Passivity

Author : Thomas Carl Wall
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143842308X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Passivity written by Thomas Carl Wall and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1999-01-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical Passivity examines the notion of passivity in the work of Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben, three thinkers of exceptional intellectual privacy whose writings have decidedly altered the literary and philosophical cultures of our era. Placing their use of passivity in the context of Heidegger and Kant, Wall argues that any philosophical understanding of Levinas's ethics, Blanchot's aesthetics, or Agamben's community must begin with an understanding of a "logic" of passivity that in fact originates (in the modern era at least) in Kant's analysis of the transcendental schema.

Author : Takeshi Hatanaka
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319151711
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passivity-Based Control and Estimation in Networked Robotics written by Takeshi Hatanaka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting the control of networked robotic systems, this book synthesizes a unified passivity-based approach to an emerging cross-disciplinary subject. Thanks to this unified approach, readers can access various state-of-the-art research fields by studying only the background foundations associated with passivity. In addition to the theoretical results and techniques, the authors provide experimental case studies on testbeds of robotic systems including networked haptic devices, visual robotic systems, robotic network systems and visual sensor network systems. The text begins with an introduction to passivity and passivity-based control together with the other foundations needed in this book. The main body of the book consists of three parts. The first examines how passivity can be utilized for bilateral teleoperation and demonstrates the inherent robustness of the passivity-based controller against communication delays. The second part emphasizes passivity’s usefulness for visual feedback control and estimation. Convergence is rigorously proved even when other passive components are interconnected. The passivity approach is also differentiated from other methodologies. The third part presents the unified passivity-based control-design methodology for multi-agent systems. This scheme is shown to be either immediately applicable or easily extendable to the solution of various motion coordination problems including 3-D attitude/pose synchronization, flocking control and cooperative motion estimation. Academic researchers and practitioners working in systems and control and/or robotics will appreciate the potential of the elegant and novel approach to the control of networked robots presented here. The limited background required and the case-study work described also make the text appropriate for and, it is hoped, inspiring to students.

Author : Victor Biceaga
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048139155
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Concept of Passivity in Husserl's Phenomenology written by Victor Biceaga and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building upon Husserl’s challenge to oppositions such as those between form and content and between constituting and constituted, The Concept of Passivity in Husserl’s Phenomenology construes activity and passivity not as reciprocally exclusive terms but as mutually dependent moments of acts of consciousness. The book outlines the contribution of passivity to the constitution of phenomena as diverse as temporal syntheses, perceptual associations, memory fulfillment and cross-cultural communication. The detailed study of the phenomena of affection, forgetting, habitus and translation sets out a distinction between three meanings of passivity: receptivity, sedimentation or inactuality and alienation. Husserl’s texts are interpreted as defending the idea that cultural crises are not brought to a close by replacing passivity with activity but by having more of both.

Author : John Lee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762776048
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Half-Lived Life written by John Lee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “So this is my life? What happened to the person I thought I might be at this stage of the game? Where did that person go? Why am I feeling like I’m just treading water, trying to stay one step ahead of my bills and obligations. Anyway, I’m just too tired at this point to try to figure out where that other person went. But I sure expected to be living a different life than this one.” Most people in their forties, fifties, and beyond catch themselves saying something similar to this. Everyone has a mental image of the person they want to be, but few of us actually fulfill these wishes. Once people realize they are living a completely different life than they’d envisioned, they often think it is too late to change and carry on with the same old habits. Too many people settle for a half-lived life. Best-selling author John Lee has long been addressing the fallacy of this attitude in talks and workshops—and now he sets this program into book form. In The Half-Lived Life, he introduces and explains how passivity holds us hostage to old ways of doing things—and provides solutions on escaping this paralyzing state of mind, body, and spirit while increasing our emotional intelligence (EQ). He also shows the freedom to be gained via compassionate assertiveness—an outgrowth of setting boundaries and enforcing limits. Just as Lee’s seminars have successfully led many to find their authentic self in the second half of their life, so too will this book.

Author : Romeo Ortega
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447136039
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passivity-based Control of Euler-Lagrange Systems written by Romeo Ortega and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essence of this work is the control of electromechanical systems, such as manipulators, electric machines, and power converters. The common thread that links together the results presented here is the passivity property, which is at present in numerous electrical and mechanical systems, and which has great relevance in control engineering at this time. Amongst other topics, the authors cover: Euler-Lagrange Systems, Mechanical Systems, Generalised AC Motors, Induction Motor Control, Robots with AC Drives, and Perspectives and Open Problems. The authors have extensive experience of research and application in the field of control of electromechanical systems, which they have summarised here in this self-contained volume. While written in a strictly mathematical way, it is also elementary, and will be accessible to a wide-ranging audience, including graduate students as well as practitioners and researchers in this field.

