The design and development of social robots that interact and assist people in daily life requires moving into unconstrained daily-life environments. This presents unexplored meth...
Fumihide Tanaka, Javier R. Movellan, Bret Fortenbe...
Multimedia applications have dynamic and adaptive realtime requirements. Current scheduling practice, as typified by UNIX System V Release 4, lacks the necessary information and ...
The load parameter of a sporadic task system is defined to be the largest possible cumulative execution requirement that can be generated by jobs of the task system over any time...
Nathan Fisher, Theodore P. Baker, Sanjoy K. Baruah
Abstract— In this paper we consider the problem of optimizing over the switching times for a multi-modal dynamic system when the complete cost-to-go is not available. The instant...
A robotic system is developed to automate the packing of polycrystalline silicon nuggets into a fragile fused silica crucible in CZ semiconductor wafer production. The highly irre...