Abstract: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) promise to change how we study and interact with physical world. CPS use sensors and actuators connected to an autonomic cyberinfrastructure. A key requirement for having dependable CPS is the correct calibration of their sensors. Unfortunately, the current state of the art is to calibrate sensors in laboratories, often manually. Moreover, commodity sensor precision degrades over time.  Consequently, sensors must be periodically recalibrated.

Abstract: Human motion-capture and computational analysis tools have played a significant role in a variety of  product-design  and  ergonomics  settings  for  over  a  quarter-century.  In  moving  beyond traditional kinematic (and its dual-static) settings, advances in biomechanics and multibody dynamics have led up to computational analysis tools that can provide significant insights into the functional performance.