Robotics & Machine Learning back issues from May 2009:
20,000 Cheer FIRST[TM] Students at the Ultimate Celebration of Science and Technology.
May 04, 2009 ... Twenty-thousand spectators, students, mentors, volunteers, sponsors, and FIRST supporters gathered over the weekend to experience the ultimate celebration of science and technology that ignites students' scientific savvy in three levels of Championship competitions. Teams from ...
Wind River Donates VxWorks Platform to FIRST Robotics Student Competition Inspiring Future Engineers.
May 04, 2009 ... Wind River (NASDAQ:WIND) announced the donation of 4,000 licenses for its VxWorks platform and Wind River Workbench to the 2009 FIRSTTM (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition. The donated software was provided to 1,680 teams comprising 42,000 high ...
Robot Learns Fundamental Mathematical and Physical Concepts by Experimentation and Observation.
May 04, 2009 ... Researchers in the European research project XPERO have developed a machine learning method, which enables a small humanoid to learn rather fundamental mathematical concepts such as position and orientation in a coordinate system. The algorithm takes the robot's sensor data ...
Solekai Systems Names Tim McConnell VP of Engineering.
May 04, 2009 ... Solekai Systems Corporation is pleased to announce its new Vice President of Engineering, Tim McConnell. Tim comes to Solekai with over twenty years of engineering services experience as a software engineer, project manager and program manager. Prior to joining Solekai, Tim ...
Successful Unmanned Vehicle Demo for US Army Showcases Aftermarket UGV System from Kairos Autonomi.
May 04, 2009 ... The Pronto4 Strap-on Autonomy System from Kairos Autonomi® showcased its ability to successfully operate in multiple unmanned modes, as well as function as a platform for the iRobot® Aware 2.0 robot intelligence software, during a recent demonstration near Las Vegas. ...
UPEK and WinMagic Announce Biometric Authentication and Hard Disk Encryption Solution for SMBs.
May 04, 2009 ... UPEK®, the leader in enterprise and consumer biometric fingerprint solutions, and WinMagic, the innovative leader in disk encryption, announced their Biometric Authentication + Full-Disk Encryption Solution for small and medium businesses (SMBs). The combination of the Eikon ...
Worldwide Telepresence Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2009 to 2015.(Report)
May 04, 2009 ... Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/3dbe71/worldwide_telepres) has announced the addition of WinterGreen Research, Inc.'s new report "Worldwide Telepresence Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2009 to 2015" to their offering. TelePresence ...
Limited Edition Kidrobot x Havaianas Summer Collection.
May 04, 2009 ... Havaianas has teamed up with Kidrobot, the world's premier creator and retailer of limited-edition art-based toys, apparel and lifestyle products, to produce a collection of co-branded flip-flops. Merging Kidrobot's irreverent attitude and aesthetic with Havaianas' signature style and ...
Critical turning point can trigger abrupt climate change.(Report)
May 04, 2009 ... Ice ages are the greatest natural climate changes in recent geological times. Their rise and fall are caused by slight changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun due to the influence of the other planets. But we do not know the exact relationship between the changes in the Earth's orbit ...
Using combinatorial libraries to engineer genetic circuits advances synthetic biology.
May 04, 2009 ... Streamlining the construction of synthetic gene networks has led a team of Boston University researchers to develop a technique that couples libraries of diversified components with computer modeling to guide predictable gene network construction without the back and forth tweaking. ...
First compound for receptors in schizophrenia and Alzheimer's holds promise.
May 04, 2009 ... For almost 20 years, pharmacological companies have known that certain compounds that activate two specific CNS receptors, causing them to release the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, are effective in treating the cognitive and motor problems related to both schizophrenia and Alzheimer's ...
Carnegie Mellon scientists develop method for verifying safety of computer-controlled devices.
May 04, 2009 ... Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have developed a new method for systematically identifying bugs in aircraft collision avoidance systems, high-speed train controls and other complex, computer-controlled devices, collectively known as cyber-physical ...
