Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDC) extend virtualization, software-defined networking and systems, and middleboxes to provide a better quality of service (QoS). While many network flow routing algorithms exist, most of them fail to adapt to the dynamic nature of the data center and cloud networks and their users’ and enterprise requirements. This paper presents SMART, a SoftwareDefined Networ...

Details are given of an inexpensive force plate designed to measure ground reaction forces involved in human movement. Such measurements provide interesting demonstrations of relations between displacement, velocity, and acceleration, and illustrate aspects of mechanics that are not normally encountered in a conventional mechanics course, or that are more commonly associated with inanimate obje...

On the cover: “Path: Homage to Edward Hopper” is an oil on canvas (24x36”) by Kamran Nikravan, MD. Edward Hopper painted the original in 1949 during the Depression. Dr Nikravan changed the “Tsunami” coming through the door to an open path to the sky to express my depth and gratitude for all that I have. Dr Nikravan is a Urologist at the West Los Angeles Medical Center. Dr Nikravan credits art w...

Unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) are an important future technology with early generations already being used in many areas of application encompassing both military and civilian domains. This thesis proposes a number of integration techniques for combining control-based navigation with more abstract path planning functionality for UASs. These techniques are empirically tested and validated usi...

In previous studies, an omni-directional walker was developed for walking rehabilitation. Walking training programs are stored in the walker so that rehabilitation can be carried out without a physical therapist. However, the walker sometimes strays from the predefined path because of center-of-gravity shifts and load changes. It is necessary for the walker to precisely follow the paths defined...

In this paper, we describe a vision sensor-based driving algorithm for indoor automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) that facilitates a path tracking task using two mono cameras for navigation. One camera is mounted on vehicle to observe the environment and to detect markers in front of the vehicle. The other camera is attached so the view is perpendicular to the floor, which compensates for the dist...

We present a detailed field theoretic description of those collective degrees of freedom (CDF) which are relevant to study macroscopic quantum dynamics of a quasi-one-dimensional ferromagnetic domain wall. We apply spin coherent state path integral (SCSPI) in the proper discrete time formalism (a) to extract the relevant CDF’s, namely, the center position and the chirality of the domain wall, w...

The flame forming process is widely used to manufacture ship hull plates. The saddle-shaped surfaces have different curvatures in perpendicular angles of planes and the manufacturers face an anti-clastic curvature. In this article, the manufacturing of saddle-shaped surfaces utilizing the flame forming process is investigated. The spiral irradiating scheme is used for forming. In order to study...