Safety critical functions for embedded systems are increasingly realized with software. Current and future standards and maturity models impose high accuracy and quality for the development process of such software-intensive, embedded systems. But nowadays, there are process and tooling gaps between different modeling aspects for the system under development (SUD). Furthermore, the SUD is usual...

this paper studies the effect of flexible linear torso on the dynamics of passive quadruped bounding. a reduced-order passive and conservative model with linear flexible torso and springy legs is introduced. the model features extensive spine deformation during high-speed bounding, resembling those observed in a cheetah. fixed points corresponding to cyclic bounding motions are found and calcul...

Date_____________________ The final copy of this thesis has been examined by the signators, and we find that both the content and the form meet acceptable presentation standards of scholarly work in the above mentioned discipline. Agentsheets Genetic Evolutionary Simulations (AGES) is a system developed with Agentsheets with VisualAgenTalk (AS-VAT) to promote the study of complex adaptive syste...

This paper discusses the societal-framework that would enable technologies of the present and the future to bring about the universal justice, prosperity and security as yet unattained, but for ever dreamed of. It proposes the integration of all the scientific approaches to achieve an ever increasing rate of productivities and the resulting higher standards of living by reducing the burden on t...

To ful ll the increasing demand of higher network speeds, ethernet standards and corresponding network adapters are commercially available nowadays, which enable transfer rates of up to 10Gb/s. However the technology above the ethernet layer, especially the IP and TCP protocols, were not changed and optimized that rapidly, hence processing packets in these upper layers represent a bottleneck. A...

In this paper we present a complete reference framework for the operation of Certification Service Provider as an organisation. The objective is to form an intermediate reference model, to which the CSPs will conform, towards the full compliance to the ISO-9000 quality standards. There are two dimensions of quality in respect of a CSP: The first quality dimension regards the value added securit...

Abstract In the present study income inequality in Poland is evaluated using corrected data to provide more reliable estimates. According most empirical studies based on household surveys and considering European standards, recent moderate decreased significantly after reaching its peaks during first decade of 21st century. These findings were challenged by Brzeziński et al. (2022), who placed ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to present weight and height percentiles for Turkish children aged 0-84 months residing in Kayseri, Turkey and to compare these findings with national references and international standards. METHODS We used the data from the Anthropometry of Turkish Children aged 0-6 years (ATCA-06) study. This cross-sectional study conducted in Kayseri/Turkey between Septe...

Lobopodians, a nonmonophyletic assemblage of worm-shaped soft-bodied animals most closely related to arthropods, show two major morphotypes: long-legged and short-legged forms. The morphotype with stubby, conical legs has a long evolutionary history, from the early Cambrian through the Carboniferous, including the living onychophorans and tardigrades. Species with tubular lobopods exceeding the...

Learning gaits for walking robots is difficult because the elements of control require repetition of a sequence of integrated steps. Controllers for the six-legged robots, such as the Stiquito, and the eight-legged spider robots, in development, exemplify the difficulties of evolving gaits. The controllers for these robots store the actuator commands in a field-programmable gate array as a list...