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ICRA
2007
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Directional Adhesive Structures for Controlled Climbing on Smooth Vertical Surfaces
— Recent biological research suggests that reliable, agile climbing on smooth vertical surfaces requires controllable adhesion. In nature, geckos control adhesion by properly loa...
Daniel Santos, Sangbae Kim, Matthew Spenko, Aaron ...
OZCHI
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Interpersonal awareness in the domestic realm
Family and friends naturally maintain an awareness of each other on an ongoing basis (e.g., knowing one’s schedule, health issues) and many technologies are now being contemplat...
Carman Neustaedter, Kathryn Elliot, Saul Greenberg
ISPAN
1997
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
CASS: an efficient task management system for distributed memory architectures
The thesis of this research is that the task of exposing the parallelism in a given application should be left to the algorithm designer, who has intimate knowledge of the applica...
Jing-Chiou Liou, Michael A. Palis
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 19 days ago
Behaviosites: a novel paradigm for affecting distributed behavior
In this paper we present the Behaviosite paradigm, a new approach to affecting the behavior of distributed agents in a multiagent system, which is inspired by biological parasites ...
Amit Shabtay, Zinovi Rabinovich, Jeffrey S. Rosens...
EH
2004
IEEE
149views Hardware» more  EH 2004»
14 years 19 days ago
Organization of the Information Flow in the Perception-Action Loop of Evolved Agents
Sensor evolution in nature aims at improving the acquisition of information from the environment and is intimately related with selection pressure towards adaptivity and robustnes...
Alexander S. Klyubin, Daniel Polani, Chrystopher L...