We describe a home lighting robot that uses directional spotlights to create complex lighting scenes. The robot senses its visual environment using a panoramic camera and attempts...
The U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) are responsible for protecting the Capitol Hill complex encompassing the Senate and House office buildings and the Capitol building. Currently, the ...
Frank Armour, Stephen H. Kaisler, Jim Getter, Doug...
Future Mars rovers, such as the planned 2009 MSL rover, require sufficient autonomy to robustly approach rock targets and place an instrument in contact with them. It took the 199...
Liam Pedersen, Maria Bualat, Clayton Kunz, Susan Y...
In complex distributed applications, a problem is often decomposed into a set of subproblems that are distributed to multiple agents. We formulate this class of problems with a tw...
Large scale Open Systems are built from reusable components in such a way that enhanced system functionality can be deployed, quickly and effectively, simply by plugging in a few n...