Next generation of the POWER KNEETM in early release at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
May 04, 2009 ... Ossur, a global leader in non-invasive orthopaedics, announced that LTC Greg Gadson was fit last week at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) with the second generation of the POWER KNEE by Ossur, the first technology to use sensors, power, artificial intelligence and actuators to ...
Research conducted at T. Ebenlendr and co-authors has provided new information about algorithms.
May 04, 2009 ... According to a study from Prague, Czech Republic, "Our main result is an optimal online algorithm for preemptive scheduling on uniformly related machines with the objective to minimize makespan. The algorithm is deterministic, yet it is optimal even among all randomized algorithms." ...
Researchers at Beijing University of Technology target chaos research.
May 04, 2009 ... "The nonlinear dynamic responses of a string-beam coupled system subjected to harmonic external and parametric excitations are studied in this work in the case of 1:2 internal resonance between the modes of the beam and string. First, the nonlinear governing equations of motion for the ...
Data from Technion advance knowledge in neural computation.
May 04, 2009 ... "Oscillations are a ubiquitous feature of many neural systems, spanning many orders of magnitude in frequency. One of the most prominent oscillatory patterns, with possible functional implications, is that occurring in the mammalian thalamocortical system during sleep," scientists in ...
New neural computation study findings recently were reported by researchers at University of Stirling.
May 04, 2009 ... "We use a mathematical model of the calyx of Held to explore information transmission at this giant glutamatergic synapse. The significant depression of the postsynaptic response to repeated stimulation in vitro is a result of various activity-dependent processes in multiple timescales, ...
Findings from University of Arkansas in machine learning reported.
May 04, 2009 ... "This paper proposes a unique oscillator-based robot controller with learning abilities to effectively guide a team of robots operating in uncertain environments. To verify this, we designed four separate controllers and compared their performance in a series of tests in several different ...
Studies from J.B. Sirven et al add new findings in the area of atomic spectrometry.
May 04, 2009 ... "Yellow cake is a commonly used name for powdered uranium concentrate, produced with the uranium ore. It is the first step in the fabrication of nuclear fuel," investigators in France report. "As it contains fissile material its circulation needs to be controlled in order to ...
New chaos research study findings have been reported by scientists at Wilfrid Laurier University.
May 04, 2009 ... According to a study from Waterloo, Canada, "A new family of entropy estimators, constructed as a linear combination (weighted average) of nearest neighbor estimators with slightly different individual properties, is proposed." "It is shown that a special suboptimal selection of ...
New automation science research from Inonu University outlined.(Report)
May 04, 2009 ... "The PI-PD controller structure provides an excellent four-parameter controller for control of integrating. unstable and resonant processes to set point changes while the conventional PID controller has limitations in controlling such systems. In this paper, a graphical method for the ...
Studies from University of Tennessee have provided new data on chaos research.
May 04, 2009 ... "We present a critical remark on the pitfalls of calculating the correlation dimension and the largest Lyapunov exponent from time series data when trend and periodicity exist. We consider a special case where a time series Z(i) can be expressed as the sum of two subsystems so that Z(i) = ...
New algorithms study results reported from M. Dehghan et al.
May 04, 2009 ... "The present work is motivated by the desire to obtain numerical solution to a quasilinear parabolic inverse problem," researchers in Iran report. "The solution is presented by means of the method of lines. Method of lines is an alternative computational approach which involves ...
New acoustic research reported from University of California.
May 04, 2009 ... According to recent research from the United States, "Recent work has validated the use of transfer entropy for exploring coupling in structural dynamics. Transfer entropy is a measure of information flow between Markov processes." "Using transitional probabilities, one can get ...
Findings in cybernetics reported from F. Polyakov and co-researchers.
May 04, 2009 ... According to recent research from Rehovot, Israel, "Previous studies have suggested that several types of rules govern the generation of complex arm movements. One class of rules consists of optimizing an objective function (e.g., maximizing motion smoothness)." "Another class ...
Research from Hong Kong Polytechnic University broadens understanding of design automation.
