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ICAS
2009
IEEE
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Heterogeneous QoS Resource Manager with Prediction
As long as computers continue to get more CPU processing power, data centers need to optimize their power usage. We can do this and maintain the same complexity level as before by...
Ramon Nou, Jordi Torres
ICAS
2009
IEEE
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A Sensor-Based Approach to Symptom Recognition for Autonomic Systems
The increased complexity of today's distributed, composite, Web-based systems presents difficult and unique systems management problems. The way these systems interact, and th...
Jeffery Li, Patrick Martin, Wendy Powley, Kirk Wil...
ICAS
2009
IEEE
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Gait Synthesis for Legged Underwater Vehicles
Legged autonomous vehicles move by executing patterns of leg-joint angles known as gaits. Synthesizing gaits by hand is a complex and time-consuming task which becomes even more c...
Andrew German, Michael R. M. Jenkin
CRV
2009
IEEE
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Efficient Online Egomotion Estimation Using Visual and Inertial Readings
An egomotion estimator that makes use of the complementary strengths of inertial and visual readings is introduced in the context of efficient and robust realtime motion estimatio...
Raphael Mannadiar
CRV
2007
IEEE
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Energy Efficient Robot Rendezvous
We examine the problem of finding a single meeting location for a group of heterogeneous autonomous mobile robots, such that the total system cost of traveling to the rendezvous i...
Pawel Zebrowski, Yaroslav Litus, Richard T. Vaugha...
CRV
2007
IEEE
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Fourier tags: Smoothly degradable fiducial markers for use in human-robot interaction
In this paper we introduce the Fourier tag, a synthetic fiducial marker used to visually encode information and provide controllable positioning. The Fourier tag is a synthetic ta...
Junaed Sattar, Eric Bourque, Philippe Giguè...
CIRA
2007
IEEE
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Facial Identity and Expression Recognition by using Active Appearance Model with Efficient Second Order Minimization and Neural
This paper proposes a technique for real-time recognition of facial Identity and expression which uses the active appearance model (AAM) with efficient second order minimization al...
Hyun-Chul Choi, Se-Young Oh
CIRA
2007
IEEE
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Programming by Demonstration of Pick-and-Place Tasks for Industrial Manipulators using Task Primitives
This article presents an approach to Programming by Demonstration (PbD) to simplify programming of industrial manipulators. By using a set of task primitives for a known task type,...
Alexander Skoglund, Boyko Iliev, Bourhane Kadmiry,...
AMS
2007
Springer
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A Unified Robotic Software Architecture for Service Robotics and Networks of Smart Sensors
Abstract. This paper proposes a novel architecture for the programming of multi-modal service robots and networked sensors. The presented software framework eases the development o...
Daniel Westhoff, Jianwei Zhang