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ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Heterogeneous Leg Stiffness and Roll in Dynamic Running
— Legged robots are by nature strongly non-linear, high-dimensional systems whose full complexity permits neither tractable mathematical analysis nor comprehensive numerical stud...
Samuel Burden, Jonathan Clark, Joel Weingarten, Ha...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Bipedal Walking and Running with Compliant Legs
— Passive dynamics plays an important role in legged locomotion of the biological systems. The use of passive dynamics is expected for energy efficiency, self-stabilization agai...
Fumiya Iida, Juergen Rummel, André Seyfarth
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Low-Power Distributed Event Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract—In this paper we address the problem of energyefficient event detection in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Duty cycling is a fundamental approach to conserving energy i...
Yanmin Zhu, Yunhao Liu, Lionel M. Ni, Z. Zhang
IWPC
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Empirical Evaluation of a UML Sequence Diagram with Adornments to Support Understanding of Thread Interactions
Programs that use multi-threaded concurrency are known to be difficult to design. Moreover, research in computer-science education suggests that concurrency and synchronization co...
Shaohua Xie, Eileen Kraemer, R. E. Kurt Stirewalt
ICSOC
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Service License Composition and Compatibility Analysis
Services enable the transformation of the World Wide Web as distributed interoperable systems interacting beyond organizational boundaries. Service licensing enables broader usage ...
G. R. Gangadharan, Michael Weiss, Vincenzo D'Andre...