The size and complexity of the interconnected power grid pose significant challenges to system operators. The requirement of rapid response under diverse conditions in a highly complex environment underscores the need for tools that can help operators detect potential problems and identify solutions quickly and accurately. This paper discusses the design, development, and deployment of a softwa...

In platform videogames, players are frequently tasked with solving medium-term navigation problems in order to gather items or powerups. Artificial agents must generally obtain some form of direct experience before they can solve such tasks. Experience is gained either through training runs, or by exploiting knowledge of the game’s physics to generate detailed simulations. Human players, on the...

For more than a decade, the eHealth initiative has been a government concern of many countries. In an Electronic Health Record (EHR) System, there is a need for sharing the data with a group of specialists simultaneously. Collaborative platforms alone are just a part of a solution, while a collaborative platform with parallel editing capabilities and with synchronized data streaming are stringe...

In this paper we present The RealTime Platform Middleware (RTPM), an architecture for prototyping realtime multimodal I/O projects. Multimodal applications often require a distributed implementation to meet disparate temporal and platform needs. RTPM provides an extendable, deviceindependent, network-transparent interface to a set of user I/O devices which eases application integration across d...

Most real-world communication systems have a mix of processing elements. For example, application programs, human/machine interface management, and higher networking protocol stack processing are best implemented on a general-purpose processor. But for high-rate, algorithmically complex data processing – often with hard realtime deadlines – hardware resources like FPGAs are a better match. The ...

This paperdeals with design, implementation and testing of real time drivers for I2C and UART processor controllers on Beaglebone Black. Embedded Board runs with Linux 3.8.13 and real time co-kernel, Xenomai-2.6.3. Beaglebone Black has cortex A8 processor with 1GHz frequency. Xenomai Real time driver Model(RTDM) drivers are made for I2C and UART processor controller and their performance parame...

In this contribution a new concept for the rapid development of real-time prototypes for digital signal processing algorithms on a General Purpose Personal Computer (GP-PC) based on the Windows operating system (Windows OS) is presented. In this approach, hardware and algorithm related programming issues are separated in order to liberate the designer from problems which are not related to the ...

A better understanding of the human user’s expectations and sensitivities to the real-time behavior generated by virtual agents can provide insightful empirical data and infer useful principles to guide the design of intelligent virtual agents. In light of this, we propose and implement a research framework to systematically study and evaluate different important aspects of multimodal real-time...

We describe the architecture of a CORBA-based platform offering end-to-end multimedia communications and processing support in a broadband network environment. The design gives application programmers an extended CORBA computational model incorporating explicit support for continuous media including quality of service abstractions. The proposed architecture goes beyond existing multimedia-in-CO...

The persistent environmental problem of bottom water oxygen depletion (hypolimnetic hypoxia) in Lake Erie requires efficient monitoring and abatement programs, which are presently hindered by the lack of affordable instruments that can match the scale of this phenomenon. Using support provided by the Lake Erie Protection Fund and our respective universities, we designed, constructed, and field-...