Frans Ackerman.

Frans B.M. de Waal

Frans de Waal, a Dutch-born ethologist, is C.H. Candler, Professor in the Psychology Department of Emory University, in Atlanta, and Director of the Living Links Center for the Study of Ape and Human Evolution. He and his team study primate social behavior and cognition, working with socially living chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys. Topics of interest are cultural transmission, empathy, and beh...

Ackerman on Property and the Law

Combining Theories: The Ackerman and Guarded Fragments

Combination of decision procedures is at the heart of Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers. It provides ways to compose decision procedures for expressive languages which mix symbols from various decidable theories. Typical combinations include (linear) arithmetic, uninterpreted symbols, arrays operators, etc. In [7] we showed that any first-order theory from the Bernays-Schönfinkel-Ram...

Ackerman Steering Chassis with Independently Driven Back Wheels

When building the robot for outdoor competition the designer can choose from a variety of chassis. The differential drive and Ackerman steering drive are among the most popular. The paper describes our experiences with the custom built chassis that uses Ackerman steering principle together with independently driven back wheels. The chassis represent the base of Bender II mobile robot, used in R...

Lateral control strategy for autonomous steering of Ackerman-like vehicles

This paper presents the results of a lateral control strategy that has been applied to the problem of steering an autonomous vehicle using vision. The lateral control law has been designed for any kind of vehicle presenting the Ackerman kinematic model, accounting for the vehicle velocity as a crucial parameter for adapting the steering control response. This makes the control strategy suitable...