Four inter-related building blocks can provide the new foundation: focusing R&D efforts and commercial capabilities; making use of product and capability partnerships; providing customer solutions (not just “therapeutics”), and creating a business unit based organization model instead of a functional one. Companies need to find a combination of these building blocks that makes best use of their...

The Software Defined Radio (SDR) is a class of reprogrammable and reconfigurable radios which can be switched from one air-interface to another. It is generally employed in software, which can be easily realized on base-station side. On terminal-side, the configurability of the radio has to be maintained in hybrid architecture, consist of both software as well as hardware, due to computational ...

This paper focuses on data enhancement, the process of building multiresolution, multi-modal models to be manipulated and displayed with human interaction. The goal of this research is to develop a method for answering the challenge of enhancing data. This method consists of building a data structure with multiresolution capabilities for data display. This process increases the effectiveness of...

In this paper, we present our work on building a social attention system for our sociable robot Leonardo. This system improves the robot’s capabilities when interacting with people, particularly in learning scenarios. We discuss reasons for building such a system, the implementation of the system, and then present an example interaction where such a system is useful. We conclude by discussing o...

Building a complete virtual human application from scratch is a daunting task, and it makes sense to rely on existing platforms for behavior generation. When building such an interactive application, one needs to be able to adapt and extend the capabilities of the virtual human offered by the platform, without having to make invasive modifications to the platform itself. This paper describes ho...

Building blocks are a ubiquitous feature at all levels of human understanding, froin perception through science and innovation. Genetic algorithms are designed to exploit this prevalence. A new, more robust class of genetic algorithms, cohort genetic algorithms (cGA's), provides substantial advantages in exploring search spaces for building blocks while exploiting building blocks already found....

This paper presents an overview of the hardand software architecture of a mobile visitor information system for the Konrad Zuse building of the School of Computer Science and Automation at the Ilmenau University of Technology. Two mobile robots serve as mobile information terminals with capabilities for generating way descriptions and guiding the visitor to the points of interest (labs, meeting...

We discuss the problem of building large, high-resolution three-dimensional representations of unstructured terrain using terrestrial range sensors, which operate at the scale of meters to hundreds of meters. Issues specific to this sensing modality include widely varying resolution, absence of reliably detectable features, and very large data sets. We have developed a map building algorithm th...

This paper proposes a framework for a flow-based network traffic monitoring of building automation and control networks. Current approaches to monitor special environment networks are limited to checking accessibility and a state of monitored devices. On the other hand, current generation of flow-based network monitoring tools focuses only on the IP traffic. These tools do not allow to observe ...

This report examined the technical aspects of a future ecosystem-ready software platform for the smart building domain. We analyzed the type of contributors that may exist in a smart building ecosystem, the quality attributes that those roles are concerned with, and the key functional attributes that the software platforms of future smart buildings should provide in order to make smart building...