This paper reports on the behaviour decision and execution unit of AnnieWAY, an autonomous vehicle that is capable of driving through urban scenarios and that has successfully entered the finals of the DARPA Urban Challenge 2007 competition. Starting with a short description of the car and its major hardware components, we outline the underlying software structure and focus on the design of the...

C.D. Ott,* E. Abdikamalov, E. O’Connor, C. Reisswig, R. Haas, P. Kalmus, S. Drasco, A. Burrows, and E. Schnetter TAPIR, MC 350-17, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan 277-8583 Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State Un...

The State of Iowa maintains a continuing surveillance program for the detection of arbovirus activity. Results of laboratory studies of avian, human, and mosquito specimens collected during the summer of 1977 are presented. Cache Valley, Flanders, trivittatus, Turlock, and western equine encephalomyelitis arboviruses were isolated from 73 of the 613 pools of mosquitoes examined. Avian blood spe...

Author Affiliations: Section of Surgical Sciences, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Nashville (Vella, Kummerow Broman, Tarpley, Dittus, Roumie); Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (Vella, Kummerow Broman, Tarpley); Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical C...

Parent Bodies of Land LL-chondrites. S. K. Fieber-Beyer 1,2,3 , M. J. Gaffey 1,3 , and P.S. Hardersen 1,3 , 1 Department of Space Studies, Box 9011, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202. 2 Department of Earth System Science&Policy, Box 9007, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202. 3 Visiting astronomer at the Infrared Telescope Facility under contract from the National A...

Cathy R. Taylor, Joseph T. Hepworth, Peter I. Buerhaus, Robert Dittus, Theodore Speroff Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Tennessee Valley Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center (GRECC), VA THVS Health Services Research Center for Patient Healthcare Behavior, VA National Quality Scholars Fellowship Program, Vanderbilt University School of Medi...

It would be hard to imagine a better book on the past, present, and future of Curriculum Materials Centers (CMCs) than this timely collection of articles by authors from thriving centers throughout the country. Rita Kohrman of Grand Valley State University and Suzan A. Alteri of Wayne State University provide illuminating histories of the development of curriculum laboratories at normal schools...

state O.B.Zaslavskii Department of Physics, Kharkov State University, Svobody Sq.4, Kharkov 310077, Ukraine E-mail: [email protected] Dilaton black holes with a pure electric charge are considered in the frame work of a grand canonical ensemble near the extreme state. It is shown that there exists such a subset of boundary data that the Hawking temperature smoothly goes to zer...

Mark S. Sisterson and Jianchi Chen, United States Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, Parlier, CA 93611; Mario A. Viveros, University of California Cooperative Extension, Bakersfield 93307; Edwin L. Civerolo and Craig Ledbetter, USDA-ARS, San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center; and Russell L. Groves, Depar...

abraham ungar is professor in the department of mathematics at north dakota state university. after gaining his b.sc. (1965) and m.sc. (1967) from the hebrew university in pure mathematics and ph.d. (1973) from tel-aviv university in applied mathematics, he held a postdoctoral position at the university of toronto (1974). ungar moved from toronto to pretoria where he held the position of a seni...