This paper develops a novel Q-learning approach to unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation, or path planning, for sensing applications in which an infrared (IR) sensor or camera is installed onboard the UAV for the purpose of detecting and classifying multiple, stationary ground targets. The main advantage of this approach over existing path planning techniques is that the optimal guidance pol...

The aim of the psychoacoustic study presented here was to characterize listeners’ preferences for a set of sounds produced by different brands and models of indoor air-conditioning units. In addition, some synthetic sounds, created by interpolation between recorded sound samples, were integrated into the set. The multidimensional perceptual space and the corresponding physical space representat...

Within Air Operations Division of DSTO 1 intelligent agents are used to model the tactical decision making processes of pilots and ghter-controllers involved in air combat. One of the largest hurdles to be overcome by software engineers and analysts, when developing simulations of the air defence environment, is the acquisition of domain knowledge. Primarily the source of this knowledge is the ...

A new data analysis software system (Ion Fingerprint DetectionTM) has been developed to provide fast mass spectral data analysis. Methods have been developed that can provide screening to quantitative gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) data in 30 s to minutes. Compound selectivity is provided through a unique set of algorithms rather than GC separation. The data quality produced for v...

High-Efficiency Cascade Modulators for the Next Generation Software-Defined-Radio Mobile Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. Morgado, R. del Rı́o, and J. M. de la Rosa xxxx A Beam Phase and Energy Measurement Instrument Based on Direct RF Signal IQ Undersampling Technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Manual population of institutional repositories with citation data is an extremely timeand resource-consuming process. These costs act as a bottleneck on the fast growth and update of large repositories. This paper aims to describe the AIR system developed at the university of Wolverhampton to address this problem. The system implements a semi-automatic approach for archiving institutional repo...