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"Hopeless Hopes Ennobled": Yank's Struggle to Belong in O'Neill's The Hairy Ape

  • Lee, Yonghwa
    • American Studies
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.109-134
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    • 2019
  • This essay examines the significance of Yank's struggle to belong in Eugene O'Neill's play, The Hairy Ape in light of Nietzsche's definition of man as "a rope tied between beast and overman." Contending that Yank's death in the gorilla's cage signifies both a defeat and his only chance of success, the essay investigates how his "tink[ing]" leads him to question his former understanding of what it means to belong. Knowing his struggle to belong is bound to fail, Yank uncompromisingly seeks to fit into the point of completely isolating himself from all other species in the gorilla's cage. Consequently, he becomes "the Hairy Ape" and opens up the possibility of belonging by creating and becoming the species of one to which he alone belongs. Echoing Nietzsche's vision of greatness in man, Yank's endeavor proves that what is noble "in man is that he is a bridge" rather than "a goal."

Neural Network Tracking Control of Rigid-tink Electrically-Driven Robot Manipulators (신경 회로망의 RLED 로봇 머너퓰레이터 추적 제어)

  • 정재욱
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.74-74
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    • 2000
  • This paper presents a neural network controller for a rigid-link electrically-driven robot. The proposed controller is designed in conjunction with three neural networks approximating for complicated nonlinear functions. Particularly, the fact, different from conventional schemes, is that the neural network based current observer is used. Therefore, no accurate measurement of the actuator driving current is required. In the proposed controller-observer scheme, the derived weight update rule guarantees the stability of closed-loop system in the sense of Lyapunov. The effectiveness and performance of the proposed method are demonstrated through computer simulation.

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Cartesian Space Nonlinear PD Control for the Multi-tink Flexible Manipulators

  • Cheong, Joono;Chung, Wankyun;Youm, Youngil
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1999.10a
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    • pp.21-24
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    • 1999
  • There-have been many control strategies for the enact joint position tracking of flexible manipulators, but direct cartesian space tracking control methods an not developed well. In this paper, we propose a PD control method based on the cartesian error in the end point trajectory tracking. the proposed controller is composed of PD control combined with nonlinear saturation term hut has a very simple form. the effect of this term is continuous suppression of vibration which is induced by the coupling of rigid motion. This control works both on the regulation and on the tracking cases. The performance and validity of this control method is shown by simulation examples.

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Fuzzy Linguistic Approach for Evaluating Task Complexity in Nuclear Power Plant (원자력발전소에서의 작업복잡도를 평가하기 위한 퍼지기반 작업복잡도 지수의 개발)

  • Jung Kwang-Tae;Jung Won-dea;Park Jin-Kyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.20 no.1 s.69
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    • pp.126-132
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study is to propose a method to evaluate task complexity using CIFs(Complexity Influencing Factors). We developed a method that CIFs can be used in the evaluation of task complexity using fuzzy linguistic approach. That is, a fuzzy linguistic multi-criteria method to assess task complexity in a specific task situation was proposed. The CIFs luting was assessed in linguistic terms, which are described by fuzzy numbers with triangular and trapezoidal membership function. A fuzzy weighted average algorithm, based on the extension principle, was employed to aggregate these fuzzy numbers. Finally, the method was validated by experimental approach. In the result, it was validated that TCIM(Tink Complexity Index Method) is an efficient method to evaluate task complexity because the correlation coefficient between task performance time and TCI(Task Complexity Index) was 0.699.

