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ISER
2004
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Autonomous Landing of an Unmanned Helicopter based on Vision and Inertial Sensing
In this paper, we propose an autonomous precision landing method for an unmanned helicopter based on an on-board visual navigation system consisting of a single pan-tilting camera,...
Torsten Merz, Simone Duranti, Gianpaolo Conte
ICAC
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Autonomic Provisioning of Backend Databases in Dynamic Content Web Servers
— In autonomic provisioning, a resource manager allocates resources to an application, on-demand, e.g., during load spikes. Modelling-based approaches have proved very successful...
Jin Chen, Gokul Soundararajan, Cristiana Amza
MOBIQUITOUS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A multi-dimensional model enabling autonomic reasoning for context-aware pervasive applications
A fundamental requirement for autonomic computing is to be able to automatically infer how human users react in similar contextual conditions. This paper examines the problem of a...
Nearchos Paspallis, Konstantinos Kakousis, George ...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
A Dynamical Systems Approach to Behavior-Based Formation Control
Dynamical systems theory is used here as a theoretical language and tool to design a distributed control archictecture that generates navigation in formation, integrated with obst...
Sergio Monteiro, Estela Bicho
VRML
1999
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
An Open Virtual Environment for Autonomous Agents Using VRML and Java
We describe a VRML/Java-based virtual environment that is populated with heterogeneous articulated agents. In this simulated environment, agents compete for collecting certain obj...
Bernhard Jung, Jan-Torsten Milde