May 04, 2009 ... "Routability optimization has become a major concern in physical design of VLSI circuits. Due to the recent advances in VLSI technology, interconnect has become a dominant factor of the overall performance of a circuit," scientists writing in the journal Acm Transactions on Design ...
New automation science research from Yonsei University discussed.
May 04, 2009 ... "A robust pinch detection algorithm which can be implemented in a cheap microprocessor is proposed for the development of a safety feature in the automotive power window system. To solve the problems caused by the performance degradation of a Hall sensor or real driving situations, the ...
New machine learning findings from D.H. Liu and co-researchers published.
May 04, 2009 ... According to a study from the United States, "It has been documented that the military intends to increase the number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in service while at the same time reducing the number of operators (Dixon et al. 2004). To meet this demand, many of the current UAV ...
Findings from M. Englert and co-authors provide new insights into algorithms.
May 04, 2009 ... According to a study from Aachen, Germany, "We consider the management of FIFO buffers for network switches providing differentiated services. In each time step, an arbitrary number of packets arrive and only one packet can be sent." "The buffer can store a limited number of ...
New research on algorithms from University of Turin summarized.
May 04, 2009 ... "The aim of this paper is to present an efficient numerical procedure for solving linear second order Fredholm integro-differential equations," scientists writing in the journal Numerical Algorithms report. "The scheme is based on B-spline collocation and cubature formulas. The ...
Studies from Hiroshima University update current data on environmental research.
May 04, 2009 ... According to recent research from Japan, "Performance of two data-driven models that were developed using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) approaches were investigated in prediction of Total Nitrogen (TN) concentration in twenty-one river basins in ...
Research reports on design automation from P. Reviriego and colleagues provide new insights.
May 04, 2009 ... "Memories are one of the most widely used elements in electronic systems, and their reliability when exposed to Single Events Upsets (SEUs) has been studied extensively. As transistor sizes shrink, Multiple Bits Upsets (MBUs) are becoming an increasingly important factor in the reliability ...
FIRST[TM] Adds JAVA[TM] Technology to the First Robotics Competition Tool Kit.(Company overview)
May 04, 2009 ... FIRSTTM (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), an organization founded by inventor Dean Kamen to inspire young people's interest and participation in science and technology, announced that a new Java Technology port will be a part of the robotics platform for ...
Studies from Shanghai University in the area of chaos research published.
May 04, 2009 ... According to recent research from Shanghai, People's Republic of China, "A general algorithm is proposed for controlling the amplitude of limit cycle emerging from the Hopf bifurcation in a 3D nonlinear dynamic system using nonlinear state feedback. An expression of the curvature ...
Recent studies from University of Western Ontario add new data to chaos research.(Report)
May 04, 2009 ... According to recent research from London, Canada, "In this paper, we present a further mathematical study on the report of existence of n-scroll chaotic attractors in a modified Chua's circuit. A series of results based on mathematical theory are given." "First, we show that ...
Researchers from University of Erlangen report details of new studies and findings in the area of design automation.(Report)
May 04, 2009 ... According to recent research from Erlangen, Germany, "With increasing design complexity, the gap from ESL (Electronic System Level) design to RTL synthesis becomes more and more crucial to many industrial projects. Although several behavioral synthesis tools exist to automatically generate ...
New chaos research research from E. Fossas and co-researchers described.(Report)
May 04, 2009 ... According to recent research from Barcelona, Spain, "In this paper we prove the general result that, given a linear system. (x) over dot = Ax + u where A is hyperbolic, u is piecewise linear and L-periodic, with integral(L)(0)u(t)dt = 0, then there exists a unique L-periodic solution x = ...
Research on chaos research discussed by scientists at University of Sheffield.
May 04, 2009 ... According to a study from Sheffield, the United Kingdom, "Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is introduced to implement a new constructive learning algorithm for training generalized cellular neural networks (GCNNs) for the identification of spatio-temporal evolutionary (STE) systems. The ...
New robotics study findings reported from D. Tlalolini and co-authors.(Report)
May 04, 2009 ... "Fast human walking includes a phase where the stance heel rises from the ground and the stance foot rotates about the stance toe. This phase where the biped becomes under-actuated is not present during the walk of humanoid robots," investigators in France report. "The objective ...
