The Kilobot is a widely used platform for investigation of swarm robotics. Physical Kilobots are slow moving and require frequent recalibration and charging, which significantly slows down the development cycle. Simulators can speed up the process of testing, exploring and hypothesis generation, but usually require time consuming and error-prone translation of code between simulator and robot. ...

The Norwegian aquaculture industry faces pressure from stakeholders, the public, and government to ensure sustainable production. Sustainability is closely linked with solving key environmental challenges. Standards such as those created by Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) are universal generally provide what known additionality state regulation, more comprehensive requirements, goal of en...

conclusion significant functional performance deficits were observed in the fai group in all tests except single hop test with greater deficits observed in the fai-gw group. hence, these tests can be used to determine the presence of fai. however no deficits were identified for the test involving sagittal plane functional activities suggesting that this test can not be used as a criterion to di...

The main objective of NA48 is the measurement of direct CP violation in neutral kaon decays. Useful data has been collected in the years 1997-1999 and two results based on ’97 and ’98 data have been presented [1] [2]. The very good performances of the detector together with a flexible trigger system allowed to accumulate also data useful for other kinds of analyses. An example is an hyperon tri...

This paper presents a digital resolved acceleration control method for coordinated motion control of an underwater vehicle equipped with manipulators. Using this method, in spite of large position and attitude errors of the underwater vehicle, good control performances of the end-tips of the manipulators to follow a pre-planned trajectory can be achieved. In this work, theoretical work of the p...

This paper presents a method for evaluating the relative empathic ability of different characters. The method is based on the premise that human actors are able to give more compelling performances when acting opposite a more empathic acting partner. The method involves causing one or more human actors to engage in a short interaction with each character, videotaping these performances, showing...

Preliminary note The industry is under increasing pressure of the financial crisis, global competition, stricter environmental legislation and supply-chain demand. To tackle these issues, a sustainable development trend has to be assured synergetically on all the levels/fields, including machining processes. This paper promotes sustainable production via an improvement of machining technologies...