Low Speed Automation, a French Initiative

Low Speed Automation, a French Initiative

Nowadays, vehicle safety is constantly increasing thanks to the improvement of vehicle passive and active safety. However, on a daily usage of the car, traffic jams remains a problem. With limited space for road infrastructure, automation of the driving task on specific situation seems to be a possible solution. The French project ABV, which stands for low speed automation, tries to demonstrate...

French/European academic compound library initiative.

Since the year 2000, French academic medicinal chemists took the initiative to collect molecules and natural extracts produced in their labs over the past years to catalyse scientific partnerships with biologists through virtual and experimental screening. This formatted collection was named ‘Chimiothèque Nationale’ (National Compound Library). After eight years of existence, the outcome in ter...

Low Power Design Automation

Towards data integration automation for the French rare disease registry

Building a medical registry upon an existing infrastructure and rooted practices is not an easy task. It is the case for the BNDMR project, the French rare disease registry, that aims to collect administrative and medical data of rare disease patients seen in different hospitals. To avoid duplicating data entry for health professionals, the project plans to deploy connectors with the existing s...

Low-cost Automation and Scada:

Automating water projects makes economic sense in the western United States. But is it justified in other parts of the world? The authors feel strongly that it is. This paper discusses the experiences of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and others in developing, installing, and evaluating low-cost automation systems in the western United States. It also briefly discusses similar low-cost automati...