Study results from University of California in the area of design automation published.
May 04, 2009 ... "Wireless sensor nodes are increasingly being tasked with computation and communication intensive functions while still subject to constraints related to energy availability. On these embedded platforms, once all low power design techniques have been explored, duty-cycling the various ...
Investigators at University of Mannheim have published new data on chaos research.(Report)
May 04, 2009 ... "In this paper we discuss two modi. cations of the surrogate data method based on phase randomization, see [Theiler et al., 1992]. By construction, phase randomized surrogates are circular stationary," scientists in Mannheim, Germany report. "In this respect they differ from the ...
Research in the area of science reported from University of California.
May 04, 2009 ... According to recent research published in the Vldb Journal, "Top-k queries on large multi-attribute data sets are fundamental operations in information retrieval and ranking applications. In this article, we initiate research on the anytime behavior of top-k algorithms on exact and fuzzy ...
New design automation study findings recently were reported by A. Dasdan and co-researchers.
May 04, 2009 ... "A system of difference constraints is a formal model of temporal and spatial constraints in many areas such as scheduling, constraint satisfaction, and layout compaction. During construction of such a system, constraint violations often arise, and they need to be resolved," scientists in ...
Research data from A. Khataee and colleagues update understanding of chemical reactor engineering.
May 04, 2009 ... "High concentrations of N-containing compounds in drinking water cause health problems such as cyanosis among children and cancer of the alimentary canal. Therefore, removal of nitrate from water samples is of significant importance from the health and environmental point of view," ...
Findings in design automation reported from Chung-Yuan Christian University.
May 04, 2009 ... According to a study from Chungli, Taiwan, "In a synchronous sequential circuit, huge current peaks are often observed at the moment of clock transition (since all registers are clocked). Previous works focus on reducing the number of switching registers." "However, even though ...
New algorithms research reported from University of Paris.
May 04, 2009 ... According to recent research published in the journal Numerical Algorithms, "Numerical differentiation in noisy environment is revised through an algebraic approach. For each given order, an explicit formula yielding a pointwise derivative estimation is derived, using elementary ...
Studies from Z. Elhassan and co-researchers in the area of automation science published.
May 04, 2009 ... According to recent research from Meknes, Morocco, "The aim of this paper is to deal with ail Output controllability problem. It consists in driving the state of a distributed parabolic system toward a state between two prescribed functions Oil a boundary subregion of the system evolution ...
Research data from J. Bae and colleagues update understanding of automation science.(Report)
May 04, 2009 ... According to recent research from Seoul, South Korea, "Mobile robots are increasingly being used to perform tasks in unknown environments. The potential of robots to undertake such tasks lies in their ability to intelligently and efficiently search in an environment." "This ...
Data from China University provide new insights into engineering.
May 04, 2009 ... According to recent research published in the journal Engineering Optimization, "In this article, the self-calibration problem of a planar two-degree-of-freedom (2-DoF) parallel manipulator with a redundant joint sensor is studied. By eliminating the passive joint positions, a new error ...
Investigators at Hacettepe University zero in on food process engineering.
May 04, 2009 ... "An artificial neural network (ANN) was developed to model the dead-end ultrafiltration process of apple juice. Molecular weight cutoff, transmembrane pressure, gelatin-bentonite concentration and time were the input variables, while filtrate flux and filtrate volume were the output ...
New findings from O. Morgul and co-researchers in the area of chaos research described.(Report)
May 04, 2009 ... "In this paper, we consider the stabilization problem of unstable periodic orbits of one-dimensional discrete time chaotic systems. We propose a novel generalization of the classical delayed feedback law and present some stability results," scientists in Ankara, Turkey report. ...
Findings from University of Lodz provide new insights into algorithms.(Report)
May 04, 2009 ... "In this paper, we consider two versions of the Newton-type method for solving a nonlinear equations with nondifferentiable terms, which uses as iteration matrices, any matrix from B-differential of semismooth terms. Local and global convergence theorems for the generalized Newton and ...
