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IROS
2008
IEEE
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15 years 10 months ago
Peltier-based freeze-thaw connector for waterborne self-assembly systems
Abstract— We present a novel type of inter-module connection mechanism for waterborne modular robotic systems. The proposed mechanism exploits the thermoelectric effect to cool d...
Shuhei Miyashita, Flurin Casanova, Max Lungarella,...
IWNAS
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Parallel Job Scheduling with Overhead: A Benchmark Study
We study parallel job scheduling, where each job may be scheduled on any number of available processors in a given parallel system. We propose a mathematical model to estimate a j...
Richard A. Dutton, Weizhen Mao, Jie Chen, William ...
MEMOCODE
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Virtual prototyping AADL architectures in a polychronous model of computation
While synchrony and asynchrony are two distinct concepts of concurrency theory, effective and formally defined embedded system design methodologies usually mix the best from both...
Ma Yue, Jean-Pierre Talpin, Thierry Gautier
PIMRC
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Performance analysis of cooperative communications from MAC layer perspectives
—In recent years, cooperative communication has been proposed as a new communication paradigm that incorporates a relay node to assist the direct point-to-point transmission. By ...
Chun-Chieh Liao, Yu-Pin Hsu, Kai-Ten Feng
SECON
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Analytical Study of Collaborative Information Coverage for Object Detection in Sensor Networks
—Many sensor networks are deployed for the purpose of covering and monitoring a particular region, and detecting the object of interest in the region. In this paper, based on the...
Guanqun Yang, Vinod Shukla, Daji Qiao