Compliance Control of a 6-tink Electro-Hydraulic Manipulator (6축 전기 유압 매니퓰레이터의 컴플라이언스 제어)

  • 안경관;표성만
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.47-53
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    • 2004
  • An electro-hydraulic manipulator using hydraulic actuators has many nonlinear elements, and its parameter fluctuations are greater than those of an electrically driven manipulator. So it is quite difficult to obtain stable control performance. We have applied a disturbance estimation and compensation type robust control to all the axes in a 6-link electro-hydraulic manipulator. It was confirmed that the performance of trajectory tracking and attitude regulating was greatly improved by the disturbance observer. For autonomous assembly tasks, it is said that compliance control is one of the most popular methods in contact task. We have proposed a compliance control based on the position control by a disturbance observer for our manipulator system. To realize more stable contact work, the states in the compliance loop are feedbacked, where not only displacement but also the velocity and acceleration are considered. We have also applied this compliance control to the Peg-in-Hole insertion task and proposed new methods of (1)rotating of the end-effector periodically in order to reduce the friction force, (2)random searching for the center of a hole and (3)trajectory modification to reduce the impact force. As a result of these new methods, it could be experimentally confirmed that the Peg-in-Hole insertion task with a clearance of 0.007 [mm] could be achieved.

A Study on the Forward- and Reverse-Link Interrogation Range of a UHF RFID System (UHF RFID 시스템의 순방향 및 역방향 인식 거리에 관한 연구)

  • Jang, Byung-Jun;Park, Jun-Seok;Cho, Hong-Gu;Lim, Jae-Bong
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.18 no.11
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    • pp.1243-1253
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    • 2007
  • Recently UHF RFID system has drawn a great deal of attention because of its potential to revolutionize supply chain management. An important characterization of the performance of a RFID system is 'interrogation range', which is defined as the maximum distance between a reader and a tag. Forward-link interrogation range is defined as the maximum distance from which the tag receives just enough power to turn on and back-scatter, and reverse-tink interrogation range is the maximum distance from which the reader can detect this back-scattered signal. A link balance has to be found between the two interrogation ranges. In this paper, the interrogation range equations are formulated in both forward-link and reverse-link and a trade-off between the two values is investigated in order to maximize the interrogation range. As a result, it is observed that the gain of the reader antenna, the isolation of the circulator, and the phase noise of the local oscillator with range correlation effect mainly determine the reverse-link interrogation range.

Occurrence of Culex pipiens (Diptera, Culicidae) and Effect of Vent Net Sets for Mosquito Control at Septic Tanks in South-eastern Area of the Korean Peninsula (한반도 동남부 지역 정화조 내의 빨간집모기군(群)(Culex pipiens complex) 발생과 정화조 환기통의 방충망 설치에 의한 방제효과)

  • Lee Dong-Kyu
    • Korean journal of applied entomology
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    • v.45 no.1 s.142
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    • pp.51-57
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    • 2006
  • Culex pipiens complex larvae were found at the septic tanks in Busan and Ulsan cities located in South-eastern area of Korean peninsula. The larvae were collected in 25, 35 and 75 septic tanks out of 3,527, 622 and 1,111 septic tanks which the breeding rates were averages of 0.7%, 5.6% and 6.8% in Busan from January to May, 2003; Busan from February to March, 2004; and Ulsan from January to April, 2005, respectively. The average numbers of the mosquitoes in the tanks were 38.8, 14.9 and 13.7 larvae/dip with a 355-ml dipper. The larval densities were from 25.4 larvae/dip in January to 43.7 larvae/dip in April. 2003 which were not significantly different between them. It was the first report to find mosquito breeding at septic tink in Republic of Korea. Culex pipiens larvae were found in 6 out of 379 septic tanks at complex buildings (over $2,000m^2$ in size) in Ulsan from June to September, 2005, having an average of 1.6% for mosquito breeding rate. The mosquito larvae were collected in 8 and 530 septic tanks out of 210 and 3,729 septic tanks at large (over 300 homes) and small apartments (below 300 homes) with 3.8% and 14.2% of the average breeding rates, respectively At the septic tanks of private houses for below 50 persons, 708 out of 7,178 septic tan had Cx. pipiens larvae and pupae with 9.9% of the average breeding rate. Total average of the mosquito breeding rate was 10.9% of the investigated septic tanks of residential buildings in Ulsan. The number of mosquito larvae in the septic tanks were 15 to 75 larvae/dip. The bent net sets of septic tanks prevented from mosquito breeding to the rate of 93.1%.