U.S. national security interests grew firstly within their own “neighborhood,” and those interests continue to be both important and complex into the present day. Crucially, this is where national security threats come into direct contact with the U.S. homeland. Understanding this history and these interactive dynamics is important to the analysis of contemporary national security questions in the Western Hemisphere. The chapter focuses on key issues that are deeply intertwined: economics and trade; democracy, development, and human rights; drugs and transnational threats; and homeland security and homeland defense.


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