Author : Rodney W. Tolleson
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500709372
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passivity written by Rodney W. Tolleson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-24 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passivity, A Silent Killer is one of those books that hits home. Anyone dealing with passivity will find Rodney Tolleson's honest appraisal of his own life refreshing, full of insight and life changing. It's also very beneficial for those who are in relationship with people who have developed a passive approach to life and their Christianity. Passivity helps identify passive behavior patterns and provides ministry tools for healing and freedom.You'll enjoy hearing Rodney's first-hand account of growing up as a shy boy in Alabama. He also shares his attempts to confront passivity in his own strength. Finally, you'll learn how the “Rolaid King” confronted lifelong patterns of behavior through a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ and inner healing. This book has the power to change marriages, families and churches. Passivity is directed mainly to men but its truth has the ability to impact women, as well.

Author : Arjan van der Schaft
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447105079
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book L2 - Gain and Passivity Techniques in Nonlinear Control written by Arjan van der Schaft and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With respect to the first edition as Volume 218 in the Lecture Notes in Con trol and Information Sciences series the basic idea of the second edition has remained the same: to provide a compact presentation of some basic ideas in the classical theory of input-output and closed-loop stability, together with a choice of contributions to the recent theory of nonlinear robust and 1foo control and passivity-based control. Nevertheless, some parts of the book have been thoroughly revised and/or expanded, in order to have a more balanced presen tation of the theory and to include some of the new developments which have been taken place since the appearance of the first edition. I soon realized, how ever, that it is not possible to give a broad exposition of the existing literature in this area without affecting the spirit of the book, which is precisely aimed at a compact presentation. So as a result the second edition still reflects very much my personal taste and research interests. I trust that others will write books emphasizing different aspects. Major changes with respect to the first edition are the following: • A new section has been added in Chapter 2 relating L2-gain and passivity via scattering, emphasizing a coordinate-free, geometric, treatment. • The section on stability in Chapter 3 has been thoroughly expanded, also incorporating some recent results presented in [182J.

Author : Frank Hammond
Publisher : Impact Christian Books
ISBN 13 : 9780892281602
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Perils of Passivity written by Frank Hammond and published by Impact Christian Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Booklet A new booklet by Frank Hammond, which unveils one of Satan's gates through which spirits gain entrance into our lives. ?Passivity? enables demonic spirits to establish a legal right and to maintain their stronghold. An aggressive lifestyle is the alternative to passivity. There was a purpose for Israel beyond their escape from bondage, just as there is a purpose that God has for each of us beyond our deliverance. Learn more about the good fruit that comes with an aggressive approach towards living

Author : Jin-Liang Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9813342870
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passivity of Complex Dynamical Networks written by Jin-Liang Wang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book intends to introduce some recent results on passivity of complex dynamical networks with single weight and multiple weights. The book collects novel research ideas and some definitions in complex dynamical networks, such as passivity, output strict passivity, input strict passivity, finite-time passivity, and multiple weights. Furthermore, the research results previously published in many flagship journals are methodically edited and presented in a unified form. The book is likely to be of interest to university researchers and graduate students in Engineering and Mathematics who wish to study the passivity of complex dynamical networks.

Author : Benda Hofmeyr
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402093470
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Passivity written by Benda Hofmeyr and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Levinas’s ethical metaphysics is essentially a meditation on what makes ethical agency possible – that which enables us to act in the interest of another, to put the well-being of another before our own. This line of questioning found its inception in and drew its inspiration from the mass atrocities that occurred during the Second World War. The Holocaust , like the Cambodian genocide, or those in Rwanda and Srebrenica, exemplifies what have come to be known as the ‘never again’ situations. After these events, we looked back each time, with varying degrees of incomprehension, horror, anger and shame, asking ourselves how we could possibly have let it all happen again. And yet, atrocity crimes are still rampant. After Rwanda (1994) and Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992–1995), came Kosovo (1999) and Darfur (2003). In our present-day world , hate crimes motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice, and mass hate such as genocide and terror, are on the rise (think, for example, of Burma, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and North Korea). A critical revaluation of the conditions of possibility of ethical agency is therefore more necessary than ever. This volume is committed to the possibility of ‘never again’. It is dedicated to all the victims – living and dead – of what Levinas calls the ‘sober, Cain-like coldness’ at the root of all crime against humanity , as much as every singular crime against another human being .