Data on artificial intelligence described by L. Araujo et al.
May 04, 2009 ... "This article aims to show the effectiveness of evolutionary algorithms in automatically parsing sentences of real texts. Parsing methods based on complete search techniques are limited by the exponential increase of the size of the search space with the size of the grammar and the length ...
Data from University of Minnesota provide new insights into combinatorial science.
May 04, 2009 ... "We define the alternating sign matrix polytope as the convex hull of n x n alternating sign matrices and prove its equivalent description in terms of inequalities," researchers in the United States report. "This is analogous to the well known result of Birkhoff and von Neumann ...
Research from China University provide new insights into algorithms.(Report)
May 04, 2009 ... "In this paper, we present a new iterative method to solve systems of nonlinear equations. The main advantages of the method are: it has order three, it does not require the evaluation of any second or higher order Fr,chet derivative and it permits that the Jacobian be singular at some ...
Research from University of Tokyo reveals new findings on chaos research.
May 04, 2009 ... "We propose a fairly general model of active media by considering of the interaction between pacemakers via their phase response curves. This model describes a network of pulse oscillators coupled by their response to the internal depolarization of mutual stimulations," researchers in ...
Recent findings from B. Borsotto and co-authors highlight research in automation science.
May 04, 2009 ... According to a study from France, "This paper deals with the identification of static and Coulomb friction coefficients." "An approach based on limit cycles properties once the mechanical system is brought to oscillations is proposed. This leads to an explicit formulation in the ...
Reports outline automation science research from D. Thapa and colleagues.
May 04, 2009 ... According to recent research from Seoul, South Korea, "The objective of this paper is to reduce the development time of a PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) by automating the task of code generation. For this Purpose, we applied t-MPSG (Timed-Message Based Part State Graph)." ...
Study findings on design automation are outlined in reports from Chinese University of Hong Kong.
May 04, 2009 ... "The test time for core-external interconnect shorts and opens is typically much less than that for core-internal logic. Therefore, prior work on test-infrastructure design for core-based system-on-a-chip (SOC) has mainly focused on minimizing the test time for core-internal logic," ...
Researchers' work from Sichuan University focuses on chaos research.(Report)
May 04, 2009 ... According to a study from People's Republic of China, "In this paper, a class of impulsive fuzzy cellular neural networks (FCNNs) with mixed delays and diffusion is formulated and investigated. By establishing an intergro-differential inequality, applying M-matrix theory and inequality ...
Research from A. Dax and co-authors in the area of algorithms published.
May 04, 2009 ... According to a study from Jerusalem, Israel, "The need for solving a system of linear inequalities, Ax >= b, arises in many applications. Yet in some cases the system to be solved turns out to be inconsistent due to measurement errors in the data vector b. In such a case it is often ...
Reports summarize machine learning study results from S.J. Huang and co-researchers.
May 04, 2009 ... According to recent research from Taipei, Taiwan, "A visual servo control system with SOPC structure is implemented on a retrofitted Mitsubishi Movemaster RV-M2 robotic system. The hardware circuit has the functions of quadrature encoder decoding, limit switch detecting, pulse width ...
Scientists at University of Pittsburgh target design automation.
May 04, 2009 ... "While RFID has become a ubiquitous technology, there is still a need for RFID systems with different capabilities, protocols, and features depending on the application. This article describes a design automation flow and power estimation technique for fast implementation and design ...
New hydroinformatics study findings reported from University of Huelva.
May 04, 2009 ... According to a study from Huelva, Spain, "Acid Mine Drainage is a water pollution type characterized by several topics such as high acidity, sulfate and heavy metal concentrations. One of the chemical characteristics is the absence of correlation between pH and conductivity, as could be ...
New logic programming study findings have been reported by researchers at University of Leuven.
May 04, 2009 ... According to a study from Louvain, Belgium, "This paper investigates the relationship between the Logical Algorithms (LA) language of Ganzinger and McAllester and Constraint Handling Rules (CHR)." "We present a translation schema from LA to CHRrp: CHR with rule priorities, and ...